Event Archive

Monday, April 6th, 2009, 5:30PM, Haven Hall, Room 4701
Poverty, Gender and Insecurity in sub-Saharan African Countries
John Weeks,  School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
This event is co-sponsored by African Development and Human Security Project.

Saturday, April 4, 2009, 2:00-5:00pm, Michigan Theater, 603 East Liberty St.
Global Health: Haiti
A Conversation with Betsy and Gary Nabel
Elizabeth G. Nabel, MD, Director of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute at the NIH
Gary J. Nabel, MD, PhD, Director of the Vaccine Research Center in the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at NIH
UM Reactor Panel: Matthew Boulton, MD and David Canter, MD, Antonia Villarruel, PhD, FAAN
The purpose of this informal symposium is to honor the co-founder of a School of Nursing in Leogane, Haiti: Ruth Barnard, PhD, RN, Professor Emeritus, UM School of Nursing, and first Board President of the Haiti Nursing Foundation.
Sponsored by the Haiti Nursing Foundation, Ann Arbor, Michigan, more

Thursday, April 2, 2009, 12noon, 3755 School of Public Health I
CVD Epidemiological Study in China
Dong Zhao, MD, PhD, Deputy Director, Beijing Institute of Heat, Lung and Blood Vessel Diseases (BIHLBD) Porfessor and Director of Department of Epidemiology, Capital Medical University more

Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 3pm, Room M1152 School of Public Health II
The Evolution of Influenza Viruses
Derek Smith, Professor of Infectious Disease Informatics Department of Zoology University of Cambridge, England more

March 18, 2009, 12:00 p.m.-1:15 pm, School of Nursing, 400 NIB, Room 1334
Tobacco Use Among Adolescents in Chile: Individual and Family Determinants
Brown Bag Seminar by Dr. Paula Repetto, Psychology Department Universidad Catolica de Chile Santiago, Chile
Sponsored by School of Nursing and Latin and Caribbean Studies
The University of Michigan School of Nursing Office of International Affaris and Grants and Research Office and the Latin American and Caribbean studies

March 18, 2009, 3pm, Lane Family Auditorium Rm 1690 School of Public Health Tower
Condom Use among Black Youth in South Africa: Do Relationship Characteristics Matter?
Sarah Burgard, Phd, MS, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Epidemiology, Assistant Research Scientist, Population Studies Center
The predictors of condom use have been a focus in South African research addressing the relatively high rates of HIV/AIDS and adolescent pregnancy there. Extant studies have focused mainly on individual- and family-level predictors, but generally have not focused on characteristics of relationships. This is a limitation because romantic and other sexual relationships are a central context in which sexual activity and decisions about condom use occur. We use two representative samples of youths from two different South African contexts, KwaZulu Natal and Cape Town. We explore youths' recent and lifetime relationship experiences and investigate the importance of a broad set of relationship characteristics for condom use at last sex and consistency of condom use. Preliminary findings  suggest that aspects of the heterogamy (e.g. age difference between partners) and relationship commitment (e.g., duration of the relationship) influence condom use, but findings differ across samples and from findings obtained from U.S. youths.

Monday, March 23, 2009, 12pm, 2239 Lane Hall
Cultural Childbirth Practices, Beliefs and Traditions in Liberia
Jody Lori, Lecturer, UM School of Nursing
Perspectives on Health Series through the Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Monday, March 16, 2009, 5:30pm, Haven Hall, Room 4701
Gender, Environment and Human Security in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area, Ghana
Jacob Songsore, The University of Michigan and Former Dean of Research, University of Ghana.
This event is co-sponsored by African Development and Human Security Project.

Thursday, March 12 2009, 12-1:30pm, 2239 Lane Hall
Breast Cancer Research in North Africa: Adventures of an Argentinian American Physician Scientist in a Wonderful Land
Sofia Merajver, UM, presents this talk as part of IRWG's Arab Women: Transnational Perspective series. This event is co-sponsored by Arab American Studies, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies.

March 12-14
The African Studies Center invites the public for the international symposium, “Engaging Africa/Advancing African Studies”, which aims in part to honor the first anniversary of U-M President Mary Sue Coleman’s trip to Africa and subsequent launch of the new African Studies Center (ASC). For detailed program schedule go to www.umich.edu/~iinet/asc

Wednesday, March 11, 2009, 4:00pm, 1690 School of Public Health Crossroads
Wealthier and Taller: How Can We Explain Socioeconomic Inequalities in Height in Today's Children in the UK?
The Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health and the University of Michigan's Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholars Program Welcomes Bruna Galobardes, PhD Clinical Research Fellow, Department of Social Medicine University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Sponsored by CSEPH & RWJ Health & Society Scholars Program
Contact Information: Amy Brooks - csephlectures@umich.edu
School of Public Health RSVP required to csephlectures@umich.edu

Tuesday, March 10, 2009, 4-5:30pm, 1655 Crossroads, School of Public Health I, 109 S. Observatory
More Health for the Money: A Global Health Agenda for the New President
Ruth Levine, Ph.D.Center for Global Development, Vice President for Programs and Operations and Senior Fellow
Ruth Levine is an internationally recognized expert on global health and health policy. She served as a committee member and co-author of the Institute of Medicine’s study on the U.S. Commitment to Global Health.  She is a health economist with more than 15 years of experience designing and assessing the effects of social sector programs in Latin America, Eastern Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. As CGD vice president for programs and operations, she is a member of the Center’s senior management team. She is also a CGD senior fellow and leads the Center’s work on global health policy, including chairing a series of working groups on key policy and finance constraints to the effective use of donor funding for health programs in low-income countries. Before joining the CGD, Ruth designed, supervised, and evaluated loans at the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. Between 1997 and 1999, she served as the advisor on the social sectors in the office of the executive vice president of the Inter-American Development Bank.
RSVP to hnlutz@umich.edu, 764-7355
Sponsored by UM Center for Global Health

Monday March 9, noon-1pm, Institute for Social Research, Room 6050, 426 Thompson St.
Demand for Sex-Selective Abortions
Clau Portner, University of Washington
Population Studies Center Brown Bag Seminar

Wednesday, March 4, 2009, 4:00 - 5:30pm, Center for the Education of Women, 330 E. Liberty
Human Rights vs. Women's Rights: Assessing their Intersection Through a Different Lens
Mallika Dutt, Breakthrough, 2008-2009 Twink Frey Visiting Social Activist
There are currently two major forms of discourse on the intersection of human rights and culture. One form sees certain cultures as being in opposition to women's human rights. The other, as identified by the United Nations, asserts that people have a human right to maintain their own culture rather than be subsumed by the culture of the majority. Mallika Dutt believes that human rights should be seen in a third way, as a part of a culture. Through this lens, she will discuss how a culture and its values may be supportive of women's human rights in some respects and restrictive of them in others. Her presentation will address some of the misconceptions about women's rights and culture that exist between different religions and ethnicities. Ms. Mallika Dutt directs Breakthrough, an international human rights organization that uses media, education and pop culture to promote values of dignity, equality, and justice. Breakthrough themes include women's rights, sexual and reproductive rights, immigrant rights, racial, ethnic and caste equality and religion and peace. Please register online at www.cew.umich.edu or by calling 734-764-6005. Deadline to register: Friday, February 27th. CEW Web Link

Thursday, February 12, 7-8:30pm, Kalamazoo Room, Michigan League
Workers Speak Out
Union Organizers from the Jerzees de Honduras Clothing Factory Owned by Russell.
Russell, a clothing producer for UM, recently shut down the facotry Jerzees de Honduras-in direct opposition to a report released by the Workers Rights Consortium (WRC).
Co-sponsored by the MSA Peace and Justice Commission and UM President's Advisory Committee on Labor Standards and Human Rights.

Friday, February 13, 2009, 2-3:30 pm, Room 1220 Weill Hall, Ford School of Public Policy
Peace Corps Application Workshop

Tuesday, February 10, 7pm, Rackham Amphitheater
Doctors Without Borders, Dr. Hansel Otero and Nurse Sally Najera
In 2007, Hansel Otero, MD, completed his fourth assignment with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). He was part of
a team sent to assess the medical needs of the population in the northwestern Sadaa province of Yemen where thousands of people were
displaced by renewed clashes between the government security forces and rebels.
Over the past five years, nurse Sally Najera has participated in six MSF medical programs. Her most recent project took her to Bihar State
in northern India where she worked with victims of severe flooding. Prior to that Ms. Najera's responded to an outbreak of the Marburg
virus, a highly contagious relative of the ebola virus, which was raging through a rural region in northern Angola.
Sponsored by WILL WORK FOR FOOD, a student run non-profit started at U of M that aims to stimulate local community service while helping to feed malnourished children in Darfur.

Wednesday, February 11, 3:30, Kuenzel Room, Michigan Union
Child Soldiers: Root Causes and UN Inititatives
Radhika Coomaraswamy, Esq. is the United Nations Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict. In this capacity, she serves as a moral voice and independent advocate to build awareness and give prominence to the rights and protection of girls and boys affected by armed conflict. Formerly the Chairpoerson of the Sri Lanka Human Rights Commission, Ms. Coomaraswamy is an internationally known human rights advocate who has done outstanding work as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women. More biographical information is available at the following website: http://www.un.org/children/conflict/english/radhikacoomaraswamy.html

Thursday, February 5, 2009, 4pm
Deadline for GHRT Graduate Global Health Travel Fellowship Applications
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Monday, February 9, 2009, 5:30pm, Haven Hall, Room 4701
Treating AIDS in South Africa and Uganda: Semi-authoritarian Technologies in Gendered Contexts of Insecurity
Lisa Ann Richey, International Development Studies, Department of Society and Globalisation, Roskilde University, Denmark
This event is co-sponsored by African Development and Human Security Project.

Friday, January 23, 2009, 12-1pm, 2609 SSWB
Special Presentation:  former Fulbrighter Mark O’Connor
The University of Michigan deadline is September 10, 2009.
 http://us.fulbrightonline.org/home.html

Monday, January 26, 2009, 12-1pm, 1644 SSWB
Fulbright Information Session
Special Presentation:  Tony Claudino, visiting speaker from IIE Headquarters, New York

Monday, January 26th, 2009, 5:30pm, Haven Hall, Room 4701
Whose Human Security? Gender, Neo-liberalisma nd the Informal Economy in Sub Saharan Africa.
Zo Randriamaro, Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO), Madagascar.
This event is co-sponsored by African Development and Human Security Project

January 28, 2009, 12:00pm - 1:30 pm, 2239 Lane Hall
Menstruation and Education in Nepal
U-M professor of economics Rebecca Thornton discusses the impact of alternative menstrual products in Nepal.
This event is co-sponsored by School of Social Work, School of Public Health, School of Nursing more

Wednesday, January 28, 12-1pm, 1644 SSWB
US State Department Fulbright Information Session
The University of Michigan deadline is September 10, 2009.
http://us.fulbrightonline.org/home.html

Thursday January 15, 2009, 12-1pm, 2609 SSWB
US State Department Fulbright Information Session
The University of Michigan deadline is September 10, 2009.
 http://us.fulbrightonline.org/home.html

Tuesday January 20, 2009, 12-1pm, 1644 SSWB
US State Department Fulbright Information Session
The purpose of the Fulbright Program is to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and other countries.  The State Department makes Fulbright fellowships available to over 1,500 U.S. students annually to study, conduct research, teach English, or train in the creative arts in more than 140 countries worldwide.   The competition is administered at the University of Michigan through the International Institute. At the information session, a University of Michigan Fulbright Program Advisor will describe the application and selection process and provide suggestions for making your application more competitive.  

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009, 5:00pm Blau Auditorium, Ross School of Business
Tadataka (Tachi) Yamada, M.D., President, Global Health Program, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Dr. Tadataka (Tachi) Yamada is President of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Global Health Program.  In this capacity he oversees grants totaling over $7 billion in programs directed at applying technologies to address major health challenges of the developing world including TB, HIV, malaria and other infectious diseases, malnutrition and maternal and child health. He was formerly Chairman, Research and Development and a Member of the Board of Directors of GlaxoSmithKline

December 4, 2008, 5:30pm, Haven Hall, Room 4701
Food Insecurity: the Impact on African Women and Children
Meredith Turshen, Rutgers University, discusses her current research as part of the speakers series Gender, Africa Development and Human Security.
This event is co-sponsored by African Development and Human Security Project

December 5, 2008, 12-1:30pm, 1636 School of Social Work Building/International Institute
Migrant Workers and HIV Risk in Thailand
Kathy Ford, Research Scientist, UM School of Public Health
Sponsored by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Fridays at noon seminar series

Friday November 21, 2008, Room 1690 School of Public Health
Global Solutions: Public-Private Partnerships and the Fight Against Malaria in the Equatorial Guinea
Dr. Chris Schwabe, PhD
Dr. Schwabe is currently serving as the director of Medical Care Development International (MCDI)
and health economist for two country-wide malaria control initiatives in Equatorial Guinea: the Bioko
Island Malaria Control Project (BIMCP) and the Equatorial Guinea Malaria Control Initiative (EGMCI)
For more information, visit SEGH online at umich.edu/~segh

December 1, 2008, Noon-1pm, Room 6050 Institute for Social Research
Networks of Concurrent Sexual Partnerships and HIV Risk in a Small Sub-Saharan Population
Stephane Helleringer (Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania)
Multiple concurrent partnerships (MCP) have been described as the “key driver” of generalized HIV epidemics, but comparative studies show that MCP are not more common in regions of Africa with high HIV prevalence than in regions with concentrated epidemics. This might be due to systematic under-reporting of MCP during population-based sexual behavior surveys (e.g., DHS). We use unique data from a sexual network study during which sexual partners were traced to assess whether self-reported measures of partnership concurrency possibly underestimate the contribution of MCP to HIV epidemics in sub-Saharan settings.
Populations Studies Center Brown Bag

November 18, 2008, 4:00 pm, 1655 SPH Crossroads
On Complex Systems Theory and Population Health
Michael Wolfson, Ph.D, Assistant Chief Statistician, Statistics Canada
Sponsored by CSEPH and RWJ Health & Society Scholars Program
An RSVP to csephlectures@umich.edu is required

Wednesday Nov. 19, 7:00pm, 1040 Dana Building
Join the African Development and Human Securities group for two engaging short films:
The Trade Trap (Written and directed by Steve Bradshaw. 27 min.)
Examines the issue of globalization and its effect on ordinary people around the world. This film looks at the struggles by Ghanaian farmers to get a foothold in the international market. The film follows Austustine Adongo, chief executive of the Federation of Associations of Ghanaian Exporters, as he visits farmers and business owners across his country, exploring both sides of the globalization issue along the way.
Sowing the Seeds of Hunger (Produced and directed by James Heer. 27 min.)
Examines the issue of globalization and its effect on ordinary people around the world. This film looks at the AIDS epidemic in Zambia and other sub-Saharan African nations which has crippled the agricultural community, forcing children to undertake the responsibilities of farming.
Join us for an informal discussion after the films. E-mail Cristy Watkins (watkinsc@umich.edu) if you would like to participate in the discussion panel.

November 12, 2008, 4pm
Deadline for OVPR/GHRT Faculty Seed Grant applications and IRWG Gender and Global Health Faculty Seed Grant applications more

November 13, 2008, 10:00-11:30, School of Public Health Lane Auditorium, Room 1690
Men’s Health: A Social Ecological Perspective
Ann Hayes, Chief Executive Officer of the Freemasons Foundation Centre for Men’s Health at the University of Adelaide in Australia
All are welcome to attend, but space is limited.  Please RSVP to: Dr. Griffith, derekmg@umich.edu, 936-1318

November 17, 2008, 5:30pm, Haven Hall, Room 4701
The Politics of Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency and the Reproductive Health of Sudanese Women
Jok Madut Jok, Loyola-marymount University, discusses his current research as part of the speaker series, Gender, African Development and Human Security
This event is co-sponsored by African Development and Human Security Project

October 29, 2008, 7:30pm, Hill Auditorium
Novel Prize winner and South African cleric Archbishop Desmond Tutu will be awarded the 18th University of Michigan Wallenberg Medal by UM President Mary Sue Coleman. more For more on the Wallenberg Endowment click here

October 30, 2008, 4:00pm – 5:30pm, 3240 Weill Hall
Family Planning and Rural Fertility Decline in Iran: A Study in Program Evaluation
Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, University of Michigan
Co-sponsored by the International Policy Center (IPC) at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, the Department of Economics and the Business Economics Department at the Ross School of Business 

November 5, 2008, 3pm Lane Family Auditorium, School of Public Health Tower, Rm. 1690
Potential uses of spatial analysis and remote sensing for the control of vector-borne diseases: the case of visceral leishmaniasis urbanization in Brazil
Guilherme Werneck, MD, DSc, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, State University of Rio de Janeiro and Visiting Scholar, Department of Endemic Diseases, National School of Public Health,  FIOCRUZ

November 5, 2008, 4-8pm, Michigan Union Ballroom
MHIRT (Minority Health International Research Training) and UM-GHRT Third Annual Symposium and Poster Session. This year, the two programs funded the international research of almost 45 U-M undergraduate, graduate and medical students from a variety of disciplines. This is a wonderful opportunity to learn more about campus opportunities for U-M students.  Funding information will also be available for 2009. Click here for the flyer

November 6, 2008, Room 1680 Crossroads, 12:30-2:00 pm, School of Public Health
Global Intercultural Awareness
Pamela Heatlie, Assistant Director, Office of Institutional Equity
SPH Diversity Workshop. Do you have the skills it takes to communicate with people from around the world? This workshop will introduce you to concepts that will help you work and communicate effectively across cultures.
To RSVP for this workshop, click here

Thursday November 6, 2008, 11:30-1:00pm, 3755 School of Public Health I
The African Green Revolution Moves Forward
Pedro A. Sanchez, PhD, Director of the Tropical Agriculture and the Rural Environment Program and Director of the Millennium Villages Project at the Earth Institute at Columbia University
Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, University of Michigan's Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholars Program
RSVP required to csephlectures@umich.edu

November 7-8, 2008, Room 6050 Institute for Social Research
The Impact of HIV/AIDS on Older Persons in Africa and Asia, a conference,
This conference is funded by the National Institute on Aging through a grant to the Michigan Center on the Demography of Aging (MiCDA). If you are interested in attending the conference on the impact of HIV/AIDS on older persons in Africa and Asia, please send the following information to Nathalie Williams natw@umich.edu
Name, affiliation, e-mail address and specify the session numbers you expect to attend (see program for session titles). Also indicate if you would like to attend the Friday and/or Saturday lunches (to be provided gratis).
We will confirm your participation by return e-mail and send information for accessing the password protected sections of the web site.

November 7, 2008, 5pm
MHIRT applications due (for summer 2009 placements)
Minority Health and Health Disparities International Research Training Program more

Wednesday, October 22, 2008, 7-8pm, University of Michigan
Peace Corps represented at the International Career Pathways panel discussion, Teaching & Volunteering Abroad

October 23, 2008, 2-6pm, Michigan Union
International Opportunities Fair

October 23, 2008, 4-5:30pm, 3240 Weill Hall
An Empirical Model of Illegal Work
Frank McIntyre, Brigham Young University
Economic Development and Transition Seminar (EDTS)
FRANK McINTYRE is an assistant professor of Economics at BYU.  He has conducted research in wage inequality, minimum wages, and illegal work in Brazil, the EITC and the minimum wage in the U.S.
Co-sponsored by the International Policy Center at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, the Department of Economics and the Business Economics Department at the Ross School of Business.

October 17, 2008, 8:00-1:00pm, International Institute Rm 1636, School of Social Work Building
Gender, Sexuality, Health and Human Rights in Latin America and the Caribbean
Sponsored by UM SPH Health Behavior Health Education & Latin American and Caribbean Studies more.

October 2, 2008, 3-6pm Michigan Union Ballroom
Office of International Program Study Abroad Fair
The Fall Fair boasts information on 90+ programs and has more than 1,400 student attendants. This Fair is traditionally held in the Michigan Union's Grand Ballroom in September of each year. This Fair caters to students interested in Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer, and Full Academic Year programs.

October 6, 2008, 12-1pm, Institute for Social Research Building, Rm 6050
School Quality, Attitudes about the Family, and Contraceptive Use in Nepal
Sara Brauner-Otto, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina
Population Studies Center Brown Bag Seminar Series

October 7, 2008, 5:30pm, Haven Hall, Rm 4701
Gender, Power and Peacemaking in Africa
Aili Tripp, University of Wisconsin, discusses her current research as part of the speaker series Gender, African Development and Human Security.

Wednesday October 8 , 3pm, Lane Family Auditorium, Room 1690 SPH Tower
Epidemiologic Studies of Diet and Coronary Heart Disease in Costa Rica
Ana Baylin, MD, DrPH, Assistant Professor of Medical Sciences, Department of Community Health, Brown University, Providence, RI
Epidemiology Seminar Series

Wednesday October 8, 2008, 6:30 pm, International Center, Room 9
Peace Corps Information Session

October 10, 2008, 8am-5pm, Michigan Union
The Global Urban Symposium is a day-long event that highlights the challenges and opportunities inherent to urban metropolises. Experts from all over the world will speak to topics such as green-building, energy, education, urban philanthropy, health policy and more. Visit http://www.globalurbansymposium.com or contact Tammie Jones at tammiej@umich.edu for more information.
The conference is open to all University of Michigan students, as well as representatives from area nonprofit agencies; however, you must register at www.rossnetimpact.org

October 13, 2008, 3:30-5:30pm, 2nd floor, Michigan League
President Mary Sue Coleman will speak about her trip to Africa earlier this year during a reception for the University's new African Studies Center (ASC). Provost Teresa Sullivan will also provide remarks. The center, officially launched in July, is designed to provide additional support for teaching and research by organizing lectures, workshops, conferences and outreach events, in addition to serving as the focal point for the large number of faculty members and students engaged in African studies on campus and in Africa.

September 29, 2008, 3pm, Lane Family Auditorium, Rm 1690, School of Public Health Tower
Menopause and Women's Health Findings from Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Studies
Lorraine Dennertstein, AO, MBBS, PhD, DPM, FRANZCP, Department of Psychiatry, The Unviersity of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Epidemiology Seminar Series, Co-sponsored by the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

September 25, 2008, 4-5pm, 1655 Crossroads Building, School of Public Health I
Candidate for the Director of the Center for Global Health
Sandro Galea, M.D., M.P.H., Dr.PH. Professor, Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology in the School of Public Health, Research Professor, Institute for Social Research

September 25, 2008, 5-7pm School of Public Health II, Auditorium, 109 S. Observatory
Leveraging the Power of Diversity: Global and Domestic Perspectives
On Thursday September 25 and Friday, September 26 (10-12pm, Founders Room, Alumni Center, topic: Rankism in Organizations), Professor Robert Fuller will begin the series by presenting his groundbreaking work on "rankism" and "dignitarianism" as a way to achieve inclusiveness and therefore leverage the power of diversity in all organizations. His presentation will provide a framework for an integrative language that highlights the universality of fundamental diversity challenges, as well as practical solutions. (more on this event) (click here for more on this series)

Tuesday, September 16, 2008, 7pm, Michigan Union, Kuenzel Room
Peace Corps Information Session
Michigan Union; Kuenzel Room
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Tuesday, September 23, 2008, 2-6:00 pm, Michigan Union, 2nd Floor
Job Fair 2008, Visit the Peace Corps Information Table

September 23, 2008, 4-5pm, 1655 Crossroads Building, School of Public Health I
Candidate for the Director of the University of Michigan Center of Global Health
Sofia D. Merajver, M.D., Ph.D. Professor, Internal Medicine, Scientific Director, Breast Oncology ProgramDirector, Breast & Ovarian Cancer and Risk Evaluation Program at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center
The candidate will give a 30 minute presentation on her vision for the Center for Global Health, followed by a 30 minute question and answer period. 

September 15, 2008, 5:30pm, Haven Hall, Room 4701
Gender Differences in Perception of Vulnerability to HIV/AIDS: The Case of Men and Women in Lilongwe, Malawi
Ezekial Kalipeni, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, discusses his current research as part of the speaker series Gender, African Development and Human Security.

September 15, 2008, 4-5:30 PM, Rackham Auditorium
Hope for a Heated Planet: Energy, Health & Organizing for Change
Robert Musil, PhD, MPH, is former executive director of Physicians for Social Responsibility and author of  "Hope for a Heated Planet." 
Sponsored by LSA theme semester
Contact Information: Amanda Hooper, amhooper@umich.edu
Cost: Open and free to the University and public
This event is sponsored by LSA theme semester, LSA student government, Center for the Study of Complex Systems, Michigan Community Scholars Program, Health Science Scholars Program, LSA Honors Program

CANCELED: Monday May 21, 3pm, School of Public Health, Room 1655 Crossroads, SPH I
Influenza in China: Avian Influenza in Humans and Seasonal Surveillance
Dr. Yu, China CDC, Deputy Director, Office for Disease Control and Emergency Response

Tuesday May 13, 2008, 4-5pm 1655 Crossroads, School of Public Health
Viral Forecasting
Nathan Wolfe, MA, ScD, Professor of Epidemiology, UCLA
Description: Current global disease control efforts focus largely on attempting to stop pandemics after they have already emerged. This fire brigade approach, which generally involves drugs, vaccines, and behavioral change, has severe limitations. Just as we discovered in the 1960s that it is better to prevent heart attacks then try to treat them, over the next 50 years we will realize that it is better to stop pandemics before they spread and that effort should increasingly be focused on viral forecasting and pandemic prevention. In this talk I discuss how novel viruses enter into the human population from animals and go on to become pandemics. I then discuss attempts by my own research group to study this process and attempt to control viruses that have only recently emerged. By creating a global network at the interface of humans and animals we are working to move viral forecasting from a theoretical possibility to a reality.

Tuesday, April 29, 2008 2:00 - 4:00 pm, Biomedical Science Research Building Auditorium
PEPFAR "is the largest commitment ever by any nation for an international health initiative dedicated to a single disease" HIV/AIDS. Presented by: Mary E. Kratz Advisor to the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief & System Project Coordinator, University of Michigan Medical School. Sponsored by University of Michigan Health Sciences Libraries. Contact Information: Gillian Mayman gmayman@umich.edu

Monday April 21, 2008 at noon in room 6050, Insitute for Social Research Building
Family Formation and Fertility in Central and Eastern Europe: Sweeping Changes and Driving Forces
Dimiter Philipov, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna Institute of Demography
A PSC Brown Bag Seminar

Sunday April 20 , 2008, 2-3:30pm, Chrisler Arena
14th Dalai Lama of Tibet to deliver April Peter M.Wege Lecture on the topic of Sustainability
The Nobel Peace Prize winner and Buddhist leader's appearance coincides with Earth Day weeeknd and is free and open to the public, though tickets are required. more

Monday April 14, 2008, 4-5, 1655 Crossroads, School of Public Health, 109 S. Observatory
Safe Pregnancy and Childbirth: A Test Case for Global Health
Dr. Albrecht Jahn is a medical doctor and biologist by training. He specialized in obstetrics and gynecology, public health, and tropical infectious diseases and is a senior lecturer and researcher at the Department of Tropical Hygiene and Public Health at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. He worked for several years in rural hospitals in Kenya and Tanzania, followed by close research collaboration in the fields of maternal and perinatal health and infectious diseases (malaria, meningitis, leishmaniasis). After establishing an interdisciplinary research group at Heidelberg University, research collaborations extended to Pakistan, Nepal, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde and South Africa with a focus on assessing and improving maternity related health systems and services as well as related screening procedures and technologies such as obstetric ultrasound. This work was complemented by research on maternity services in Europe. He has been working with major universities in low income countries, namely the Aga Khan University Karachi and the Muhimbili University College of Health Sciences in Tanzania, where he was instrumental in establishing a successful postgraduate MPH program. Recently, he has joined the European Union’s Directorate General for Research as senior advisor in the field of international collaboration on health research with low-income countries. He has close links to WHO agencies and other international bodies discussing global health research priorities.

Monday April 14, 2008, at NOON in room 6050, Insitute for Social Research Building
Educational Transitions in Egypt
Ray Langsten, Social Research Center, American University in Cairo
A PSC Brown Bag Seminar

Monday April 14, 2008, 4-5:30, 1110 Weill Hall
Science & Technology Policy for Development: Issues from the Global South
Susan Cozzens, Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Technology Policy and Assessment Center, Georgia Institute of Technology
Innovation policies interact with local conditions to produce results. What makes sense in the North may have different results in the South. For example, many countries of the South face deep challenges of inequalities and poverty. Northern approaches can increase the tilt in the social system, unless un-tilting measures are introduced at the same time. This talk presents some of the common structural differences between countries of the global North and those of the global South. It then illustrates interactions between common innovation policies and these conditions.

Thursday, April 10, 2008, 4:00 – 5:30pm 3240 Weill Hall
Consumption, Smoothing, Risk Aversion, and Household Partition in Rural Mexico
Amar Hamoudi completed his Ph.D. in the Department of Economics at UCLA in 2007
UM Health and Society Scholar
Co-sponsored by the International Policy Center (IPC) at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, the Department of Economics and the Business Economics Department at the Ross School of Business

Thursday, April 10, 2008, 12-3:00 West lecture Hall, Med Sci II
Public Health in Refugee Camps, Do it!
Dr. Ashis Brahma will share his experiences of treating patients at refugee camps on the Darfur-Chad borders. As health manager of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and International Rescue Committee's Oure Cassoni refugee camp from mid-2006 through last summer, Brahma cared for a population of 27,000 Darfur refugees. He was the only physician in a team of eight Chadian and 85 refugee staff members.
Sponsored by the American Red Cross, Washtenaw County Chapter

Wednesday April 9, 2008 4-6pm 4154 LSA
Stigma, Sexuality, and Social Inequality: Perspectives on HIV/AIDS in India and the Dominican Republic
Conversations Across Social Disciplines (CASD) presents a workshop in social work and anthropology. Speakers are Mark Padilla, Assistant Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Anthropology; and Michael R. Woodford, Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
Sponsor: Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop Program of the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies and the Dean's Office of the School of Social Work

Tuesday, April 08, 2008, 4-5:30pm, Rackham Assembly Hall|
Motorola Lecture: Amira Hass: Virility and Arms: Male Individualism in the Last Round of Israeli-Palestinian Bloodshed
The Department of Women's Studies and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender present Amira Hass, delivering the 2008 Motorola Lecture. Hass is an Israeli journalist and author, mostly known for her columns in the daily newspaper Ha'aretz. She is especially famous for living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and reporting on events from the Palestinian perspective of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Monday April 7, 2008, at NOON in room 6050, Institute for Social Research Building
John Casterline, Department of Sociology, Ohio State University
Consequences of Unwanted Fertility: Longitudinal Evidence from Bangladesh
A PSC Brown Bag Seminar

Thursday, April 3, 2008 4:00-6:30pm Annenberg Auditorium, Joan and Sanford Weill Hall
Public presentation on the 2008 International Economic Development Program in Jordan
Presentations will cover the following topics: water scarcity, chronic disease (diabetes), performance of the Jordan-US Free Trade Agreement, IT education for private sector development, and the needs of displaced Iraqis.

Friday April 4, 2008, 4:00 p.m.
International Center: 603 E. Madison St Room 9
Peace Corps Information Session
Contact Information: Amanda Miller and Ashley Thompson 734-647-2182 or email Peace.Corps@umich.edu
This is the last Peace Corps Information Session for this year!

Tuesday March 25, 2008, 4-5pm, 1655 Crossroads Building, School of Public Health
Global Health Governance and Local System Capacity - How Are They Connected and Why Should We Care?
Vivian Lin, MPH, PhD
Professor of Public Health, La Trobe University

Tuesday March 25, 2008, 12:10pm, 300 North Ingalls, 10th Level, the Commons
Yair Bar-Haim, PhD, Tel Aviv University
Changing Responsiveness to Threat by Manipulating Attention: From Neuroscience to Potential Interventions for Anxious Children
Sponsored by the Center for Human Growth & Development

March 26-27, 2008, Rackham Ampitheatre
Water, Health and the Environment Conference
Graham Environmental Sustainability Institute (GESI)
Conference Website

Wednesday March 26, 2008, 11:30-1pm, Rm. 1690 School of Public Health I
Public Health Grand Rounds: Public Health in China
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Registration is required at: www.mipreparedness.org

Wednesday March 26, 2008, 3pm, Lane Family Auditorium, Rm 1690 SPH I
Life as a NIAID Influenza Program Officer: The Current Status of Pandemic Flu Vaccines
David Cho, Ph.D., M.P.H., Program Officer, Influenza Vaccines, RSV & HMPV, Influenza, SARS & Related Viral Respiratory Diseases Section, RDB/DMID/NIAID/NIH
Epidemiology Seminar Series

Thursday March 27, 2008, 4:00pm – 5:30pm, 3240 Weill Hall
David Lam, Professor of Economics, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and Research Professor, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research
Explaining the Persistence of Racial Gaps in Schooling in South Africa
Economic Development and Transition Seminar (EDTS)

Friday March 28, 2008, Rackham Building
Environment and Environment Health in Minority Communities
For 22 years, the Public Health Students of African Descent have made this annual conference one of the school's premier events. This year's session brings together leading scientists, health professionals, and policymakers to examine an issue of growing global concern. For more information visit http://www.brownandgreen2008.org/ Contact Information: brownandgreen2008@gmail.com

Wednesday, March 19, 2008, 4-5pm, 1636 International Institute
Sexual and Labor Trafficking in the Soviet Successor States: How the Former USSR Became a Global Center of Illegal Migration
Professor Louise Shelley, School of Public Policy, George Mason University
Sponsored by CMENAS, CEES and IRWG

Thursday March 20th, 4-5pm, M1152, School of Public Health II
Newborn Vitamin A Dosing and Child Survival:  The Progression of Scientific Thought from Rejection to Acceptance
James Tielsch, MHSc, PhD
Professor, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
Associate Chair, Academic Programs, Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University 

Wednesday March 20th, 10:30-12:30, SPH I Auditorium, Room 1755
A Celebration in Honor of the Work of Ruth Simmons
10:30-12 Guest Speakers/Panel SPH I Auditorium
12:00 Reception SPH Crossroads, Community Lounge, Room 1680
James Phillips, PhD Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University speaking on Balancing a Humanitarian, Scientific and Programmatic Agenda: Family Planning Research in South Asia
Peter Fajans, MD, MPH, Department of Reproductive Health & Research, WHO
The WHO Strategic Approach: From participatory assessment to the scaling up of health service innovations.Jeremy Shiffman, PhD, Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs, Syracuse University
Generating Global Political Priority for Maternal Survival flyer

Friday, March 21, 2008, 12pm, Rm. 2024 Dana Building
The State of Environmental Health of Accra, Ghana: Poverty, Inequality and Environmental Burdens
Jacob Songsore, Professor of Geography and Resource Development at the University of Ghana
Sponsored by African Development and Human Security Project's S
Contact Information: Jennifer Lee Johnson jenniferjohnsonlee@gmail.co

Wednesday March 11, 4-5:30pm, 1655 SPH Crossroads School of Public Health,
Psychobiological Processes Linking Psychosocial Factors with Disease Risk
Andrew Steptoe, MA, DPhil, DSc
British Heart Foundation Professor of Psychology Deputy Head, Depart of Epidemiology and Public Health
University College London
Sponsored by The Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health and
the University of Michigan's Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholars Program

Thursday March 13th, 4pm -5pm, 1655 Crossroads Building, School of Public Health
Working Without Borders in Global Health: Emerging and Re-emerging Issues
Michael Kimerling, MD, MPH, FACP
Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Monday March 17th, 4-5pm, Lane Auditorium, Crossroads Building, School of Public Health
The Bottom Billion: Academic Challenges in Humanitarian Transformation
Michael VanRooyen, MD, MPH
Director, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Harvard University
Director, Division of International Health & Humanitarian Programs, Brigham & Women’s Hospital
Associate Professor, Harvard School of Public Health & Harvard Medical School

Tuesday, March 4, 2008, 2100 Observatory Lodge 6-7:30pm
Peace Corps Information Session
Presented by UM Peace Corps coordinator and former volunteer Amanda Miller, who will talk about her service in Botswana 2004-2006 and how you can apply.  Light refreshments will be served. Sponsored by the Center for Global Opportunities in Kinesiology.  Contact Sandy Wiley, International Program Coordinator, for further information.

Tuesday, February 26, 2008, 4pm, North Ingalls Building, Room 7C09
Family Planning and Unsafe Abortion: Policy Implications in Pakistan
Dr. Badaruddin Abbasi, M.D. Fellow, Cleveland Clinic Department of Bioethics
Dr. Abbasi is principal scientific officer at National Research Institute of Fertility in Karachi, Pakistan. He helped to
establish the National Bioethics Board in Pakistan and has lectured on bioethical issues throughout the country, advising on the creation of hospital and research ethics committees, and initiating a national dialogue about bioethical issues.
Sponsored by the University of Michigan Bioethics Program, Values and Society Seminar

Tuesday, February 12, 2008, 12:10-1pm, School of Public Health Tower, Room 1655
Joint Task Force, ATLAS RESPONSE: Perspectives from the Senior Medical Officer
Col (Dr.) Richard Bachmann will give a description of the operational and medical issues that he encountered as the senior medical officer during this military humanitarian flood relief operation in Mozambique.
Col Bachmann is a graduate of the University of Michigan through LS&A, the Medical School, and the School of Public Health

Monday, February 11, 2008, 4pm
On Complex Systems Theory and Population Health
Michael Wolfson, Ph.D., Assistant Chief Statistician, Statistics Canada
Sponosored by the Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health and the University of Michigan's Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholars Program
RSVP required to csephlectures@umich.edu

Thursday, January 31, 2008, 3:00pm, HMP North Conf. Room M3024/School of Public Health Bldg. II
A Complex Systems Approach to Studying the Spread of HIV
Carl Simon, Ph.D., Director, Center for the Study of Complex Systems; Professor, Dept. of Economics/Mathematics and School of Public Policy, University of Michigan,
A copy of the paper is available - please contact Gail Pieknik via e-mail: gpieknik@umich.edu

Monday February 4, 2008, 12noon, Rm 6050 Institute for Social Research
Community Effects on the Sexual Behavior of Youth in Asia
David Bishai (School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University)
PSC Brown Bag Seminar

Wednesday, January 16, 2008, 5:30pm, Room 4701 Haven Hall, 505 S. State Street
Health and Ambient Air Pollution in Durban, South Africa: Community, Governmental & Industry Responses
Professor Tom Robins, Dept of Environmental and Health Sciences, University of Michigan
Sponsored by the Center for AfroAmerican & African Studies

Wednesday, January 16, 2008, 3:00pm, Lane Family Auditorium, Rm 1690 SPH I
Julie Vaishampayan, MD, MPH, Preventive Medicine Resident
Public Health in Tianjin, China
An overview of public health in a large city in China. The talk will be an overview of public health in Tianjin, some communicable diseases and outbreak investigations.
Epidemiology Seminar Series

Thursday December 6, 2007, 12-1:30pm, 2239 Lane Hall
Exceptional sex: How drugs have come to mediate sex in gay discourse, and the implication of HIV prevention
Kane Race, IRWG Visiting Scholar
IRWG Global Conversations
This event is co-sponsored by School of Public Health, School of Social Work.

Thursday December 6, 2007, 3240 Weill Hall
Why is Mobility in India so Low? Social Insurance, Inequality, and Growth
Mark Rosenzweig, Yale University
Economic Development and Transition Seminar (EDTS)
Co-sponsored by the International Policy Center (IPC), the Department of Economics

Monday November 26, 2007 12-1:00pm, Room 6050, 6th floor ISR conference room, 426 Thompson
Sleep and Health: Gender, socio-economic status and inequalities in sleep
Sara Arber, Professor of Sociology, Centre for Research on Ageing and Gender (CRAG), Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, UK
PSC Brown Bag Seminar
IRWG Gender and Global Health Speaker Series

November 29-30, Michigan Union
Appraisal and Action: HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa
Sponsored by the Center for International and Comparative Studies, the U-M Center for Global Health, and the William Davidson Institute, this international conference will highlight challenges to monitoring the HIV burden and the reach of HIV testing and treatment, especially in a context of heightened concern for privacy. Conference papers and panel discussions reflect on new data from the region, discuss barriers to generating better estimates for policy-making, and prospects for new clinical HIV/AIDS information systems in resource-poor settings.
contact sgoletz@umich.edu for more details

November 29-30, 2007
Symposium on Cancer in Africa and African Americans
Cancer Epidemiology Education in Special Populations Program (CEESP) and the Global Health Program
http://www.sph.umich.edu/ceesp

December 3, 2007, 7:30pm Telluride House, 1735 Washtenaw Ave, about two blocks from the rock)
Learn about the Study Abroad Scholarship for U-M students. Student Emily Foley will talk about her experiences at the Unversity of Cape Town last year. More information on the scholarship available at www.tellurideassociation.org. Applications due Jan 15, 2008 - one full year scholarship available for an undergrad or a grad student.

Wednesday November 14, 2007 3-4:30pm, 2239 Lane Hall
Taking a stand, women and HIV survival
Michelle Lopez speaks from personal experience about women and HIV, particularly as they relate to immigrant women.
IRWG Global Conversations
This event is co-sponsored by School of Public Health, School of Social Work.

November 8, 2007, 8-10am Michigan League, 1st Floor, Room 4
The World Health Organization's Landmark Public Health Treaty: the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
Douglas Blanke is Director of the Tobacco Law Center at the William Mitchell Law School in St. Paul, Minnesota, and Executive Director of the Tobacco Control Legal Consortium, the network of legal centers supporting the tobacco control movement in the United States
Contact Information: Cliff Douglas, cdoug@umich.edu, 734-936-0939
Cost: Free but RSVP (noting UM affiliation) required to cdoug@umich.edu

 November 2, 2007 4-8pm
MHIRT (Minority Health International Research Training) and UM-GHRT Second Annual Symposium and Poster Session
Great Lakes Rm, Palmer Commons more

Tuesday October 23, 2007 3-4:30, Great Lakes Rm of Palmer Commons, 100 Washtenaw Avenue
The Center for the History of Medicine presents the 7th Annual Horace W. Davenport Lecture in the Medical Humanities
Shattered Dreams? An Oral History of the South African AIDS Epidemic
Ronald Bayer, PhD Professor and Co-Director, The Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University and Gerald Oppenheimer, PhD, MPH, Professor, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Associate Professor, Clinical Public Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. Bayer and Oppenheimer will discuss their book which recounts conversations with medical professionals in cities, towns and rural areas. Their stories of indifference, opposition, unexpected resistance and material scarcity place the AIDS epidemic in South Africa on an unimaginable scale of human suffering.

Tuesday October 23, 2007 3-4:30 talk, 4:30-6pm reception, International Institute
Origins and Effects of International Human Rights Law
Human Rights Fellow Lecture
Jana von Stein, Faculty Associate and Assistant Professor of Political Science

Friday October 26, 12:00 - 1:00, Ford Auditorium
Perspectives on Global Health
Dr. Tadataka Yamada, President of the Global Health Program, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Former Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine, U-M
Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research Education Core and The Life Sciences institute Training Programs 7th Annual Symposium, Internal Medicine Grand Rounds

Tuesday, October 30, 2007, 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm, 1214 South University Avenue, 2nd Floor (#259)
RSVP required to csephlectures@umich.edu
Low intensity warfare and life on the run: what can nomadic herders from Northern Kenya teach us about linking context to global health?
Ivy Pike, PhD, Assistant Professor of Anthropology from the University of Arizona
The Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health and The University of Michigan's Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholars Program

Wednesday October 17, 2007 5-7pm, Michigan Union - Kuenzel Room
Careers in International Health and Humanitarian Relief
Staff members from organizations involved in various aspects of international health and humanitarian relife will share the paths they took to reach their current positions, as well as discuss the key elements to preparing for a succesfful career in international health. Catholic Relief Services, Clinton Foundation, John Snow, Inc, United Nations Foundation

October 18, 2007, 9:30-10:30am, Rachel Upjohn Building, Auditorium & Conference Room (Garden Level)
Suicidality, impulsivity, serotonin-related genes and treatment of outcomes in alcohol dependencies
Marcin Wojnar, MD, PhD, Research Fellow, University of Michigan Addiction Research Center, Associate Professor, Medical University of Warsaw, Department of Psychiatry more on the MacDonell Lectureship & Addiction Psychiatry conference

October 18, 2007, 3pm, SPH II M3024 - HMP North Conference Room
Contemporary Problems in National and Global Health Law
Lawrence Gostin, J.D., Associate Dean for Research and Academic Programs Director, Center for the Law and Public's Health, Linda and Timothy O'Neill Professor of Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Contact Information: Gail Pieknik, 734-936-1301, gpieknik@umich.edu

Thursday October 18, 2007 3pm Rackham Ampitheathre
Putting Passion into Practice
Vivian R. Shaw Lecture
Pam Barnes, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
As President and Chief Executive Officer, Barnes is responsible for the strategic, programmmatic, fundraising, financial, and management operations. Prior to joining the Foundation, where she previously served as Chief Operating Officer and acting CEO, she held executive positions at the international Trachoma Initiative and Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic in New York, and worked for more than 20 years in investment mangagement and corporate finance. Barnes also served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Paraguay. More information at http://www.pedaids.org
Sponsored by IRWG, Women's Studies Program, School of Social Work, School of Public Health.

Thursday October 18, 2007 2-6pm, Michigan Union
International Opportunities Fair
Join the University of Michigan for this event highlighting international career and internship options. The fair will feature organizations from all sectors, study-internship/service-learning programs, international academic programs and scholarship/funding resources.

Thursday, October 18, 2007  4:00pm – 5:30pm, 3240 Weill Hall
Decentralization and Pollution Spillovers: Evidence from the Redrawing of County Boundaries in Brazil
Mushfiq Mobarak, Yale, Development economist with interests in political economy and environmental issues. Previous positions at the World Bank and at the International Monetary Fund
Economic Development and Transition Seminar (EDTS)

Monday October 22, 4:30 - 6:30pm, Annenberg Auditorium, 1120 Weill Hall
Nothing But Nets Malaria Boot Camp
Nothing But Nets is a global, grassroots campaign to save lives by preventing malaria, a leading killer of children in Africa. Hosted by United Nations Foundation and the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, this Malaria Boot Camp will engage University of Michigan and other area students in an interactive workshop to learn more about the epidemiology and prevention of malaria and develop the communications and advocacy skills to save lives in Africa. Food and beverages will be served. Please contact bootcamp@nothingbutnets.net to register for this Boot Camp. More information at www.NothingButNets.net/Michigan.

Monday October 15, 2007, noon-1pm ISR Building, room 6050, 426 Thompson St.
Evidence-Based Reproductive and Child Health Program Development in Ghana
James Phillips, Population Council
Dr. Phillips studies the demographic impact of famiy planning and child survival programs. He is a senior advisor with the Ghana Health Service, and is currently working on a program to extend health service innovations developed in Ghana to Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, and Sierra Leone
Brown Bag Seminar sponosred by the Population Studies Center

Monday October 15, 2007, 3-6pm, Kuenzel Room, Michigan Union
Panel on AIDs, Gender and Human Security in Africa.
Sponsored by the African Development and Human Security Initiative of CAAS and IRWG .  
In line with the IRWG HIV/AIDs focused theme in 2007-08, four internationally known scholars will explore the human security implications of AIDs in Africa with a focus on how gender has influenced and been influenced by the AIDS pandemic on the continent. CAAS Events Calendar

October 5 and 6, 2007, Biomedical Sciences Research Building, Zina Pitcher Place
7th International Symposium on Organogenesis & Epigenetics
University of Michigan, Biomedical Sciences Research Bldg.
For more information, contact Rebecca Pintar @ 734/936-2499 or rpintar@umich.edu or visit the website: www.med.umich.edu/medschool/organo/symp.htm Registration ended 9/24/07

Monday, October 8, 2:00 - 5:00 pm, Michigan Theater Screening Room, 603 E. Liberty Street
Zana Briski, Founder, Kids with Cameras Screening: Born into Brothels
The CEW Mullin Welch Lecture
CEW is honored to welcome Zana Briski as the 2007-2008 Mullin-Welch speaker. The founder of Kids with Cameras, Briski co-directed and co-wrote the 2005 Academy Award winner Born Into Brothels. The film, which has won several international awards, documents the filmmakers' efforts to work with children of prostitutes, enabling these kids to use the art of photography to explore their environment of poverty in the midst of India's increasing prosperity. Briski will present a screening of Born Into Brothels, and will hold a question and answer session afterwards. Reception to follow. Please register for this event - 734.764.6005

Wednesday October 10, 2007 4:30pm Annenberg Auditorium, Weill Hall (735 South State Street)
Krit Garnjana-Goonchorn. Ambassador of Thailand to the United States.
Thailand-U.S. Relations: Strategic Alliance and Partnership for Development.
Among the topics he’ll discuss are the current state of bilateral political and economic relations between the two countries, including prospects for continued negotiation of a Thailand-U.S. Free Trade Area, which were suspended since last September’s military coup. He is also expected to discuss Thailand’s (WTO-compliant) exercise of compulsory licensing for public health drugs. His visit is sponsored by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies and the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.

Thursday, October 11, 4:00pm – 5:30pm, 3240 Weill Hall
Martin Wittenberg
The Weight of Success: The Body Mass Index and Economic Well-Being in South Africa
Economic Development and Transition Seminar (EDTS)
Martin Wittenberg is an Associate Professor in the School of Economics at the University of Cape Town. His work focuses on theoretical and applied microeconomics. Currently he is particularly interested in issues of data quality in household surveys in South Africa

Thursday October 11, 2007 5-6:30pm
Sexuality and the Indian: From Ancient Text to Modern Cinema
Mohan Agashe, award winning Indian stage and film actor, who is also a psychiatrist
Room 1644, School of Social Work
CSAS Conversation on South Asia Series

Friday October 12, 2007 noon - 1:30, 2239 Lane Hall
She Tries and He Dies: Global Conversations about the Gender Paradox and Adolescent Suicide Behavior
Jennifer Langhinrichsen-Rohling, PhD, Professor of Psychology, University of South Alabama
IRWG's Gender and Global Health Seminar Series

Friday October 12, 2007 7-10:30pm
Film Screening: Kay Dyache Bola
Mohan Agashe, award winning Indian stage and film actor, and psychiatrist
will introduce this recent Marathi film, with English subtitles in which he acted. It is an adaptation of "My Cousin Vinny." A discussion will follow.
Angell Hall, Auditorium B

Sunday October 14, 2007, 3-5:30pm
Lessons Learned from my Life in Films, Theatre, and Psychiatry
An informal talk, illustrated with film clips, led by Mohan Agashe, award winning Indian stage and film actor, and psychiatrist
Co-sponsored by An Arbor Marathi Mandal
Angell Hall, Auditorium D

Tuesday October 2, 2007 12-1:30pm, 2239 Lane Hall
Soraya Tremayne, a professor of anthropology at Oxford University, is author of a forthcoming book on IVF and gamete donation in Iran. An abstract and title are forthcoming.
IRWG brownbag discussion
This event is co-sponsored by Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies.

Tuesday September 25, Noon, 300 North Ingalls, 10th Floor, the Commons
Emotion Regulation as a Complex System: An Interdisciplinary Research Project with Chinese, Japanese, and US Preschoolers
Center for Human Growth and Development Brown Bag
Twila Tardif, Alison Miller, Barbara Felt, Sheryl Olson, and Niko Kaciroto

Thursday, Sept. 27, 7 -8:30 PM, Weill Hall (Ford School) Room 1110
Graduate Student Strategies for Finding International Internships
Hear from U-M graduate/professional school students about their successful strategies for finding and applying to overseas internships – either formal programs or finding their own with: Non-governmental organizations, International organizations, U.S. governmental organizations (State Department)
For more information e-mail bnolting@umich.edu, tel. 647-2299
University of Michigan International Center

Thurs Sept 27, 7-8:30pm Weill Hall
Graduate Student Strategies for Finding International Internships more

Monday September 24, 2007, 4-5:30, Rackham Assembly Hall, 4th Fl
The Tobacco Pandemic: History, Culture, and Science
Allan M. Brandt, Harvard University
Science Technology and Society Program Distinguished Lecture
Cosponsored by Center for the History of Medicine, UM Tobacco Research Network

Thursday September 20, 2007, 4-5pm, 3rd Floor Seminar Rm, Weill Hall
Nzinga Broussard, U of M Job Market Candidate
Aid and Agency in Africa:  Explaining Food Disbursements Across Ethiopian Households in the Nineties 

Wednesday September 12, 2007 noon
Life History Parameters and the Proliferation of HIV/AIDS: Intersections of Behavioral Research, Evolutionary Anthropolgy, Human Freedom and Social justice
Larry Gant, MSW, MA, PhD, Associate Professor Social Work
Sponsored by IRWG, co-sponsored by the School of Social Work and the School of Public Health

Wednesday September 12, 2007 3pm, SPH I, Lane Family Auditorium (Room 2690), SPH
Back to the Future: Epidemiological Research in an Era of Climate and Environmental Change
Thomas Francis Memorial Lecture
Professor Anthony J. McMichael, MD, PhD, Director of National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Heath, Australian National University, Canberra, presents a lecture reflecting his dedication for developing research strategies and risk-forecasting methods for the health impacts of climate change. More details

Thursday September 13, 2007, 3-6pm Michigan Union Ballroom
Fall Study Abroad Fair, Office of International Programs
Prospective study abroad students get a chance to talk to alumni (fellow students), faculty, and staff from each program. Students can learn about financial aid, transfer credits, and other U-M international resources.

Friday September 14, 11:00am, MBNI, Room 1057, Waggoner Conference Room
40 Years Research on Acupuncture:  Emphasis on Pain and Drug Abuse
Ji-Sheng Han, M.D., Professor of Physiology; Director, Neuroscience Institute, Peking University, Beijing, China
T he Molecular & Behavioral Neuroscience Institute

Friday September 14, 2007, 12-1:30, School of Public Health, Crossroads room 1655
Sandra Thurman, President of the International AIDS Trust (IAT), Formerly Clinton's top AIDS Policy Avisor
Co-sponsored by UM-GHRT, the International Institute, UM Center for Global Health

September 11-17, 10am-10pm daily, Alumni Center, 200 Fletcher St. next to the League
Step into Africa" Exhibit: The AIDS Crisis a unique interactive exhibit about AIDS in Africa. The exhibit contains audio and photographs. Admission is free.
Sponsored by World Vision, the Alumni Association, Huron Hills Baptist Church

Tuesday September 11, 2007, 8:30-4pm, Power Center for the Performing Arts
Global Public Health Preparedness: Is it Possible?
Sponsored by the Office of Public Health Practice, Global REACH, UM-GHRT, Michigan Center for Public Health Preparedness, School of Public Health, Center for Global Health, Michigan Public Health Training Center. more details

Tuesday September 11, 2007, 4-5:30pm, Rackham Auditorium
Larry Cox, Executive Director of Amnesty International USA
Human Rights in the Post-Setpebmer 11 World.
A Josh Rosenthal Education Fund Lecture
Co-sponsored by the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and the International Policy Center
more details

Dr. Paul Farmer's Video Link: http://www.wdi.umich.edu/Publications/VideoAudio/Date from his talk at the University of Michigan on February 12, entitled "Building a Health Care Movement: From Haiti to Rwanda"

July 23, 2007 3pm, Room 1655 School of Public Health I
What's Good for the Planet and the Economy is Good for Health - With the Right Leadership: A Many Level Approach to Susainability
Richard J. Jackson, MD, MPH
Hosted by the Office of the Provost and the School of Public Health

Deadline: Wednesday, May 16, 5 p.m.
Global REACH International Faculty Seed Grant RFP
Global REACH, together with the Associate Deans of Research and Graduate Studies, Galen Toews, M.D., and Miriam Meisler, Ph.D., is pleased to announce the availability of five $15,000 grants for UMMS faculty to pursue international research, education or collaboration efforts. The full RFA is available. Three-page proposals must be submitted via
e-mail by 5 p.m., May 16

May 8 - May 10, 2007 8:30-4:30pm Biomedical Science and Research Bldg. Auditorium 109 Zina Pitcher Place
National Summit on Coping with Climate Change
Sponsored by the School of Natural Resources, More details
Plenary Session May 8 - Univ of Michigan Provost, Teresa Sullivan, will commence the Summit at 8:30am, followed by remarks from the dean of the SNRE, Rosina Bierbaum. Keynote presentations from distinguished guests, Thomas Karl, Anthony McMichael, Edward Miles, Joel Scheraga and Susan Tierney, complete the program which runs until 12:30.

May 9, 2007, 7-8:30 Ann Arbor District Library
Children Living and Dying with Aids in South Africa
Tessa Marcus, South Africa Sociologist
Extraordinary Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Pretoria. She returned to research after serving three years as Executive Director: Research Promotion and Support at South Africa’s National Research Foundation. She previously was advisor on HIV/AIDS to the Swedish aid organization SIDA and prior to that had a distinguished 10-year career as lecturer and researcher at the University of Natal, where she was Professor of Sociology. Working initially on rural sociology, over the past decade she has increasingly focused on HIV/AIDS and its impacts on different segments of the population and sectors of society. She worked to institutionalize HIV/AIDS policy at the NRF and in the organization’s larger environment. Her publications include: Wo! Zaphela Izingane/ It is Destroying the Children: Living and Dying with AIDS and Shifting Boundaries of Knowledge: A View on Social Sciences, Law and Humanities in South Africa, which she co-edited.
Cosponsored by the University of Michigan Office of the President and the HIV/AIDS Resource Center (HARC)

May 10, 2007, 2-4pm UM Institute for the Humanities
Social Science and Humanities Research: Any Place in Africa's Innovation Sun?
Tessa Marcus (see above)

April 12, 2007 5-6pm 1040 Dana Bldg, School of Natural Resources & Environment
Dean's Speaker Series, Presentation on Water and Climate
Dr. Peter Cleick, Co-founder and President of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security in Oakland, California. His research and writing address the critical connections between water and human health, the hydrologic impacts of climate change, sustainable water use, privatization and globalization, and international conflicts over water resources More details
Sponsored by the SNRE, the Wege Foundation, the Center for Sustainable Systems, and Rackham School of Graduate Studies

April 12, 2007 12-1pm, School of Public Health, Room M1152 SPH - 2
Dr. David Senn, School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA
Mercury Cycling in the Gulf of Mexico: Controls on Sediment, Biochemistry, Trophic Transfer, and Human Exposure

April 19, 2007, 2-4pm School of Public Health Crossroads, Room 1655, SPH I Tower
Environmental Health Research in India: Needs, Examples, and Opportunities for Collaboration
Kalpana Balakrishnan, PhD, Chair and Professor, Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute, Chennai, India
speaking on "Assessing Risks from Air Pollutants in India"
and Vik Kapil, MD, MPH, Project Officer, Indo-US Collaboration on Occupational and Environmental Health in India, National Center for Environmental Health, US Centers for Disease Control speaking on "The Indo-US Collaboration on Occupational and Environmental Health in India: Addressing and Area of Enormous Need"
Sponsored by the Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health

April 10, 2007, 4-5:30pm, 1636 School of Social Work Building(International Institute Conference Rm)
Democracy and Poverty in India
Yogendra Yadav
Senior Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Hughes Visiting Fellow/CSDS India
CSAS Scholarly Lecture Series
Contact: 764-0352

April 11, 2007 3pm Lane Family Auditorium Room 1690 SPH Crossroads
Promoting Breast Health in Former Soviet Union & Eastern Europe Countries - Challenges & Successes
Selma J. Morris, M.ED., Director of Cancer Education, Grady Health Systems, Atlanta Georgia

April 5 , 2007, 12-1:30pm, 2239 Lane Hall
Sex, Gender and Vulnerability
IRWG Gender and Global Health Seminar Series, featured in IRWG's Global Conversations
Rachel Snow, UM School of Public Health, Population Studies Center
Co-sponsored by UM-GHRT and the International Institute

April 6, 2007, 3pm 2695 SPH Crossroads
Justin Cohen, MPH, Doctoral Candidate, Epidemiology
The Landscape Epidemiology of Malaria within Two Communities in a Highland Region of Kenya

April 9, 2007 3pm
Infectious Disease Perspectives for the 21st Century
43rd Don W. Gudakinst Memorial Lecture
James M. Hughes, MD, Professor of Public Health
Director, Center for Global Safe Water
Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, & Professor of Medicine & Director, Program in Global Infectious Diseases, Division of Infectious Diseases, Dept of Medicine
Emory University School of Medicine

 

April 4, 2007, 3:00pm, 1690 SPH Crossroads
A Gender Equity Perspective on Tuberculosis
IRWG Gender and Global Health Seminar Series
Anna Thorson, MD, MPH, PhD
Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Gender dynamics are key aspects of an individual's risk of getting infected and developing Tuberculosis. Gender also shapes coping capacities and the social consequences of TB. Thus not only does gender influence the risk of atracting and developing TB, but at each one of the steps towards a successful diagnosis and treatment, structures and barriers defined by gender create disadvantages that are specific to women and men in each context. The lecture will review the evidence and highlight some suggestions for policy changes and areas for continued research.
Epidemiology Seminar
Co-sponsored by UM-GHRT and the International Institute

March 29, 2007 5-6pm, 1040 Dana Bldg
Dr. Rita R. Colwell Chariman, Canon US Life Sciences Inc. and Distinguished Professor, University of Maryland College Park and John Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
Water, Climate and Health: The Need for a Global Sustainable Supply of Safe Drinking Water
Sponsored by the School of Natural Resources and Environment and the Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystems Research More Details

March 22, 2007, 4-5:30pm, 1214 S. University, 2nd Floor, Room 259
Multiple Dimensions of Vulnerability to HIV/AIDS in Africa
Ezekiel Kalipeni, PhD
Associate Professor, Geography and African Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sponsored by the Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholars Program, Center for Afroamerican and African Studies and the African Development and Human Security Initiative
RSVP to csephlectures@umich.edu

March 26, 2007, 4-5:30pm, Betty Ford Classroom 1110 Weill Hall 735 S. State Street
Radically Rethinking Climate Policy
Steve Rayner, University of Oxford
Science Technology and Public Policy (STPP) Lecture Series
With commentary by Barry Rabe, Professor of Public Policy, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and Professor of Environmental Policy, School of Natural Resources and Environment; and Ted Parson, Professor of Law, Law School and Professor of Natural Resources and Environment, School of Natural Resources and Environment, Co-sponsored by the International Policy Center at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and the Michigan Memorial Phoenix Energy Institute. More details

March 28, 2007, 3pm
2006 Blackerby Lecturer Dr. David Wong, Associate Dean of Research and Professor in the Division of Oral Biology and Medicine at the UCLA School of Dentistry.
Saliva Diagnostics in Epidemiological Research and Public Health
School of Public Health

March 13, 2007, 12-1pm 1636 SSWB (International Institute Conference Room)
Jersey Liang, UM Professor of Health Management and Policy
Health and Living Arrangement among Other Chinese
CCS Noon Lecture Series

March 13, 2007 12-1:30pm Center for the Education of Women, 330 E. Liberty
The Bio-Politics of HIV/AIDS in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Claire Decoteau, CEW Mary Malcomson Raphael Fellow and PhD Candidate in Sociology, UM
While conducting her dissertation fieldwork in Johannesburg, Clair Decoteau engaged in social movement activism, local grass-roots initiatives, and community participatory action research projects on the topic of HIV/AIDS prevention, education and treatment. Ms. Decoteau's presentation will situate the politics of HIV/AIDS in post-apartheid South Africa within an analysis of both the cultural, social and economic shifts that accompanied the fall of apartheid as well as the impact of internaitonal imperialism and globalization.

March 14, 2007, 3:00pm
The World Bank & Health Inequalities in Developing Countries
Lane Family Auditorium, Room 1690 SPH Crossroads
Howard Stein, PhD
Professor, Center for Afroamerican & African Studies & Adjunt Professor, Dept Epidemiology

Wednesday March 14, 2007, 7-8:30pm, Ann Arbor District Library
Mandatory HPV Vaccinations of Michigan 6th Grade Girls?
University of Michigan President's Ethics in Public Life Initiative
Should the State of Michigan require all girls entering the 6th grade to be vaccinated against the Human Papillomavirus (HPV)?
Panel will be moderated by Dr. Tim Johnson, UM. Panelists include: Dr. Gary L. Freed, UM, Dr. Janet R. Gildsdorf, UM, Former Senator Bev Hammerstrom and Ms. Dorothy Rodriguez, Waterford Teen Health Center. More details

March 15, 2007, 4-6pm
Trafficking of women: a contemporary form of slavery
Series on Women at the Margins: Law and Policy
Susan Tiefenbrun (Thomas Jefferson School of Law),
Co-sponsored by Center for International and Comparative Law, Department of Psychology, Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning, School of Social Work

March 8, 2007, 12-1:30pm
The traffic between women: Female alliance and familial egg donation in Ecuador
Lane Hall Conversations, 2239 Lane Hall
Elizabeth Roberts (IRWG)

Thursday February 15, 2007, 4-5:30 Michigan league, Vandenburg Room, 2nd Floor
Jo Luck, President and CEO of Heifer International
Heifer International: A Mission to End World Hunger
Heifer International is a nonprofit agency focusing on ending world hunger through gifts of livestock and agricultural training. In remarks entitled "Extraordinary Ordinary People", Jo Luck will share with us her experiences of helping communities to create sustainable small-scale farm enterprises and thus meet their nutritional, economic, environmental, and social needs. More

Friday, February 16, 2007, 12-2:00pm Ford Ampitheather, University Hospital
Pills, Politics, and Public Trust: Ethical Crossroads and the Pharmaceutical Industry
University of Michigan Forum on Health Policy
Panelists include: David Canter, Senior Vice President, Pfizer Global Research and Development, Director Michigan Laboratories; Philip Hilts, Author and former senior medical and science writer for the New York Times; Peter Lurie, Deputy Director, Health Research Group, Public Citizen, Daniel Troy; Partner, Sidley Austin LLP; F.D.A. Chief Counsel 2001-2004 More details Cosponsored by Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation of Michigan and by the Ethics in Public Life Initiative, LSA Citizenship Theme Year, Office of the Vice President for Communications, Department of Internal Medicine, Program in Society and Medicine, College of Pharmacy, Ford School of Public Policy, Health Policy Students Association and the School of Public Health

Friday, February 16, 2007, 7-10pm, Michigan Theater
Ghana night
Food, music, dance, silent auction, and the movie Emmanuel's Gift about a Ghanaian amputee athlete. Tickets $10 at the door, or through Proceeds to the International Rehabilitation Fund efforts to build a national rehabilitation program in Ghana. Sponsored in part by the UM Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Tuesday, February 13, 2007, 12pm Rm 2022 at 202 South Thayer Street
The UN, Human Rights and Africa: Whither Univeralism?
While the UN has been busy congratulating itself for success in creating a panoply of documents purporting to protect the universal nature of human rights, millions of vulnerable civilians in Africa the UN promised to protect have died needlessly in wars the UN promised to prevent.
Kenneth L. Cain served as a human rights officer in UN peacekeeping operations in Cambodia, Somalia, Rwanda, Haiti and Liberia, and as a journalist has reported from Israel, iraqu, and Banda Aceh, Indonesia. he is currently writing a series of pieces entitled "The War Comes Home." Cain was a Fulbright Scholar in Sri Lanka, a Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York and is an honors grdaute of Harvard law School.

Institute for the Humanities, Human Rights Series

February 7, 2007, 3:00pm, Lane Family Auditorium, Room 1690 SPH Crossroadsl
Osman M. Galal, MD, PhD, Professor of Community Health Sciences
Director, International Health Program, UCLA School of Public Health
The Nutritional Transition in Developing Countries: Current Status and Future Implications

February 9, 2007, 12-1:30pm, 2239 Lane Hall
An ecosystem approach to integrate gender into environmental health studies; concepts and cases
IRWG Gender and Global Health Seminar Series, featured in IRWG's Global Conversations
Donna Mergler, University of Quebec at Montreal (CINBIOSE, WHO-PAHO collaborating centre for the prevention of occupational and environmental illness),
The ecosystem approach to human health (Ecohealth) uses social, natural and health sciences to carry out interdisciplinary research including gender-based and participative methodologies in order to understand the complex links between women's and men's physical and social environments and human health. In this presentation, the integration of gender in Ecohealth studies will be discussed using examples of exposures to mercury and pesticides in different settings and countries
Co-sponsored by UM-GHRT and the International Institute

Monday, February 12, 2007, 5pm, Rackham Auditorium, tickets sold out (also simulcast at the School of Public Health SPH II Auditorium, the Ann Arbor District Library)
Paul E. Farmer, MD, PhD
Founding Director of Partners in Health
Building a Health Care Movement: From Haiti to Rwanda
Dr. Farmer's speech will focus on PIH's philosophy and approach to providing integrated healthcare solucations to the poor. PIH is an international charity organization that operates in eight countries and is best known for its work in Haiti where it has been treating impoverished people since 1983 and in Rwanda where it is pursuing an integrated approach to health and development issues for rural residents.
Sponsored by the William Davidson Insitute and the Ross School of Business

February 5-6, 2007
Poorest of the Poor, public conference
A variety of panels will explore such topics as: Measurement Techniques and Poverty; Health, Efficacy and Despair; Poverty in the United States; and Justice.
The Institute of the Humanities and the Center for International and Comparative Studies of the International Institute More information

February 5, 2007, 4-5:30pm Annenberg Auditorium, 1120 Weill Hall
Humanitarian Action: Saving Lives, Facilitating Change, Working Toward Peace
University of Michigan President's Ethics in Public Life Initiative
Catherine Bertini, Professor of Practice in Public Administration, Syracuse University Maxwell School of Public Affairs; former Under-Secretary General for Management, United Nations and Executive Director, World Food Program; former Harry A. and Margaret D. Towsley Foundation Policymaker in Residence, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
More information

January 25, 2007, 4-6pm
Series on Women at the Margins: Law and Policy
2239 Lane Hall
Jill de Zapien and Cecilia Rosales (University of Arizona) discuss community-based health interventions with immigrant women.
Co-sponosored by Center for International and Comparative Law, Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning, School of Social Work, Department of Psychology

January 29, 2007 4-5:15pm
Winter 2007 International Law Workshop
116 Hutchins Hall
Patricia Viseur-Sellers, Legal Advisor for Gender Related Crimes
UN International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), Office of the Prosecutor
Lack of Consent and Sexual Assaults under International Criminal Law

January 24, 2007, 3pm Lane Family Auditorium Rm. 1690, SPH I Crossroads
Aaron A. King, PhD
UM Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Rapid Loss of Immunity is Necessary to Explain Historical Cholera Epidemics more
Epidemiology Seminar Series

January 19, 2007, 3:00pm
Uniting Civil and Human Rights Symposia Series
Keynote speaker: Jack Greenberg, NAACP and Human Rights Watch
Brown v. Board of Education lawyer and cofounder of Human Rights Watch speaks about the need to maintain a connection between civil and human rights more...

January 20, 2007, 9-3pm
4th Annual United Asian American Medical Student Association Asian American Health & Culture Fair
University of Michigan Medical School, Medical Science Building II, 1135 E. Catherine St.
9-12pm: Health screenings (BMI, blood pressure, glucose, cholesterol, hep B, glaucoma, breast cancer)
12-1pm: Keynote address and free lunch, Dr. Hari Conjeevaram will speak on post-tsunami Sri Lanka and the post-Katrina Gulf Coast.
1-3pm: Health Education and Cultural Workshops - topics raning from traditional Japanese tea ceremonies to AIDS/HIV in the Asian-American community.
See web: http://umich.edu/~uaamsa/aahc

January 11, 2007, 4pm
Series on Women at the Margins: Law and Policy
2239 Lane Hall
Dina Refki, Deputy Director, Immigrant Women for the Center for Women in Government at SUNY-Albany
Immigrant Women in the Shadows: from Invisibility to Inclusion

January 11, 2007, 7-8:30pm
Global Impact Speaker Series, Trevor Field, Playpumps International
Rackham Auditorium
Field is the developer of the Roundabout Outdoor Play Pump, a children's merry-go-round attached to a water pump and storage tank currently being installed in rural villages across South Africa and internationally. He won the 2000 World Bank Development Marketplace competition. His product addresses public health issues, engineering and business solutions, sustainability and global markets and gender issues. Click here for more on Trevor Field.
Sponsored by WISE, UROP and the William Davidson Institute

 

January 10, 2007, 3:45pm
Rm. HR4054 Kresge Hearing Research Institute
Hearing Balance and Chemical Senses Seminar
Li Xu, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Ohio University, School of Hearing, Speech and Languages Sciences
An Acoustic, Neural-Network, and Perceptual Study of Mandarin Chinese Tone Production in Cochlear Implant Children

January 4-6, 2007
Global Place Practice Politics and the Polls
Rackham Auditorium Jan 4 at 5PM
Biomedical Science Research Building Auditorium Jan 5-6

December 14, 3-4:30pm
Brownlee Room, #2327, School of Education
National Center for Institutional Diversity Critical Issues Forum on
Campus Partners Engaged Internationally

Friday December 1, 2006, 1-2:30pm
Mason Hall 2499
To commemorate Worlds Aids Day
Live international videoconference with students & experts in Africa, Latin America & Europe.
Sponsored by Americans for Informed Democracy at the University of Michigan
Questions? Contact Eisha Buch eishajb@umich.edu or Jessica Sapick jeannesa@umich.edu
For more information visit www.aidemocracy.org

Thursday, November 9 5-8pm UM-GHRT & MHIRT Poster Session in the Michigan Union Ballroom.

The UM-GHRT and MHIRT Programs offered an evening of students' research presentations and honoring of Emeriti Faculty Ruth Simmons and Al Hermalin.

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Friday, November 10, 2006, 12-1:30pm
Susan Waltz, Gerald Ford School of Public Policy
University of Michigan
"Human Rights and Small Arms Trade: Contradictions in U.S. Foreign Policy"
Institute for the Humanities
Osterman Common Room
1022 Thayer
Rackham Interdisciplinary Seminar on Human Rights

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Monday, November 13, 4-5:30, 1644 SSWB/International Institute
Cristiani Vieira Machado (National School of Public Health, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro)
Brazilian National Health Policy since 1988: A Universal Right to Health Care versus Neoliberal State Downsizing
National School of Public Health, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Sponsored by STS

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Wednesday , November 15, 4:00pm BSRB Auditorium
The U-M Department of Psychiatry Eleventh Annual Raymond W. Waggoner Lectureship on Ethics and Values in Medicine
Howard Markel, M.D., Ph. D.
"Contemplating Pandemics : The Role of Historical Inquiry in Developing Pandemic Influenza
Mitigation Strategies for the 21st Century."

Tuesday, November 7th, 2006, 4:00-5:30pm
Danny Leipziger, Vice President and Head of Network, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management
"Governance and Growth"
Weill Hall
International Policy Center

Wednesday, October 25th, 2006, 4-5:30pm
Kemal Dervis, Head of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
"The Challenge of Multilateralism: Political and Economic Needs"
Annenberg Auditorium, Weill Hall
International Policy Center

Wednesday, October 25th, 2006, 2-6pm
International Opportunities Fair
Michigan Union
The fair will feature organizations from all sectors, study abroad/internship programs, international academic programs and scholarship/funding resources.(More information, including registration)

Wednesday October 25, 2006, 12-1:15pm
Dr. Anne Merriman, MBE, FRCP
Founder of Hospice Africa Uganda in Kampala
Ugandan Nurses Lead the World in Palliative Care Prescribing of Class A Drugs
Room 3151 School of Nursing
Sponsored by UM School of Nursing Office of International Affairs

Tuesday October 24, 2006, 12-1pm
Dr. Anne Merriman, MBE, FRCP
Founder of Hospice Africa Uganda
A Public Health Approach to Palliative Care in sub-Saharan Africa
Noon Geriatrics Conference, Conference Room 1139, CCGCB
Sponsored by UM Division of Geriatrics

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006, 4-5:30pm
Dawei Liu, Chief Financial Officer of China Development Bank
China’s Banking System Reform and Financial Public Policy, and the Future Development of China’s Development Bank
Betty Ford Classroom, Weill Hall
International Policy Center
Co-sponsored with the Center for Chinese Studies and the Center for International and Comparative Studies

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006, 8AM-6PM
Third Annual Biomedical Research Symposium "Global Infectious Disease"
Biomedical Science Research Building (BSRB)
Rackham Interdisciplinary Seminar on Human Rights
View symposium website

Friday, October 13th, 2006, 12-1:30pm
Thomas Cushman, Department of Sociology
Wellesley College
"The Myth of the International Community"
Institute for the Humanities
Osterman Common Room
1022 Thayer
Rackham Interdisciplinary Seminar on Human Rights

Thursday and Friday, October 12th and 13th, 2006, Conference
Against Health: Resisting the Invisible Mortality
Rackham Auditorium and fourth floor conference rooms

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006, 3pm
Peter D. McElroy, PhD, MPH
Epidemiologist, Commander, U.S. Public Health Service, Epidemiology Branch
Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention
National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, & TB Prevention
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, Atlanta, GA
"A Test-of-Concept (Phase IIB) International Trial of an HIV Vaccine Candidate"
More details
Lecture Hall, Room 1690, School of Public Health I

 

Monday, October 9, 2006, 12-1
Nan E. Johnson, Department of Sociology, Michigan State University, and Manisha Sengupta,
International Programs Center, U.S. Census Bureau
"Do Battered Mothers Have More Fetal and Infant Deaths? Evidence from India"
ISR Building, 426 Thompson St., 6th Floor, Conference Room 6050
Sponsored by the Population Studies Center

 

Thursday, October 5, 2006, 7:30 PM
Rackham Auditorium 915 East Washington
Who is helping the young refugees from Sudan?
Sister Luise Radlmeier will receive this year's Wallenberg Medal for her humanitarian work with refugee children from Sudan. She will receive the Medal and talk about her experiences in the 16th Annual Raoul Wallenberg Lecture.
Meet Sister Luise at a reception in the lobby immediately following the lecture.
For more information visit http://wallenberg.umich.edu/medal.html

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Wednesday, October 4, 2006, 12 noon
Dr. Stephanie Davis will be presenting on
"What is Global Health?"
West Lecture Hall of Med Sci II.
Dr. Davis will discuss options for careers and volunteer work in global
health with a bend toward medicine. Please join us for a free lunch and
this inspiring conversation! Sponsored by Global Reach

Tuesday, October 3, 2006, 4:30-5:30pm
Substance Abuse Causes and Solutions from a Cross-Cultural Perspective:
Don Alberto Taxo and the Ancient Traditions of the Andes Mountains
Room M-1152, Thomas Francis, Jr. Bldg. (School of Public Health II)
Program in Creativity and Consciousness Studies Visiting Lecturer

Friday, September 22nd, 2006, 12-1:30pm
Michael Posner, President
Human Rights First
"Human Rights in the Post 9/11 Environment"
Institute for the Humanities
Osterman Common Room
1022 Thayer
Rackham Interdisciplinary Seminar on Human Rights

 

13 April 2006: International Health Policy Brown Bag Series
”Is There No Place for Morality Global Patent Law? The Case for
Biotechnology” (Shobita Parthasarathy, Ford School of Public Policy)

 

5 April 2006: “What Will It Take to Prevent and Treat Diseases Like HIV/AIDS and Malaria around the Globe?”

30 March 2006: International Health Policy Brown Bag Series
“The Europeanisation of National Health Policies: What Can We Expect and How Will It Matter?”
(Scott Greer, School of Public Health)

9 March 2006: International Health Policy Brown Bag Series
“Policy and Socioeconomic Determinants of Child Health in Developing
Countries” (Sharon Maccini, Ford School of Public Policy)

17–18 February 2006: “The Right to Health: Prospects and Approaches”

26 January 2006: International Health Policy Brown Bag Series
“Health Care Financing, Access, and Equity in the Developing World”
(Margaret Kruk, School of Public Health)

29 November 2005: “The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control”