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Your monthly source of Rutgers global health news, events, and resources
NOVEMBER 2019
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Botswana Team Awarded $25k Grant to Study Advanced Breast Cancer
Rutgers Global Health Institute’s Botswana team is among 11 cancer organizations to receive a $25,000 grant from the Union for International Cancer Control's 2019 SPARC MBC Challenge. The selected project aims to improve timely access to care for women with advanced stage breast cancer in Botswana. Breast cancer is one of the leading causes of death for women in Botswana, mostly due to significant delays in referral, diagnosis, and treatment initiation.
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When Math Meets Medicine
Meet Benedetto Piccoli, a core faculty member of Rutgers Global Health Institute who applies advanced mathematical methods to help solve global health problems. Piccoli is currently collaborating with the Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute, a nonprofit biotech organization under the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to improve tuberculosis treatment regimens.
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Air Pollution and TB: Exploring the Connections
Worldwide, tuberculosis is the leading cause of death from a single infectious agent.
The heaviest burden falls on people living in urban slums. Stephan Schwander, a core faculty member at Rutgers Global Health Institute, is investigating the role urban outdoor air pollution might play.
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Recommended Reads
Advanced nursing education is desperately needed to build cancer care capacity in Botswana, said Norman Carl Swart, a lecturer at the University of Botswana School of Nursing, during a recent visit to Rutgers School of Nursing. A new advanced practice nursing master’s program in oncology and palliative care, currently being developed at the University of Botswana, will provide many opportunities for collaboration with Rutgers.
Three Rutgers students have committed to providing primary care in underserved communities, earning them full scholarships from the National Health Service Corps. Rutgers Today reports that Lisangi Fernandez, Alec Weiss, and Katie Wenzel, all students in the Rutgers School of Health Professions physician assistant program, received the scholarships in return for working in areas with little no access to primary care for a minimum of two years after they graduate in 2021.
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Global Health Events
December 3, New Brunswick
Optimizing Breast Cancer Therapy Delivery in LMICs: The Botswana Experience
The Health Equity in Africa Series, sponsored by Rutgers Global Health Institute, presents a lunchtime lecture and discussion with Yehoda Martei, assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Martei will discuss the management of breast cancer in resource-limited settings and her research to increase sustained availability of cancer medicines in Botswana.
December 4, New Brunswick
RWJMS Annual Global Health Fair
The Office of Global Health at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, in collaboration with Rutgers Global, presents its Annual Global Health Fair. This year's event features keynote speaker Joanna Regulska, vice provost and associate chancellor of Global Affairs at the University of California, Davis.
December 4, New Brunswick
Rutgers Red Cross Panel Discussion on Global Health
Rutgers Red Cross, in coordination with the student chapter of the Foundation for International Relief of Children, hosts a panel discussion on the professional, educational, and experiential learning avenues available at Rutgers for students interested in global health.
December 5, New Brunswick
World AIDS Day/Day Without Art Signature Program
Rutgers Global and university partners present a screening and discussion of 5B, a 2019 Cannes Film Festival selection. The film is the inspirational story of everyday heroes who took extraordinary action to comfort, protect, and care for the patients of the first HIV/AIDS ward unit established in the United States.
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