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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Planning for Peace of Mind: A Workshop on Advanced Care Planning

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey 195 Little Albany Street, New Brunswick, NJ

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and Cancer Support Community–Central New Jersey present a patient education event about the importance and benefits of advance care planning. Topics will include: ● […]

22nd International Workshop on Kaposi’s Sarcoma Herpesvirus (KSHV) and Related Agents

New York Marriott East Side 525 Lexington Ave., New York, NY

This meeting is for clinicians and researchers in the Kaposi’s sarcoma field, which is an active and complex multidisciplinary intersection of cancer biology and the pathogenesis of chronic herpesvirus infection with translational medicine involving rapid diagnostics and drug discovery.

Global Psychiatry and Mental Health: Perspective from Tanzania

Rutgers School of Public Health - Newark One Riverfront Plaza, Suite 1020 (10th Floor), Newark, NJ

A free seminar on the global health challenges surrounding mental health care. Livestream available. Dr. Azan Nyundo of University of Dodoma’s College of Health Sciences in Tanzania Rutgers Global Health […]

Chocolate Milk: the Documentary

Rutgers New Jersey Medical School 185 South Orange Avenue, F586, Newark, NJ

A free documentary screening and panel discussion on breastfeeding in the African American community.