GHP Weekly NewsletterApril 5, 2024Please keep reading for new community updates, events, publications, and open opportunities in GHP.
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GHP’s Global Health Week will be held April 22 to 26, 2024! Global Health Week 2024 will mark the 30th anniversary of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) held in Cairo. The 1994 ICPD redefined population and development issues by emphasizing that the protection of individual human rights, including gender equity and reproductive health and rights, must be at the heart of population and development programs. During Global Health Week, we will analyze the ICPD’s progress and setbacks, discuss current and future priorities, and explore topics not addressed in Cairo, such as climate change and LGBTQIA+ issues.
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Poster Day Abstracts Due April 7!
Current Harvard students and postdoctoral fellows are invited to submit a poster presentation on global health and population studies. We particularly encourage submissions with topics related to population and development issues; however, we welcome submissions from many different disciplines and schools at Harvard University. For submission requirements and details, please see the call for abstracts. All abstracts must be submitted via email to ghp@hsph.harvard.edu by 11:59 pm ET on Sunday, April 7. Accepted abstracts will be presented as part of the Global Health Week symposium and poster awards will be announced at the symposium on April 26. One of the authors must be present at this session. If you have any questions, please contact ghp@hsph.harvard.edu.
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Faculty Debate: “Resolved: High Quality Evidence About What Works is the Most Important Gap (or a Critical Gap) in Maternal Health Policymaking”
Monday, April 22 / 1–2 pm / Building 1, Room 1110
Join us for a debate featuring Assistant Professor of Global Health Kevin Croke and Associate Professor Global Health Economics Margaret McConnell! Margaret and Kevin will debate the role of evidence in maternal health policymaking.
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Brown Bag Seminar: “I Was Obligated to Accept”: Coercion and Autonomy in Global Family Planning Programs 30 Years After Cairo
Thursday, April 25 / 1–1:55 pm / Zoom
The Global Health Week Brown Bag Seminar will be presented by Leigh Senderowicz, ScD, MPH. Leigh is an assistant professor in the department of gender and women’s studies and the department of obstetrics and gynecology at University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is a public health researcher and feminist social demographer focusing on global sexual and reproductive health and rights, gender, and coloniality. Her mixed-methods research focuses on contraceptive autonomy, exploring the ways that new approaches to measurement and evaluation can promote person-centered care, health equity, and reproductive freedom.
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Global Health Week Symposium
Friday, April 26 / 1:30–5pm, reception to follow / Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA
Join us for the Global Health Week Symposium and Poster Day! Natalia Kanem, MD, MPH, executive director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), will present the keynote address. Then, in panel 1, “The Importance of the 1994 ICPD–Cairo,” panelists Carmen Barroso, Judith Bruce, Jacqueline Pitanguy, and Steven Sinding will reflect on the significance of the 1994 ICPD. In panel 2, “Cairo +30: Old Promises and New Challenges,” Brittany Charlton, Jewel Gausman, Josh Glasser, and Ana Langer will consider topics that were insufficiently covered in Cairo and discuss how to best move forward. Marcia Castro will announce poster day awards, and a reception will follow from 5 to 6:30 pm.
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| Esias Bedingar Appointed Advisor to Prime Minister of Chad
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Esias Bedingar, a third-year PhD student in population health sciences, was recently appointed advisor to the prime minister of Chad. Esias holds a bachelor's degree in neuroscience and public health from University of Kentucky and received his master of science degree in global health and population in 2020. He has co-founded the Alma Center for Health Systems and Development Research, worked for UNICEF HQ to study the progress on pediatric quality of care at the community level in Côte d'Ivoire, and recently presented as a TedX speaker at the Africa CDC Youth Pre-Conference. As advisor to the prime minister, Esias will oversee public sector service delivery outcomes. To learn more about Esias and his new role, check out this week's Harvard Chan News story. Congratulations, Esias!
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Upcoming Events
Speakers will share their own perspectives; they do not speak for Harvard.
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Today! Career Trajectories in Public Health: Public Health Outside the U.S.
Friday, April 5 / 1–2 pm / Zoom
Join us for the last Career Trajectories seminar of the semester, featuring Nadeem Alduaij, MD, MPH, and Henry Mwebesa, MBCHB, MPH, and moderated by Rashad Massoud, MD, MPH, FACP, visiting faculty. Nadeem Alduaij is the co-founder of Baraka Impact Finance and Henry Mwebesa is director general of health services in the ministry of health, Uganda. Nadeem and Henry will share their experiences working in public health outside the U.S. and hold a Q&A with attendees. We hope to see you there!
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AI for Social Impact: Results from Deployments for Public Health
Tuesday, April 9 / 12–12:45 pm / Zoom
The Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI) is launching its Global Health Research and Innovation Speaker Series with Milind Tambe, PhD, ScD, Gordon McKey Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University; director of the Center for Research on Computation and Society at Harvard University; principal scientist and director of “AI for Social Good” at Google Research. The public series, which will take place virtually on the second Tuesday of each month from 12 to 12:45 pm, showcases the latest scholarly and scientific advancements in global health across Harvard and beyond.
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Framing Public Health: Evidence-Based Strategies for Effective Communication
Tuesday, April 9 / 1–1:50 pm / Kresge 502 & Zoom / Lunch provided
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Building a Career in Health Communication: Insights from Industry Experts
Tuesday, April 9 / 5:30–7 pm / FXB Atrium / Dinner provided
This health communication career panel will feature LaVerne Canady, Moira O’Neil, Katelyn Billings, and Mary O’Reilly. The first hour will feature the panelists reflecting on their careers in health communication and the final 30 minutes will be reserved for networking. This event is presented in collaboration with the Health Communication Concentration.
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Brown Bag Seminar: ALL IN: Wellbeing First for Healthcare
Thursday, April 11 / 1–1:55 pm / Zoom
Join us on Zoom for the next installment of the Brown Bag Series, featuring J. Corey Feist, JD, MBA, chief executive officer and co-founder at Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes’ Foundation. Questions? Please contact Jessica Majano.
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Predatory Extractivism: Brazil’s Mining Catastrophes in a Global Context
April 11 & 12 / Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA
What happens when millions of cubic tons of mining waste engulf entire communities and ecosystems? You are invited to join DRCLAS for a panel series that will focus on Brazil’s worst environmental and humanitarian disasters, both resulting from the collapse of mining tailings dams: the Samarco-operated Fundão dam in 2015 and Vale’s Córrego do Feijão dam in 2019, located in the state of Minas Gerais. Cases from other countries dealing with the harms of predatory extractivism will provide a wider view of the global issue beyond Brazil. Marcia Castro, Andelot Professor of Demography and chair of GHP, will moderate several panels. This event is presented in collaboration with DRCLAS, the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability, Extractives@Clark, and the Center for International Development.
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HUM SAB EK (We Are One) – Exhibition Opening and Reception
Monday, April 15 / 6 pm / Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA
HUM SAB EK, We Are One, is a multi-media exhibition based on a survey of over 1,000 households in Gujarat, India, and 30 hours of oral histories. It captures the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on poor working women and families and how they navigated the greatest public health emergency of our times. Join the opening talk and reception with members of the research team, including project leader and curator Satchit Balsari.
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QuEST Network Seminar: Re-Centralizing Health Care in Mexico and Its Challenges
Wednesday, April 17 / 8–9 am / Zoom
Join the QuEST (Quality Evidence for Health System Transformation) Network for the second of its winter 2024 research seminars! This research seminar is open to all QuEST Center and affiliate researches. If you would like to be included in their distribution list, please contact project coordinator Kayleigh Lawson. We also encourage you to save the date for the third seminar to be held from 8 to 9 am on May 15, in which HwaYoung Lee will present “Regional Determinants of Quality of Care for Sick Children: A Multilevel Analysis in Four Countries.” Please share and encourage your teams to join!
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2024 HGHI Global Health Symposium: Partnerships in Action
Thursday, April 18 / 9 am – 4:15 pm / Cambridge, MA & Zoom
The 2024 Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI) Global Health Symposium will convene some of the most thoughtful health experts across Harvard and the globe to highlight innovative, action-oriented approaches aimed at achieving global health equity. The agenda will feature conversations around financing and governance for global health, the climate and health crisis, the conflicts between research, science, and service delivery, and advancing AI for global health. David Walton, MD, MPH, U.S. Global Malaria Coordinator for the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative, will present the opening keynote address, and the closing keynote will be presented by Rocio Saenz, MD, executive director of the Network of the Americas for Health Equity.
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The Ethics of AI in Public Health Communication
Tuesday, April 23 / 1–1:50 pm / Kresge 502 & Zoom / Lunch provided
Join Robert Jennings and Connie Moon Sehat for a discussion of their work co-chairing the Analysis and Response Toolkit for Trust (ARTT) and National Public Health Information Coalition (NPHIC) Ethical Use of AI in Public Health Communications Working Group. This event is presented in collaboration with the Health Communication Concentration and the Stanford Health Equity Media Fellowship.
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‘Nowhere and no one is safe’: Spatial analysis of damage to critical civilian infrastructure in the Gaza Strip during the first phase of the Israeli military campaign, 7 October to 22 November 2023, GHP, FXB, HHI authors: Bram Wispelwey, Yara Asi, David Mills, Dennis Kunichoff, Sawsan Abdulrahim, Nadine Bahour, A. Kayum Ahmed, Weeam Hammoudeh, P. Gregg Greenough, and Saira Khan, published in Conflict and Health
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