GSGA Newsletter 

November 18, 2020

 

Happy Wednesday SPH students!

Today and this week there are special events happening. There is a media training for climate health professionals at 12:00pm and later today at 4:00pm there is a live stream of Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History. Lastly this Friday at 6:00pm GSGA will be hosting their Friendsgiving mixer. Students who participate in the Friendsgiving mixer will receive a meal coupon. RSVP here today and see below for more details!

Sincerely,

GSGA 2020-2021

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UPCOMING EVENTS

Media Training For Climate Health Professionals | November 18| 12-1:30pm PST! RSVP HERE.

As health professionals and health students, most of us have very little training in talking to the media. However, as climate health advocates, this has the potential to be a hugely important part of our work!

Climate Health Now, Florida Clinicians for Climate Action, and the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health invite you to join us on November 18th from 12-1:30pm PST for an interactive webinar to learn the nuts and bolts about why it’s important to work with the media, how to pitch a story or interview, how to prepare for an interview, what to expect with different types of media (e.g., radio, podcast, television, live webstream), and more! The event will be moderated by Melissa Baldwin and Sarah Spengeman and will feature a panel with Ari Bernstein, MD, Amanda Millstein, MD, and Neelu Tummala, MD.

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Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds |November 18| 4:00pm | Watch Here Live Stream

Please join me for this exciting event at 4:00 pm EST on Wednesday, November 18. Dr. Paul Farmer’s highly anticipated book, Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History, comes out this week. Dr. Paul Farmer will join fellow luminaries Dr. Michelle Morse, Dr. Salmaan Keshavjee, and Dr. Pardis Sabeti in a conversation moderated by Dr. Joan Reede about what we can learn from pandemics and the global history of racial injustice.

Bryan Stevenson—the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative and author of Just Mercy—writes about Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: “Paul Farmer’s devastating account of catastrophic disease and death created by unjust systems, structures, and abusive history is timely, urgent and terrifying. This moving and compelling book is a tragic but necessary journey guided by an extraordinary anthropologist, historian, teacher, writer, and doctor who has served the poor and disfavored for decades. He has much to teach us in these perilous times.”

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Friendsgiving Mixer Is this Friday at 6:00pm | RSVP here!

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Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week (November 15-22)

Picture the Homeless Event, Monday November 23, 2020 3-4pm | RSVP

DeBorah Dickerson of Picture the Homeless (PTH) will share their efforts to ensure affordable housing for the most marginalized during COVID19.  She will be joined by Lynn Lewis founding Executive Director of PTH and curator of the PTH Oral History Project. Come and hear the voices of New Yorkers currently or formerly without permanent or stable housing who have given years of their lives, through some of the most challenging circumstances imaginable, to make NYC a better place for all of us.

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CUNY SPH Career Events

CEESP Info Session

Wednesday, November 18  |  5pm – 6pm |  Virtual  |  Register

CUNY School of Medicine is actively seeking CUNY SPH students to apply to their Cancer Epidemiology Education in Special Populations (CEESP) program. The CEESP Program is a research training program funded by the NIH/NCI grant to develop careers of public health students from all schools and programs of public health in the U.S. in the field of cancer epidemiology and cancer prevention and control. The CEESP Program provides funding for students to travel and conduct mentored summer research internships in foreign countries and U.S. minority settings. Accepted students will receive $7,200 from the CESSP Program for their summer work. This program can be utilized as a fieldwork site. Brought to you by the CUNY SPH Office of Career Services

Fieldwork Orientations 

Various dates and times | Virtual  | Register

Planning to enroll in fieldwork for Summer 2021? Your next step is to register to attend a fieldwork orientation and fill out the fieldwork pre-registration form (linked above when you click “Register”). Because summer session is a shorter session, it’s important to get started planning your field work as soon as possible! Orientation will take place on zoom and dates being offered are:

• Tuesday, November 10 | 8 – 9pm
• Thursday, November 12 | 5 – 6pm
• Friday, November 20 | 12 – 1pm
• Wednesday, December 2 | 8 – 9pm
• Monday, December 7 | 5 – 6pm
• Wednesday, January 27 | 8 – 9pm

 

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RESOURCES

COVID Exposure Alerts App

COVID Alert NY is a voluntary, anonymous, exposure-notification smartphone app. You will get an alert if you were in close contact with someone who tests positive for COVID-19. We encourage you to learn more about COVID Alert NY and download the app here. The app is available in several languages to anyone 18 or older who lives, works, or attends college in New York or New Jersey and can be downloaded from the Google Play Store or Apple App Store.

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STUDENT EMERGENCY FUND

 If you are a current CUNY SPH student facing short-term financial hardship, we encourage you to submit an application to the Student Emergency Fund.

To access the application, you will need to log into SharePoint using your SPH login (sph\______) credentials.  Reach out to the HelpDesk@sph.cuny.edu if you require assistance with SharePoint.

Click here to apply.  Please note that applicants will be asked to submit supporting documentation to demonstrate financial need.