It's Not Over: Global AIDS Funding in an Era of Uncertainty
Ambassador Mark Dybul and Dr. Peter Mugyenyi discuss their work on the global HIV/AIDS crisis and their perspectives on the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).
Improving Understanding and Collaboration among First Responders
This unique training addresses the institutional culture of five responder groups: law enforcement, EMS, fire, public health, and private security in an attempt at fostering understanding among these groups
A Common Word Global Leaders Forum: Muslim-Christian Relations in a 21st Century World
The opening session of 'A Common Word Between Us and You,' a two-day conference at Georgetown University where global leaders gathered to discuss and develop concrete proposals to advance global peace and security between Muslim and Western societies.
Financing the Global HIV/AIDS Pandemic: Expert commentary by William McGreevey
William McGreevey, Ph.D., associate professor of international health at the School of Nursing & Health Studies, discusses the costs associated with the global HIV/AIDS pandemic.
Engaging Religious Communities Abroad: (with the Chicago Council on Global Affairs)
On February 23, 2010, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs Task Force on Religion and the Making of U.S. Foreign Policy released its final report, which focuses on strategies for better incorporating an understanding of religion into the U.S. foreign policymaking framework. The Task Force is comprised of high level and influential policymakers, academics, constitutional lawyers and religious leaders.
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
Understanding Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health Care
The primary objective of this content is to prepare students to read and interpret cost-effectiveness studies. The students will first be introduced to basic economic concepts that are needed in order to understand the recommendations from the United States Panel on Cost Effectiveness in Health and Medicine. One example is the distinction between opportunity costs and budgetary costs. The recommendations will then be reviewed, particularly as they apply to what students should expect to read in
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
Where in the World? Understanding Latitude and Longitude
Students play a grid-based game and devise clues to help classmates locate spots on the globe. In doing so, they come to recognize the value of using latitude and longitude for identifying locations.
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.
Understanding Your Customers' Minds
Interviews with management experts who zero in on key business ideas and how to implement them in organizations.
Understanding Your Strategic Purpose
Interviews with management experts who zero in on key business ideas and how to implement them in organizations.
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.
w8.2 Global Health
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