SUNY Global Health Research Symposium
Friday, April 22, 9am-4pm
SUNY Global Center, 116 East 55th Street, New York, NY
This hybrid symposium meeting will provide a forum for SUNY campuses engaged in extramurally funded global health research to share their programs and explore opportunities for collaboration. In the morning, a selection of in-country investigators will share research updates; in the afternoon SUNY campus representatives will highlight their on-campus centers/institutes. This program is supported by the Office of the Senior Vice President for Research of Downstate Health Sciences University.
Registration site https://sunycpd.eventsair.com/suny-ghr-symp/suny-ghr-info
The UB Center for Integrated Global Biomedical Sciences (CIGBS) is the administrative coordinating center for the SUNY Global Health Institutes’s (GHI) co-director. The institute enables global health programs at the SUNY academic health centers and system-wide across the campuses. It also fosters collaboration with corporate, economic and international partners as innovative leaders in education, training and research initiatives.
GHI is increasing SUNY-wide access and participation by students, faculty and staff in global-health research and education. It also promotes cross-campus faculty initiatives.
The institute uses an integrated approach to increase its competitive advantage when seeking funding from state, federal and international agencies, and philanthropic organizations.
GHI is creating a consulting and services process for low income countries so they might access SUNY faculty / staff expertise in areas of clinical education and research program development.
The SUNY GHI co-directors are Jack DeHovitz, MD, MPH (Downstate Medical Center) and Gene D. Morse, PharmD (University at Buffalo).
The GHI includes: SUNY University at Albany, SUNY Binghamton University, SUNY University at Buffalo, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, SUNY Stony Brook University, SUNY Upstate Medical University, SUNY College of Optometry, and SUNY Polytechnic Institute.
Gene D. Morse, PharmD, FCCP, BCPS: Co-Director; SUNY Distinguished Professor, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences; University at Buffalo, SUNY; PI: Fogarty International Center.
Jack A. DeHovitz, MD, MPH: Co-Director SUNY Distinguished Service Professor, SUNY Downstate Medical Center; PI: Fogarty International Center, AIDS Training and Research Program with Eastern Europe/Central Asia.
The SUNY Global Health Institute is currently establishing an Advisory Board that will include members from regional and national agencies, international partners, business community members and students.
The SUNY Global Health Institute Implementation Task Force is composed of individuals from across the SUNY system who bring expertise and energy to the planning and implementation process.
Monthly SUNY GHI holds virtual grand rounds with distinguished speakers. Previous Grand Rounds include:
The SUNY Global Health Institute has numerous global partners that have established education and research programs with the SUNY academic health centers. One of the goals of the SUNY GHI is to build on existing partnerships and include countries in ongoing collaborations to build the scope of the partnerships. Countries that identify a need that has already been developed with another country will be able to forge new interactions that will accelerate program development to address global health challenges.
University at Buffalo | University at Albany | Downstate Medical Center | Upstate Medical University | Stony Brook University | College of Optometry |
Uganda | Ghana | Georgia | Ecuador | Madagascar | China |
Zambia | Colombia | Kazakhstan | Thailand | Argentina | India |
Nepal | Costa Rica | Russia | Kenya | Colombia |
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Kenya | Dominican Republic | Ukraine |
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China | Estonia |
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Bangladesh | India |
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India | Kazakhstan |
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Puerto Rico | Kuwait |
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Peru | Georgia |
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The SUNY Global Health Institute provides an outstanding infrastructure for grant applications, academic-corporate partnerships, philanthropic contributions and international economic development programs. The initiatives that are currently ongoing, as well as the planned expansion of partnerships, will create a national model for integrating regional global health programs with the rapidly evolving global community.
Academic-Business Partnerships: There has been an increasing trend to promote partnerships between academia and business as reflected in the Power of SUNY initiative. This model provides an excellent opportunity for academic programs to incorporate key components of business development into education and research programs while allowing business partners to access SUNY global health investigators and systemwide resources. In addition, SUNY incubators and innovation hot spots provide outstanding opportunities for global health investment and technology development.
The SUNY system of universities and colleges are geographically dispersed in a network that provides a prime opportunity for surrounding regions to partner with ongoing global health activities. Regional programs that offer economic opportunity to New York State are likely to be models that can facilitate technology transfer and workforce development in the countries that are SUNY GHI partners. The collaboration among New York State government leadership, regional economic councils and corporate leaders will provide an innovative component that makes the SUNY Global Health Institute a unique global partner with New York State roots.
SUNY faculty and staff have established numerous educational programs, within the SUNY campus system, and within international partner countries and academic institutions. The SUNY GHI provides an efficient infrastructure for finding these global health education opportunities for current students and faculty. Immediate goals for the SUNY GHI include:
Sharing existing resources
Build Capacity of Health Professionals: SUNY and International Partners
The SUNY GHI will provide a mechanism for virtual entry into the research resources of the SUNY campus system. Core facilities, research centers, NYSTAR Centers of Excellence, Technology Incubators and Innovation Hot Spots as well as capacity building and formalized research training programs are active across the SUNY system and will provide the foundation for the GHI to extend current partnerships and expand to include additional global partners.
New York State Centers of Excellence: The Centers of Excellence Program supports major upgrades of research facilities and other high technology and biotechnology capital projects, allowing colleges, universities and research institutions to secure research funding that will lead to new job creation. In total, these initiatives are expected to leverage new private sector and other contributions of more than $1 billion. More...http://esd.ny.gov/nystar/CentersofExcellence.asp
New York State Business Incubator and Innovation Hot Spot Program: The New York State Business Incubator and Innovation Hot Spot Program was enacted as part of the 2013-14 State Budget and provides significant financial support for business incubators in the state. ESD administers the Innovation Hot Spot and New York State Business Incubator program. Through a competitive process, ESD has designated ten Innovation Hot Spots and ten New York State Business Incubators and provides funding to expand services and assist a greater number of early stage companies. Successful applicants were chosen based on their suite of services recognized as “best practices” as defined by the National Business Incubator Association. More....http://esd.ny.gov/nystar/TechnologyIncubators.asp
New York State Innovation Hot Spots: The New York State Innovation Hot Spot Program establishes one regional hot spot for the support of entrepreneurial activity per economic development region in the state. The goals of each of the ten New York State Innovation Hot Spot is to coordinate regional activities, build regional and inter regional collaboration and offer a broad array of services based on best practices to help entrepreneurs and small businesses bring their ideas to market. In addition to these basic goals each Innovation Hot Spot also focusses on particular regional focuses that serves the regional strength or dominate industry in their region. Each one of the ten NYS Innovation Hot Spots also has the ability to also offer the Innovation Hot Spot Tax benefits to its partner companies that are in their formative stage of development to ensure that they have the needed resources to grow and create jobs. More....http://esd.ny.gov/nystar/TechnologyIncubators.asp
a. HIV/AIDS Clinical Pharmacology Research Program (Primary Mentor: Dr. Gene Morse)
b. Medication Management Research Network (Primary Mentor: Dr. Jeffrey Lombardo)
c. HIV/AIDS Translational Pharmacology Research Core (Primary Mentor: Dr. Qing Ma)
d. International Pharmacotherapy Education and Research Initiative (Primary Mentor: Dr. Chiedza Maponga) – uses education, research and technology transfer to promote sustainable access to essential drugs in developing countries. Collaborative efforts of CBLS and the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences working with investigators around the world.
1) Global Health Courses
Department: Political Science/Health POlicy, Management and Behavior
College/School: Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy/School of Public Health
Instructors: Kamiar Alaei and Arash Alaei
-Health and Human Rights: An Interdisciplinary Approach (3 credits) (TSPH272/TPOS272)- offered at Honor College
-Health and Human Rights: An Interdisciplinary Approach (HPM 486, 3 credits)
-Health and Human Rights: An Interdisciplinary Approach: HPM 586, RPOS 586, 3 credits)
*new* -Global Health Diplomacy and Human Rights: An Interdisciplinary Approach ( UNNI 350-10674)
2) World of Global medicine and Human Rights- Living learning Community- The World of Global Medicine and Human rights is a community for biology, pre-health and public health majors. It is especially great for students interested in health care professions (medicine, physician assistant, physical therapy, nursing). As a member of this living-learning community, incoming freshman live with and take some courses with other students who have similar interests.
Website: http://www.albany.edu/student_engagement/58929.php
3) Graduate Certificates
Global Health Certificate- The University at Albany School of Public Health offers a fifteen-credit Graduate Certificate in Global Health. The Certificate is designed to equip graduate students, doctors, and other public health professionals with an in-depth understanding of the complexities and realities of global health. Participants of the program will enhance their capacity to design, manage, support and evaluate global health interventions
Website: http://www.albany.edu/globalhealth/certificate.php
Advance Certificate in International Health and Human Rights- This certificate program is intended to meet the needs of students and professionals from the fields of health care, law, and public policy who want to gain practical knowledge in the field of international health and human rights. The primary objective of the program is to provide a framework for understanding health and human rights as a single-issue area and for advocating that health is a fundamental human right-regardless of age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, tradition, or social status
Website: http://www.albany.edu/rockefeller/academics_certificate_gihhr.shtml
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1) Global Health Courses - Winter 2016 (Through Office of Global Health Initiatives)
GEO 334: International Business Cultures- Introduces students to the interconnections among culture, social expectations, and international business. Covers cross-cultural communication and negotiation, cross-cultural management and alliance formation, and corporate social and environmental responsibility. The course is designed to challenge students to understand difference and to overcome stereotypes in thinking about the operation of business in different parts of the world.
GEO 403: The Globalization of Africa- This class is designed to examine the impact of globalization within the bounds of Sub-Saharan Africa. From colonization to free trade, Africa’s natural resources have been an attraction to outsiders. How has Sub-Saharan Africa been positively and negatively impacted by this history of globalization? How have trade patterns changed over the centuries? How is modern day globalization and foreign invest changing the culture and economy of these nations? Through the use of case studies, videos, interactive websites and lectures, we will begin to understand how globalization has impacted Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) differently than the rest of the world.
Study Abroad Tanzania: Community Development in Context- This winter session course is open to students from any U.S. institution with a focus on examining community development through four interrelated lenses: education, health, economics, and infrastructure. Through this unique 12-day experiential learning course, students will travel to a rural region of Northern Tanzania in Sub-Saharan Africa. Armed with pre-trip readings and guiding questions, students will engage in high-impact activities designed to foster critical reflection and transformative learning. Trip highlights will include visits to community development projects, clinics and schools; engagement with local villagers, community leaders, and educators; and a guided safari through the famed Serengeti Game Preserve. For more information, contact Mara Huber, mbhuber@buffalo.edu. Register now, only a few spots are left.
Global Health Courses through Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomed
FMD 89:-A Cross-Cultural Medicine, 4 credits- This elective will allow senior medical students to work under supervision in selected clinical sites in developing countries.
Global Health Scholar Residency Track- Refine your core primary care skills and enhance your cultural competency caring for underserved patients in developing countries — as well as right here in Buffalo.
2) Global Health Trips- Students across the first three years of medical school may participate in our supervised, weeklong global health trips.
Haiti- We live in — and work out of — a high school in Fontaine, a rural village in northeastern Haiti. We partner with Friends of Fontaine, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting community-based development in this region.During our stay, we convert classrooms into clinic space and provide basic primary care. This includes health education, prenatal care, mental health counseling, minor surgery and other procedures. Haitian translators help us communicate with our patients.Before traveling to Haiti, our students organize fundraisers to defray the cost of the medicine and medical supplies we bring.This trip takes place during both winter and spring breaks.In the winter, it’s designated for second- and third-year students; in the spring, for first- and second-year students.
Panama- We travel by boat to several rural coastal communities, providing primary care to patients in makeshift clinics we establish at each site. We partner with Floating Doctors, a volunteer organization that offers health care services and medical supplies to isolated regions.This trip takes place during spring break. It’s designated for first- and second-year students.As we don’t travel with translators, you’re expected to speak Spanish with your patients.
Peru- During this trip, we provide medical care to residents of Yantalo, a small community in the Peruvian Amazon jungle.We work in a new clinic built by our partner, the Yantalo Foundation, a U.S. organization that helps meet Yantalo’s health and education needs. Before traveling to Peru, our students organize fundraisers to defray the cost of the medicine and medical supplies we bring.This trip takes place during spring break. It’s designated for first- and second-year students.We prefer that students speak at least basic Spanish, but it’s not required.
3) International Volunteer Opportunities (Through Global Health Initiatives Office)
Unite For Site Global Impact Corps- Join Unite For Sight’s Global Impact Corps for a hands-on, immersive global health experience. A transformative volunteer abroad experience for students and professionals, Unite For Sight is renowned as the highest quality global health immersion and volunteer abroad program worldwide. Unite For Sight prides itself on offering the best global health experience for its volunteers, coupled with the highest quality healthcare delivery programs with its partners.
Web-Based Statistics Mentoring- Would you like to mentor a PhD or master's statistics student in a developing country remotely over the Internet? Join at statmentoring.nr.no. The program, sponsored by the International Statistical Institute and Bernoulli Society aims to build statistical capacity in developing regions of the world. Statisticians play key roles in data collection, analysis and decision making in a number of fields around the world but often the resources and infrastructure are limited in developing communities. Members use the Internet to create individual mentor relationships in communities throughout Africa and Asia. The mentoring program is based in Oslo, Norway, and managed by Magne Aldrin and ArnoldoFrigessi.Contact statmentoring@nr.no for details
4) Study Abroad Programs (Through Global Health Initiatives Office)
University at Buffalo: Health in Brazil- University at Buffalo's Department of Rehabilitation Science offers an intensive 3-credit elective summer course, Health in Brazil. The course focuses on comparisons between health services in the United States and Brazil and partners with faculty and students from the UniversidadePresidente Antonio Carlos (UNIPAC).
University at Buffalo: Dental Medicine Outreach- BOCA (Buffalo Outreach and Community Assistance) organizes several outreach programs in the United States and various international locations every year, typically for a one week duration during Spring Break of Summer. These programs offer our dental students and our faculty members the opportunity to provide donated dental care to underserved communities, and gain valuable experiences while helping others.
University at Buffalo: Belize Service Learning- The University at Buffalo School of Nursing is offering a Service-Learning Trip to Belize during the winter session. This experience serves as an interactive course that prepares students to care for the global population. Students will travel to Belize and perform nursing care under the instruction of the nursing faculty. Students will provide care in both the village and hospital settings. The University at Buffalo is partnering with International Service Leaning (ISL) to provide the itinerary for the Belize experience. Students will begin the program with orientation sessions that include an overview of the history, culture, and health care system of Belize. Online modules will be completed during the first week of the January intercession. One face to face seminar will take place at the University at Buffalo during this week to prepare students to care for the patients in Belize. Students will present a final project about their experience upon return to the United States during the third week of the intercession.
University at Buffalo: Sustainable Futures, Costa Rica- Sustainable Futures is a ten-week course open to graduate students in architecture, landscape architecture and planning programs, and also by arrangement to students entering their fourth or fifth year of related programs. The program offers 12-13 credits through the University at Buffalo’s fully accredited graduate programs in planning and architecture or through our program partners. The credits are transferable to other universities.
State University of New York at Geneseo: Global Health in Ghana- Interested in understanding public health and significant biological issues important in global health through planned cultural and ecological excursions in a low-income country? The SUNY Geneseo global health course in Accra and Kumasi, Ghana, is a faculty-led, four-week summer program. Students partner and share classes with students from the participating university, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
University of Washington: Global Health in Cambodia- The course focuses on health and human rights of children, particularly those with disabilities. The course explores Cambodia’s health system and studies children’s rights from legal and health services perspectives.
Information coming soon.
Program Director: Jack A. DeHovitz, MD, MPH
Program Coordinators: Konstantin Tchergueiko: konstantin.tchergueiko@downstate.edu , David Odegaard: david.odegaard@downstate.edu
The Division supports sustainable development of emergency medical systems worldwide through education-based projects. Projects have included emergency medicine curriculum development for residency programs, faculty development in emergency medicine, training in emergency ultrasound, disaster preparedness and management, pediatric emergency medicine courses, and educational exchange for faculty, resident physicians, and medical students.Partner countries: Haiti, Brazil, India, Turkey, Sweden, South Africa, El Salvador
Program Director: Christina Bloem, MD MPH: christina.bloem@downstate.edu
Fellowship Director: Christina Bloem, MD MPH: christina.bloem@downstate.edu
Course Directors: Christina Bloem, MD MPH and Jack DeHovitz, MD MPH
Course Director: Jack DeHovitz, MD, MPH
P: (718)-270-1069
Contact: Michael Montuori: Michael.montuori@downstate.edu
Enrollment Information:
Available to MS1-MS4, Nursing, CHRP
Course Length: 10 weeks (October-January)
Course meets from 5-6:30pm
Min enrollment 5 students
Host Institute – international medical students who wish to do an elective through the GHLO program at SUNY Downstate.
Contact: OFFICE OF STUDENT AFFAIRS
450 Clarkson Avenue, Box 85
BSB 1-114
Brooklyn, NY 11203-2098
Phone: (718) 270-2187
Fax: (718) 270-7592
Email: studentaffairs@downstate.edu
Home School - Only senior year medical students in good academic standing are eligible to apply for a GHLO elective to learn at a medical school in another country.
Contact: Ms. Sandra Mingo in the Office of the Registrar by email (Sandra.Mingo@downstate.edu)
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