Seminar Series in Global Health 2007 - 2008

 

 

The Sparkman Center organizes a monthly seminar series entitled the Sparkman Center Seminar Series in Global Health to provide a forum for UAB faculty, staff, and students to present/discuss their global health research, training, educational, and/or service efforts. The Seminar Series uses the existing global health expertise and interest at UAB, as well as experiences of invited guests from external institutions and agencies. The seminar series will be of interest to the faculty, staff, and students, as well as general public with interest in global health issues and is open to everyone.

Listed below are the archives of previous seminars for this season. Streaming web video/powerpoint presentations are available for each seminar; you will need Realplayer to view these web videos. [Get FREE Realplayer]

 

 

August 21, 2008[see pdf flyer][slides][watch video][pictures][contact]

 

Promoting oral health education in Alabama youth
Natasha Varma& Sonia Nkashama 
UAB School of Dentistry Graduate Students

June 5, 2008[see pdf flyer][slides][watch video][pictures][contact]

 

Quality Improvement in Health
Karina Halilova, MD, MPH 
Program Manager, USAID/ZdravPlus Project in Uzbekistan

May 1, 2008[see pdf flyer][slides][watch video][pictures][contact]

 

HealthCare: Is It Your Right?
Panel Discussion 
Thomas Huddle, Michael Kimerling, Stefan Kertesz, Max Michael, Michael Neimkin, Gregory Pence, Cleon Rogers

April 18, 2008[see pdf flyer][slides][watch video][pictures][contact]

 

Comprehensive Rural Health Project (CRHP) Jamkhed, India
Connie Gates, MPH 
US Representative, CRHP Director, Jamkhed International-North America

April 17, 2008[see pdf flyer][slides][watch video][pictures][contact]

 

Consulting About Nursing and Health Care in Bosnia and Moscow: Lessons From the Field
Ros Lowe, BA, RGN, RHV, Dip.Soc.Res.& Peter Farmer 
sponsored by School of Nursing Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization Collaborating Center and the Sparkman Center for Global Health

April 9, 2009[see pdf flyer][slides][watch video][pictures][contact]

 

A hole at the waterline of rotavirus gastroenteritis? The unfolding story of the rotavirus vaccination program and its epidemiological implications
Daniel C. Payne, PhD, MSPH 
Epidemiologist and Project Officer of the New Vaccine Surveillance Network Division of Viral Diseases National Center for Immunization & Respiratory Diseases Centers for Disease Control & Prevention Atlanta, GA

March 31, 2008[see pdf flyer][slides][watch video][pictures][contact]

 

Indoor air pollution from solid fuels and risk of hypopharyngeal/laryngeal and lung cancers: a multicentric case–control study from India
Amir Sapkota, PhD 
Assistant Professor at the Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health University of Maryland at College Park

March 19, 2008[see pdf flyer][slides][watch video][pictures][contact]

 

Pan American Health Organization & Global Health Initiative
Irene Tami, MS, DMD 
President, Global Health Initiative SOPH Teaching Assistant Dept. of Epi & IH

February 13, 2008[see pdf flyer][slides][watch video][pictures][contact]

 

Separate Topics
Melissa Nelson, MPH& Roshan Patel, B.A. B.S. 
Dual Speakers

January 17, 2008[see pdf flyer][slides][watch video][pictures][contact]

 

Motor Development of Orphans in Oaxaca
Lisa Ferguson 
Doctor of Physical Therapy student School of Health Professions

November 8, 2007[see pdf flyer][slides][watch video][pictures][contact]

 

HIV and AIDS Surveillance in Pakistan
Arshad Altaf MBBS, MPH 
Senior Provincial Surveillance Support Officer of Canada-Pakistan HIV/AIDS Surveillance Project (HASP), Sindh AIDS Control Programme, Karachi, Pakistan

November 2, 2007[see pdf flyer][slides][watch video][pictures][contact]

 

The Emergency Maternity and Obstetric Care (EmOC) Prog ram in India
Ajey Bhardwaj 
Director NGO - AVNI Health Foundation

September 24, 2007[see pdf flyer][slides][watch video][pictures][contact]

 

Priorities and Progress of Tropical Medicine in Underdevelo ped Countries
Sten H. Vermund, MD, PhD 
Amos Christie Chair in Global Health, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

December 1, 2006[see pdf flyer][slides][watch video][pictures][contact]

 

Greetings UAB SOPH – come learn more about Peace Corps!
Peace Corps 
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