April 11, 2012: CFAR talk
The NUTRITION/INFECTION UNIT MONTHLY DIVISION CONFERENCE at TUFTS UNIVERSITY presents:
“Food Insecurity and Depression in Rural Kenya: What are the Implications?”
D. Mkaya Mwamburi, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Tufts University School of Medicine
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
3:00 PM
Tufts University, Jaharis Building
Second Floor, Conference Room 272
For information call (617) 636-3811 or e-mail helen.arroyo@tufts.edu
April 13, 2012: Film Screening & Panel Discussion — Theater, Film and Public Health in Mali
SCREENING: “Balokojuguya” (Malnutrition) by Djibril Coulibaly and the Doumanzana Theatre Company
PANEL: “Communicating Change to Communities in Crisis”
Friday, April 13, 2012
3:00 PM
Wilson 101
Djibril Coulibaly of the Doumanzana Theatre Company will screen his new short film, Balokojuguya (Malnutrition), followed by a panel discussion, “Communicating Change to Communities in Crisis” with Coulibaly, who will be joined by Brown alumni Leona Rosenblum ’09 (Mali Health Organizing Project, Clinton Health Access Initiative, USAID) and Sophie Shackleton ’09 (Yeredon Center for the Malian Arts). The film will be used as a basis for a discussion about the role of arts and entertainment in behavior and social change, and how artists and NGOs can be utilized moving forward from the country’s recent political crisis.
Co-sponsored by the Creative Arts Council, the Office of International Affairs, Brown Degree Days, and the Department of Theatre Arts & Performance Studies
April 18, 2012: Global Health & Medicine Lecture
The GLOBAL HEALTH INITIATIVE presents
“Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for the Primary Prevention of HIV in At-Risk Women: Two Steps Forward One Step Back“
Eli Adashi, MD, MS, CPE, FACOGProfessor of Medical Science
Division of Biology and Medicine
Brown University
Aaron Kofman
Medical Student
Class of 2014
Warren Alpert Medical School
Brown University
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
5 – 6:30 PM
BioMed Center (171 Meeting Street)
Eddy Auditorium (Room 291)
April 21-22, 2012: Global Health & Innovation Conference 2012
Presented by Unite For Sight, 9th Annual Conference
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Saturday, April 21 – Sunday, April 22, 2012
http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference
“A Meeting of Minds”–CNN
The Global Health & Innovation Conference is the world’s largest global health conference and social entrepreneurship conference. This must-attend, thought-leading conference annually convenes 2,200 leaders, changemakers, students, and professionals from all fields of global health, international development, and social entrepreneurship.
April 26, 2012: Refugee Health lecture
The Warren Alpert Medical School, Global Health Initiative, and Rhode Island Hospital present:
“Refugee Health: Communication As The Key To Cross-Cultural Care”
Keynote Speaker:
Richard F. Mollica, MD, MAR
Director, Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma (HPRT)
Healing Invisible Wounds: The Health Care Practitioner, The Patient, and The Trauma Story
Panel Discussion to Follow
Target Audience:
Primary Care Physicians, Nurses, Psychiatrists, Psychologists,
Physician Assistants, Social Workers, Medical Students, Residents & Fellows
Thursday, April 26, 2012
5:30 – 8:30 PM
Warren Alpert Medical School
Lecture Hall 160
222 Richmond Street
Providence, RI 02912
This activity has been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit
No fee to attend • Registration is required • Registration & Program details to follow
April 27, 2012: Department of Pediatrics Grand Rounds
“The U.S. Refugee Resettlement Program: Challenges and Considerations for Refugee Health and Well-Being”
Objectives: (At the conclusion of this session, participants should be able to)
● Recognize the key partners and processes of refugee resettlement
● Empathize with the inherent trauma of displacement and resettlement in the refugee context
● Identify appropriate partnerships and referrals to support refugee health and well-being
Speaker:
Eskinder Negash
Director, Office of Refugee Resettlement Administration for Children and Families
U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services
Target Audience:
Physicians and other interested health care professionals. Rhode Island Hospital is accredited by the Rhode Island Medical Society to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Rhode Island Hospital designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Friday, April 27, 2012
8:30 – 9:30 AM
George Auditorium
Rhode Island Hospital
May 15, 2012: Proposal Deadline for Gates Foundation Grant Opportunity
The Grand Challenges Explorations grant program funds early-stage discovery, awarding initial grants of $100,000 and potential follow-on grants of up to $1 million. Grants target an expanding set of topics. Launched in 2008, Grand Challenge Explorations grants have already been awarded to 602 researchers from 44 countries.
Applications are currently being accepted for Grand Challenges Explorations Round 9. Proposals are due May 15, 2012 at 11:30 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time.
Round 9 Topics:
- New Approaches for the Interrogation of Anti-malarial Compounds
- Aid is Working. Tell the World
- Protect Crop Plants from Biotic Stresses From Field to Market
- Design New Approaches to Optimize Immunization Systems
- Explore New Solutions in Global Health Priority Areas
The grant program is open to anyone from any discipline, from student to tenured professor, and from any organization – colleges and universities, government laboratories, research institutions, non-profit organizations and for-profit companies.
The initiative uses an agile, accelerated grant-making process with short two-page applications and no preliminary data required. Applications are submitted online, and winning grants are chosen approximately 4 months from the submission deadline.
For more information, please visit http://www.grandchallenges.org/Pages/Default.aspx
Interested applicants are welcome to contact Elizabeth Francis, PhD ’94 (Elizabeth_Francis@brown.edu), Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations at Brown University’s Office of Biomedical Advancement.