11/11/09 - Editor of PLoS Medicine to speak at Hopkins Larry Peiperl, MD, the Senior Research Editor of the open access journal PLoS Meidicne, will speak as part of the Global Health Leaders Forum on Wed., Nov. 11 at the Wolfe St. building
5/4/09 - Three Hopkins faculty members awarded Gates grants Two Medicine faculty members and one Public Health faculty member received $100,000 Grand Challenges grants from the Gates Foundation to explore bold and largely unproven ways to improve health in developing countries.
4/22/09 - Alfred Sommer gives annual Dr. Leroy E. Burney Lecture Bloomberg School's Dean Emeritus Alfed Sommer offered a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the bulldog-like tenacity and powers of persuasion that he relied onto convince others of the mantle of legitimacy in the public health world.
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Members of the U.S. House and Senate on Thursday introduced the International Violence Against Women Act (IVAWA), a bill that "would make violence against women worldwide a priority of the United States government and an enhanced component of its foreign policy and foreign assistance programmes," International Press Service reports (Fromm, 2/4).
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On Thursday, a food distribution voucher campaign that launched last Sunday, "hit all 16 fixed distribution points around the capital" of Port-au-Prince, CNN reports. "So far, 600,000 people affected by the devastating January 12 earthquake have been able to collect food under this plan, said Marcus Prior, spokesman for the United Nations World Food Programme. 'We're encouraged by the way the system is working to get food out into the city to those in need, but still have a long way to go,' Prior said" (Basu, 2/5).
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UNICEF on Thursday launched a $1.2 billion appeal aimed at providing "life saving emergency assistance to millions of children and women in dire need," VOA News reports (Schlein, 2/4). "The appeal is part of UNICEF’s Humanitarian Action Report 2010, released in Geneva ... which spotlights the desperate situation of children and women in 28 countries and territories facing deep humanitarian crises," the U.N. News Centre writes (2/4).
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