UPDATE: Malaria bed nets!

WORLD MALARIA DAY

I'm proud to announce that we beat our record of $160 from last year.

Today, we raised $500 to donate to NothingButNets!

This will provide 50 bed nets, each of which can protect a family of four and will last up to 4 years.  And because they're treated to kill the malaria-spreading mosquitoes, they will help protect not only individuals, but entire communities!

Thanks to all who donated!

If you didn't have a chance to donate and would like to, click on NothingButNets and make your donation by credit card or check.

WORLD MALARIA DAY

Please join PHR for a breakfast to learn about the international health burden of malaria and help provide a life-saving bed net for only $10.

This Friday, April 24th from 8:15-9am, PH 17-201.

Suggested donation: $10 (all proceeds go to NothingButNets)

Last year we collected $160...help us beat that record this year!!

Each year, malaria afflicts approximately half a BILLION people.

Malaria kills more than a million people per year; 90% of those who die are African children.

Every 30 seconds in Africa, a child dies of malaria.

Malaria illness and death cost Africa about $12 billion per year -- this disease is keeping countries poor.

For only $10, we can purchase a bed net, deliver it to a family, and explain its use.  These nets are large enough to fit a family of four and last for up to four years.

The Future of Global Health, with Dr. Sonia Sachs

The final event of this year's Forum on Global Health and Human Rights will be held this Monday, April 27,2009 at the WinterGarden Lobby of the Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York at 6pm.  We are lucky to have Dr. Sonia Sachs of the Millennium Villages Project at the Earth Institute at Columbia Universisty as our speaker!  This promises to be an exciting event and we hope you can make it!

Bangladesh and Arsenic in Drinking Water

The Forum on Global Health & Human Rights presents its next event for the topic of Water as a Human Right vs. Water as a Commodity.

Join us to for the talk "Poison in the Well: Exposure, Effects, and Remediation of Arsenic in Bangladesh" by Dr. Joseph Granziano , Professor of Environmental Health Sciences and Pharmacology at the Mailman School of Public Health. 

When: Thursday, April 9
Where: Hammer 404
Time: 6:30 pm

Dinner will be provided!!

Click here to read more about Dr. Graziano's research

Joseph H. Graziano, Ph.D. 
Professor of Environmental Health Sciences and Pharmacology
Associate Dean for Research
The Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University
Director, The Columbia University Superfund Basic Research Program 

Dr. Graziano has been a faculty member at the College of Physicians & Surgeons of Columbia University since 1979, and was Chairman of the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health from 1991-2002, when he became Associate Dean for Research.  He was the founding director of Columbia University's NIEHS Center for Environmental Health in Northern Manhattan.  He is widely known as an expert on childhood lead poisoning, and his laboratory developed the drug (Succimer) that is now widely used to treat this condition. In 2000, Dr. Graziano became the founding director of the Columbia University Superfund Basic Research Program (SBRP), entitled Health Effects and Geochemistry of Arsenic and Lead. The Columbia SBRP involves faculty from four schools of Columbia University, and includes geochemistry, hydrology and remediation research at four U.S. Superfund sites, as well as studies of arsenic metabolism and toxicity in families exposed to naturally occurring high concentrations of arsenic in drinking water in Bangladesh.  His most recent research has discovered that both arsenic and manganese exposures are associated with cognitive deficits in children. He is currently a member of the NIEHS Council, and a member of the NIH Council of Councils.

The Right to Access to Clean Water

Thanks to those of you who made it out to our screening of FLOW, a documentary about the world water crisis and the concurrent privatization of the world's fresh water supply.

You can learn more about the information in this documentary by clicking here

Sign this petition to add a 31st article to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, establishing access to clean water as a fundamental right.

And watch the video below for more information about this UDHR article.

Ghana Health and Education Initiative

APPLY FOR A SUMMER SERVE & LEARN POSITION WITH THE GHANA HEALTH AND EDUCATION INITIATIVE (GHEI)! 

GHEI is offering five positions in the following three Summer Serve & Learn project sessions:
Session I: Girls' Empowerment, July 1 - July 18
Session II: Prevention of Childhood Diseases through Handwashing, July 19 - August 5
Session III: Treatment and Prevention of Child Worms, August 6 - August 23

To learn more about each project and our organization, please visit our website, http://www.ghei.org

Applications can be downloaded from our website ( http://www.ghei.org), under the "Short-term Opportunity" link on the "Volunteer" page.  Please send all applications to:  volunteer@ghei.org under the subject line:

"SSL09 APP, (your name)"

***The application process is on a rolling basis, so please apply early as spots fill quickly!!!*** 

Thank you for your interest in GHEI
Please direct all questions to Brittany at volunteer@ghei.org

Screening of Road to Ingwavuma with Filmmaker!

The 2nd Annual Forum on Global Health and Human Rights** presents:

Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, Barbara Rick, and executive director of Artists for a New South Africa, Sharon Gelman, host a viewing of their documentary, "Road to Ingwavuma, "  a chronicle of  the mission of artists such as Samuel L. Jackson and Carlos Santana as they travel to see the extreme poverty and progress in South Africa in  the face of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Where:  Hammer 301
When:  Wednesday, March 18th at 7 PM

Food will be provided!

Click HERE for more information on Road to Ingwavuma


**The Forum on Global Health & Human Rights is organized by the International Health Organization and Physicians for Human Rights, with the support of the Clincal Practice Program, AMSA, Lamda Alliance, and the Family Medicine Interest Group.