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.

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 "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. […]

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 health and social medicine at the Harvard Medical School.  He serves as the research director at the Program in Global Surgery and Social Change at the Harvard […]

Fifth Annual Global Health Nursing Conference: Leadership in Global Health and Disaster Response

Rutgers School of Dental Medicine 110 Bergen Street, Newark, NJ, United States

Hosted by the Rutgers School of Nursing, the Fifth Annual Global Health Nursing Conference will provide participants with knowledge on topics regarding innovations in the context of natural disasters and emerging global leadership in disasters and health. Abstracts are invited for a poster session. (Contact cpdn@rutgers.edu or 973-972-6655.) Objectives – Recognize the need for leadership during […]

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 Foundation and Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy at Rutgers. As part of her residency, Norby had the opportunity to spend six months in sub-Saharan Africa, […]

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.

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

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

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: ● advanced directives ● living wills ● durable power of attorney for health care ● physician orders for life-sustaining treatment Featured speakers: ● Ellen Levine, LCSW, […]

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, United States

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 Institute and the School of Public Health’s Department of Urban-Global Public Health present a seminar with Azan Nyundo, MD, MMed, on the global shortage of […]