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.
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.
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, […]
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.
The Rutgers New Jersey Healthy Kids Initiative presents a symposium focused on child nutrition and fitness, including recommendations for vulnerable populations and explorations of various social determinants.
Moderated by Dr. Gregory Peck, assistant professor of surgery, this tweetchat will feature discussions of strategies on how to establish and maintain sustainable international collaborations in the clinical setting and in research.
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, […]
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.
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 […]
A free documentary screening and panel discussion on breastfeeding in the African American community.
Join Stephan Schwander, MD, PhD, associate professor and director of the Global Public Health Concentration, Rutgers School of Public Health as he discusses the impact of air pollution and tuberculosis on global health, immunopathological mechanisms of air pollution, and research examples and collaborative opportunities in Mexico City, Uganda, and Tanzania.
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.
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 • HIV testing • eye examination • HPV vaccine (Limited quantities for ages 19-26. Note: Three doses of the HPV vaccine are required. Patients must arrange […]
