GHP Weekly NewsletterMarch 8, 2024Welcome back to another edition of the GHP weekly newsletter! Please keep reading for new community updates, events, publications, and open opportunities in GHP.
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Jinghui Chang, PhD, joined GHP on March 1 as a visiting scientist working with Winnie Yip. Jinghui is an associate professor at the School of Health Management, Southern Medical University (SMU) in Guangzhou, China. Her research focuses on the implementation of health policy, health communication, and health education. She holds a PhD in public health policy and management from SMU and an MA from Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Jinghui can be reached via email at jchang@hsph.harvard.edu.
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Save the Date: Global Health Week 2024!
The Department of Global Health and Population has announced the dates of this year’s Global Health Week! Global Health Week will return from April 22 to 26, 2024, culminating in a symposium and poster day held at the Joseph B. Martin Conference Center (77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA) from 1:30 to 5 pm on Friday, April 26.
Global Health Week will mark the 30th anniversary of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) held in Cairo. The ICPD redefined population and development issues by emphasizing that the protection of individual human rights, including gender equity and reproductive rights and health, 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. More information regarding events and registration is forthcoming; please stay tuned!
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Jessica Cohen Receives Alice Hamilton Award
Please join us in congratulating Jessica Cohen, Bruce A. Beal, Robert L. Beal, and Alexander S. Beal Associate Professor of Global Health, on receiving the 13th Annual Alice Hamilton Award! This award is presented by the Committee on the Advancement of Women Faculty and recognizes the impact and future promise of a woman faculty member working in public health. The award honors the memory of Alice Hamilton, a pioneer in the fields of toxicology and occupational health and the first woman appointed to the faculty at Harvard in 1919.
Jessica will receive the award at a ceremony on April 4, 2024, at 2 pm in the Kresge Cafeteria. RSVP to join the celebration in person or online!
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Aya Goto Featured in Havard Chan News
Last week, the Harvard Chan News featured a profile of Aya Goto, director of the Takemi Program and Taro Takemi Professor of the Practice of International Community Health! The interview explores the trajectory of Aya’s career, from growing up in rural Japan to working in the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear plant accident and becoming a Takemi Fellow. To learn more about Aya’s journey, check out the Harvard Chan news article.
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QuEST Symposium Held in Ethiopia
At the end of January, the Quality Evidence for Health System Transformation (QuEST) Network held its second symposium in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Members of the QuEST Network Research Centers in Ethiopia, Kenya, India, South Africa, Switzerland, Latin America, and the U.S. were joined by policymakers, researchers, and funders from many countries around the globe to review the QuEST Network's translation of research results into policy and discuss next steps in advancing health system quality research. Attendees participated in sessions on the People's Voice Survey, ECohorts for Maternal and Newborn Health and Noncommunicable Diseases, and Service Delivery Redesign. At the close of the symposium, the Ethiopian Public Health Institute organized a visit to a local health center to give attendees a sense of the health system in Addis Ababa. To learn more about the QuEST Network and its projects, visit the QuEST Network website and sign up for their quarterly newsletter.
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QuEST Network Research Seminar: Receipt of Core Antenatal Care Components and Associated Factors in Ethiopia: A Multilevel Analysis
Wednesday, March 20 / 8–9 am / Zoom
Join the QuEST Network for their next research seminar! This research seminar is open to all QuEST Centers, affiliate researchers, faculty, and students. Please share with and encourage your teams to join! To be added to the QuEST Network’s distribution list and learn about the monthly research seminars, please contact project coordinator Kayleigh Lawson.
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Brown Bag Seminar: The Impact of Violence on Community Health Workers/Agents in Brazil: Policy Implications
Thursday, March 21 / 1–1:55 pm / Building 1, Room 1208 & Zoom
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Confronting State Violence Across the Globe
Friday, April 5 / 1–6:30 pm / 110 Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA & Zoom
Join this free, hybrid conference fostering cross-border, interdisciplinary dialogues examining the mechanisms and manifestations of state violence experienced by racialized communities across the world and identifying pathways for enacting reforms in law, policy, and practice that center on principles of justice, intersectionality, and racism. This constitutes the FXB Center Roma Program’s 12th Roma conference marking the annual International Roma Day celebrated worldwide every April 8. This conference aims to interrogate the genesis and sources of power and the mechanisms and manifestations of state violence experienced by racialized communities across the world. It will unpack the concept of “ungrievable lives”; the narratives of the Other, the Oriental, or the Oriental within; and the politics of death that validate state-sponsored violence and injustices. Discussing lives deemed ungrievable will be this year’s keynote speaker, Cornel West.
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Open Calls for Applications
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International Health Systems Program Course: Strengthening Human Resources for Health
This in-person, one-week program offers the necessary tools and skills to understand, assess, and formulate effective strategies aimed at enhancing human resources for health. Throughout the course, which will take place from May 1 to 7, 2024, participants will craft a strategic plan for human resources and crisis management tailored to their country or organization's needs. Addressing the critical need for skilled health workers across all levels and the strengthening of educational and management systems, this course employs a financial perspective to achieve these objectives. Applications are due April 1, 2024. For more information, please contact ihsp@hsph.harvard.edu.
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Academic PositionsInternships and Internal Student Positions
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