Event: Life as a Public Health Student
Date: February 3, 2010
Time: 6:30PM-8PM
Location: The Multicultural Student Services Center (MSSC) at GW
2127 G St., NW Washington, DC 20052
Come out and help BPHSN educate undergraduates about the joys of studying and working in the field of public health and of being a graduate student.
Contact: If you have any questions, comments, concerns, please contact Jennifer Barone at jenn.barone@gmail.com
Event: Global Volunteering Fair
Date: February 4, 2010
Time: 6PM-9PM
Location: Google’s Washington office
1101 New York Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20005
The fair will give you the opportunity to meet one-on-one with representatives of organizations that coordinate volunteer projects around the world, including:
- Atlas Service Corps
- Catholic Network of Volunteer Service
- CDC Development Solutions
At the fair you can also attend workshops on topics like the basics of volunteering abroad, strategies for making international volunteering affordable, and using Google tools to research, document, and share your experiences abroad.
Contact: For a complete listing of organizations that will be present and to register please visit: http://www.idealist.org/globalvolunteering
Any questions? Contact Erin Barnhart at erin@idealist.org
Volunteer Request
Event: Minority Health Conference Planning Committee Meeting
Date: February 5, 2010
Time: 6:30PM-8PM
Location: The Multicultural Student Services Center (MSSC) at GW
2127 G St., NW Washington, DC 20052
On February 26, 2010 BPHSN will be hosting our first Minority Health Conference, which will be a satellite conference to the 31st Annual Minority Health Conference host by the Minority Student Caucus at The University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health.
Hosting a conference is a large undertaking and we would like your help. If you are interested in volunteering for the conference, our next conference meeting of the semester will be on Friday, February 5, 2010 at 6:30PM. The meeting will be at The Multicultural Student Services Center in room 304 located on 2127 G St NW Washington, DC 20052.
Please RSVP as soon as possible for this meeting by contacting Katrina Byrd at kbyrd4@gwmail.gwu.edu
Furthermore, Ms. Byrd asks that you contact her even if you are interested in helping with the conference but are unable to make the interest meeting.
Event: Minority Health Conference
Date: February 26, 2010
Time: 10:30AM-4PM
Location: Media and Public Affairs Building Room 310
805 21st NW Washington, DC 20052
On February 26, 2010 we will host our first Minority Health Conference, which will be a satellite conference to the 31st Annual Minority Health Conference hosted by the Minority Student Caucus at The University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health.
Contact: If you have any questions, comments, concerns, or would like to volunteer for the event please contact Katrina Byrd at kbyrd@gwmail.gwu.edu
F.Y.I.- Miss DC Pageant
Please pass this information along to women who you think might be interested in competing for Miss DC 2010, a preliminary to the Miss America Pageant.
Eligibility:
- Must be between the ages of 17 and 24
- Must live, work or attend school full-time in DC
Interview and talent account for 60% of the scoring. Winner chooses a community service platform to work on throughout the year. There is no entry fee.
Miss DC 2010 will receive an academic scholarship and will represent DC in the 2011 Miss America Pageant in Las Vegas.
The Miss District of Columbia Pageant is an open pageant, meaning there is no local competitions held, and every young woman in the District may choose to compete if she meets eligibility requirements.
Information Session: March 2010. Auditions: April 2010. Pageant Date: June 2010 at the Lincoln Theatre on U Street, NW.
Contact: For more information, please contact Pageant Director, Teri Galvez at missdcamerica@aol.com or 202-332-3403. Website: http://www.missdc.org/
Internship: National Cancer Institute’s Health Communications Internship Program (HCIP)
Deadline: March 2, 2010
The National Cancer Institute (NCI), the largest of the 27 institutes and centers comprising the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is the Federal Government's principal agency for cancer research and training.
The HCIP gives highly qualified graduate students and recent graduate school graduates the opportunity to participate in vital health and science communications projects in one of the many offices that make up the NCI. Interns will select an area of emphasis: Health Communications or Science Writing.
Six-month and one-year internship terms are offered.
Successful Health Communications applicants have some science background as well as experience and/or education in any of the following areas: public health, epidemiology, public relations, health education, communications, science writing, statistics, social marketing, or journalism.
APPLY NOW by visiting: http://hcip.nci.nih.gov/
Contact: If you have any questions, comments, concerns, please contact The Health Communications Internship Program at HCIP-Contact@mail.nih.gov
Essay Contest
Sponsor: The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
Prize: $1,000
Deadline: March 8, 2010
KaiserEDU.org announces its Fourth Annual Student Essay Contest. Submit an original essay on the topic below for a chance to win $1,000. Deadline for submission is March 8, 2010.
ESSAY TOPIC
It is January 2015. What do you see as the major health policy challenges still facing the United States? Please identify the top two priorities and discuss how they should be addressed.
CONTEST DETAILS
Eligibility - Submissions will be accepted from undergraduate and graduate-level students enrolled in a university-based, degree-granting program at the time of submission.
Essay length - Essays must not exceed 1,000 words in length and must be original work, prepared by one author only.
Essay submission - Entries must be submitted online only. No emails will be accepted.
Deadline - All essays must be submitted by March 8, 2010, 5 p.m. ET.
Judging - Entries will be judged by a panel of professionals with experience in health policy and politics from inside and outside the Kaiser Family Foundation. Winners will be notified by May 1, 2010.
Prizes - Undergraduate and graduate students will be judged separately and first-place winners will be awarded $1,000; second-place winners will receive $500.
Contact: For more information and complete rules and requirements, visit kaiseredu.org/essaycontest2010
