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.

Creating a Sustainable Food Future

Cook Student Center 59 Biel Road, New Brunswick, NJ

Timothy Searchinger will discuss how to meet global food needs in 2050 while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Ebola in Sierra Leone: a Local Physician’s Story (Samba Jalloh)

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

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.

“Target Zero” Film Screening

Proteomics Building 174 Frelinghuysen Rd., Piscataway, NJ

This documentary film about HIV prevention and treatment follows the journeys of real-life patients who are pregnant and HIV-positive.

Infectious Diseases at Large

Busch Student Center 604 Bartholomew Road, Piscataway, NJ, United States

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 […]

Solving for Why: Lessons from a Decade in Global Surgery (Mark Shrime)

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

Rutgers Global Surgery and the Global Surgery Student Alliance present a lecture by Mark G. Shrime, MD, MPH, PhD, FACS. Shrime is an assistant professor of otolaryngology and of global […]

Rutgers Giving Day

Rutgers Global Health Institute needs your support to help students and faculty confront health disparities, locally and worldwide.

Cancer Care and Prevention in Africa: Lessons from HIV/AIDS (Richard Marlink)

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

The New Jersey Medical School Office of Global Health presents a lecture by Richard Marlink, MD, as part of its monthly Interdisciplinary Global Health Lecture Series. Dr. Marlink is the director of Rutgers Global Health Institute and a Henry Rutgers Professor of Global Health.

Reaching the Corners of the World: Patient Access to Medication (Kya Norby)

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

Rutgers Global Health Institute and Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy present a global health seminar by Kya Norby, PharmD, RPh. Kya Norby is a second-year pharmacy resident with Bristol-Myers Squibb […]

Global Oncology: Cancer Care at Botswana’s Princess Marina Hospital

Clinical Academic Building 125 Paterson St., New Brunswick, United States

Senior hematology/oncology fellows Ashwin Chandar, MD, and Sukhdeep Kaur, MD, will discuss the challenges of oncology care at Botswana’s largest referral hospital and their reflections on serving as inaugural global oncology fellows through the Botswana-Rutgers Partnership for Health.