Members of NYIT's Center for Global Health regularly attend conferences and meetings, and represent the center at industry events. Here are some upcoming and recent events:
Global Health Ethics and Human Rights: Practical Applications to Multicultural Health Issues At Home and Abroad
Drs. Edward Gotfried, director of the Center for Global Health, and Edward Cho, associate director, will be attending the GHEC meeting, “Global Health Ethics and Human Rights: Practical Applications to Multicultural Health Issues At Home and Abroad,” in Sacramento, Calif., on April 3 - 5, 2008.
The Global Health Educational Consortium (GHEC) is a nonprofit organization of health professionals, educators, and institutions committed to addressing the health needs and human rights of populations around the world and to improving the ability of the global workforce to meet the needs of underserved populations. It accomplishes this mission through the promotion, development and expansion of high quality, culturally sensitive global health education for faculty, students and professionals worldwide.
GHEC works to promote and facilitate global health education in four areas – curriculum and training materials development, clinical training, career development, and education policy. For example, GHEC
- facilitates international educational experiences and exchanges
- encourages the development of curricula and teaching materials
- promotes sharing of resources, ideas and information among its members
- promotes faculty development and global health career tracks
- facilitates short term work/service/learning opportunities for students and faculty
- develops and advocates policies relevant to global health education
- develops and maintains collaborative partnerships with affinity organizations.
The GHEC Web site provides additional information about the event.
Ideas and Exchange of Best Practices to Improve Public Health and International Development
Hope Cohen-Webb, Center for Global Health fellow, will attend a weekend conference of Ideas and Exchange of Best Practices to Improve Public Health and International Development at Yale University, New Haven, Conn., April 12-13, 2008. She will join 2,000 attendees who are interested in public health, global health, international development, social entrepreneurship, nonprofits, philanthropy, microfinance, medicine, human rights, anthropology, education, health policy, advocacy, public service, environmental health, and eye care. This empowering, energizing conference brings together students, doctors, nurses, Peace Corps volunteers, public health, business and nonprofit professionals, anthropologists, policy makers, philanthropists, and educators.
The Unite for Sight Web site offers information about the conference.