Global Tobacco Control
Provides an introduction to global tobacco control. Presents the health and economic burden of tobacco use worldwide and highlights practical approaches to tobacco prevention, control, surveillance, and evaluation. Examines transnational tobacco control issues, including the following: the interpretation and packaging of epidemiologic evidence for policy makers, the determinants of tobacco addiction, the economics of global tobacco control, tobacco industry strategies, legal foundations for regu
Confronting the Burden of Injuries: A Global Perspective
Confronting the Burden of Injuries- A Global Perspective is a course offered by the Department of International Health and the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University. This course is intended to guide students interested in working on injury control in areas with little to no tradition in injury prevention from a public health perspective. Students will learn to define the injury problem and assess its magnitude; identify data
Indicators, Human Rights, and Global Governance: Part 2
Indicators are rapidly multiplying as tools for assessing and promoting a variety of social justice and reform strategies around the world. There are rule of law indicators, indicators of violence against women, and indicators of economic development, among m
Indicators, Human Rights, and Global Governance: Part 1
Indicators are rapidly multiplying as tools for assessing and promoting a variety of social justice and reform strategies around the world. There are rule of law indicators, indicators of violence against women, and indicators of economic development, among m
Seeing the Light: Exploring the Sun's Role in the Living Systems
Students create webs that illustrate their thinking about seasonal physical and biological changes caused by changes in sunlight. They begin to grasp the central role of sunlight in living systems.
Episode 5: Striving for global health
Nobel Laureate Eric Chivian discusses the connection between biodiversity and human disease, and Yvonna Reekie examines the emerging problem of drug-resistant tuberculosis.
Redefining Global Strategy HBR IdeaCastâ 59: Redefining Global Strategy Redefining Global Strategy: Harvard Business Online's Steve Singer talks with Pankaj Ghemawat, author of the upcoming book Redefining Global Strategy: Crossing Borders in a World Where Differences Still Matter.
Competing in the New Global Landscape
Featured Guest: Hal Sirkin, author of "Globality: Competing with Everyone from Everywhere for Everything."
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Competing in the New Global Environment
Elliot Lifson is an Adjunct Professor at the Desautels Faculty of Management, Vice-Chairman of Peerless Clothing Inc. and President of the Canadian Apparel Federation.
The Hat Trick: Who will be the Successful Business Leaders in Today’s Global Environment
Elliot Lifson joined the Desautels Faculty of Management in June, 2005 as Adjunct Professor. He is Vice-Chairman of Peerless Clothing Inc. and President of the Canadian Apparel Federation (CAF).
Adaptation, Extinction and Global Change
McGill Biology professor Graham Bell describes examples of rapid evolution as well as situations where adaptation hasn't happened. He further explains how organisms are likely to evolve in the coming period of rapid environmental change.
Is it living or non living?
Once completed, students will have a deeper understanding of what is living and non living. Students will be able to identify the characteristics of non living and living things and will be able to classify them in an environment.
w8.2 Global Health
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w3.1 Global Inequality
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w2.2 Global Inequality
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w2.1 Global Inequality
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Bioluminescence: Living Light
This National Geographic lesson plan explores bioluminescent creatures and the underwater world in which they live. Using shoeboxes and black paint, students are directed to build a deep-sea model and inhabit it with fish made out of black construction paper. Students then use the model to describe how organisms use bioluminescence and learn about its use as camouflage. In addition to a detailed protocol, the lesson plan includes suggestions for assessments and links to additional information.
Educator's Guide to Hosting a Global Health Conference
This guide uses biology, health, and world study topics to engage students in global health issues and solutions from experiential and multidisciplinary perspectives. The guide offers an outline of how to organize and host a "Global Health Conference," and provides suggestions regarding logistics and instructions as well as resource materials for preparing and organizing a student conference. The Global Health Conference is a school event where students present display boards and two-page essays
Johns Hopkins Global MBA--Sheun Ogunsunlade
Sheun Ogunsunlade, who graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a double major in chemical and biomedical engineering, decided to spend his first year after graduation tutoring and mentoring sixth graders in a Washington, DC, elementary school as part of the Amicorps City Year program. Through this experience he developed the desire to use his MBA to "have a positive impact on young people, approach business with people in mind, and help the overall community by inspiring collaboration and
NYIT Global Update: Mandarin: 07/23/10
New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) Global Update: Mandarin Version: 07/23/10
