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Boston University Begins $10million Global Health Effort
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As reported in the Boston Globe, thanx to MedTech-IQ member, Jonathan Rosen for the link ... Boston University is launching a major global health initiative ... investing $10 million to bolster research and education, and helping to build a nationwide consortium of universities devoted to improving health globally ...
... The new Center for Global Health and Development will connect specialists from BU’s medical and public health schools with engineers, social workers, and educators on the main campus - all to grapple with diseases that cause millions of deaths each year in the developing world...
Robert A. Brown, BU’s president, said he will make the announcement at the national consortium’s inaugural conference ... in Bethesda, Md., on the National Institutes of Health campus. Brown will be one of five university presidents attending the gathering of academics from 58 North American universities that have significant international programs in health and development...
... A survey being released at the conference shows that the number of students enrolled in global-health degree programs has doubled in the past three years... New England is heavily represented, with five universities in the region offering major global health programs: Harvard, Dartmouth, Brown, and Yale in addition to BU...
... BU’s new center will be headed by Dr. Jonathon Simon, chairman of the International Health Department in BU’s School of Public Health, which already is conducting 50 applied research studies in 22 countries...The new center will merge BU’s international health center, headed by Simon, with its Global Health Initiative ... Dr. Gerald Keusch, director of the Global Health Initiative ... joined the BU faculty in 2004 after serving as director of the Fogarty International Center at the National Institutes of Health...
... That cooperation already has led to new degrees such as a dual master’s in international relations and international health ... the new consortium ... is being supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation...
Read on at: http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/09/14/...
ENJOY!
CC
As reported in the Boston Globe, thanx to MedTech-IQ member, Jonathan Rosen for the link ... Boston University is launching a major global health initiative ... investing $10 million to bolster research and education, and helping to build a nationwide consortium of universities devoted to improving health globally ...
... The new Center for Global Health and Development will connect specialists from BU’s medical and public health schools with engineers, social workers, and educators on the main campus - all to grapple with diseases that cause millions of deaths each year in the developing world...
Robert A. Brown, BU’s president, said he will make the announcement at the national consortium’s inaugural conference ... in Bethesda, Md., on the National Institutes of Health campus. Brown will be one of five university presidents attending the gathering of academics from 58 North American universities that have significant international programs in health and development...
... A survey being released at the conference shows that the number of students enrolled in global-health degree programs has doubled in the past three years... New England is heavily represented, with five universities in the region offering major global health programs: Harvard, Dartmouth, Brown, and Yale in addition to BU...
... BU’s new center will be headed by Dr. Jonathon Simon, chairman of the International Health Department in BU’s School of Public Health, which already is conducting 50 applied research studies in 22 countries...The new center will merge BU’s international health center, headed by Simon, with its Global Health Initiative ... Dr. Gerald Keusch, director of the Global Health Initiative ... joined the BU faculty in 2004 after serving as director of the Fogarty International Center at the National Institutes of Health...
... That cooperation already has led to new degrees such as a dual master’s in international relations and international health ... the new consortium ... is being supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation...
Read on at: http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/09/14/...
ENJOY!
CC
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