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. 

Funding for International Health Projects

Come join us for our first event in our module on Funding for International Health Projects:

A Discussion with Karen Schmidt, Deputy Director of the Access Project and Millennium Village Rwanda.

Wednesday, March 11

1pm-1:45pm

Hammer Health Sciences Building, Room 305

Lunch will be provided!

Click here for more information on the Access Project

Call & Response Screening, with Matisyahu

FREE Call+Response Screening and Live Concert with Matisyahu

A Rockumentary About the World's 27 Million Dirtiest Secrets

Thursday, February 26 @ 7:00 pm

Miller Theater - Columbia University (doors open at 6:30pm)

• Matisyahu (Award Winning Recording Artist)
• Justin Dillon

Join us as we continue the conversation on morality, by looking at the modern human trafficking industry.  We'll explore the value and the nature of human beings through music, photography and film.

CALL+RESPONSE (www.callandresponse.com) is a first of its kind feature documentary film that reveals that there are more slaves today than ever before in human history. CALL+RESPONSE goes deep undercover where slavery is thriving from the child brothels of Cambodia to the slave brick kilns of rural India to reveal that in 2007, Slave Traders made more money than Google, Nike and Starbucks combined.  This is a particularly important conversation for Columbia since thousands of slaves are trafficked through New York. Justin Dillon, creator and director of the film, will be there to talk about the modern day slave trade. The photography project Sex and Money: a Global Search for Human Worth, will also be featured.

Award winning recording artist Matisyahu will kick-off and close the evening with a live concert.

Free tickets will be available at the Lerner Hall Box Office (non-CU ID tickets are limited)

http://veritas.org/columbia/schedule

Humanitarian Crises of 2008

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has just released a list of the 

Top Ten Humanitarian Crises of 2008

Please take a few minutes to click on the link and learn about the biggest crises going on in the world today.