tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29273110716078245932011-07-28T17:33:58.219-04:00Join our googlegroup to receive news on events and volunteering opportunities: http://groups.google.com/group/columbiasjm/subscribeSocial Justice Medicine Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00364874634308800641noreply@blogger.comBlogger481100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2927311071607824593.post-2969567244334992382010-09-30T11:14:00.009-04:002010-10-01T13:54:17.831-04:00

Thank you to everyone who was able to attend our first meeting! We hope we can incorporate your ideas as best we can. Below are the projects already up and running.Pre-Medical Undergraduate Mentoring Program (PUMP)Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/charlesdrewsociety/pump.htmlContact: Kwanza Price, cupump@gmail.comSignup: Click hereThe mission of the Charles Drew Pre-Medical Undergraduate

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Hello SJMers,I am recruiting for the HIV Rotation Internship at the St Lukes/Roosevelt/St. Vincents HIV clinic(s). If you are not interested, just disregard this email!The Center for Comprehensive Care (St Lukes), Samuels Clinic (Roosevelt) and more recently at the West Village division combined have a patient population of just below 5,000 of New Yorkers affected by HIV. They provide a wealth

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Please pass this on to anyone who may be interested.So as you all know I'm heavily focused/invovled in microfinance and development across the developing world. I spoke at an event a few weeks back and met a doctor who is involved in morbidity/mortality in crisis driven countries. The group, among other things, holds weekly or bimonthly meetings and is going to Haiti in August. If anyone is

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Sorry, a virus/hacker got into my email.Nichole-- Nichole Young-Lin917-698-7926www.savingmothers.orgFacebook: facebook.com/savingmothers Twitter: twitter.com/savingmothers YouTube: youtube.com/savingmothers

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http://anandatushi.com/home.php-- Nichole Young-Lin917-698-7926www.savingmothers.orgFacebook: facebook.com/savingmothersTwitter: twitter.com/savingmothersYouTube: youtube.com/savingmothers

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Hey SJM,We’re looking for a group of 5-6 of our fellow post-baccs to join us on a volunteer trip to Haiti. Because of the limited time we have available to volunteer, we have chosen to go through a group called Global Volunteer Network. This group organizes placements for individuals and groups who wish to volunteer in Haiti and other places around the world. Check out their website: http:

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Exciting news! This Wednesday, April 21st, in Kent 424 at 8 pm, Saving Mothers will be hosting a movie screening of A Walk to Beautiful, a documentary about Ethiopian women whose lives have been affected by obstetric fistula. Obstetric fistula is a severe medical condition resulting from failed childbirth: a hole develops between the bladder and vagina, causing profound emotional and medical

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Hey SJM, Below is some preliminary info about a FGHHR event (Forum on Global Health and Human Rights) that one of our fellow postbacs, Danielle Beiling, has been coordinating along with a student from the Mailman School of Public Health. More details will follow if you are interested in attending! April 28th 3:00 – 5:00pm Hammer Library at the Columbia Medical Center The event will

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Dear Columbia Postbacs,Please join us for a benefit organized by Drops Fill Buckets on behalf of Saving Mothers. The event will take place on Thursday, March 11 from 8 to 10 p.m. at The Gates in New York City. During this time, we will have an open bar with specialty cocktails plus appetizers and entertainment. (The Gates, an elegant lounge, will be closed to the public during this time;

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CURRENTLY RECRUITING COMMITTEE BOARD MEMBERSAccording to the World Health Organization, a woman dies every minute from pregnancy and childbirth-related complications. Ninety-nine percent of maternal and infant deaths occur in the developing world; because the formal health care system is not an option due to money and lack of transport, eighty percent of births are performed at home without the

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Hey all,Just wanted to say a huge THANK YOU to everyone who came out last night. Thanks to your support, we were able to raise over $1400--all of which will be donated to Doctors Without Borders and Haiti Earthquake Relief this upcoming week.In return for Crocodile Lounge's amazing hospitality--really, they were so accommodating and generous to help us host this fundraiser--if you had a

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6:30pm, Hammer Health Sciences Building Room 401 ***Dinner will be provided. Please RSVP (so we have enough food) to: fwc2109@columbia.edu*** Please join us to watch the documentary One Water and meet with the director for a Q&A. Directed by Professor Sanjeev Chatterjee, One Water has received numerous awards and was screened at the 2004 and 2005 U.N. conferences. Onewaterthemovie.org

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Hey everyone,As you're all aware by now, just days ago Haiti was struck by a devastating 7.0 earthquake.Come out to Crocodile Lounge next Saturday night (January 23rd) to show your support. A voluntary $10 at the door gets you a bracelet for the following drink specials all night:$3 Yuenglings$4 Blue Moons$1 off all well drinksAll proceeds will be donated to Doctors Without Borders on behalf of

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Come hear Dr. David Winder, acting CEO of WaterAid, discuss this organization's role in providing access to safe water worldwide.When: Wednesday, January 13th. 6:30pm.Where: Hammer 301.Dinner provided by IHO & PHR.RSVP to pl2148@columbia.edu"WaterAid works in 17 countries providing water, sanitation and hygiene education to some of the world's poorest people."

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Dear IHO,We're finally ready to launch ID Rounds starting this week! Please sign up online here:http://www1.mysignup.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi?datafile=idroundssignup Passcode: IDroundsThis is your chance to shadow Infectious Disease physicians, see interesting cases, and learn what specializing in Infectious Disease is all about. Each session starts around 1:30pm and lasts about 2 hours.Please only

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We are looking for mentors for the Charles Drew High School Pipeline Program.The Pipeline program pairs a Columbia University pre-medical student with a high school student who is interested in becoming a pre-med student. Mentors build strong relationships with their mentees, offer guidance, ...and provide support as their mentee completest the college admissions process.If you are interested,

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Are you a pre-medical, pre-veterinary, pre-dental, pre-nursing, medical, dental or nursing student at Columbia University? Do you want to spend 9 days in Costa Rica over Spring break learning more about the profession you are interested in and getting lots of hands-on experience while helping communities in need and exploring Costa Rica? If your answer is yes, then look no further. This is the

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Monday, November 162-3:30pmHess CommonsMailman School of Public Health,Ground FloorJoin ICAP at a reception to celebrate the publication of the November supplement of the Journal of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (JAIDS). Entitled "HIV Scale-Up and Global Health Systems," the supplement was guest-edited by ICAP Director Wafaa El-Sadr and features articles by 18 ICAP and Mailman School of

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The Forum for Global Health and Human Rights is hosting a documentary screening this Thursday, November 5th at 6:00PM in Hammer 401, followed by a non-pizza dinner. The documentary concerns the work of the Foundation for Post Conflict Development in East Timor. Information about internships and other opportunities will be provided at the event. Please RSVP to pl2148@columbia.edu so we know how

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Please read on to find out some of what's been happening with SJM over the last month!Physicians for Human Rights & Forum on Global Health and Human Rights News:Physicians for Human Rights started the year off teaming up with Columbia University Harm Reduction Outreach Network (CUHRON) with a postcard-signing campaign advocating to lift the needle-exchange ban. Then on October 1, Dr. Joanne Csete

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Hey everyone,If you were at the kick off meeting for SJM about a month ago, you'll remember me mentioning Saving Mothers, an initiative that was organized by Nichole Young-Lin, a postbac who just graduated last year. Nichole left an undergraduate body at Columbia to work with Saving Mothers when she finished the postbac, however the postbacs she left in charge unfortunately fell through due to

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Improving Maternal Health Outcomes in Tibet with Dr. Kunchok GyaltsenDr. Gyaltsen is a Tibetan medical doctor, Buddhist monk, and leaderin Tibetan rural development. He will present his work on maternalhealth and education in Tibet. Dr. Gyaltsen has worked on publichealth initiatives within Tibet through NGOs and the Chinesegovernment. Dr. Gyaltsen is currently a PhD candidate at the UCLASchool

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For those of you who couldn't make the first SJM meeting, here is a short video on Doc to Dock, a non-profit under the Clinton Global Initiative aimed at redirecting medical supplies that would otherwise be wasted to clinics in Africa.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOoxU4oQPxIIf this sounds like something you'd be interested in getting involved in, I've set up several tentative dates to visit and

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FGHHR is a student-run program that seeks to bring various fields together to discuss topics on global health and human rights. Please come if you are interested in being involved in planning this year's forum. We also need your input so start thinking of ideas for possible forum topics and events you'd like to see! For example, past topics have included the ethics of global health education,

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Thursday, October 1, 2009 from 12:30pm – 1:30pm in Hammer 305 Speaker: Joanne Csete, Ph.D., M.P.H.Dinner will be provided.Please RSVP to fwc2109@columbia.edu with "PHR: Joanne Csete" in the subject line by Tuesday, so that we have enough food.Thanks!Floria, Peter & Sara

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Come enjoy free pizza and drinks at Social Justice Medicine's kick-off meeting next week:Friday, September 25th, 4pm (two Fridays from now)Lewisohn 602We'll be talking about the variety of volunteer opportunities and projects currently running and in the works, as well as how to get involved. Have an idea for a project you'd like to start? Then this meeting is the right place for you.Hope to

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Deogratias, who spoke at Columbia on behalf of SJM this past Febuary, is having an event to raise awareness about the medical realities of Burundi. Read on for more details.Begin Message from Jim Augustine As many of you know, I recently became involved with an exciting new organization called Village Health Works (VHW), a global health project bringing quality care - and with it, hope - to the

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The Forum on Global Health & Human Rights* presents its next event for the topic of Water as a Human Right vs. Water as a Commodity. Join us to for the talk "Poison in the Well: Exposure, Effects, and Remediation of Arsenic in Bangladesh" by Dr. Joseph Granziano , Professor of Environmental Health Sciences and Pharmacology at the Mailman School of Public Health.  When: Thursday, April 9 Where:

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The Forum on Global Health & Human Rights has a new module: Water as a Human Right vs. Water as a Commodity. Join us for a viewing of "Flow," Irena Salina's award-winning documentary investigation into the world water crisis about, touching on the growing privatization of the world's  dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics,  pollution, human rights, and the emergence

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The Forum on Global Health and Human Rights (http://forumonglobalhealthandhumanrights.blogspot.com) is a Columbia University medical student initiative that hosts international health and policy events throughout the year that are open to the public.This Wednesday, March 18th, the Forum is hosting an exciting event with Emmy Award winning filmmaker and journalist Barbara Rick and a screening of

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The Forum on Global Health and Human Rights presents: Maternal Mortality: Dr. Grace Kodindo Thursday, March 12, 6:00 - 7:00 PM Hammer Rm. 306 Dinner will be served Join us for a talk by Dr. Grace Kodindo, the subject of the 2005 BBC documentary, "Dead Mums Don't Cry."  Dr. Kodindo will discuss maternal mortality in Chad and elsewhere and her transition from a practicing Obstetrician/

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To all those interested in the HIV Rotation,  We are looking for coordinators for the Columbia Post-bac HIV Rotation Program at St. Luke's to help expand the program.  There will be an informational meeting on Monday, March 2nd at 1 PM located at Room 302 in the Teachers College Library to discuss specifics of the program and next steps for participation and expansion.  We apologize for the short

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The Committee on Global Thought presents,Owning Knowledge: Science, Health and Law in an Integrated WorldFebruary 25, 2009Wednesday, 6:30 pmDiscussionSchapiro Center, Davis AuditoriumThe panel will feature Sherry Glied, Joseph Stiglitz, John Sulston,Harold Varmus, and Arti Rai.This symposium will consider the implications of the private ownershipof scientific knowledge, particularly for such

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Hell and Hope in a Wounded Land:A Personal AccountFriday, February 20th 7:30pmrm555, 5th floor, Alfred Lerner HallDeogratias ('01 GS) will discuss the healthcare and reconciliation challenges he faced establishing a clinic in post-genocide Burundi. In 2006, with support from Dr. Paul Farmer's organization, Partners in Health, Deo worked with community members to build and begin operating a model

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First Year Postbacc Danny Ash will present "Project VIVA: A Multilevel Community-Based Intervention to Increase Influenza Vaccination Rates Among Hard-to-Reach Populations in New York City" at 12 PM today, January 29, as part of PMA Social Justice's Journal Club.Format is informal presentation and discussion.Location details below.Friday, January 29th at 12:00 PMRoom 102 (1st Floor Russell Hall).

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Social Justice Medicine is pleased to announce that on Tuesday, Dec. 2nd, Dr. Stan Schaffer will give a presentation, "Childbirth in a Haitian Village - should where you live determine whether you live?"Bio:Stan Shaffer MD MTSNeonatologist and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Missouri School of Medicine and E. Grey Dimond Program in International Medicine. A founder of

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Come help assemble birthing kits this Monday! We are going to assemble the birthing kits for Sierra Leone and Liberia at Mount Sinai Medical Center. However, if you are on campus, we are going as a group from campus. What: Birthing Kit Assembly PartyDate: Monday, November 10thTime: We are meeting as a group on campus at 6:00 or you can meet us at 7 pm.Where: Meeting spot is Columbia's West Gate

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You are invited to the Saving Mothers Research Team Bar Night Fundraiser/Mixer to benefit our Sierra Leone/Liberia birthing kit project. This is a great chance for you to enjoy a few drinks while supporting a great cause. This is also a fabulous opportunity to meet and mingle with doctors at Mount Sinai Medical Center since this is concurrently their faculty and staff mixer. 100% of your

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Kwanza Price, First Year Pre-med, will give first Journal Club article presentation about ethnic disparties in online cancer groups, this Friday at 5:30pm at TC. Discussion to follow.Location Details: Gottesman Libraries at Teachers College, Columbia University, Room 202 (2nd Floor Russell Hall) (Building behind Pupin across the street).Download article at: http://www.nmanet.org/images/uploads/

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Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons has a great series of forums on global health issues and we're invited:The 2nd annual Forum on Global Health & Human Rights--a CUMC-student driven initiative to discuss pressing topics in global health and human rights as they relate to health, access to care, and policy--kicks off on Tuesday, October 21 at 6:30 pm in Hammer 404!The topic will be Hunger

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For this Friday (10/17): Instead of presenting the article on disparities in online cancer support groups, Dr. VICTOR R. GRANN, MD (Professor of Epidemiology and Health Policy and Management at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Professor of Medicine at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, Director of Research Recruitment and Minority Outreach of the Herbert Irving

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SJM Journal Club Upcoming Meeting Date: Friday, October 17 tentativeTime: 1PMLocation: Teacher's College Library (more details later).Presentation will be on Disparities Among African Americans and Online Cancer Community Support Groups Usage. Presentation to be given by Kwanza Price (first year postbac).Follow the link to the first article: Ethnic Disparities in Online Cancer Support Groups (PDF

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$10 for a new fall wardrobe! Clean out those closets and get ready tohave a blast while helping those in need!The Postbacc Premedical Association and Social Justice Medicine Clubare pleased to co-sponsor a clothing swap fundraiser.How does it work? You pay $10 to take as many new-to-you clothes andaccessories as you want. If you bring clothes to swap, you only pay$5.00. It is free to bring

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Campaign Against TortureNational Day of Awareness: Monday, October 6th.Is it possible for a photograph to change the world?Twelve photographs from Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison changed the war in Iraq and changed America's image of itself. And yet, a central question remains. Did the notorious Abu Ghraib photographs constitute evidence of systematic torture and abuse by the American military, or

Social Justice Medicine Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00364874634308800641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2927311071607824593.post-46159423135582226972008-09-15T11:24:00.008-04:002008-11-09T12:39:55.667-05:00

As discussed at our first meeting and then some:SAVING MOTHERSSaving Mothers Research Team is an organization dedicated to reducing maternal and neonatal deaths in developing countries. You can make a difference! This semester, help us distribute clean birthing kits for home births in Sierra Leone, which has the highest maternal and neonatal mortality rates. Or, if you are traveling abroad, join

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Last Friday at Doc to Dock went really well and was a lot of fun. We helped sort and organize medical supplies and load the supplies onto wooden pallets for shipping. The people at Doc to Dock were super friendly and very grateful. In order to ensure that we are consistent with our continuing commitment to Doc to Dock, we have created a Google Doc that will act as our doc to dock sign up

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Dear Friends of Maison de Naissance,The HM-HB office in Kansas City has been receiving updates on the current situation at Maison de Naissance. In spite of the torrential rains and flooding throughout the country, the staff continues to report to duty and be prepared to do what they are known best for -- welcoming healthy mothers and healthy babies into this vast world.After much discussion,

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Doctors Without Borders & The Institute for Human Nutrition at P&S have jointly organized a symposium on childhood malnutrition. The symposium is taking place around the Columbia campus September 11-12.Starved for AttentionThe neglected crisis of Childhood MalnutritionToday's AgendaMultimedia: videos & slideshows

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