News and Events

Lecture by Richard Wilkinson: Inequality: The Enemy Between Us?

2013-03-18T08:57:37Z

The impact of inequality on health within and across countries
12 Noon, Thu March 28th
Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center

Richard Wilkinson presents the annual Morgan Lecture. The title is “Inequality: The Enemy Between Us?”

“Since before the French Revolution, many people have believed that inequality is divisive and socially corrosive. Now that we have data allowing us to compare inequality within countries, we find that this intuition is more true than we thought. Countries like the USA, with relatively large income gaps between rich and poor, suffer much more from a wide range of social ills.”

Professor Wilkinson has played a formative role in international research on the social determinants of health and on the societal effects of income inequality. He studied economic history at the London School of Economics before training in epidemiology. He is professor emeritus of social epidemiology at the University of Nottingham Medical School, honorary professor at University College London and a visiting professor at the University of York. He is co-founder of The Equality Trust.

First symposium a success!

2011-04-25T16:04:06Z

The Health Studies program's first research symposium was a success, with 21 separate projects presented by student researchers. Students presented posters or oral discussions of their work and findings, in areas ranging from public park usage to dieting behaviors.

Health Studies Symposium

2011-04-18T10:42:24Z

Research in Health Studies will be showcased at a symopsium on Friday, April 22 at 3 pm in the Rector Science Complex atrium. Come by and see the work that students are doing in the Health Studies field!

New Health Studies Database

2011-03-25T10:26:18Z

Theresa Arndt, Associate Director for Research and Instructional Services, announced the following:

The library now has subscription access to a significant database for health studies called CINAHL: Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature. Links to CINAHL have been added to the Library Databases list and the Health Studies Research Guide. The coverage of this database is highly relevant not only for nursing and allied health, but for all areas of healthcare research.

Here is a shortcut link if you want to check it out: http://lis.dickinson.edu/Library/LISDatabases/getlink.cfm?285

Substance abuse recovery - free local workshop

2011-02-11T08:48:52Z

Free workshop to learn about a local substance abuse recovery program: Click here for more information.

HEST students are invited to attend the Pre-Health Society meetings

2011-02-09T09:17:47Z

February 16 @ 6 p.m. in Stafford Auditorium, Dr. Gus Geraci, MD - Medical Home Concepts

Dr. Geraci, Vice-President for HealthAmerica, a subsidiary of Coventry HealthCare, will introduce students interested in careers within healthcare to the "medical home model". It is important for all students planning to work within various healthcare fields to attend this program, as the medical home will be an important part of the health care system that is being implemented now. Gain an understanding of how your anticipated role within healthcare may change in the future. You can also learn how Dr. Geraci became a physician and later decided to work for a health maintenance organization. Sign up within the “Career Events” section of DickinsonConnect to attend.

Wednesday, April 2 at 6 p.m. in Stafford Auditorium, International Aid, Medical Travels in the Developing World

Dr. David Baram, MD '68 of OB/GYN Health Partners in St. Paul, MN will share his career experiences as a physician and also talk about his service to the world in countries like Ecuador, multiple trips to Guatemala, and the Philippines as well as an upcoming trip to Bolivia. If you're interested in international aid and service, medical Spanish and translation, this is a great program for you to attend. Sign up within the “Career Events” section of DickinsonConnect to attend.

NACHC Offers Public Policy Internship

2010-12-06T11:28:50Z

The National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC), the advocate voice for our nation's Community Health Centers , is offering paid internships in its Federal and State Affairs Office for the 2011 Winter/Spring Semester. Applicants must be currently enrolled as senior-level undergraduate or graduate student majoring in political science, U.S. government, public policy, health or similar discipline. Strongly qualified juniors will be considered. Recent graduates (within the last year), and/or students having been accepted to enter an advanced degree program are encouraged to apply.

How do the film industry and the medical industry work together?

2010-12-03T14:46:56Z

NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE
History of Medicine Division Seminar
Tuesday, December 7, 2-3:30pm
NLM Visitor Center, Building 38A
Bethesda, MD

"Projecting Prevention: TB, Edgar Ulmer, and Racializing the Sponsored Health Film."

Devin Orgeron, PhD
Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University

This presentation establishes connections between three distinct and seemingly disparate realms: the aggressive campaign against tuberculosis in the United States; the development of motion pictures for educational purposes; and cinematic authorship both inside and outside of the American studio system. At first glance, these three areas might seem unconnected. But the National Tuberculosis Association's (NTA) campaign against tuberculosis, which featured a series of short films directed by the legendary filmmaker Edgar Ulmer, allows an opportunity to consider the complex relationship between the film industry and the medical community's very specific communicational needs.

All are welcome.

Note: The next History of Medicine Division seminar will be held on January 27, 2011, 2-3:30pm in the NLM Visitor Center, Building 38A. Professor Ann Jannetta of the University of Pittsburgh will speak on "Japan's Vaccinators: Medicine as an Agent of Change in Nineteenth Century Japan."

For future programs, consult the NLM History of Medicine Division Seminar webpage:

www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/happening/seminars/index.html

Sign language interpretation is provided. Individuals with disabilities who need reasonable accommodation to participate may contact Stephen Greenberg at 301-435-4995, e-mail greenbes@mail.nih.gov, or the Federal Relay (1-800-877-8339).

Due to current security measures at NIH, off-campus visitors are advised to consult the NLM Visitors and Security website:

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/about/visitor.html

Public Health Career Event - Drexel (Philadelphia)

2010-12-03T14:42:57Z

The Drexel School of Public Health will be hosting the Annual ‘Exploring Public Health Careers: Making the Most of Your Public Health Career’ event for students. The event will be on January 6 from 3:45 to 7:30 PM in the New College Building. For more information including the complete schedule and to register to attend go to www.publichealth.drexel.edu/phcareers Registration is required. Door prizes will be given away at the Networking Reception and every student that attends will receive a hot of the presses School of Public Health Career Guide.
The event is designed to connect students to established public health professionals and to educate students on how to make the most of their future public health careers. Both high level and junior level professionals will discuss public health careers with students. Dress for the event is business casual.

Summer research opportunity!

2010-12-01T10:09:49Z

Minority Health and Health Disparities International Research Training (MHIRT) at Christian Brothers University offers biomedical and behavioral research training to qualified individuals. But hurry, because applications to this selective program will not be accepted after December 17th! For more information, please see the program's website.

Call for conference submissions

2010-11-29T09:14:30Z

The Pennsylvania Medical Humanities Consortium is hosting a conference in April, with the theme "The Story of Health and Illness in Urban America." For more information about this event, please see the call for submissions.

Queer sexuality and the AIDS crisis: 11/9

2010-11-03T16:07:56Z

Jennifer Brier - Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies/History, University of Illinois-Chicago

Censoring Infectious Ideas: Queer Sexuality and the AIDS Crisis

Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Stern Center, Great Room – 7:00 p.m.

Beginning with her own experiences as an author whose work has been censored, Brier will discuss how the response to AIDS has been affected by attempts to remove discussions of sex and sexuality from its center and question the extent to which we have become a more sexually liberated culture since the 1980s. This event is co-sponsored by the Departments of Sociology, American Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies.

Background Information (provided by speaker)
In the last stages of preparing her book for publication, including securing the permissions to publish several reproductions of early AIDS prevention posters from San Francisco, Brier’s press informed her that she would not be able to include any images that displayed full-frontal male nudity. Told that the images were not central to her argument and that they would be distracting, Brier had no choice but to exchange the images for less-explicit ones, a decision that uncannily mirrored what happened when the San Francisco AIDS Foundation first created and tried to distribute the posters using federal funds in the late 1980s. In “Censoring Infectious Ideas” Brier will discuss how the response to AIDS has been affected by attempts to remove discussions of sex and sexuality from its center and question the extent to which we have become a more sexually liberated culture since the 1980s.

Biography (provided by the speaker)
Jennifer Brier holds a joint appointment in the Program in Gender and Women’s Studies and the History Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of Infectious Ideas: U.S. Political Response to the AIDS Crisis, which was published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2009. In it she argues that AIDS provides the perfect lens through which to see the complex social and political history of the 1980s and 1990s. She details how activists, service providers, philanthropists and the federal government responded to AIDS in the first two decades of the AIDS epidemic and places the history of a successful yet complex and contentious social movement organized to deal with the AIDS epidemic in conversation with a more traditional political history of how the state dealt with this public health crisis. Brier is currently the co-curator of an exhibition on Chicago’s LGBT history set to open at the Chicago History Museum in May 2011. The exhibition, tentatively titled Out Chicago, will be one of the largest shows exclusively dedicated to LGB

FALL 2010 off-campus “OFFICE VISITS” for the Pre-Health Career Interest Groups:

2010-09-15T15:38:21Z

See the Pre-Health Society page for Fall 2010 “Office Visits” that have been scheduled to help students explore careers. The first one is a visit to The Sadler Center at Hanover & Louther Streets. During this visit, a panel of public health specialists will talk about the state of public health locally as well as careers as a physician, dentist, administrator, PA and CRNP (nurse). Please contact Barb Redding at redding@dickinson.edu as soon as possible if you’re planning to attend the September 22 “Office Visit” at Sadler for the 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. program. Sign up with Barb to attend other visits advertised during October and November too. Transportation will be available with limited seating on a first come first serve basis. If there isn’t enough interest/attendance an “Office Visit” will be cancelled so please register today to guarantee you a specific “Office Visit” Site and seating.

Med school without pre-med?

2010-08-03T15:36:56Z

The New York Times recently commented on one program that reserves slots in its med school for individuals who studied outside of the "hard sciences" in their undergraduate career. Check it out here.

Opportunity for Undergraduate Students to Present at the American Public Health Association 138th Annual Meeting & Exposition

2010-04-13T10:02:54Z

The American Public Health Association (APHA) annual meeting and exposition will be taking place in Denver, CO, November 6-10, 2010, in which over 13,000 public health professionals will share research findings, best practices, and other learning experiences: http://www.apha.org/meetings/

The APHA Committee on Affiliates (CoA) is sponsoring two student poster sessions at the meeting: one for undergraduate students and one for graduate students. The call for abstracts is now open and accepting abstract submissions on any public health-related topic. Students can be enrolled in ANY major. The deadline for submissions is MONDAY, JUNE 21, 2010. Abstracts are to be sent electronically via the following link: http://apha.confex.com/apha/138am/coa.htm

**IMPORTANT WHEN SUBMITTING AN ABSTRACT**
After clicking on the "Submit Abstract" link in the Call for Abstracts, students will be asked to select the topic that most closely relates to their abstract. Please follow the instructions below:

-Undergraduate Students: Select "Committee on Affiliates Undergraduate Student Poster Session"
-Graduate Students: Select "Committee on Affiliates Graduate Student Poster Session"

Note: If a student will be both an undergraduate and graduate student in 2010, they should submit to the applicable session in which the abstract relates. For instance, if the abstract describes work performed while an undergraduate student, then submit to the Committee on Affiliates Undergraduate Student Poster Session.

Questions should be directed to Brenda Kirkwood, CoA Student Representative, at: bakirkwood@gmail.com.

Health Care Reform Bill and Debate Available on GPO'S FDsys

2010-03-25T14:59:00Z

The Health Care Reform legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives is available on GPO's Federal Digital System (FDsys). For links to the electronic versions of the legislation, debate and vote click here for the press release: http://www.gpo.gov/pdfs/news-media/press/10news12.pdf

Note that links off the above page are to some very long documents, so be patient while they load. Also scroll down past the white space on the cover pages of some of the documents.

Unique job opportunity

2010-03-24T09:32:14Z

Seasonal Menu Specialist Grant-Funded Position Available for the fall 2010

The College Farm and Dining Services seek a dynamic student interested in developing seasonal menu options for the meal plan. The “Seasonal Menu Specialist” will work with chefs, local producers, the College Farm and fellow students to develop recipes that feature seasonally and regionally specific ingredients. A successful applicant will be self-motivated and have culinary experience, as well as an interest in developing recipes that are nutritionally dense and flavorful. Prior experience with health and nutrition work or counseling, experience with raising food and/or maintaining a seasonal diet, as well as hands-on training in menu development will be highly favored among the applicants. Position requires 15 hours of work per week and offers a competitive pay rate. Application deadline is April 9th.

For more information and an application, please contact Jenn Halpin at halpinj@dickinson.edu

Health Studies Internship Available!

2010-03-04T12:59:12Z

Work for the Respiratory Health Association in Chicago this summer!
Organization Name: Respiratory Health Association of Metropolitan Chicago
Location: Chicago, IL
Description: This internship was passed along by Ms. Audrey Eisenberg, '02. Summer internships will likely pay a small stipend, and would provide a fast-paced work experience for someone interested in gaining exposure to public health issues and/or general nonprofit operations.

We will require an 8 or 12-week commitment of about 20 hours per week.

Areas of need/interest at Respiratory Health Association typically include:
•Communications / marketing – writing calendar listings, media advisories, human interest stories, etc. on topics including public health, air quality and special (fundraising) events; web updates; special projects related to branding and targeted messaging
•Event support – supporting our summer events, including a bike trek and half-marathon in early August (PR, website work, e-communications with participants, incorporation of social media components in event strategies; general event administration, etc.)
•Public policy – working with our health and environmental policy teams to draft briefings for local/state legislators, mobilize volunteers to take action on specific issues, etc.
•Fundraising – grant writing, prospect research, planning for Oct.-Dec. "end of year" fundraising appeals and e-appeals

Qualifications: Seeking rising sophomores, juniors and seniors. No graduating seniors.

To apply: Please send your resume and cover letter to Ms. Audrey Eisenberg at aeisenberg@lungchicago.org. The earlier you can apply, the better.

Health Studies students' work featured

2010-02-23T13:49:12Z

Click here to read about the work students in the Health Studies program are doing!

Scholarship Opportunity

2010-01-25T14:44:29Z

A pre-graduate scholarship is available for American Indian and Alaska Native students. Click here for details.

Michigan Summer Internships for undergraduate students interested in Health Disparities

2010-01-21T13:54:55Z

Students entering their junior or senior year of undergraduate study are eligible to apply to the Summer Enrichment Program in Health Management and Policy. Those pursuing degrees in the social sciences, the biological sciences, and other fields pertinent to health management and policy, such as economics, political science, accounting and finance, are especially encouraged to apply. Past interns, however, have come from a variety of other undergraduate fields of study, e.g. the Humanities and Fine Arts. Applicants must be U.S. citizens. Because the majority of placements are in Detroit, Ann Arbor or Flint, all participants must reside in Southeast Michigan or Genesee County during the summer.
Successful applicants will show evidence of academic achievement (a 2.8 or above grade point average on a 4.0 scale) and will demonstrate one or more of the following:

You, or a member of your family, have been adversely affected by health disparities related to: a) systemic failures of the social or physical environment; or, b) inequities in the US health care system.
Live in a community or area that is adversely affected by health disparities. Such communities would include both urban and rural areas whose residents have low health status or who are underserved by the health care system.
Have experience working in programs that address health disparities. Such programs include local health departments, community health centers, inner city/ rural hospitals or organizations that conduct research on or develop policy related to health disparities.
Have done previous academic work (e.g. taken courses, written papers or participate in research projects) related to health disparities.

Please note that the application deadline is February 5, 2010. The application is available on our website at: http://www.sph.umich.edu/sep/ .

Internship opportunity

2010-01-19T13:25:20Z

Internship at the Jefferson School of Population Health
Location: Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA

Jefferson School of Population Health seeks applicants from Dickinson College to help in the development of a summer "camp" experience for 20 high school students that focuses on current issues in global health. The interns will:

o Research, identify and prioritize specific issues in global health to be included in the summer event scheduled for implementation in 2011

o Identify print materials and web resources related to global health issues suitable for secondary school students

o Design daily/weekly curriculum plan, including hands-on activities and/or field experiences, appropriate to high school students

o Prepare "business plan" for implementation of the program in summer 2011

Interns will be invited to return to Jefferson in 2011 to serve as remunerated staff for the summer program.

Internships are open to rising juniors and seniors with interest in public and global health, program planning and/or secondary education. Selected students must register for the Transcript Notation Program through the Career Center. For additional details about this program, see http://www.dickinson.edu/student-life/resources/career-center/content/student/Internship-Program---Resources---Transcript-Notation-Program/.

Interested applicants should provide the following:

• Letter of application explaining reasons for interest in global health issues and appropriate qualifications for the internship

• Letter of recommendation from Dickinson College advisor or faculty member

• Copy of most recent Dickinson transcript

Send these items by April 2, 2010 by email to:

Robert Simmons, DrPH, MPH, CHES

Program Director, Public Health

Jefferson School of Population Health

rob.simmons@jefferson.edu

Upcoming Conference

2009-11-17T10:18:12Z

Lebanon Valley College is hosting a conference for undergraduate research in the humanities and social sciences.

The conference will take place on Saturday, Februrary 20, at Lebanon Valley College. Faculty and students are invited to submit paper and poster proposals before Thursday, December 31. For more information (including submission and registration forms), go to http://sites.google.com/site/lvcconference.

New Bioethics Program at Columbia

2009-11-17T09:52:55Z

Columbia University's School of Continuing Education is pleased to announce a new Master of Science in Bioethics which, pending approval by the University Senate, plans to accept the first class beginning in fall 2010.

The M.S. in Bioethics will provide students with the training to work professionally on issues in bioethics, and will ground them in historical, philosophical, legal, and social science approaches and models for addressing bioethics. It will prepare students to work in various capacities within this new and ever-growing field, and will include a concentration in global bioethics – the first of its kind in the United States.

The bioethics program is appropriate for recent undergraduates who plan to work in health care professions and are interested in bioethical issues, dual-degree graduate students and mid-career professionals in health care or related fields. The program will enable students to draw on the extraordinary resources of the University, including the College of Physicians and Surgeons, the Mailman School of Public Health, the Schools of Law, Nursing and International and Public Affairs, and the Arts and Sciences.

Our upcoming information session is the perfect opportunity to meet the faculty and learn more about the program.

Date: Thursday, November 19
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Location: The Hilton Times Square hotel

Health Care Reform Panel Discussion

2009-11-10T09:55:57Z

Experts will discuss advantages and disadvantages of recent health care reform proposals with community members on Wednesday, November 18th at 7 pm in the Anita Tuvin Schlecter Auditorium on campus. The panel will be moderated by Alicia Richards of ABC News. Read the flyer advertising the event here.