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  • Global Health Justice, Politics and Human Rights in the AIDS Pandemic – Getting to Zero

    2nd floor Auditorium, Children's National Health System 111 Michigan Ave NW, Washington, DC, United States

    Featured Speaker: Lawrence O. Gostin, University Professor, Founding O'Neill Chair in Global Health Law; Faculty Director, O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown Law; Director, World Health Organization Collaborating Center on Public Health Law & Human Rights; Co-Author of Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint; Author, Global Health Law Many individuals living with HIV/AIDS face […]

  • The ABC’s of Refugee Health

    2nd floor Auditorium, Children's National Health System 111 Michigan Ave NW, Washington, DC, United States

    Featured Speaker: Curi Kim, MD, MDH Director, Division of Refugee Health, Office of Refugee Settlement, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services By the end of 2017, 68.5 million people worldwide were displaced – 16.2 million of whom were displaced in 2017 itself. 25.4 million of the 68.5 million were refugees, […]

  • Global Disease Disparity: Re-examining What We Thought We Knew About Rheumatic Heart Disease

    2nd floor Auditorium, Children's National Health System 111 Michigan Ave NW, Washington, DC, United States

    Featured Speaker: Andrea Beaton, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, George Washington University Cardiology, CNHS  In the late 19th and early 20th century, acute rheumatic fever was considered “childhood’s greatest enemy” in the United States. Now, the disease is nearly eliminated in high-income settings. But, rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease remain prominent in many parts of […]

  • Film Screening – Bending the Arc

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    Children's National Hospital 111 Michigan Ave NW, Washington, DC, United States

    Dr. Paul Farmer, Dr. Jim Kim, Ophelia Dahl, Todd McCormack and Thomas White began a movement in the 1980s that changed global health forever. Bending the Arc tells their story.

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  • Child Health at the Border

    Dr. Nathalie Quion and Dr. Lanre Falusi, Attendings at the Immigrant Health Clinic in Adams Morgan, talks about her visit to the Border with the AAP (American Academy of Pediatrics) President, Colleen Kraft. View their conversation here. From Brave New Films: "Childhood trauma, like imprisonment and family separation, provokes long-lasting implications caused by high levels […]

  • Awardees Announced: Global Health Initiative Exploration in Global Health Awards 2019-2020 Academic Year (July ‘19-June ’20)

    Mentorship Awards Latino Youth and Families Need Assessment, Dr. Nathalie Quion, Adams Morgan Clinic, DC The Handheld Ultrasound Machine of the Future: Assessment of Automated Intelligence Training Tools to Enhance Task Shifting of Echocardiographic Screening for Rheumatic Heart Disease in Endemic Regions, Dr. Sonia Voleti, Micronesia The Impact of a Designated Resuscitation Team on Decreasing […]

  • Think Before You Blink: Using Mindful Reflection to Slow Down and Think Deeply

    2nd floor Auditorium, Children's National Health System 111 Michigan Ave NW, Washington, DC, United States

    Featured Speaker: Margaret M. Plack, PT, DPT, EdD, Professor, Doctor of Physical Therapy Program, Department of Health, Human Function and Rehabilitation Sciences, George Washington University In a busy day, medical professionals can rely on pattern recognition and heuristics to make quick decisions. While these techniques are often effective, they can be inherently biased.  In her […]

  • Less Talk More Action: Addressing Unconscious Bias Among Health Professionals

    2nd floor Auditorium, Children's National Health System 111 Michigan Ave NW, Washington, DC, United States

    Featured Speaker: Stephen B. Thomas, PhD, Professor, Health Services Administration; Director, Maryland Center for Health Equity; PI, NIH-NIMHD Center of Excellence on Race, Ethnicity & Health Disparities Research, School of Public Health University of Maryland There is a growing body of evidence demonstrating unconscious bias has infected healthcare professionals.  In his lecture, Stephen B. Thomas, PhD, asserts the medical […]

  • Saving Children’s Lives in Global Health: When Public Health Measures Are Not Enough

    2nd floor Auditorium, Children's National Health System 111 Michigan Ave NW, Washington, DC, United States

    Featured Speaker: Peter A. Meaney, MD MPH, Associate Professor, Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pediatrics at Perelman School of Medicine, The University of Pennsylvania, Director, Center for Global Pediatric Clinical Care Public health measures improve the wellbeing of communities. Vaccination campaigns and the promotion of family planning are two examples. However, sustainable health initiatives are sparse in low and […]

  • Duke University Conference on Decolonizing Global Health 2020

    Love Auditorium @ Levine Science Research Center 450 Research Drive, Durham, North Carolina, United States

    For anyone interested in global health, public health, or diversity training. Livestream the conference at the link below. As described by Duke: "Global health as we know it today – in our research, our practice, and our programming – is the newest configuration of what was once ‘tropical health’ and ‘colonial medicine’. Yet in most […]