Global Health Office Bi-Weekly Bulletin
Global Health News

July 14, 2014 - August 11, 2014

Published August 11, 2014
Volume 6, Issue 15

Global Health News

INTD 4002/5004: Children and War Course

August 18 - 29, 2014. Taught by Dr. Shelly Whitman, Executive Director of the Roméo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative at Dalhousie University. Students from all disciplines are welcome.

The Transformative Power of Worldview Awareness

August 26, 2014. 9:00am - 4:30 pm. Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, 1675 Lower Water Street, Halifax, NS. Worldview awareness is a way to surface assumptions, beliefs and value systems in reflective and curious ways rather than adversarial or defensive ways, offering the potential for more comprehensive approaches and solutions to emerge on a range of issues that might be mildly oppositional to completely divisive to seemingly unsolvable.

Call for Abstracts: Global Health Day 2014

Submissions Deadline: Sept 5, 2014. The Global Health Office invites you to submit abstracts for poster presentations at our Global Health Day open house, to be held Tuesday, September 23, 2014 from 3:30-5:00pm. This event focuses on research initiatives and education programs in Global Health at Dalhousie University, and provides students, faculty and the community an opportunity to highlight their global health experience.

Global Health Rounds

We are pleased to introduce Global Health Rounds a free and public lecture series. The goal of these monthly sessions is to highlight and discuss the global health activities at Dalhousie as well as contemporary global health challenges with leaders in the field. Sessions will run 4:30-5:30 pm on the 3rd Wednesday of the month in the Tupper Medical Building (please consult the session schedule for speaker and location details)

Global Health Day 2014

Sept 23, 2014. 3:30 - 5 pm. The Global Health Office invites you to join us for our annual Global Health Day open house. This event focuses on research initiatives and education programs in Global Health at Dalhousie University, and provides students, faculty and the community an opportunity to highlight their global health experience. There will be a poster exhibit and an opportunity to interact with others engaged in global health.

Moving forward: Pathways to 'Culturally Competent' Practice with African Canadians

September 24 -27, 2014 Dartmouth, NS. Join the Nova Scotia Association of Black Social Workers in celebrating their 35th anniversary at this conference.

Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH) Conference

Conference Dates: Sept 25-27 2014, in Oxford, UK. The theme chosen for this year's meeting is Measuring Progress and over the three days the focus will be: how do we measure progress in our activities to ensure we are having maximum impact? Measuring progress is a theme that should embrace the full diversity of interests that RSTMH proudly represents. RSTMH has brought together a distinguished array of keynote speakers, session chairs and co-chairs who will shape the scientific content of the sessions around this Measuring Progress theme.

Aging Well Photo Contest

Submission deadline: Sept 26, 2014. Community Links invites photo submissions for its Year of Ageing Well 2015 Calendar. Community Links invites photos that include older adults and depict some aspect of ageing well, like active living, social interaction and community involvement.

Call for Applications: Advocates in Global Health Certificate (Halifax / Saint John)

Application Deadline: October 3, 2014. Orientation Session: October 15, 2014 (TBC). This certificate program is open to all students in the Faculties of Medicine, the Health Professions and Dentistry. With leadership and guidance from the Global Health Office, students will fulfill self-directed program modules over up to two years.

Call for Applications: Local Global Health Elective (Halifax / Saint John)

Application Deadline: Nov 7, 2014. Are you a Med 1 or Med 2 student looking for a Global Health elective in Canada? We’re looking for students who want to learn more about Global Health issues at home to participate in this unique elective. The Local Global Health Elective is a half-year elective which complements clinical placements with community and social service organization placements.

Advancing Global Health: Education, Building and Supporting

Date: Nov 10, 2014. Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY. This will be a one-day conference that focuses on: Building sustainable global partnerships, Global health and medical education.

14th World Congress on Public Health

Dates: Feb 11-15, 2015 Location: Kolkata, India.The Congress will aim towards fostering the promotion of "Healthy People - Healthy Environment" and will bring together thousands of participants from a wide range of public health disciplines from many countries around the world.

Black Canadian Studies Conference 2015

Abstracts due: February 15, 2015. Conference Dates: 21 - 24 May, 2015. Halifax, NS. The Black Canadian Studies Association will host its 2nd Biennial Black Canadian Studies Conference (BCSA) Community, Empowerment & Leadership in Black Canada in Halifax, Nova Scotia from 21 to 24 May 2015. To be held at Dalhousie University, the goal of the conference is to promote dialogue, critical reflection and nuanced perspectives on the past, present and future of Black leadership in Canada.

Dalhousie University

Global Health Office

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PO Box 15000, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2, Canada

Phone: 902-494-1965
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Email: gho@dal.ca

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