Global Health Updates
"Life Before Death"
A film screening and panel discussion
Why do millions live and die in untreated pain each year? And what should the global health community do about it? You are invited to a screening of the award-winning documentary that visited patients in nine countries and interviewed experts like Lance Armstrong and Balfour Mount to explore how the disparity in access to one essential drug changes the "Life Before Death."
Date: Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Time: 4:30 - 6 p.m.
Location: Stokes Auditorium, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Afya Bora Consortium Fellowship update
The Afya Bora Consortium Fellowship in Global Health is currently accepting applications on a rolling basis for U.S. trainees. The Fellowship works to fill the identified gap in training for African and U.S. health professionals working in global health.
Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim is Obama nominee for World Bank
President Obama is nominating Jim Yong Kim, a physician who has been president of Dartmouth College for three years, to head the World Bank, the White House said. The nomination of Dr. Kim, who helped found Partners in Health and directed the World Health Organization’s department of HIV/AIDS, would recognize the importance of health issues in global development.
Crisis in the Horn of Africa
The most severe drought in over 60 years has resulted in a humanitarian crisis in the Eastern Horn of Africa. A combination of insufficient rainfall, water shortages, mass livestock deaths and a lack of humanitarian access to the affected population has left more than 13 million people in need of emergency assistance as they face the real risk of starvation. Many of the most vulnerable are children. In fact, an estimated 29,000 children under the age of 5 have died in the last three months, and countless more are suffering from acute malnutrition. The United Nations recently declared famine in five regions of southern Somalia, and warn that the situation will only continue to spread unless there is a massive increase in humanitarian aid.
The UN has certain requirements to declare a famine:
- More than 30 percent of children must be suffering from acute malnutrition.
- Two adults or four children must be dying of hunger each day for every group of 10,000 people
- The population must have access to far below 2,100 kilocalories of food per day.
More information:
- View a list of active NGOs in the Horn of Africa working to support the people affected by the drought and famine.
- Learn more about the situation in the Horn of Africa from these organizations:
Global Health featured in CHOP's Vaccine Education Center newsletter
"Childhood Vaccine Coverage in Botswana, Africa" is the featured article in the February 2012 issue of the Vaccine Education Center Parents PACK newsletter.
Global Health faculty member is new secretary of Lung Health Scientific Section
Dr. Andrew Steinhoff, a CHOP Global Health faculty member, has been elected as the new Secretary of the Lung Health Scientific Section by the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union).
Global Health featured in CHOP's “Children’s Doctor” newsletter
Global Health was recently featured in the Fall/Winter 2010 Children’s Doctor newsletter. You can see prior editions of the newsletter in our archive.
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