Office of Global Health - University of Maryland School of Nursing

11/11/2021

Check out global health news and updates on the Center for Global Initiatives webpage.

COP26 - Direct linkages between climate change, health and migration must be tackled urgently - IOM, WHO, Lancet Migration WHO

11/10/2021

Join the mailing list of the Global Nursing Caucus where nurses are engaged to advance global health. www.globalnursingcaucus.org

11/10/2021

World Health Organization Climate Change for Health webinar. A discussion and debate around nursing and midwifery engagement and commitment to the global climate change agenda.

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11/04/2021

Join UMSON's Information Session to learn about the different certificate programs.

No one's ever truly done learning.

With a certificate from the University of Maryland School of Nursing, you'll get experience in emerging fields, allowing you to pursue exciting new opportunities within your organization and beyond. Join us for an online information session about our 6 certificates. Post-Bachelor's Certificates: Care Coordination, Environmental Health, Global Health & Substance Use and Addictions Nursing. Post-Master's Certificates: Nursing Informatics & Teaching in Nursing and Health Professions.

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10/07/2021

CUGH is hosting a virtual summit that is free and open to all. Read further form more information.

Virtual Summit
The Road to COP27: Climate Change and Health Through Three Lenses

October 15, 2021
11:00am-3:00pm EST

Countless reports have warned us of the existential threat climate change poses to all of us. The latest August IPCC Report showed that the last time atmospheric CO2 levels were this high was millions of years ago. Worldwide, we are seeing another year of lethal wildfires, water crises and extreme weather conditions.

The central challenge now is to mobilize political will across sectors and internationally to scale up known, effective solutions that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate against the effects of climate change. This symposium, The Road to COP27: Climate Change and Health Through Three Lenses, will include presentations from experts from around the world who will share high-impact solutions that will address climate change and improve health outcomes. Leaders from the African continent will share what should be in the COP27 meeting in Africa in 2022.

Attendees will be able to provide suggestions and ask questions. Solutions from this symposium will be shared publicly and with policymakers including at the COP26 meeting in Glasgow in an open-access document.

Agenda

11:00am Eastern Standard Time
Introduction
Speakers:
•Victor J. Dzau, President, National Academy of Medicine
•Introduced by: Maureen Lichtveld, Dean of the Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh

11:15am Eastern Standard Time
Session 1 – Pragmatic Policy Recommendations for COP26 Part 1: Energy, Transportation, Construction, Agriculture and Manufacturing
Speakers:
•Alexander Müller, Director, Think Tank Sustainability
•Joy St. John, Executive Director, Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA)
•Gary Minsavage, Sr. Environmental Health Advisor, Exxon Mobil Corporation, Corporate Strategic Planning
•Moderator: Maureen Lichtveld, Dean of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh

12:20pm Eastern Standard Time EST
Session 2 – Pragmatic Policy Recommendations for COP26 Part 2: Green Financing, Nature Based Solutions, Healthy Cities
Speakers:
•Susan Gardner, Director, Ecosystems Division, United Nations Environment Programme
•Charles Okeahalam, Chairman, Amref Health Africa
•Nnoli Edozien Ndidi, Chair, Circular Economy Innovation Partnership
•Moderator: Elizabeth Grant, Assistant Principal (Global Health) and Director of the Global Health Academy, University of Edinburgh

15-minute break

1:35pm Eastern Standard Time
Session 3 – Priorities for COP27
Speakers:
•Caradee Wright, Senior Specialist Scientist, South African Medical Research Council
•Laetitia Sieffert, Convention on Biological Diversity, UN Environment Programme
•Deoraj Caussy, Network of African Science Academies
•Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum, Head, Climate Change and Health Programme at World Health Organization
•Moderator: Keith Martin, Executive Director, Consortium of Universities for Global Health

2:40pm Eastern Standard Time
Concluding Remarks: Next Steps to Bridging the Policy-Implementation Gap
•Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme
•Introduced by : Philip Landrigan, Director, Global Public Health Program and Global Pollution Observatory, Boston College

Upcoming Webinar:
CUGH Webinar: Oral Health- Solutions to Address this Neglected Global Health Challenge

October 28, 2021
8:00am-9:00am EST

Oral health diseases affect over 3.5 Billion people globally. From dental caries to oral cancer, many of these diseases are preventable or treatable if found early in their progress. Despite this, coverage for oral health is usually not part of UHC and known public health measures are not implemented that can dramatically, and, cost-effectively address these health threats.

This panel of global leaders in oral health will share what can be done to reduce the enormous burden oral diseases are having on people around the world.

SPEAKERS

Dr. R. Bruce Donoff
Walter C. Guralnick Distinguished Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery & Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor

Dr. Irene Adyatmaka
Lecturer
Maranatha Christian University, Indonesia

Assistant Professor Arish Naresh
Chief Executive Officer
Omeo District Health, Victoria & President
International Oral Health Association

Professor Allen Ming-Lun Hsu
Dean of Dentistry
National Yang Ming University, Taiwan

MODERATOR
Dr. Keith Martin
Executive Director
Consortium of Universities for Global Health

Please email Jenna Smith at [email protected], CUGH Events and Membership Engagement Manager with any questions.

Description Countless reports have warned us of the existential threat climate change poses to all of us. The latest August IPCC Report showed that the...

07/13/2021

The USAID Health Research Program is hosting the first of a series of webinars meant to highlight program learnings.

"Bringing great minds together: Collaborative learning to improve MCH"

This webinar will focus on using collaborative learning approaches to accelerate better MCHN practices and policies with examples from the HEARD, CIRCLE, and Ponya Mtoto Projects.

Join the webinar by registering using the link below: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fWZboUyWRZWadcUbMGq2hQ

06/29/2021

Greetings One and All:

Come learn more about post-master's and post-bachelor's certificate programs offered at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. This Information Session for current and prospective students is scheduled for July 7, 2021, 12pm to 1pm (Eastern Standard Time).

You must be registered to attend. Please use the link below to register for this Information Session.

https://calendar.umaryland.edu/?category=School%20of%20Nursing&month=06&day=17&year=2021&view=fulltext&id=d.en.531340×tamp=1625673600&

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05/21/2021

Strengthening Human Rights to Respond to Pandemic Threats
Monday, May 24, 2021
12:00-1:00 EDT

Register at https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_w8QiZfjBSNKw_44RRGPgLw

This webinar addresses debates in the World Health Assembly on the human rights impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and human rights strengthening in global health governance. Human rights law is central to the COVID-19 response, with this webinar engaging with human rights frameworks to address pandemic threats. Arising out of the human rights analysis of the Independent Panel on Pandemic Preparedness & Response (IPPPR), this panel discussion will support those seeking to reform the World Health Organization (WHO) to strengthen global health and human rights.

The discussion will focus on the contemporary importance of human rights to global health governance, with presentations on the:
• human rights impacts of the COVID-19 response (Judith Bueno de Mesquita, University of Essex)
• harmonization of international human rights law and global health law (Timothy Fish, International Commission of Jurists);
• mainstreaming of human rights in WHO governance (Benjamin Mason Meier, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill); and
• practical implementation of human rights in revisions of global health law (Sharifah Sekalala, University of Warwick).
This webinar will provide an overview of human rights in global health, assess the human rights implications of COVID-19, and examine prospects in the World Health Assembly for strengthening global health law and governance to face future pandemic threats.

Register at: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_w8QiZfjBSNKw_44RRGPgLw.

Co-Sponsored by the:

University of Essex Human Rights Centre
International Commission of Jurists
Global Health Law Consortium

This webinar addresses debates in the World Health Assembly on the human rights impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and human rights strengthening in global health governance. Human rights law is central to the COVID-19 response, with this webinar engaging with human rights frameworks to address pandem...

05/20/2021

Accelerating Evidence to Use in Policy and Programs: Strengthening & Sustaining RMNCAH Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa

W E B I N A R S E R I E S
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Respectful Maternal Care (RMC):
Are we trending in the right direction?
A conversation about the landscape of RMC interventions
in Africa and approaches to routine monitoring and evaluation

Join the discussion that will explore evidence, experiences and perspectives on routine monitoring and evaluation for respectful maternal care in Africa.

May 25, 2021
4:00-5:30 pm EAT (Nairobi)
9:00-10:30 am EDT

High-quality maternal health care requires ensuring respect and dignity and the prevention of mistreatment. A focus on the experience of care is increasingly appreciated and recognized and approaches to advancing this area continue to emerge. However, less is known around how to routinely measure and evaluate respectful care efforts to foster accountability and to track progress.


This webinar is supported through USAID’s Health Evaluation and Applied Research Development (HEARD) Project and co-hosted by HEARD partners East, Central, and Southern Africa Health Community and the University of California San Francisco. HEARD is an implementation science partnership advancing evidence-to-use activities as part of USAID’s Health Research Program 2.0.

05/20/2021

CUGH Webinar:
Reforming the WHO: How We Can Strengthen the World's Leading Public Health Agency

May 25, 2021
12:00pm-1:00pm EST

To register, go to CUGH.org

SPEAKERS
Dr. Ala Alwan
Former Assistant Director-General and Regional Director
WHO, Former Minister of Health & the Environment, Iraq

Dr. Marie-Paule KIENY
Former Assistant Director-General, WHO: Health Systems and Innovation & Director of Research, INSERM, France

MODERATOR
Dr. Keith Martin
Executive Director
Consortium of Universities for Global Health

The WHO is the leading global public health agency. Its role is essential for our collective and individual health. In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic and the recently released Report of the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response, we have an opportunity to strengthen it, to make it a more effective, transparent and better funded organization. Learn about reforms that countries can support to achieve these goals and how they can be implemented from former senior WHO leaders.

04/21/2021

Join the Nurses for Global Health of Baltimore for a virtual brown bag discussion on nutrition in global health on Monday, May 3, 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Our guest speaker is Laura Itzkowitz, a Technical Advisor for Nutrition at the US Agency for International Development (USAID). Laura specializes in community health and behavior change and has spent more than a decade working on nutrition programming across three continents. Laura will provide an overview of global nutrition programming. She'll discuss the current state of the art, as well as future directions for the field.

Join via Zoom here.