BFA Global Health

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Brittany Seymour, Assistant Professor of Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, and Carlos Faerron, of the Intra-American Center for Global Health, developed a one week field course in Costa Rica that allows dental students to learn from and with dental students from the University of Costa Rica, and to obtain perspectives on oral health from migrant workers, urban residents, and indigenous people in the country. The course seeks to develop sustainable partnerships that will benefit communities and learners for years to come. Additional information about the course is available here or in this video. ​

 Member Spotlight
Transform Yourself to Transform the World: A Message to Academic Faculty  
By: Michelle Morse, MD, MPH (view bio)

Faculty are too often the major barrier to change in health education institutions and health systems. Faculty tend to view themselves as teachers, who teach, and the students as learners, who learn. However, this view is fundamentally oppressive. We can improve our ability to instill  social medicine in health professions education if, instead of learning coming from a teacher bestowing knowledge on a student, learning comes through experiencing the reality of health inequity together, as students AND teachers, and working together to create new knowledge for all parties and the radical change that must follow it. READ MORE.

BFA Updates
 
Malika Fair (BFA Representative/Liaison), Arthur Kaufman (BFA Board Member), David Marsh, Dan Blumenthal, and Roger Strasser attended a terrific Network meeting of The Network: Towards Unity for Health held, this year in Limerick, Ireland. The Network is an NGO in official relations with WHO and while its membership is global, its secretariat is at FAIMER in Philadelphia. The goals and actions of The Network are highly aligned with BFA with a heavy emphasis on building relevance of academic health centers to the health and social needs of their communities and nations, social accountability and social justice. The meetings facilitate sharing of strategies in these areas between institutions and programs from different countries. The program is highly interactive, mostly consisting of small group seminars, workshops and interest sessions (Womens' Health, Social Accountability, Regional discussions, etc). READ MORE.

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Publications

• Nordic leadership and global activity on health equity through action on social determinants of health: Michael Marmot, March 2018
  
  
• Transforming Health Education to Catalyze a Global Paradigm Shift: Systems Thinking, Complexity, and Design Thinking: Swanson et al., April 2018
  
  
• Community engagement in global health education supports equity and advances local priorities: an eight year Ecuador-Canada partnership: Misra et al., May 2018
  
  
• Implementing primary health care policy under changing global political conditions: lessons learned from four national settings: Van Weel et al., April 2018
  
  
• Community health and equity of outcomes: the Partners In Health experience: Palazuelos et al., May 2018
  
  
• Teaching the Social Determinants of Health: A Path to Equity or a Road to Nowhere?: Sharma et al., January 2018

Announcements & Events

• Northeast Global Surgery Hackathon - September 7-9, 2018
  Disparities in access to needed surgical services, which disproportionately affect the world’s poorest, have resulted in the acknowledgement of surgery as a vital component of global public health. The burden of global surgical need is colossal, given infrastructure, training, and cost limitations. The most notable declaration of this surgical public health need was issued by the Lancet Commission in 2015.
  
  Yale students are co-sponsoring a hackathon which will be held at Harvard Medical School from September 7-9. They hope to unite engineers, healthcare workers from all disciplines, particularly surgery, other global health-minded individuals, and innovators to design cost-effective, implementable solutions to challenges endured by surgeons in LMICs. Learn More...
  
  
• AAFP Global Health Summit - September 12-15, 2018
  Whether you're exploring opportunities to engage in global health, preparing for your overseas experience, or seeking to broaden your clinical knowledge about global health concerns, the AAFP Global Health Summit (formerly the Family Medicine Global Health Workshop) is the place to network, learn, and train with current and aspiring global health advocates. Learn More...
  
  
• Women Leaders in Global Health Conference - November 8-9, 2018
  Putting a gender lens on global health leadership and with a focus on mentoring and skills building, WLGH18 will bring together established and emerging leaders from across sectors and cultures to work towards gender equity in health leadership and to improve health for all. Learn More...
  
  
• American Public Health Association Annual Meeting - November 10-14, 2018
  APHA 2018's theme, "Creating the Healthiest Nation: Health Equity Now" puts health equity at the center of our field's attention. Learn More...
  
  
• Putting Care at the Center - December 5-7, 2018
  Putting Care at the Center is the annual conference of the National Center for Complex Health and Social Needs. The National Center is funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, AARP, and The Atlantic Philanthropies, and is an initiative of the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers. 
  
  Putting Care at the Center 2018 will be December 5-7 in Chicago, IL, co-hosted with Rush University Medical Center and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Putting Care at the Center is an opportunity for innovators and advocates for healthcare delivery reform from across the country, both pioneers and newcomers, to meet, network, and create a shared agenda for the emerging field of complex care. Learn More...
  
  
• State of the Science: A National Research Meeting on Medical & Social Care Integration - February 4-5, 2019
  This is the first national conference devoted to research on medical and social care integration in health care delivery settings. Learn More...
  
  
• Unite for Sight Global Health & Innovation Conference 2019 - April 13-14, 2019
  Attend the world's leading and largest global health conference as well as the largest social entrepreneurship conference, with 2,000 professionals and students from all 50 states and more than 55 countries. This must-attend, thought-leading conference convenes leaders, changemakers, professionals and students from all sectors of global health, international development, and social entrepreneurship. Learn More...