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Global
Health Sciences News Archives
Global Health Sciences: The Russian Mortality Crisis Dr. Marya Levintova presented a seminar about the mortality crisis in Russia today. Stress, reforms, a poor healthcare system and addictions have caused a dramatic decline in the life expectancy of both men and women, particularly in men. She described, "Most of the losses are among working-age adults, especially males." Socioeconomic and economic problems have helped cause non-communicable diseases and injuries, which can be attributed to this decline. More information about this seminar can be found in the seminar archive section of the web site.
Global Health Sciences: Where Is It Heading? "UCSF Global Health Sciences is forging new partnerships in the Bay Area and abroad, reflecting a growing sense of idealism," says Haile Debas, executive director of Global Health Sciences at UCSF. In partnership with institutions around the world, Global Health Sciences focuses on the health, biological, social and policy sciences to address diseases and problems that threaten current and future generations. Global Health Sciences was created by Chancellor Mike Bishop to coordinate UCSF’s work to improve the care of vulnerable populations at home and throughout the world. View the full article on the Global Health Partnership seminar series.
"UC's Presence Is Felt" In the annual UCSF Financial Report for 2004-2005, the Global Health Sciences was highlighted as "leading the way among U.S. academic medical centers in developing international collaborations in research and training to address public health issues affecting developing nations." The Global Health Sciences division was established in 2003 to forge new relationships for training and research as well as focus attention towards infectious diseases, poverty and chronic illness. GHS continues its dedication to improve health in the most vulnerable countries around the world. The full GHS spotlight can be found on pages 10-11 in the Annual UC Report 2004-2005.
UC-Bay Area Scientists Across Disciplines Come Together on Global Health On October 10th 2005, approximately 45 University of California researchers met at one of UCSF's new locations, 50 Beale Street, in downtown San Francisco for the first Global Health Sciences Research Day, convened by Nancy Padian Ph.D. Participants were drawn from both UC San Francisco and UC Berkeley, prompting Padian to coin the term "UC-Bay Area." GHS Fall Research Day provided an informal and social opportunity for global health researches from different disciplines to inform others about their work and to learn about what their colleagues are doing in their respective fields. Twenty-five investigators presented their work. Nancy Padian explained, "Academic research has become extremely segmented and compartmentalized. Collaboration across disciplines is vital, especially in global health." The cross-cutting themes comprising these presentations will be expanded and augmented in future Research Days. A direct outcome of the research day was funding to establish UC-Bay Area (UCSF/UCB) Innovations in Global Health, a pilot research award program. Letters of Intent are due January 16, 2006. Supported by the Maurice Galante Distinguished Professorship and by the AIDS Research Institute, at least one project will be surgery related and one AIDS related. To read more about this new program, go to the Global Health Innovations section.
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Health Initiative The Executive Director of Global Health Sciences, Dr. Haile Debas, discusses the various programs and initiatives at GHS in the Fall 2005 issue of Visions, (page 18) a publication by the UCSF Department of Ophthalmology.
Scientist
to CEO Speaker Series GHS Executive Director Dr. Haile Debas, will introduce MacArthur Fellow and leading social Entrepreneur, David Green, at the next Scientist to CEO speaker series Nov. 1, 2005 presented by the UCSF Center for BioEntrepreneurship. Green is also the founder and executive director of Project Impact.
Global Health Sciences
Begins Initial Phase of Scholar Program There is increasing interest in developing programs to train students in Global Health Sciences. UCSF's response to this need is to establish a graduate program in Global Health Sciences. The program is in the beginning phases this fall. An area of concentration in Global Health Sciences has been offered to two scholars: Rafaela Ferreira in Chemistry and Chemical Biology, and Bethann Hromatka in BioMedical Science.
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Postdoctoral Fellow Receives Fulbright Scholar Award A Fulbright Scholar grant to conduct research in Russia has been awarded to Marya Levintova, Ph.D. a specialist at the Institute for Global Health. Dr. Levintova has been involved in a number of projects in the former Soviet Union together with Dr. Thomas Novotny, Director of International Programs, UCSF, and Coordinator for Education, Global Health Sciences. Full article.
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Birth of an Empowerment of Women in Ethiopia
Panel
Suggests a 'Peace Corps' to Fight AIDS
Global Health Sciences in
the News Prominent global health experts celebrated the official launch of the new UCSF initiative committed to international health issues-- Global Health Sciences--at a symposium February 11. For more information on the event and the speakers see related links below:
Global
Health Sciences Kicks off Seminar Series in February
Hanoi
Summit on Pharmacists and AIDS
Overcoming
Barriers to Care
Four
UCSF Faculty Receive Top Honors in Academic Medicine
UCSF
Receives $21 Million NIH Contract for Sexually Transmitted Infection Research
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