I had chance to be one of the Teaching Assistants of Professor Bill Bicknell and Professor Jennifer Bread at the BU School of Public Health this semester (IH704). The course is about the World Medical Care and you can learn practice-based experiences from Bill and his colleagues around the world. Bill brings people to the course [...]
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Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on FacebookBuzz it upTip on HyvesShare on LinkedinMixx it upShare via MySpaceShare on Orkutshare via RedditShare with StumblersTumblr itTweet about itBuzz it upSubscribe to the comments on this postPrint for laterTell a [...] The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) launched on March 4th a Global Virtual Knowledge Centre to End Violence against Women and Girls. The one-stop centre will support practitioners around t he world in effective design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies and programs. The web-based site brings together lessons learned and recommended practices gleaned [...] In the opening lines of his volume ‘Community: Seeking Safety in an Insecure World’, Bauman (2001) says: Words have meanings: some words, however, also have a ‘feel’. The word ‘community’ is one of them. It feels good: whatever the word ‘community’ may mean, it is good ‘to have a community’, ‘to be in a community’ . [...] RANDOM.ORG offers true random numbers to anyone on the Internet. The randomness comes from atmospheric noise, which for many purposes is better than the pseudo-random number algorithms typically used in computer programs. People use RANDOM.ORG for holding drawings, lotteries and sweepstakes, to drive games and gambling sites, for scientific applications and for art and music. Bookmark on [...] ”Take the stairs instead of the escalator or elevator and feel better” is something we often hear or read in the Sunday papers. Few people actually follow that advice. Can we get more people to take the stairs over the escalator by making it fun to do? Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on FacebookBuzz [...] During the last 13 days, up to May 6, WHO has confirmed that 25 countries are affected by the Swine flu and 31 persons have died from Swine flu. WHO data indicates that about 60 000 persons died from TB during the same period. By a rough comparison with the number of news reports found by [...] A poem by Sa’adi, an Iranian poet (1184 – 1283/1291?), is used to grace the entrance to the Hall of Nations of the UN building in New York with this call for breaking all barriers: بنی آدم اعضای یک پیکرند In harmony with the rebirth of nature, the Iranian New Year Celebration, or Nowruz, always begins on the first day of spring. Nowruz ceremonies are symbolic representations of two ancient concepts – the End and the Rebirth; or Good and Evil. A few weeks before the New Year, Iranians clean and rearrange their homes. They make [...] New Year fireworks over London Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on FacebookBuzz it upTip on HyvesShare on LinkedinMixx it upShare via MySpaceShare on Orkutshare via RedditShare with StumblersTumblr itTweet about itBuzz it upSubscribe to the comments on this postPrint for laterTell a [...] |
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