Senior Clinical Training Scholarship in Veterinary Public Health

Senior Clinical Training Scholarship in Veterinary Public Health

Applications are invited from veterinary graduates to undertake a three-year residency programme in Veterinary Public Health. The successful candidate will receive training in all aspects of veterinary epidemiology, including theoretical and practical aspects of epidemiological and statistical methods and their application to the study of animal disease and their control. The resident will undertake the well established MSc in Veterinary Epidemiology provided jointly by the RVC, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, DEFRA and the VLA during the first two years of the programme. At the end of the training programme, the resident will be eligible to sit the exam for the Diploma of the European College of Veterinary Public Health (www.ecvph.org).

The residency is jointly conducted at the RVC, DEFRA and the VLA. The resident will spend time at each organisation and conduct collaborative research. The resident will be involved in small group teaching, seminars, research and epidemiological support.

The tax-free stipends for Senior Scholarships start at £ 14,902, increasing by annual increments to

£16,222 and are continued subject to satisfactory annual assessment.

For informal inquiries, please contact Prof. Katharina Stärk on 01707 666 333 ext 6025, kstaerk@rvc.ac.uk.

Closing date: 12^th March 2009
It is anticipated interviews will be held on 31^st March 2009

For an application form and further details of this scholarship, please visit: www.rvc.ac.uk/cts or email: jobs@rvc.ac.uk quoting ref: SCTS/VPH/09

Please note Short-listed candidates will normally be notified at least one week before the interview date.

Global Health Symposium Lectures

Dear Friends of Global Health,

What a successful Global Health Symposium we had last week! Many thanks to all of you who participated, and a special “thank you” to all of the students who worked so hard to make this event happen. We had well over 300 people attend the inspiring keynote address given by Tony Goldberg, and a large number of people attended the panel presentations as well. If you were unable to attend the event, missed a speaker that you wanted to hear, or would just like to revisit any of the talks, go to http://videos.med.wisc.edu/category.php?categoryid=80 to view the presentations.

Please feel free to visit the Center for Global Health website. We have a number of terrific speakers that will be presenting this spring, and you may view that schedule at http://www.pophealth.wisc.edu/gh/upcomingevents.htm. Though the website does not yet reflect this, please note that we are fortunate to be able to add Dr. Juan Almendares to our Seminar Series schedule. Internationally known Honduran medical doctor, human rights activist, environmental leader and alternative medicine practitioner, he will address "Public Health, Human Rights and Sustainability in Honduras.” This will take place Wednesday, February 18, 5-6pm in room 1309 of the Health Sciences Learning Center. Our website will be updated later this week.

Thank you for your support of the Center for Global Health! We look forward to seeing you at future events.

Sincerely,

Center for Global Health Staff

New CDC/FDA Social Media Resources for Information on Salmonella Typhimurium Outbreak

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are working together to provide important information about the recall of certain peanut butter and peanut-containing products that are associated with the recent Salmonella Typhimurium outbreaks.

The latest resource is the new HHS, FDA and CDC social media Web page at http://www.cdc.gov/socialmedia/, which provides many helpful tools in order to reach as many people as possible.

The social media site makes it easy to obtain automatically updated information on the outbreak and the product recall. The site provides resources for both consumers and partners, including:

• Salmonella Typhimurium Outbreak Map widget
• FDA products recall database widget
• Updated mobile site content
• CDC Podcasts
• FDA Dos and Don'ts During the Peanut Salmonella Outbreak Video
• CDC Health-e-Cards
• And more!

Many of these resources are available in both English and Spanish.

Sign up to receive email updates when new information is added to the Social Media Tools page.

Information about the Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak and the product recall is also available at:

• www.hhs.gov
• www.fda.gov/salmonella
• www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/peanutbutterrecall/index.cfm
• www.cdc.gov/salmonella/typhimurium

Call 1-800-CDC-INFO (1-800-232-4636), 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for up-to-date information about the recalls and hundreds of other health and safety topics.

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) · 1600 Clifton Rd · Atlanta GA 30333 · 800-CDC-INFO (800-232-4636)

“War and Human Rights in Africa: Insights from Darfur/Chad, DRC, and Liberia”

The Human Rights Initiative at the

University of Wisconsin-Madison

SPRING Lecture Series

Monday, February 9, 2009

4pm-5:30pm

206 Ingraham Hall,

1155 Observatory Drive

“War and Human Rights in Africa:

Insights from Darfur/Chad, DRC, and Liberia”

Professor Jennifer Leaning

Jennifer Leaning is Professor of the Practice of International Health at the Harvard School of Public Health and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She also co-directs the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and co-founded Physicians for Human Rights.

She is the author and or editor of numerous articles and books, including Humanitarian Crises: The Medical and Public Health Response.

To learn more about the Human Rights Initiative at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, log on to our website and join our mailing list: www.humanrights.wisc.edu

This event is co-sponsored by Global Studies, the International Institute, the Center for Global Health,
CALS, WAGE and the Division of International Studies