This calendar features events relevant to global health from throughout the Rutgers community. To inquire about listing your event, contact us at communications@globalhealth.rutgers.edu.

Science Denial: Lessons and Solutions

New York Academy of Sciences 7 World Trade Center, 250 Greenwich St., Fl. 40, New York, NY

This full-day symposium is presented by Rutgers Global Health Institute and the New York Academy of Sciences. The outright repudiation of scientific facts is a longstanding, global phenomenon, and negative consequences are vast for science, public health, global conservation, and beyond. There is no single way to categorize science deniers, complicating efforts to overcome science […]

CECILE RICHARDS: Anita Ashok Datar Lecture on Women’s Global Health

Douglass Student Center 100 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ, United States

The Institute for Women's Leadership Consortium and Rutgers Global present the 2018 Anita Ashok Datar Lecture on Women's Global Health, featuring Cecile Richards. Richards is a national leader for women’s rights and social and economic justice, and the author of New York Times bestseller Make Trouble:Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead. As President of Planned Parenthood […]

Free

Global Health Nursing: a Conversation

Medical Sciences Building 185 South Orange Ave., Newark, NJ, United States

The New Jersey Medical School Office of Global Health presents a lecture by Suzanne Willard as part of its monthly Interdisciplinary Global Health Lecture Series. Dr. Willard, associate dean for global health in the Rutgers School of Nursing, will review global health nursing opportunities and discuss the School of Nursing's global initiatives. Dr. Willard's area […]

HIV/AIDS and Aging: A World AIDS Day Commemoration

Ackerson Hall 180 University Avenue, Newark, NJ, United States

The Rutgers School of Nursing and School of Public Health present "HIV/AIDS and Aging," a second annual event commemorating World AIDS Day. Continuing education contact hours are available. Visit the event website for the full agenda. Highlights include: Keynote Address "HIV and Aging: Where are We Now?" Jesse Milan Jr. President and CEO, AIDS United […]

Visiting Speaker: Marco Vignuzzi, Institut Pasteur, Paris

Life Sciences Building 145 Bevier Road, Piscataway, NJ, United States

The School of Environmental and Biological Sciences presents a lecture by virologist Margo Vignuzzi of Institut Pasteur in Paris. The talk, entitled "Fighting virus infection from within: predicting and altering virus evolution," will be particularly relevant to those interested in the evolution of chikungunya and other arboviruses, as well as any enteroviruses. Life Sciences Building […]

RWJMS Annual Global Health Fair

Arline and Henry Schwartzman Courtyard, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital 1 Robert Wood Johnson Place, New Brunswick, NJ, United States

The Office of Global Health at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School presents its Annual Global Health Fair, featuring poster presentations and keynote speaker XinQi Dong, MD, MPH, director of the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, and Henry Rutgers Distinguished Professor of Population Health Sciences. Dr. Dong, a renowned population epidemiologist and health […]

World AIDS Day film screening: Beats per Minute

College Avenue Student Center 126 College Ave., New Brunswick, NJ, United States

Rutgers Global and university partners present a screening of the French feature film, BPM (Beats per Minute) to commemorate this year's World AIDS Day and Day without Art. The film narrates the story of a group of activists in Paris in the early 1980s—members of ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power)—who go to battle for those stricken […]

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Funding Approach to Health Equity

Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research 112 Paterson St., New Brunswick, NJ, United States

Rutgers University Health Equity Academic Researchers (RU-HEAR) presents a talk by Alonzo Plough of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He will share his perspectives on approaches to funding health equity research and discuss the foundation's major investigator-driven research programs and policy initiatives. Dr. Plough joined the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation as chief science officer and vice […]

Rutgers Leadership in Health Care

Sheraton New York Times Square 811 7th Avenue, New York, NY, United States

Learn about what Rutgers and RWJBarnabas Health are doing to address health care accessibility in New Jersey.

NJMS Global Health Distinction Student Presentations

Medical Sciences Building 185 South Orange Ave., Newark, NJ, United States

This lunchtime event will showcase the work of students in the NJMS Distinction Program in Global Health.

Termites at the Foundation? The Future of the Affordable Care Act

Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research 112 Paterson St., New Brunswick, NJ, United States

The Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research (IFH) presents a brown bag seminar by Rutgers faculty members Frank Thompson and Michael Gusmano. Thompson is a Board of Governors Distinguished Professor for Public Affairs and Administration in IFH’s Center for State Health Policy. Gusmano, who received a 2017 Rutgers Global Health Institute seed […]

Global Neurosurgeon Kee B. Park

Daniel I. Kessler Teaching Laboratories 675 Hoes Lane West, Piscataway, NJ, United States

Rutgers Global Surgery and the Global Surgery Student Alliance present a lunchtime lecture by Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School alumnus, Harvard Medical School faculty member, and renowned global neurosurgeon Kee B. Park. 

Advancing Health Equity through the Lens of Context and Opportunity: Lessons Learned from the NYU Center for the Study of Asian American Health

Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research 112 Paterson St., New Brunswick, NJ, United States

The Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research is hosting a brown bag seminar, "Advancing Health Equity through the Lens of Context and Opportunity: Lessons Learned from the NYU Center for the Study of Asian American Health," presented by Chau Trinh-Shevrin of NYU Langone Health, an associate professor in the Departments of Population Health and Medicine […]