HIV Rotation Meeting

To all those interested in the HIV Rotation,
 

We are looking for coordinators for the Columbia Post-bac HIV Rotation Program at St. Luke's to help expand the program.  There will be an informational meeting on Monday, March 2nd at 1 PM located at Room 302 in the Teachers College Library to discuss specifics of the program and next steps for participation and expansion.  We apologize for the short notice.

 

To remind you: the purpose of this internship rotation is to examine HIV care in low income communities from a comprehensive public health perspective with an eye towards being future physicians.  We are looking for two first-year postbaccs to help with a pilot program and become future coordinators of this program.

The clinic is an amazing place with a client population of 3,300 HIV positive New Yorkers.  They provide a wealth of health care, mental health, case management services as well as conduct research.  The staff at the Saint Luke's clinic have been receptive to postbacc student participation and have helped design a rotation that will be piloted on a relatively small scale for the remainder of this semester.  The purpose of the pilot is to fine tune the structure for the program and create some tools for reflection on the experience.  If all goes well the program will be continued and expanded for future semesters.

Some logistics of the program:
•       The four components include 1) shadowing doctors and assisting in a clinical setting 2) assisting public health research 3) providing assistance in constructing patient education workshops 4)
administering satisfaction surveys.
•       The weekly commitment is substantial and requires 6 hours per week. While the hours are flexible to fit your schedule, once they are set it requires a consistent commitment, regardless of your exam schedule.  We are extremely excited about the educational opportunities the CCC offers.  This program is gonna be amazing!

Again, the informational meeting will be on Monday, March 2nd at 1 PM located at Room 302 in the Teachers College Library to discuss specifics of the program and next steps for participation.

 

The advantage of getting involved now is that you can have ownership of helping to create this program and take leadership in the future.

If you are interested in participating in the program this semester, please RSVP to this email AND please make every effort to attend this meeting.  Even if you've sent us your resume, please still try to attend this meeting.

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Social Justice Medicine
School of General Studies
Columbia University
http://www.columbiasjm.blogspot.com/
 

Fwd: "Owning knowledge" Public Health event from the Committee on Global Thought

The Committee on Global Thought presents,

Owning Knowledge: Science, Health and Law in an Integrated World

February 25, 2009
Wednesday, 6:30 pm
Discussion
Schapiro Center, Davis Auditorium

The panel will feature Sherry Glied, Joseph Stiglitz, John Sulston,
Harold Varmus, and Arti Rai.

This symposium will consider the implications of the private ownership
of scientific knowledge, particularly for such critical issues as
global public health. Scientific, economic and legal perspectives will
be employed to address the ways in which global knowledge commons can
be managed to make scientific advances once again benefit those who
most need them. Panelists will discuss how intellectual property
affects public health, and whether there are alternative ways that
public health research might be structured to make it more useful to
vulenrable populations and the developing world.

Sherry Glied is Chair and Professor of the Health Policy and
Management Department at Columbia University's Mailman School of
Public Health. Her principle areas of research are in health policy
reform and mental healthcare policy.

Joseph E. Stiglitz is University Professor of Economics at Columbia
University. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2001 for
his analysis of markets with asymmetric information.

Sir John Sulston is Chair of the Institute for Science, Ethics and
Innovation at the University of Manchester. He was awarded the Nobel
Prize in Medicine 2002 for his work in sequencing the human genome.
Sulston is leading campaigner against the patenting of human genetic
information.

Harold Varmus is President and Chief Executive Officer of Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He was awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize in
Physiology or Medicine. As Director of the National Institutes of
Health, he advocated for an open access system for scientific
research, arguing the scientific knowledge should be available to all.

Arti Rai is Elvin R. Latty Professor of Law at Duke University. Her
current research, funded by the NIH, focuses on intellectual property
issues raised by collaborative R&D in areas ranging from synthetic
biology to drug development.

Hell and Hope in a Wounded Land:
A Personal Account


Friday, February 20th 7:30pm
rm555, 5th floor, Alfred Lerner Hall

Deogratias ('01 GS) will discuss the healthcare and reconciliation challenges he faced establishing a clinic in post-genocide Burundi. In 2006, with support from Dr. Paul Farmer's organization, Partners in Health, Deo worked with community members to build and begin operating a model health center in the rural village of Kigutu.

Tracy Kidder, who'll introduce Deo, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author who recently completed a new book about Deo's life and work, Strength in What Remains.

This event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP. Non-CUID holders must RSVP to gain entry to the building. Seating will be on a first come, first served basis.

RSVP Here

Deogratias Biography:

An émigré from Burundi, an East African nation which has the unfortunate distinction of being ranked consistently as one of the world's poorest countries, Deo came to the United States during the civil wars in both Rwanda and Burundi in 1994. He brought with him to this country an interest in medicine and public health, and public service, which propelled him through his undergraduate studies at Columbia University and to the School of Public Health at Harvard University. After graduating from Harvard, Deo worked closely with Dr. Paul Farmer and his organization, Partners in Health, in Boston, Haiti, and Rwanda.

Deo, now a US citizen, is the Founder and Chairperson, Village Health Works, a 501 (c) (3) not-for-profit organization based in the US and operating in Burundi. Village Health Works has modeled itself on Partners in Health, which has served as its incubator and sponsor. Village Health Works acts together with the local community and government to initiate and strengthen health care facilities and services, access to clean water and safe food, and basic education and economic opportunity.

www.villagehealthworks.org

Journal Club's First Meeting of the Semester

First Year Postbacc Danny Ash will present "Project VIVA: A Multilevel Community-Based Intervention to Increase Influenza Vaccination Rates Among Hard-to-Reach Populations in New York City" at 12 PM today, January 29, as part of PMA Social Justice's Journal Club.

Format is informal presentation and discussion.

Location details below.
Friday, January 29th at 12:00 PM
Room 102 (1st Floor Russell Hall).
Gottesman Libraries at Teachers College, Columbia University.

For more information on this meeting, please contact kop2101@columbia.edu.

Tues, Dec. 2nd: Presentation on Healthcare Issues in Haiti

Social Justice Medicine is pleased to announce that on Tuesday, Dec. 2nd, Dr. Stan Schaffer will give a presentation, "Childbirth in a Haitian Village - should where you live determine whether you live?"

Bio:
Stan Shaffer MD MTS
Neonatologist and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Missouri School of Medicine and E. Grey Dimond Program in International Medicine. A founder of Maison de Naissance, a birthing home in rural Haiti which is exploring social and medical solutions to high maternal and infant mortality. Columbia students are assisting with house calls, GPS mapping, a census, and development of a Health Atlas for Maison de Naissance. Plans are being developed for an associated project in the Dominican Republic.

We invite you to attend this exciting presentation on Dec. 2, 2008
between 12:30-1:30pm in room 652 Schermerhorn. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Andrea Palestro, via email at amp2152@columbia.edu.