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.

Oral Health among Older Adults: Current Status, Challenges, and Potential Solutions

Oral Health among Older Adults 112 Paterson Street, 1st floor conference room (120B), New Brunswick, NJ

The Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research presents a brown-bag lecture by Bei Wu, PhD. Dr. Wu is Dean’s Professor of Global Health in New York University’s Rory Meyers College of Nursing, affiliated professor in NYU’s Ashman Department of Periodontology and Implant Dentistry, and director for research at the Hartford Institute for […]

World No Tobacco Day

Despite the devastating harms of tobacco to heart health, and the availability of solutions to reduce tobacco-related death and disease, knowledge among large sections of the public that tobacco is one of the leading causes of cardiovascular disease is low. World No Tobacco Day 2018 will focus on the impact tobacco has on the cardiovascular […]

World Blood Donor Day

World Blood Donor Day is one of eight official WHO health days, as mandated by the World Health Assembly, that are recognized every year.

3rd Annual Global Trauma Nursing Workshop

120 Albany Street, New Brunswick, United States

Presented by Rutgers School of Nursing, this program consists of lectures and workshops focused on the development of trauma systems using an interprofessional approach. A five-day educational program was developed to target nursing professionals, physicians and hospital administrators that care for trauma patients. Topics: • Trauma Nurse Specialty • Trauma Programs/Systems • Trauma Registry • […]

Science Denialism, Public Policy, and Global Health

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

From climate change denial, to vaccine fears, to the rejection of the viral cause of HIV/AIDS, science denial has devastating implications for global health. Rutgers Global Health Institute and the New York Academy of Sciences present an evening panel discussion for the general public that will raise awareness of this issue, explore its causation, and […]

Experience of Tanzania in Addressing HIV/AIDS: Trend Analysis of Key Indicators from 2002–2012 National HMIS Data

Rutgers School of Public Health 683 Hoes Lane West, Piscataway, NJ, United States

Rutgers University welcomes Stephen Kibusi, RNM, MA, PhD, Dean of the School of Nursing and School of Public Health at University of Dodoma, Tanzania, for a seminar series hosted jointly by the Rutgers School of Nursing, Rutgers School of Public Health, and Rutgers Global Health Institute. HIV/AIDS remains one of the leading public health challenges […]