This calendar features events relevant to global health from throughout the Rutgers community. To inquire about listing your event, contact Lara De Meo Hoyt at lhoyt@globalhealth.rutgers.edu.
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 […]
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 […]
Learn about what Rutgers and RWJBarnabas Health are doing to address health care accessibility in New Jersey.
This lunchtime event will showcase the work of students in the NJMS Distinction Program in Global Health.
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 […]
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.
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 […]
Rutgers School of Nursing and Rutgers New Jersey Medical School present a lunchtime lecture by Denis O'Connell about his work in Dodoma, Tanzania. Dr. O'Connell is a graduate of the Medical School at the University of Cagliari in Sardinia, Italy, and completed a pediatric residency at the Jersey City Medical Center. He was the director […]
The Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research is hosting a brown bag seminar, “Protection through Connection: Social Support and Elder Abuse, Disaster, and Bereavement,” presented by Ron Acierno, professor and associate dean for research in the College of Nursing, Medical University of South Carolina. Acierno’s research includes epidemiological studies of elder mistreatment and treatment outcome […]
Timothy Searchinger will discuss how to meet global food needs in 2050 while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
In this talk, Jalloh will address the Ebola crisis in West Africa from a local practitioner’s perspective, the challenges of local cultural beliefs and its impact on the spread of Ebola, and the post-Ebola impact on the health care system.
This documentary film about HIV prevention and treatment follows the journeys of real-life patients who are pregnant and HIV-positive.
GlobeMed at Rutgers University–New Brunswick is hosting a tabling event as part of its Global Health Week - All Around the World series. Visit GlobeMed, a student organization, during the "Infectious Diseases at Large" session to connect with other students interested in raising awareness and making an impact on global health issues around the world. […]
