Brown University Refugee Symposium

The International Institute of Rhode Island, Physicians for Human Rights, Miriam Hospital, the Rhode Island Department of Health, and the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University present:

Issues in Refugee Health:

Barriers to Medical Access in Rhode Island

Each year, more than 150-300 refugees are resettled in Rhode Island from troubled countries all over the world, with the most recent arrivals coming from Africa. Please join medical experts, students, and refugee community health supporters for a symposium designed to explore barriers to local healthcare access for resettled refugees.

Wednesday, March 19
5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Brown University
Bio Medical Center, Room 202
Corner of Brown and Meeting St.

To RSVP, please contact:

margret_chang@brown.edu

katieambrose@hotmail.com

Health and Human Rights in the Gaza Strip

Health and Human Rights in the Gaza strip will be this Wed. March 12 from 12-12:50 in BMC 202. The event will feature Dr. Nancy Murray, a founder of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation and president of the Gaza Mental Health Foundation Inc.

Questions? Contact Sareh_Rajaee@brown.edu.

March 12 Discussion with Dr. Jim Kim

Hi everyone,

I'm sure the email below will be of interest to lots of people.

Thanks,

Margret
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Please join us for a special seminar with world-renowned medical and public health pioneer Jim Yong Kim '82 on Wednesday, March 12, from 2:30-4:00 pm.

Jim is former director of the World Health Organization's Department of HIV/AIDS, a co-founder of Partners in Health (www.pih.org, profiled in the Tracy Kidder book, Mountains Beyond Mountains), and a MacArthur "Genius" Fellow; and holds appointments with the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities at Brigham and Women's Hospital, the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and the François Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health. He has done truly pioneering work in improve health in impoverished communities around the world.

The session will be a unique opportunity for an in-depth conversation with this global leader. Jim will present work on Global Health Delivery that he's undertaking with Michael Porter of the Harvard Business School, followed by discussion with the group. Expertise in global health is not required, and the discussion will yield tremendous learning relevant to many areas of global or community-based work.

Space is limited - please RSVP no later than Weds., March 5, to Wendy Perelman, wendy_perelman@brown.edu.

The seminar will take place at the Population Studies Center, 68 Waterman Street (between Prospect and Brown Streets).

For more background on Jim:
Profile in Brown Alumni Monthly: www.brownalumnimagazine.com/november/december-2006/the-healer.html

Interview in The Lancet: http://www.brighamandwomens.org/socialmedicine/News/kim_profile_lancet.pdf

Hope you can join us!

Roger Nozaki
Director, Howard R. Swearer Center for Public Service
Associate Dean of the College
Brown University
Box 1974, 25 George Street
Providence, RI 02912
T: 401/863-1446
F: 401/863-3094
E: roger_nozaki@brown.edu

New contacts for health advocacy

Dear Brown Health Advocates,

As a health advocate and Brown alum ('67) I excited and proud that you are organizing and activating health advocacy at Brown. I am now working with the Narrative Medicine Program at Columbia (this fall my colleague there, Sayantani DasGupta '92 and I published a co-edited book of women's illness narratives that includes sections on narratives of advocacy), with Medicare Rights Center, and as advisor to a women's health reform coalition (Raising Women's Voices for the Healthcare We Need), all of which would be of interest to health advocates at Brown.

Marsha Hurst, Ph.D.

www.marshahurst.com

Brown University Assistive Technology Fair

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

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

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