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Summer Associate Position with Jacaranda Health

by ihsection, posted in Information and Social Media

Jacaranda Health is a start up social enterprise that aims to set a new standard for maternity care in East Africa. We are combining business and clinical innovations to create a self-sustaining and scalable chain of clinics that provide reproductive health services to poor urban women. Our model is a combination of two tightly-integrated services (a) Jacaranda Maternities near the slums where women can go for respectful obstetric care, safe delivery, and postnatal care; and (b) mobile vans that create a direct link with our patients, generate demand and healthy outcomes through antenatal care and birth preparedness. Jacaranda has received awards for its model, and we are also planning to work as an “innovation laboratory” for new approaches in improving maternal health, from outreach and marketing, to low-cost mobile technologies.

We are piloting the model in Nairobi with a Jacaranda Maternity and mobile unit. We launched our first mobile clinic last summer and are providing services to women in peri-urban Nairobi. In the next few months we will launch our fixed clinic for deliveries and basic emergency obstetric care.

Job Summary

Jacaranda Health is in an exciting stage of growth, and looking for two Summer Associates to support our business and clinical operations during the summer of 2012. We seek exceptional candidates who are enthusiastic about working in a start-up environment on the cutting edge of healthcare and business. The work program will be tailored to the associate, and we are open to candidates with backgrounds in business or health. Several potential projects include:

  • Quality improvement: how can we improve operations, quality control, customer service to deliver the most cost-effective maternity care in the world, that is also designed with our patients in mind.
  • Technology for clinical operations: We are introducing mobile health technology with smart phones and tablets, to improve clinician decision-making, connect with our clients, and leverage Kenya’s mobile banking infrastructure.
  • Market research: During the summer we will be assessing opportunities for expansion from our pilot clinics. We will need help analyzing client data, revisiting our customer segmentation, and evaluating the highest potential markets and services for our next clinics.
  • New services: Help us evaluate and launch new lines of business, such as ultrasound, micro-insurance, or pediatric care.

Nairobi is an incredibly exciting place to work – a bustling economy and a global hotspot for social entrepreneurship and social investment. Associates will be exposed to a network of entrepreneurs spanning sectors: technology, agriculture, energy and health.

We have a dynamic cross-cultural team in our clinics and main office. Depending on the project, the Summer Associate would work with our Business Operations Manager, Marketing Director, or Clinical Operations Director. Recent graduates could also convert this into a longer-term fellowship opportunity.

Details

  • Full-time 12-week position based in Nairobi
  • Start date: summer 2012
  • The position is a volunteer fellowship, but Jacaranda can offer a stipend for expenses and housing

Qualifications

  • Current student, MBA or MPH, or someone with 3-5 years professional experience and an interest in global health
  • Highly resourceful, independent, and self-starting
  • Flexible and easy-going enough to work in a fluid, cross-cultural startup environment in Nairobi
  • Ability to communicate findings compellingly to colleagues and advisors
  • Desired: experience working in East Africa or a similar setting

Benefits

  • First-hand experience building a health venture
  • Learn about maternity experience and clinical challenges faced by low-income mothers in peri-urban areas
  • Significant responsibility and independence
  • Opportunities to meet and interact with the region’s top social entrepreneurs working in health, agriculture, and energy

To Apply

Interested candidates should apply by email with an up to date CV and cover letter to jobs@jacarandahealth.org. Please put “Summer Associate” in the subject line. Deadline: March 15th.

Get Excited: AIDS2012 Arrives in Washington, DC July 2012

by ihsection, posted in HIV/AIDS, Information and Social Media


From July 22 to 27, 2012, Washington, DC will host the nineteenth international AIDS conference, known as AIDS 2012. The AIDS 2012 conference theme, “Turning the Tide Together,” reflects organizers’ recognition that in 2012 the global AIDS community finds itself at a unique juncture: research advances have made it possible to envision an end to the epidemic at the precise moment when funding challenges threaten to slow progress on scientific discovery and program implementation.

The CSIS Global Health Policy Center is pleased to present a video featuring the perspectives of many of the participants in the Friends of AIDS 2012 group, as well as the insights of government officials, private sector representatives, advocates, and program implementers who have been long-time conference participants.

Upcoming conferences: New Frontiers in Global Health Leadership Conference and World Health Care Networks (WHCN) Conference

by ihsection, posted in Information and Social Media

NEW FRONTIERS IN GLOBAL HEALTH LEADERSHIP: Building Strong Health Systems to Respond to Non-Communicable Diseases
INAUGURAL FORUM

Register Online at: http://ghi.arizona.edu/reg_elp

Partners:  The Global Health Institute at Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health University of Arizona, Tohono O’odham Dept of Health & Human Resources, the US-México Border Health Commission and the Arizona Public Health Training Center

Where: Tohono O’odham Nation and The University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, Tucson
When: March 28 – April 1, 2012
What: This 5-day Forum features presentations by global experts and global and local case studies of working models in NCDs prevention and health systems strengthening, including; quality assurance, health work force development, integration and health information systems & referral.  Delegates will apply the local and global best practices & evidence during facilitated small group discussions. Site visits show-casing NCD prevention & care models will take place each day. Transportation will be provided. A professional training toolkit with all instructional content will be disseminated following the Forum.
Who: Public health policy makers, program managers, community health clinic coordinators, health systems managers, work force development specialists, community health workers & leaders

Speakers: Richard H. Carmona, M.D., M.P.H., FACS, 17th Surgeon General of the United States and Distinguished Professor, University of Arizona, Richard Smith, Director, UnitedHealth Group & former editor British Medical Journal, Gene Bukhman, MD, PhD Harvard Medical School, Director, Program in Global Non-Communicable Disease and Social Change & Partners In Health, Catalina Denman Champion, PhD, former President, El Colegio de Sonora, James Hopkins, LL.M./ITP, UA College of Law, Neeraj Kak, PhD, URC – University Research Co., LLC, Francisco Garcia, MD, MPH, Director, University of Arizona’s National Center of Excellent in Women’s Health, Susan Kunz, MPH Mariposa Community Health Center, Martha Moore-Monroy, MA Pima County REACH, and the Tohono O’odham Nation Leadership.

Special Attractions: Located 70 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border, surrounded by Native American lands, and hosting the largest proportion of Peace Corps graduates; Tucson, The University of Arizona & Tohono O’odham Nation provide an appropriate site for the study of global & local, as well as understanding the role of culture and community in integrated prevention and health systems. Delegates will be welcomed at the Tohono O’odham Nation Cultural Center & Museum at the foot of the sacred Baboquivari Peak near the U.S.-Mexico border.

Early Registration Rate of $400 extended until February 29, 2012. Registration includes lunches, receptions, transportation to TO Nation and site visits. Rate increases by $50 thereafter and ends March 15, 2012. (Please contact KAHeckert, PhD, Forum Chair about limited partial scholarships at kheckert@email.arizona.edu.)

CONTACT US: Global Health Institute & Health Promotion Sciences Division,
Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, The University of Arizona
(+1) (520) 626-3877
kheckert@email.arizona.edu

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, www.publichealth.arizona.edu
Tohono O’odham Nation (www.tonation-nsn.gov) and the Tucson Convention & Visitors Bureau (http://www.visittucson.org/

ABOUT THE WHCN CONFERENCE:

The Australian General Practice Network (AGPN) is hosting the second biennial World Health Care Networks (WHCN) Conference in 2012. WHCN was founded by the AGPN and General Practice New Zealand (GPNZ) in 2010 in recognition of the role that clinically–led and organised general practice and primary health care plays in health planning, resource allocation and health system development more broadly.

The 2012 Conference will explore how health care networks are forming and maturing and, more importantly, the integrative and coordinating roles and functions they fulfill in creating a well-developed primary health care system.

WHCN 2012 fuses health and social care policy, research, program implementation and service development to explore the value of networks at the micro, ‘meso’ and macro levels. The Conference will examine the capacity of networks in improving health service delivery and outcomes; attracting health system managers, researchers, policy makers and clinical and community leaders from around the world.

Keynote speakers include:

• Professor Jan De Maeseneer (Belgium)
• Dr Brian Evoy (Canada)
• Professor Helen Keleher (Australia)
• Dr Judith Smith (UK)
• Professor Philip Davies (Australia)
• Dr Jason Cheah (Singapore)
• Dr Johnny Marshall (UK)
• Ms Fiona Thomson (New Zealand)
• Dr Emil Djakic (Australia)
• Dr Bev O’Keefe (New Zealand)
• Mr Mark Boutros (US)

Save the Children video: Felix from Guatemala – Save the Children Introduces Health Worker

by ihsection, posted in Information and Social Media


Felix, a local health worker in Guatemala, helps deliver life-saving care to children who need it the most. Save the Children and the Ad Council are working together to mobilize citizen action in the U.S. to help local health workers help save more children worldwide.