Annual Belaku Trust Fundraiser

This holiday season, UPHA will be holding the annual Belaku Trust fundraiser. We will be selling handmade scarves, pens, notebooks, and more products from a women’s co-op in India in order to raise money to help fight for women’s independence and equal rights. These are great for holiday gifts and the money collected contributes to an important social cause!

We will be at the medical campus on Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 in the lobby of the Medical Instruction Building located at 72 E. Concord St. from 12-5 pm.

We will be at the GSU Link (George Sherman Union: 775 Commonwealth Avenue) on Wednesday and Thursday, December 9-10th, 2009 from 12-3pm.

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New Faces in Public Health

Boston University’s School of Public Health is hosting an event for Boston area high school students from Dorchester, Mattapan, other sections of Boston to introduce them to the field of public health. This event will be run concurrently with the poster session for the MPH students who have recently completed their practicum.

Here is the rough agenda for the day:
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

7:45–8:15 am: Continental Breakfast (Dental school, 3rd Fl, G302)
8:15–8:20: Welcome-Dean Meenan
8:20–8:40: This is Public Health-Harold Cox
8:40–9:00: Why Public Health?-Dr. Jonathon Woodson
9:00–9:50: H1N1 (clicker presentation/group activities)-PHAM Students
9:50–10:00: Agenda for the rest of the day-Alveta Haynes
10:15–11:30: Poster exhibition and Scavenger Hunt (School of Medicine, Hiebert Lounge 14th floor)
11:30–12:30 pm: Box lunch collection & Breakout sessions with BU students (MPH & Undergraduates)

We are looking for undergraduates with an interest in public health to join for the informal breakout sessions. There will be 4 breakout rooms, each with 25 high school students. We hope to have 2 MPH students, 2 BU undergrads, and one or two BU SPH faculty in each session. Specifically, we would like students to be prepared to talk about what led them to BU and their interest in public health. Students are welcome to come for the entire morning, but we are mainly interested in participation in the last session.

Please email Dr. Wayne LaMorte at wlamorte@bu.edu if you are interested in participating.

World Aids Week

World Aids Week at Boston University!
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009-Friday, December 4th, 2009

12/1: Panel Discussion on HIV/Aids at 7 p.m. in the GSU Conference Auditorium (2nd floor)
12/2: Art Exhibit Opening at 5 p.m. in the GSU Howard Thurman Center (basement)
AND Free HIV Testing from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. in the GSU Conference Room (3rd Floor)
12/3: Free HIV Testing from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. in the GSU Conference Room (3rd Floor)
12/4: Coffee and Conversation with Dean Elmore at 3 p.m. in the GSU Howard Thurman Center (basement)

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MAXIMUS Internship

Special information session on Friday, December 4th, 2009!
A presentation will be made by Richard Montoni, a BU Alum and CEO of Maximus. Mr. Montoni is offering at least one internship to qualified BU students for the summer.

Location: Boston University School of Managment (595 Commonwealth Ave.)
Feld Career Center Conference Room (Rm. 114)
Time: 12:00 pm (Lunch will be available)

*We request that you RSVP in order to attend the information session.
Please email Deborah Halliday at dlhallid@bu.edu if you plan on attending

About the internship:
MAXIMUS is an extremely dynamic and complex organization that offers government and industry a range of unique services, products, and solutions. Please join BU Alum Richard Montoni, CEO of MAXIMUS, for this presentation. He will talk about the MAXIMUS internship program.

The diverse services and products that MAXIMUS offers may be categorized into two groups: Government Operations and Government Consulting. Government Operations focuses on having a measurable impact on the lives of the citizens we help government serve. The insights of MAXIMUS Consulting and our technological innovations help government gain program efficiencies and pursue improvements that in turn benefit citizens.

MAXIMUS Internships are now listed on BU CareerLink, and open for your application. Please log on, read the descriptions, and apply. As a BU Alum, Mr. Montoni is very interested in seeing BU students take advantage of all that MAXIMUS has to offer.

Requirements:
Must be a US Citizen
Student status: undergraduate – either Class of 2011 or 2012.

Education Preferred: MAXIMUS seeks current undergraduate students of any major, but will but will give preference to the following:
• Accounting
• Economics
• Finance
• Marketing
• Public Policy

Technical Skills / Knowledge Required: Advanced level expertise in MS Excel applications

Personal/Soft Skills: Excellent organizational skills, exceptional interpersonal, written, verbal communications skills, demonstrated multi-tasking abilities, ability to work effectively within project teams and independently, ability to perform comfortably in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented work environment, and extensive leadership experience in either work or extracurricular activities.

Corporate Finance: Possible duties may include:
• Provide functional support to MAXIMUS external auditors.
• Test for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.
• Process day-to-day general ledger transactions to gain exposure to standard accounting principles.
• Provide support to segment finance teams for billing and contract information.

Corporate Marketing/Proposals: Possible duties may include:
• Perform research of best in class materials from MAXIMUS document repository in response to proposal requests from potential clients.
• Perform quality checks on facts, figures and data through interaction with consultants and managers.
• Write summaries on this data for use in current and future proposals.

Human Capital: Possible duties may include:
• Perform analysis functions such as compensation, benefits, new hire on-boarding, recruitment, employee retention and training.
• Contribute to annual budget planning cycle through forecasting and financial modeling.
• Contribute to the development of collateral marketing materials for recruitment purposes.

About Richard A. Montoni:
Chief Executive Officer, President and Director of MAXIMUS

Richard Montoni has served as Chief Executive Officer, President and board member since 2006. Mr. Montoni is responsible for the transformation of MAXIMUS into the leading pure-play provider in the administration of government health and human services. As CEO and President, Mr. Montoni is charged with driving the MAXIMUS mission of Helping Government Serve the People®, while leading the strategic vision of the Company. Prior to his appointment as CEO, Mr. Montoni spent four years as Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of MAXIMUS.

Mr. Montoni has served as Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President for CIBER, where he also served as a director. Before joining CIBER, he was an audit partner with KPMG, where he worked for nearly 20 years.

Mr. Montoni holds a B.S. in economics from Boston University and an M.A. in accounting from Northeastern University.

Fighting Viral Hepatitis and Liver Cancer

Contact your Representative

The Viral Hepatitis and Liver Cancer Prevention and Control Act of 2009 was introduced today by U.S. Representatives Mike Honda, (D-CA) and Charles Dent (R-PA) with original cosponsors Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Edolphus Towns (D-NY), Anh “Joseph” Cao (R-LA), David Wu (D-OR), Todd Platts (R-PA), Donna M. Christiansen (D-VI), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Bobby Rush (D-IL), George Butterfield (D-NC), and Judy Chu (D-CA). We need your Representative to join as cosponsor and show their support for addressing the viral hepatitis epidemic!

In order to pass this historic legislation, we need you to take a few minutes to make an important phone call or send an email! This bill affects people at risk for and chronically infected with hepatitis B and C by expanding education for patients and health care providers, increasing access to hepatitis testing and liver cancer screening, improving the capacity of health departments to detect outbreaks, and supporting viral hepatitis prevention and education programs across the U.S..

Make a Phone Call! Send an Email!

Call or email your U.S. House Representative’s office in Washington, DC. Ask to speak to the staff person who handles health care issues. You might get their voicemail or you might reach this person directly. Even if you reach voice mail, leave your message.

Sample call/email script:
“My name is ____________ , I live in (city, state), and I care about viral hepatitis. Hepatitis is a serious health problem in the U.S., in my District, and is a very important issue to me. I urge Representative _____________ to show leadership in the fight against hepatitis and liver cancer by cosponsoring Representative Honda and Dent’s Viral Hepatitis and Liver Cancer Control Act, H.R.3974. Thank you.”

If there is time, tell them why this issue is important to you. You will probably only have time for 2-3 sentences. Members of Congress and their staff pay attention to their constituents. They need to hear how viral hepatitis affects you, the people you care for, your friends, family, and co-workers. Our lawmakers are unaware of viral hepatitis and how it impacts people in their Districts so they really need to hear from you!

You can reach your Representative by calling the Capitol Switchboard at 1-202-224-3121 or email Representatives directly from http:/writerep.house.gov. If you don’t know who your Representative is, go to http://www.congress.org and enter your zip code in the upper right corner. If your representative is already a sponsor, thank him for his sponsorship and offer to provide your experience/expertise in this issue as needed. Use your social and professional networks to get more people like you to call their representatives!

Viral Hepatitis and Liver Cancer Control and Prevention Act of 2009( H.R.3974)

The Viral Hepatitis and Liver Cancer Control Act would amend the Public Health Service Act to establish, promote, and support a comprehensive prevention, research, and medical management referral program for chronic hepatitis B and chronic hepatitis C virus infection, to include the following:

-Education & Training
-Medical Referral
-Hepatitis B & C Disease Control
-Surveillance
-Immunization
-Research
-State Health Department Adult Viral Hepatitis Coordinators
-Integration with Existing Programs
-Expanded Access to Services for Underserved and Disproportionately Affected Populations

Hepatitis B Foundation
3805 Old Easton Road
Doylestown, PA 18902
215.489.4900
http://www.hepb.org

Social Justice in Health Care

Come join UPHA and AED on Monday, November 9th, 2009 at 6:00pm in GCB (750 Commonwealth Ave. in room 205) for a lively debate and discussion surrounding social justice in healthcare!

In the first session from 6-7 p.m. on domestic issues, the passionate and eloquent Dr. Leonard Glantz will provide some provoking thoughts, and expect you to think of scenarios and respond critically.

In the second session from 7-8 p.m. on international issues, Dr. Jerry Keusch will bring a wealth of experience to provide us with some tricky case studies. Student panelists will prepare both sides of the issues and expose us to some ethical dilemmas.

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Speaker: Priority-setting in the allocation of health resources: Are some more equal than others?

Dr. Daniel Wikler will be presenting “Priority-setting in the allocation of health resources: Are some more equal than others?”.  Dr. Wikler is a Mary B. Saltonstall Professor of Population Ethics and Professor of Ethics and Population Health at the Harvard School of Public Health.  This event will take place on On Monday, November 2nd, 2009 at 6pm in Photonics room 206.  Come and join us in this discussion on population and international health.  We hope to see you there!