PHR, AMSA, and the Bionic Man elective present...
Part 4 of the Disability Awareness Series:
Brown's 1st Assistive Technology Fair
Wednesday, Feb. 13
7-8:30 pm
Crystal Room in Alumnae Hall
194 Meeting St.
*Dinner from Twist on Angell, as well as desserts and warm beverages from Olga's will be served.
Feel free to stop by anytime between 7 and 8:30 pm for as long as you would like. This event will be in a vendor-exhibit format, in which attendees will circulate around a room of display tables.
Featuring:
TechACCESS of RI
The Assistive Technology Lab at URI
Prentke Romich Company (PRC)
Afferent Corporation
Brown's Disability Support Services (DSS)
"Toys and Technologies for Rehabilitation" Collaboration
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Monday, February 4, 2008
Black History Month at Brown Med
Happy Black History Month! In celebration, SNMA is sponsoring a lunchtime lecture series. This is an opportunity to explore intricacies of culture and race, an intersection that will no doubt play a role in all of our lives as physicians (and as people).
We are excited and looking forward to a great series. All events are from 12-12:50pm and lunch is provided.
Thursday, Feb 7th: Conceptualizing Persisting Politics of Race-Mr. Marco McWilliams (BMC 202)
Monday, Feb 11th: Social Policy as Health Policy-Dr. Dannie Ritchie (Eddy/BMC 291)
Monday Feb 18th: Crossing Barriers: Blacks and Latin America-Prof. Anani Dzidzienyo (BMC 202)
Friday Feb 22nd: The New Struggle: Emancipation through Education-Prof. Marion Orr
Any questions? feel free to contact brown@snma.org.
THANKS!
-SNMA
We are excited and looking forward to a great series. All events are from 12-12:50pm and lunch is provided.
Thursday, Feb 7th: Conceptualizing Persisting Politics of Race-Mr. Marco McWilliams (BMC 202)
Monday, Feb 11th: Social Policy as Health Policy-Dr. Dannie Ritchie (Eddy/BMC 291)
Monday Feb 18th: Crossing Barriers: Blacks and Latin America-Prof. Anani Dzidzienyo (BMC 202)
Friday Feb 22nd: The New Struggle: Emancipation through Education-Prof. Marion Orr
Any questions? feel free to contact brown@snma.org.
THANKS!
-SNMA
Make-A-Wish Foundation Benefit Event
Hi all - just wanted to let you know about an upcoming event for the Make-A-Wish Foundation in Providence. Its a great organization, and their fundraisers are a lot of fun :)
March 8, 2008
If You Had One Wish Dinner & Dance
Knights of Columbus, Providence RI
Dinner and dancing to benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation® of Rhode Island. Tickets $20.00
For more information, call Jeanine Iannucci (401) 578-7091
Peace,
annie thacker
Anne_Thacker@brown.edu
March 8, 2008
If You Had One Wish Dinner & Dance
Knights of Columbus, Providence RI
Dinner and dancing to benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation® of Rhode Island. Tickets $20.00
For more information, call Jeanine Iannucci (401) 578-7091
Peace,
annie thacker
Anne_Thacker@brown.edu
Thursday, January 31, 2008
February is Disability Awareness Month
PHR & AMSA present
Disability Awareness Month
(see below for schedule of events)
Friday 2/1
Introduction to Disability Awareness
12-12:50pm
BMC 202
lunch
Tuesday 2/5
Children with Disabilities
12-12:50pm
Smiitty-B 106
lunch
Tuesday 2/12
Disability and Empowerment: sports & recreation
12-12:50pm
BMC 202
lunch
Wednesday 2/13
Assistive Technology Fair
7:00-8:30pm
Alumnae Hall- Crystal Room
refreshments & dessert
TBA:
Panel on Cochlear Implants
Disability Awareness Month
(see below for schedule of events)
Friday 2/1
Introduction to Disability Awareness
12-12:50pm
BMC 202
lunch
Tuesday 2/5
Children with Disabilities
12-12:50pm
Smiitty-B 106
lunch
Tuesday 2/12
Disability and Empowerment: sports & recreation
12-12:50pm
BMC 202
lunch
Wednesday 2/13
Assistive Technology Fair
7:00-8:30pm
Alumnae Hall- Crystal Room
refreshments & dessert
TBA:
Panel on Cochlear Implants
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Brown Med Students protest proposed cuts to RIteCare
(Photo credit: Bob Thayer, The Providence Journal)
For those of you who haven't heard, a group of Brown Med students went down to the State House yesterday (Jan 23) to protest the Governor's plan to cut 2,000 children off of RIteCare--the state's health insurance for low income families.
Here's the link to the article that was written up in the ProJo:
Kudos to Dan Schwarz for getting quoted near the end of the article, despite the glaring error on the part of the reporter...
We are going back to lobby next Wednesday (Jan 30) if any one is interested in participating. Email margret_chang@brown.edu or juan_vasquez@brown.edu for more information.
Thanks,
Andy Brunner, Juan Vasquez, Margret Chang
Sunday, December 9, 2007
Male Access to Emergency Contraception in RI
Greetings to all,
Just thought you all should know that December 17th is going to be a bigday for me. After some back and forth between the director of PlannedParenthood of RI (Miriam Inocencio), PP Federation of America (Cecile Richards), and I, Dec. 17th will mark the official beginning of male EC access at PPRI and PPRI Express.
If you did not know before, PPRI never had a policy on the distribution of Plan B to men, nor did they provide any referral information. Men trying to buy Plan B in advance or for their partners were thus met with an uncomfortable situation where they were turned away. This may have damaged Planned Parenthood's relationship with these men as well as their feelings of agency in family planning. Where some clinics in California have not provided to men on account that they give their Plan B away for free and they could not get reimbursed for distribution to a male, men and women at PPRI still have to pay for their subsidized Plan B and there is no reason why a man should not be allowed to simply purchase Plan B, especially considering the organization's commitment to choice.
So now there will be undisputed access and I'm happy about it, except for the fact that I won't be around Providence to buy the first pack.
PPRI currently also operates a Pill Project which is working to ensureaccess to Plan B for women in in Rhode Island by identifying pharmacies that do not dispense and then publicly questioning their policies, however they were never committed to ensuring access to men. After some conversations, they have finally agreed to include male access in their surveys. Unfortunately their agreement comes at an inconvenient time, as their work will probably directly coincide with my own research project on male access, however it will be interesting to see if we end up with differing results.
Anyhow, I consider this a big step in changing Planned Parenthood's image into one with a more partner friendly environment. I like to think that Planned Parenthood has become a household name with respect to reproductive decision making/planning, consequently making sure that men feel comfortable there is extremely important for the fostering of partnership in pregnancy (I think you'veall heard this from me ad nauseum). Nevertheless, I would like to stress that where a woman used to ask her male sexual partner "What do we do now?" and the male just shrugged his shoulders, he can now run to PPRI Express and get her Plan B.
It's my sincere hope that women will come to expect this kind of respect from their male partners and that men will honor that request.
Hope you'll all have a safe and happy holiday.
~Brian Nguyen
Just thought you all should know that December 17th is going to be a bigday for me. After some back and forth between the director of PlannedParenthood of RI (Miriam Inocencio), PP Federation of America (Cecile Richards), and I, Dec. 17th will mark the official beginning of male EC access at PPRI and PPRI Express.
If you did not know before, PPRI never had a policy on the distribution of Plan B to men, nor did they provide any referral information. Men trying to buy Plan B in advance or for their partners were thus met with an uncomfortable situation where they were turned away. This may have damaged Planned Parenthood's relationship with these men as well as their feelings of agency in family planning. Where some clinics in California have not provided to men on account that they give their Plan B away for free and they could not get reimbursed for distribution to a male, men and women at PPRI still have to pay for their subsidized Plan B and there is no reason why a man should not be allowed to simply purchase Plan B, especially considering the organization's commitment to choice.
So now there will be undisputed access and I'm happy about it, except for the fact that I won't be around Providence to buy the first pack.
PPRI currently also operates a Pill Project which is working to ensureaccess to Plan B for women in in Rhode Island by identifying pharmacies that do not dispense and then publicly questioning their policies, however they were never committed to ensuring access to men. After some conversations, they have finally agreed to include male access in their surveys. Unfortunately their agreement comes at an inconvenient time, as their work will probably directly coincide with my own research project on male access, however it will be interesting to see if we end up with differing results.
Anyhow, I consider this a big step in changing Planned Parenthood's image into one with a more partner friendly environment. I like to think that Planned Parenthood has become a household name with respect to reproductive decision making/planning, consequently making sure that men feel comfortable there is extremely important for the fostering of partnership in pregnancy (I think you'veall heard this from me ad nauseum). Nevertheless, I would like to stress that where a woman used to ask her male sexual partner "What do we do now?" and the male just shrugged his shoulders, he can now run to PPRI Express and get her Plan B.
It's my sincere hope that women will come to expect this kind of respect from their male partners and that men will honor that request.
Hope you'll all have a safe and happy holiday.
~Brian Nguyen
Saturday, December 1, 2007
Physician for Human Rights: Action List for World AIDS Day
Missed World AIDS Day events this morning? Want to take action? Visit the website below and find out what PHR chapters around the country are doing for World AIDS Day and to do your part to help out:
http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/hiv-aids/world-aids-day-2007-landing.html
What PHR is doing for World AIDS Day
- Collecting signatures for a petition to members of Congress asking for their support of African health professionals (note: RI representatives Patrick Kennedy and James Langevin have NOT signed the bill yet). Sign the petition.
- Sending a letter from leading health professionals to President Bush urging further US leadership in the fight against the AIDS pandemic. Read the letter.
- Collecting video postcards to the members of the US Congress from health professionals and health professional students. Create your own video message or watch one of our favorites.
- Featuring African colleagues in photo narratives. Meet Dr. Katumba and Ms. Byarugaba
Telling the story of health professional members and their recent trip to Kenya for the first Health Rights Conference in that country's history. Visit the blog. - Organizing members to comment on the proposed ban on HIV-positive travelers entering the United States. Read our statement or take action now.
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