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• 2008 GMU Health and Fitness Expo!
  Join us as our Department of Global and Community Health will host five booths at GMU's Health and Fitness Expo this year:

  • Department Informational Booth
  • Global Health Students Beyond Borders Informational Booth
  • Center for the Study of Chronic Illness and Disability Informational and Service Booth
  • (2) Department Course/Class Booths with information and services

  Please plan to attend this free event which includes a wealth of information, services and fun!  For more detailed information on our booths, event location, dates and times please see our flyer. For general information about the Expo, visit the Health and Fitness Expo Website.

• Alzheimer's Charity Date Auction
  November 14, 2007
  Clarendon Grill - Arlington, VA
  www.alzcharityevent.com
  See Flyer.
  
  Our department will sponsor this fundraising event benefiting the Alzheimer's Association of America.  Please plan to attend and/or inquire to assist.

• National Science Foundation Grant Awarded
  Dr. Lynn Gerber, Director, Center for the Study of Chronic Illness and Disability, College of Health and Human Services, was awarded a National Science Foundation grant, effective 9/1/2007. Dr. Gerber is Principal Investigator. Her Co-Principal Investigator is Dr. Zoran Duric of the Computer Science Department, Volgenau School.
  
  This award was given for three purposes: to develop new instrumentation that will increase our capability for assessing upper extremity motion; develop integrated , wireless technology that can be used to assess upper extremity motion in three dimensional space in real time; and to provide research opportunities for graduate students in computer and rehabilitation science to study human motion.

• Vision Series
  Missed GMU's Vision Series?  Now's your chance!  To view a critical lecture given by Department Chair, Dr. Lisa Pawloski on Childhood Obesity, click here. Alternatively, you canview slides from the Vision Series. (pdf)

• HSCI 530 - Global Nutrition
  View images of students in HSCI 530 enjoying an Ethnic Dinner with the Chair of the Department of Global and Community Health.

• Being a Graduate of the College of Health and Human Services
  An essay by recent-CHHS alum Grace Breidy.

• Course Prefix Changes, Fall 2007
  Please note that for the Fall schedule 2007 the prefixes of the HSCI courses have changed.  For most of your courses, the prefixes will be changed from HSCI to GCH and will be listed under the Department of Global and Community Health rather than health science.  There are some other HSCI courses that will be listed under the Department of Health Administration and Policy (HAP) and under the College of Health and Human Services (HHS).  Examples of these are: HSCI 621 will now be HAP 621 and HSCI 597 will be HHS 597.
  
  If you are currently a student within the Department of Global and Community Health you will be sent an email explaining the change with further details.

• New Undergraduate Health Science Track - Community Health
  The Community Health track is focused on understanding health issues related to the community and larger populations at the national and international levels.

• HSCI 150:  International Health
  Global Understanding General Education Requirement APPROVED
  The HSCI 150 - International Health course offered this semester, Spring 2007, has recently been approved as a general education requirement.  The revised course will have a new prefix and course number Fall 2007 but will contain the same objectives and outline.  The new course prefix and number will be GCH 205.  GCH, a new prefix, stands for "Global and Community Health".  Current syllabus, including objectives and course outline is available online.

• Global and Community Health Students Discuss Issue of Violence, Health
  Violence interacts with health in many ways -- bullying, assault, suicide, date rape, domestic violence, etc. Such topics often arose in Professor Metcalf’s section of HSCI 332 this past semester. Since fiction writer Mickey Spillane had died earlier in 2006, Metcalf and a group of students decided to read and discuss his first novel, I, the Jury. Perhaps Spillane could tell us something of the nature of violence itself. Read more...

• Scholarship Award
  --Ms. Tara Turner was awarded the 2006-2007 Mitchell J. Czoch Gerontology Scholarship.
  --Ms. Helen Ozah was awarded 2006-2007 Herman & Sylvia Brotman Memorial Scholarship.

• Diverse Student Group Adds to Richness of International Health Program - Read the full story in The Mason Gazette.

• Research Assistantships
  Our fall 2006 search for two GRA's has concluded. 
  Congratulations Ms. Lisa Fleming and Ms. Elizabeth Jacob!

• Hepatitis Conference
  with The Liver Lady
  November 30th, 2006
  10:00 - 12:00 noon
  Presented by:
  Thelma King Thiel, RN, BA
  Chairman and CEO
  Hepatitis Foundation International
  See Flyer
  *Please RSVP Allan Weiss at 703-993-3126.
  *Seating is limited.

• Avian Flu Conference:  The Threat of Pandemics in the Aisa-Pacific Region and the Challenges of U.S. Preparedness. 
  Friday, November 17, 2006
  Mason Hall Boardroom D23
  *Please RSVP capec@gmu.edu by November 10th*
  View Flyer.
  View Website.
  View Slideshow.

• Previous Brown Bag Presentations
  November 2, 2006
  12:00 - 1:00 pm
  Presenter:  Naureen Aziz & Amira Wali
  "My Practicum Experience at Pan American Health Organization"
  View Flyer.
  
  November 8, 2006
  12:00 - 1:00 pm
  Presenter:  Dr. Eugenie Mielczarek,
  Professor Emerita of Physics (GMU)
  Contributing Editor,
  Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine
  Author (with Sharon McGrayne) of Iron, Nature's Universal Element: Why People Need Iron & Animals Make Magnets.  (2000).  New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
  "Scientific Assessment of Alternative Medicine""
  View flyer.
  *Please RSVP Allan Weiss at 703-993-3126 or aweiss2@gmu.edu*
  
  November 16, 2006
  12:00 - 1:00 pm
  Presenter: Mitchie Stradford
  "Prometra International Organization "
  View Flyer.

• Commemorate United Nations Day!!!
  Obstetric Fistula:  Its Impact on Maternal Health
  October 27th, 2006, 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
  Innovation Hall 103
  View Flyer
  
  AIDS Awareness
  A Love Story - Wan Lobi Tori
  October 26th, 2006, 10:30 - 1:00 pm
  Johnson Center Cinema
  View Flyer
  
  United Nations Week
  http://www.unanca.org/unweek/calendar/

• Open House
  The Department of Global and Community Health held an Open House on September 14, 2006.  Dr. Pawloski and Kays Al-Ali, an international health student in the master's program, presented at the Open House. Photos forthcoming.

• New Course for Fall 2006
  HSCI 594 - Global and Community Health Issues Related to Violence (3 credits)

• Scholarship Award
  Ms. Kathryn McCoy was awareded the Herman B. and Sylvia Brotman Memorial Scholarship in June 2006.

• The International Report
  by Naureen Aziz (pdf)

• Welcome...
  ...to our New Epidemiologist Faculty Member: Dr. Kathryn Jacobsen.

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