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Fein speaking on health care reform
04 Nov 2009
In recent months Rashi Fein has continued to discuss and help plan health care reform. He participated in the Second Adirondack Health Care Summit sponsored by the New York State Association of Counties. The Summit discussed the new pilot program that restructures medical care delivery and public and private insurance payments in the Adirondacks. Rashi will be speaking on Health Care Reform: Past, Present, and Future at the following venues:
- On November 22 at Temple Emeth (Brookline, MA)
- On December 1 at the New York Academy of Medicine
Keshavjee and Seung produce IOM white paper on MDRTB
03 Nov 2009
Salmaan Keshavjee, Assistant Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, and KJ Seung, MDR-TB Program Officer for the Partners In Health Lesotho Project, were the chief authors of the white paper, Appendix C Partners In Health White Paper - Stemming the Tide of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis: Major Barriers to Addressing the Growing Epidemic (110-205) to be published by the Institute of Medicine.Healing, Ritual, and Placebo Seminar Series, Fall 2009
03 Nov 2009
The Department of Global Health and Social Medicine co-sponsors the seminar series on Healing, Ritual, and Placebo, which Ted Kaptchuk organizes. Seminars are held monthly at the Osher Research Center, 401 Park Drive, Boston, on Thursdays at 4:00 p.m. On November 19, Irving Kirsch from the University of Hull, UK, will speak on “The Emperor’s New Drugs: The Placebo Effect in Depression.”Oliver Wendell Holmes Symposium to be held on November 17
03 Nov 2009
The Center for the History of Medicine at Harvard Medical School is celebrating the Oliver Wendell Holmes bicentennial this year with several events, including a symposium to be held on Wednesday, November 17. Scott Podolsky, Director of the Center and Assistant Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine will introduce the symposium, beginning at 1:00 p.m. Scott and co-author, Charles S. Bryan, expect their new book, Oliver Wendell Holmes: Physician and Man of Letters (Science History Publications, 2009) to be published at about the same time.King participates in US Commitment to Global Health Study
02 Nov 2009
Over the past two years, Roderick King, Instructor in Global Health and Social Medicine, was an Inaugural Fellow for the Institute of Medicine (co sponsored by Jim Kim, Marie McCormick (HSPH) and Dean Joseph Martin) and was a committee member for the Study: The US Commitment to Global Health. The study was officially finished and released in May and the official publication is now available.New partnership to deliver medical information to clinicians in underserved areas
27 Oct 2009
The Global Health Delivery Project is starting a new partnership with UpToDate, Inc. to provide a limited number of one-year complimentary subscriptions to UpToDate® — a leading evidence-based and peer-reviewed clinical information resource — to clinicians and organizations providing medical care or related services to poor or underserved populations outside the U.S. This program is administered via GHDonline (details to apply available online), and we hope this will be a great opportunity for GHDonline members.Belfer participates in African psychiatry study group and conference
22 Oct 2009
Myron Belfer participated as faculty in the second African Child and Adolescent Mental Health Study Group in Abuja, Nigeria October 19 to 21. The Study Group was formed during his presidency of the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions and supports junior faculty to develop child mental health clinical and advocacy skills. He presented a paper, "Psychotrauma or Psychobabble: What is the evidence?" at the World Psychiatric Association African Regional Conference held from October 22 to 24.Visiting fellow publishes on framework for financing public health-care system
01 Oct 2009
Gustav Tinghög, Visiting Research Fellow in the Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health and PhD Candidate in the Center for Medical Technology Assessment, Department of Medicine and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Sweden, recently published an article in Health Economics Policy and Law titled “Individual responsibility for what? – A conceptual framework for exploring the suitability of private financing in a publicly funded health-care system.”Castro speaks on health policy and MTCT of STDs in Latin America
01 Oct 2009
Arachu Castro recently gave two presentations:
- The Bacardi Family Distinguished Lecture on Health and Policy in Latin America at the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL. The title of the lecture was: Responding to Public Health Priorities in Latin America and the Caribbean: From Academic Research to Policy Setting to Clinical Practice. (September 14)
- Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and Integration of HIV in Maternal and Child Health services syphilis in Latin America and the Caribbean, Invited Plenary Lecture. Regional Conference for UNICEF Health and HIV Focal Points, Regional Office of UNICEF for Latin America and the Caribbean. Panama City, Panama. (October 1)
Lu presents at the 7th World Congress of International Health Economics Association
30 Sep 2009
Chunling Lu presented three papers at the 7th World Congress of International Health Economics Association, this summer in Beijing, China:
- “Assessing Regional Performance in Achieving MDGs in Rwanda”
- “Sub-national assessment of health system performance in Mexico”
- “A substitute for government resource allocation to the health sector? – the role of international health aid in Rwanda”