In this six-minute interview Joyce Banda, the current president of Malawi, talks about how her life and personal experiences have shaped her mission and policy priorities that she has carried throughout her career. She focuses on three main areas: educating girls, combating domestic abuse against women, and improving post-natal care to keep women alive.
Here is another short anti-tobacco video (PSA?) from the WHO marking World No Tobacco Day this year. Like last year’s video, it portrays Big Tobacco as the sinister bad guy who controls us all without us knowing it. I know these videos are meant to appeal to a wide audience, and send a strong and simple message, but I wish that the anti-tobacco videos would feature more actual information and statistics, rather than just showing us that Big Tobacco is some big, bad puppeteer.
As China is taking an increasingly active role on the world stage, its foreign assistance and development programs in other countries in increasing. However, unlike most Western nations, China does not publish this information. This report is particularly interesting because it tries to get an idea of China’s development financing over the last decade through media reports (press releases and newspaper articles).
The Office of Adolescent Health invites you to attend its free webcast – A Global Look at Teen Pregnancy Prevention: Strategies for Success – on Thursday, May 2nd from 2:00 – 3:00pm ET.
Hear from Robert W. Blum, MD, MPH, PhD, an expert in adolescent health and teen pregnancy, about how teen pregnancy outcomes in the United States compare globally, and what we can learn from teen pregnancy prevention efforts abroad. During it, Dr. Blum will address the following questions:
Dr. Blum will also answer some commonly asked questions concerning teen pregnancy prevention.
Register here, and please forward this message to others who care about teen pregnancy prevention and adolescent health.   We also invite you to live tweet during the webcast using#TPPGlobal, and be sure to follow OAH on Twitter at @TeenHealthGov .  This webcast will kick off a month of activities by OAH for its third annual recognition of National Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month.
About Robert W. Blum, MD, MPH, PhD
Dr. Blum is the William H. Gates, Sr. Professor and Chair of the Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He has edited two books, and has written nearly 250 journal articles, book chapters and special reports. In July 2007, Dr. Blum was named the Director of the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute. He is also a consultant to The World Bank, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), UNICEF, and the World Health Organization.
The following announcement is from Sarah Simpson.
The American Public Health Association Student Assembly Advancement Committee invites you to network with your fellow public health peers at the White Horse Tavern on April 25, 2013 at 7:00 PM.
Please find the invite at this link: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/6170366733
Everyone is welcome!
For more information, email Richard and Jennifer at advancement [at] aphastudents [dot] org.
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