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SCGH Sponsors Students to Attend UFWH Summit in Honduras 03/13/2012 - 2:58pm
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Applications Available for Summer 2012 Jamaica Course 02/03/2012 - 12:09pm
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2012 Case Competition 01/19/2012 - 10:49am Today's global health challenges require the engagement and commitment of people and organizations specializing in numerous fields and disciplines. The perspectives and recommendations from the worlds of business, medicine, public health, nursing, theology, law, the liberal arts, and science are essential to improving health and health care around the world. It is for this reason that UAB is calling for students from multiple disciplines to address a global health challenge in a team setting. |
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Change Agent: Alumna Connects Communities for the Common Good 12/13/2011 - 1:39pm SIFAT, a local partner of the Sparkman Center, is featured in the latest edition of UAB Magazine. Click here to read more about SIFAT and how the Sparkman Center supports their activities. Read more... |
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Internship Opportunity in India 09/12/2011 - 5:30pm The Centre for Public Health, School of Health System Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences in collaboration with TN Topiwala Medical College and Nair Hospital, Mumbai, welcomes applications for ‘Study India Programme on Urban Health in India’. With the increasing urbanisation, public health is an increasing area of interest. The clinical health cannot be separated from the complex sociocultural and economic context. The health care systems have become very dynamic to meet this challenging situation. The programme intends to have the following objectives: Read more... |
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SCGH Director accepts OARAC invitation 08/31/2011 - 1:25pm
The Sparkman Center is pleased to announce that the center's Director, Dr. Craig Wilson, has accepted an invitation to serve as a member of the NIH Offices of AIDS Research Advisory Council (OARAC) for the term beginning October 1, 2011 and ending September 30, 2015. Read more... |
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Consortium of Universities for Global Health Spotlight on Jennie Harris 08/29/2011 - 12:45pm Although Jennie Harris says she had an interest in global health as early as high school, it wasn’t until a few years after finishing her undergraduate studies that she decided she wanted to work in the field. In 2001, she spent several months on a community development project in Guyana. Read more here... Read more... |
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UAB Professor Emeritus, Frank Franklin, discusses the role of Plumpy'Sup in the ongoing famine in the Horn of Africa 07/29/2011 - 12:34pm Dr. Franklin weighs in on the nutritional aspects of food aid in a recent NPR article. Read more... |
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UAB Professor Taking Lead in Global Effort Against Drug-Resistant TB, HIV 07/05/2011 - 12:02pm In the African nation where the first extensively drug-resistant case of tuberculosis (XDR-TB) was found a few years ago, the doors soon will open on a new TB research facility. University of Alabama at Birmingham researcher Adrie Steyn, Ph.D., is the first scientist recruited to work at the facility. Read more... |
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SIFAT Scholarship Recipients Complete the Field Training Course 06/07/2011 - 3:58pm
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The Sparkman Center recently sponsored five students to attend the 7th Annual Universities Fighting World Hunger Summit (UFWH) in Honduras. UFWH started in 2004 as a partnership between the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and Auburn University.