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.

Minutes to Die: a Documentary on Snakebite

Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School 675 Hoes Lane West, Piscataway, NJ

Minutes to Die travels to five continents to capture the cries for help, the financial ruin families face to save loved ones, and the heroic scientists rushing to create breakthrough solutions for snakebite, a neglected global health issue.

“See, Test & Treat” Health Fair

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

Rutgers' New Jersey Medical School is sponsoring a free community health fair. Women who are uninsured will have the opportunity to receive: • cervical cancer screening • mammography/breast exam • […]

Food Justice, Food Policies, and Local Food Insecurity

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

An interactive program to raise awareness about issues of food justice, food policies, and local food insecurity. The program will open with an info fair and a keynote lecture, and will conclude with student breakout sessions to share resources and to develop action plans to address food insecurity on campus and in New Brunswick.

Global Health and Surgery Research Symposium

Oral Health Pavilion 110 Bergen Street, Newark, NJ

New Jersey Medical School’s Office of Global Health presents the fourth annual Global Health and Surgery Research Symposium highlighting global health disparities within the community. Open to Rutgers faculty, staff, students, and the public, the event will feature a panel discussion, keynote speakers, and poster presentations and awards.

Rutgers Climate Institute November 2019 Climate Lunch

Livingston Student Center 84 Joyce Kilmer Avenue, Piscataway, NJ

Rutgers Global Health Institute core faculty member Shauna Downs will speak about "Climate, Food Systems, and Nutrition."

Optimizing Breast Cancer Therapy Delivery in LMICs: The Botswana Experience

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

The Health Equity in Africa Series, sponsored by Rutgers Global Health Institute, presents a lunchtime lecture and discussion with Yehoda Martei. This event is open to Rutgers faculty, staff, and students.

RWJMS Annual Global Health Fair

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

Annual Global Health Fair featuring poster presentations and keynote speaker, Joanna Regulska. All faculty, staff, and students who participated in a global health initiative within the past year are welcome to submit abstracts.

Rutgers Red Cross Panel Discussion on Global Health

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

A panel discussion with Rutgers faculty and students on the professional, educational and experiential learning avenues for students interested in studying global health.

World AIDS Day + Day Without Art Signature Program

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

A free film screening and discussion of 5B, the poignant documentary about the first HIV/AIDS ward established in the United States in 1983.

HIV Politics & Policy: A solutions-based approach

Paul Robeson Campus Center, Rutgers University–Newark 350 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Newark, NJ

For their annual World AIDS Day Commemoration, Rutgers School of Public Health and Rutgers School of Nursing present a half day conference on policy-based solutions that can lead to the end of AIDS.

Building a Global Health Practice at RWJBarnabas Health

Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School 675 Hoes Lane West, Piscataway, NJ

Ernani Sadural shares ways for participants to demonstrate the links between social determinants of health and global health outreach; give examples of globalization’s effects on New Jersey; and identify challenges and develop strategies to engage and support global health volunteerism among clinical staff and trainees.