Events

UCSF Latino Health and Research Interest Group
Meeting and Guest Presentation

César Infante Xibillé, PhD, MsC, M.D

Hosted by the Latino Health Interest Group
and Global Health Sciences

Friday, May 9, 2008
10:30am-12pm
(Interest group meeting 10:30am-11am,
guest presentation 11:00am-12pm)
Room 263, UCSF Laurel Heights Campus

About the Speaker:
Cesar Infante Xibille is a general medical practitioner who graduated from the Autonomous University of the State of Morelos. He holds a Master in Health Sciences with specialization in Health Systems from the National Institute for Public Health. He earned is PhD from the University of London where he completed a thesis entitled: "HIV/AIDS-related stigma and discrimination among mobile populations on the Mexican-Guatemalan border."

Since 2000, Cesar Infante has been undertaking research on vulnerable groups, such as mobile populations, gay men, and male sex workers, around issues related to HIV/AIDS, human rights and access to health care services. Much of his research has been closely linked to the implications and consequences of globalization on the social, economic, political and cultural determinants of health. Since 2002, he has been working closely with INSP, and in 2003, he became part of the research staff of the Health Systems Research Centre. His activities also include collaborating on several research projects, undertaking both qualitative and quantitative analysis, imparting lectures on qualitative research methods and international public health, and organizing the Global Health Summer course.

He has also published a number of research articles in peer review journals as well as book chapters, executive summaries, and working papers.

Cesar Infante, has been awarded grants to undertake postgraduate studies by national and international funding agencies such as: CONACYT, the Ford Flora Hewlett MacArthur Foundation, and the Institute of International Education and the Overseas Research Student Award Scheme (ORSAS) of the United Kingdom Scholarships Program for international research students of outstanding merit and research potential.

GHS Brown Bag Lecture

Discrete choice experiments
to inform health policy:
Evidence from Tanzania

Margaret E. Kruk, MD, MPH
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
12 - 1 p.m.
50 Beale St, 12th Floor
Jonathan E. Rodnick, MD Conference Room

Discrete choice experiments (DCE) are one of a family of techniques to elicit people's preferences for products and services. In health care, they are used to understand what matters most to people in selecting a health service. DCE have been used to provide guidance on health care organization and policy in Europe and the US but rarely in the developing world. A population-representative DCE on women's preferences for delivery facilities that was recently fielded in Tanzania suggests this method may be useful in identifying priority health investments in the developing world.

For more information contact GHS at 476-0510 or lubbockl@globalhealth.ucsf.edu

About the speaker:
Dr. Margaret Kruk is Assistant Professor of Health Management and Policy at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. She is also Technical Advisor to the Averting Maternal Death and Disability Program at Columbia University. Previously, she was Policy Advisor for Health at the Millennium Project, which was commissioned by the UN Secretary-General to develop national and international strategies to reach the Millennium Development Goals. At the Millennium Project Dr. Kruk assisted Ministries of Health in several developing countries with national strategies to scale-up provision of essential services and collaborated with expert Task Forces on HIV/AIDS, TB, malaria, access to medicines, and maternal and child health to propose global recommendations for reaching the health Millennium Development Goals. Prior positions include Engagement Manager with the New York office of McKinsey and Company, a global management consulting firm, and acting Country Manager with Médecins sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders) in Lebanon. Dr. Kruk holds an MD from McMaster University in Canada and an MPH (Health Policy and Management) from Harvard University. She has practiced family and emergency medicine in remote northern Ontario, Canada. Her current research interests include health systems scale-up and financing in developing countries, evidence for global health policy, maternal mortality, human resources for health and health care in post-conflict settings.

THERE AND BACK AGAIN
Adventures in Global and Local Healthcare

Presentations & Panel Discussion
with UCSF Global Health Clinical Scholars
Lisa Dillabaugh, MD
Charles Everett, MD
Prasanna Jagannathan, MD
Krista Powell, MD

Keynote Speaker
William P. Schecter, MD, FACS

Wednesday, May 7, 2008
4:00-6:00 PM, Herbst Auditorium
1600 Divisadero St, 2nd Floor B248, Mt. Zion Campus

*Reception to follow after panel discussion
RSVP by April 30 to education@globalhealth.ucsf.edu

Dr. William P. Schecter is Chief of Surgery at the San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH), Professor of Clinical Surgery and Vice-Chair of Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He is currently the President of the Board of Directors of Operation Access (a non-profit corporation providing uncompensated surgical services to the uninsured) and Vice-President of the Pacific Coast Surgical Association. He served as Chief of Surgery at the LBJ Tropical Medical Center, Pago Pago, American Samoa and as a Lecturer in Surgery at the University of Natal, Durban, RSA. He spent a Sabbatical at the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, Israel, studying civilian hospital response to mass casualty events. In 2006, Dr. Schecter served in the Rebecca Sieff Hospital in Safed, Israel, caring for casualties from the Lebanon war.

Sponsorship by Mt. Zion Health Fund - a supporting foundation of the Jewish Community Endowment Fund

UNNATURAL CAUSES: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?

UCSF's Center for Health and Community
and Center on Social Disparities in Health
request your company at a special screening of

UNNATURAL CAUSES:
Is Inequality Making Us Sick?

Date: Monday, March 17, 2008
Time: 12:00-1:30 pm
Place: 521 Parnassus Avenue, Nursing Building, N- 225

A preview of an upcoming PBS series on the social determinants of health, followed by a panel discussion of current research on the social determinants of health and the policy implications for improving health and eliminating disparities.

Panelists include:

Larry Adelman, California Newsreel
Nancy E. Adler, PhD, Director, Center for Health and Community
Paula Braveman, MD, MPH, Director, Center on Social Disparities in Health
Haile Debas, MD, Executive Director, Global Health Sciences
Steve Schroeder, MD, Professor, Division of General Medicine

For more information, please visit Unnatural Causes

For more information, contact Dina Dudum

UCSF Latino Health and Research Interest Group Meeting

Hosted by Global Health Sciences

When: March 10, 2008
Time: 1pm-3pm
Where: S-18, Medical Sciences Building, 513 Parnassus

ARE YOU...

• Interested in research, training, and policy related to Latino health (in CA, Latin America, transnational)
• Looking for international or local partners working in this field
• Seeking research funding sources
• Interested in learning about your UCSF colleagues' work related to Latino health

IF SO... please join us for refreshments and a roundtable discussion on March 10th.

Global Health Sciences is convening this meeting in response to the enthusiasm of faculty, researchers, and students. The direction and shape of the interest group will be defined by the participants. Global Health Sciences is willing to facilitate the group's further development.

Claire Brindis, Acting Director, Institute for Health Policy Studies, Sarah Macfarlane, Global Health Sciences Director, Program Development and Planning, and Leslie Wilson, Associate Adjunct Professor in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy, will facilitate this initial meeting.

For additional information or if you have any questions about this event, please contact Lindsey Lubbock at lubbockl@globalhealth.ucsf.edu or 415-476-0510.

GHS & CTSI - Town Hall Meetings

To UCSF faculty and staff working internationally:

The unique administrative requirements of international projects continue to challenge investigators working outside of the United States. Global Health Sciences and the Clinical and Translational Science Institute have made a joint commitment to work with faculty and staff on developing strategies to improve pre- and post-award administration at UCSF for international projects.

During the week of February 25 the GHS-CTSI team will host four town hall meetings where we hope to learn from your experiences and together identify and prioritize areas which are cause for concern and in need of improvement. We are interested in learning if there are country- or discipline-specific issues which require particular attention. We expect this to be an iterative process for faculty and staff and to involve external consultancy. These meetings will form the basis for developing working groups addressing each of the specific issues raised.

We have repeatedly heard of the needs of the international research community to address these issues and are fortunate to now have some resources to develop a plan for addressing them. We look forward to your engagement in this important activity.

Parnassus:
Tuesday, 2/26/08: 1 - 3 pm in room ­ S118

50 Beale Street:
Thursday, 2/28/08: 10:30 am - 12:30 pm in room 12061

SFGH:
Thursday, 2/28/08: 1:30 - 3:30 pm in the main hospital, 6th floor, room 6E7

Mission Bay:
Friday, 2/29/08: 10 am - 12 pm in Genentech Hall, room S261

GHS Clinical Scholars Mt. Zion Lecture

May 7, 2008
4 - 6 pm
Herbst Hall on the Mt. Zion Campus

"Global Health Works Locally: how global health experiences promote community work at home". Dr. Bill Schecter, Professor of Clinical Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Vice-Chair of Surgery at UCSF and Chief of Surgery at the San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH), will give the keynote talk, followed by presentations and a panel discussion by GHS clinical scholars about their experiences abroad. For more information email Education.