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Hopkins at the 2011 CUGH Meeting…Report from Montreal
11/28/2011
The Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) and the Global Health Education Consortium (GHEC) held its first joint meeting on November 13-15, 2011 in Montreal, hosted by Canadian member McGill University. The meeting had six plenary sessions, 14 interactive workshops, and over 500 posters; speakers were from over 20 different countries, Attendance at this year’s meeting of this relatively young organization was over 1,400, almost double the attendance...
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Jhpiego Receives Major Award to Innovate Lifesaving Technologies
10/20/2011
Jhpiego Receives Major Award to Innovate Lifesaving Technologies
Baltimore, Md. --- Jhpiego, a global health non-profit organization, will lead a multi-year effort to expand its array of simple, inexpensive lifesaving technologies to address today’s global health challenges. This cooperative venture will leverage the engineering and medical expertise of The Johns Hopkins University (JHU).
The five-year project, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development,...
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Center for Global Health hosts Global Health Career Panel
10/17/2011
The Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Office of Career Services are teaming up to host a Global Health Career Panel: Access to Experts, on Tuesday, October 25, 2011, from 5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. The event will be held in the Wolfe St. building, Anna Baetjer Room W1030. Refreshments will be served.
The confirmed speakers include:
Rebecca Shore, Communication Specialist, K4Health Toolkit Coordinator at... -
Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health announces 2011 scholarship winners
08/18/2011
The Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health has announced the eight recipients of the 2011 Global Health Scholarships.
Five of the winners are pursuing Master of Public Health (MPH) degrees: Rathi Asaithambi, Elizabeth Francis, Alec Mkwamba, Fahima Osman, and Gauri Raval. The scholarships will pay full tuition for the 11-month MPH program at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Two other winners are pursuing Master of Public Health Science...
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Center Director Thomas C. Quinn wins Thomas Parran Award
06/13/2011
Thomas Quinn, MD, MS, professor with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Department of International Health and director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health, has been named the 2011 recipient of the Thomas Parran Award for his significant contributions to the field of sexually transmitted disease (STD) research. The award is given annually by the American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association (ASTDA) to a member for long and distinguished contributions in...
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Center for Global Health awards record number of Student Travel Grants
05/16/2011
The Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health recently announced the winners of both the Global Health Field Research Award and the Established Field Placement Award. Fifty-seven students were awarded travel grants, setting a record for the number of awardees for the Center. The objective of both programs is to enhance the recruitment of students into global health research and practice careers by providing them the means to work with faculty mentors and to travel overseas to gain valuable...
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New global health opportunities for students
03/08/2011
By Greg Rienzi of The JHU Gazette
Johns Hopkins defines its mission as sharing knowledge with the world. A new initiative will let more university students do that firsthand during their time here.
President Ronald J. Daniels on Thursday announced the creation of Johns Hopkins global health awards, 85 grants for students in all divisions to pursue international public health experiences. Thirty of them are designated for undergraduates.
The awards, which...
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Johns Hopkins University celebrates Global Health Day 2011
02/24/2011
The Student Experience was the focus of Gobal Health Day 2011, held Thursday, February 24 at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. The featured event of the day was a poster session where students who had traveled and worked overseas in the past 12 months had the opportunity to exhibit their work. Forty-six posters were exhibited by students and student groups who had been funded by the Center for Global Health's Established Field Placement program or Field Research Award, by the Master of...
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Healing the Heart of Africa, One Pig at a Time
02/01/2011
Story courtesy of the School of Nursing
In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), women and girls have suffered brutal attacks, rape, torture, and mutilation--all weapons of war, wielded by rebels and soldiers alike. Survivors are further traumatized by infection, disease, poverty, stigma, and social isolation. "Men leave their wives, women are traumatized, families are traumatized, and entire communities are destabilized by rape," says Nancy Glass, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN, an associate...
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Former Director UNAIDS Peter Piot to speak at Hopkins
01/30/2011
The Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health at the Department of International Health at the Bloomberg School of Public Health have announced that Peter Piot, MD, PhD, will speak at Hopkins on Tuesday, April 7, 2009 as part of the Global Health Leaders Forum.
Dr. Piot is the former UNAIDS Executive Director and Under Secretary-General of the United Nations and now serves as the Director of the Institute for Global Health at Imperial College in London.
Dr. Piot's talk is titled...