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Your monthly source of Rutgers global health news, events, and resources
FEBRUARY 2019
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Confronting the Brutal Inequality in Cancer Care
In Botswana, a democratic nation in southern Africa with a population of approximately 2.3 million, workforce capacity in the health sector is a major challenge to providing comprehensive cancer care.
Cancer patients at varying stages of illness, known and unknown, camp out in Botswana’s referral hospitals for days or weeks at a time, waiting to be seen.
“People are dying from curable cancers in Botswana because of delays in each step of the cancer care process,” says Richard Marlink, an oncologist and the director of Rutgers Global Health Institute, based at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
Read about how Botswana and Rutgers are partnering to change this.
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How to Develop Cultural Competence
Culture influences every aspect of global health. It shapes how individuals perceive wellness, security, sexuality, disease, and suffering. Culture also can affect how entire societies structure their health systems, allocate resources, and respond to emergencies.
Cultural competence is a critical skillset for individuals engaged in global health. Through decades of experience, Rutgers Global Health Institute core faculty member Susan Caplan has honed her own cultural competency, and she uses culture as a foundation for her research and capacity-building work in Latino communities.
Caplan, an assistant professor in the Rutgers School of Nursing and recipient of a Rutgers Global Health Institute seed grant, offers these practical tips.
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Studying Global Health at Rutgers
With vast expertise, remarkable diversity, and a commitment to serving the needs of communities both locally and around the world, Rutgers is the perfect place to begin or further your exploration of global health.
Several academic programs offer a concentration or area of distinction in global health, and relevant coursework is available across 15 of Rutgers' 29 schools and colleges.
Explore your options and download our global health course inventory.
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Global Health Events
March 18, Piscataway
Solving for Why: Lessons from a Decade in Global Surgery
Rutgers Global Surgery and the Global Surgery Student Alliance present a lecture by Mark G. Shrime, an assistant professor of otolaryngology and of global health and social medicine at the Harvard Medical School. His academic pursuits focus on surgical delivery in low- and middle-income countries.
March 20, Newark
NJMS Interdisciplinary Global Health Lecture: Samba Jalloh
The New Jersey Medical School Office of Global Health presents a lecture by Samba Jalloh as part of its monthly Interdisciplinary Global Health Lecture Series. Jalloh, who has partnered with NJMS faculty members on multiple global surgery missions, is the recipient of a 2019 global health excellence award from the Consortium of Universities for Global Health.
March 21, Newark
Fifth Annual Global Health Nursing Conference: Leadership in Global Health and Disaster Response
This timely conference will cover the emerging need for global health leadership during natural disasters. The keynote speaker is David Abramson, clinical associate professor of social and behavioral sciences at New York University's College of Global Public Health. His work focuses on population health issues associated with disaster-related or stressor-related recovery and resiliency.
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