Global Health The Global Health Working Group (GHWG) is part of the DHSA, to further its mission of collaboration across its member institutions. In our case, we work on global health issues, in the domains of education, research, practice, advocacy and scholarship. Initiatives Residency and Fellowship Training Research Service/Practice Opportunities Resources & Readings
2018 DHSA/JeffX Global Health Symposium The annual Global Health Symposium was held at Thomas Jefferson University in the Jefferson Alumni Hall and Hamilton Building on November 16, 2018 from 3:00-9:00p.m. (Address: 1025 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19107) Check out the July 2018 Volume 4| Issue 4 Global Health edition of the Delaware Journal of Public Health: DJPH Global Health July 2018
2018 National Public Health Week National Public Health 2018, Healthiest Nation 2030 – Changing Our Future Together Dr. Omar Khan, President & CEO, Delaware Health Science Alliance; Lolita Lopez, CEO, Westside Family Healthcare; Dr. Jack Geiger, co-Founder of the Community Health Center model. 2nd Photo: Rita Landgraf, Professor, Practice and Distinguished Health & Social Services, University of
Global Health: Resources & Readings “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.”—Martin Luther King To Hell with Good Intentions. Ivan Illich. http://www.volunteerbolivia.org/illich_reading.pdf Miranda JJ , Garcia P , Lescano A, Gotuzzo E, Garcia H , 2011. Global health training—one way street ? Am J Trop Med
Global Health: Service/Practice Opportunities “If you are going to work with the poor, at least work with the poor who can tell you to get lost” – overheard at the CUGH-GHEC meeting, Montreal, 2011. The Department of Family and Community Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University began a collaborative partnership with the Nationalities Services Center in 2007 to
Global Health Research “As resources will always be limited, these should be used in such a way as to equitably provide those health care forms which have been shown to be effective through appropriately designed assessments.” — Archie Cochrane Global Network Research in India: The Christiana Care Health Systems (CCHS) – Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College (JNMC) Collaboration In
Residency & Fellowship Training “This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining
2019 DHSA Shark Tank Tuesday, May 28, 20191:00 – 4:30 pmThe Audion, STAR Campus, University of Delaware Three research teams were chosen to have the chance to pitch their population health research proposal to a panel of DHSA representatives. The panel scored the proposals, and the highest scoring proposal received a check for $50,000 to
2020 JeffX Global Health Conference Join the Global Health Student Consortium for the second annual JEFFx Global Health Conference: Planetary Health! WHEN: January 24, 2020 from 3:00 – 8:30 pm WHERE: Hamilton Building, Thomas Jefferson University 1001 Locust St., Philadelphia, PA This year’s conference will center around the theme of planetary health, and will include
