Dr. Zammit, from the Sleep Disorders Institute, will be discussing practical approaches for students dealing with sleep problems on November 9th.
The talk is presented by the GC Wellness Center, and will take place in room 9206 on 11/9/11 from 1–3pm.
The Wellness Center — Student Health Services
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
365 Fifth Ave. Suite 6422
New York, NY 10016
(212) 817-7028
www.tinyurl.com/gcwellness
BMCC student nurses will be leading a Breast and Testicular Health Workshop on Oct 31st, at 1pm, at the Graduate Center, in room 9205.
Sarah Porath
We will also be showing Sara Porath’s ‘I’m Not Alone’ documentary.
Porath, 60, needed convincing to step in front of the camera.
“I’m a producer,” she said. “I am not used to being in front of the camera.”
Luckily, Porath was persuaded to do otherwise. The result is the 30-minute-long documentary, “I’m Not Alone,” which uses Porath’s cancer—though she continues some treatment regimens, Porath is now cancer-free—to examine breast cancer in the CUNY community.
Sara Porath’s ‘I’m Not Alone’ documentary shines light on breast cancer, NY Daily News, September 19th, 2011
Sandro Galea, MD, DrPH’s work seeks to uncover how determinants at multiple levels of influence–including policies, features of the social environment, molecular, and genetic factors–jointly produce the health of urban populations.
Dr. Galea has conducted large population-based studies in several countries worldwide including the U.S., Spain, Israel, Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Liberia, primarily funded by the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Galea’s interest in the complex etiology of health and disease has led him to work that explores innovative methodological approaches to population health questions.
Date: November 16, 2011
Time: 6pm—8pm
College: CUNY School of Public Health
Address: 2180 Third Avenue, Manhattan
Building: SB
Room: Room 115/116
Phone: 212-396-7778
Website: http://www.cuny.edu/sph
Admission: Free
via CUNY Events Calendar.
Thursday, March 22 – Friday, March 23, 2012
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Could disability be, as Susan Wendell writes, “valued for itself, or for the different knowledge, perspective, and experience of life” it gives rise to? This conference seeks to continue—and to expand—conversations about the cultural meanings and possibilities of impairment, as well as the ways that the disabled body becomes a locus for uneasy collaborations and tensions between the social and the scientific.
What critical and theoretical perspectives can be brought to bear on human variations that are, or have been, subject to medical authority or understood as requiring intervention? Emphasizing an interdisciplinary approach to “disability,” we seek papers from graduate students across the humanities (English, art history, music, etc.), social sciences (history, sociology, political science, etc.), and applied fields (law, education, medicine, etc.). We welcome papers on topics ranging from the aesthetics of illness in medieval literature to the politics of disability in South Park, from the cultural fascination with autistic savants to race, impairment, and spectatorship in freak shows.
Please submit 250- to 500-word abstracts to ESAConference2012@gmail.com by December 5, 2011.
There’s a little hope in sight for health insurance customers—from next year insurers are obliged to make benefits and coverage a bit simpler… just not genuinely easy to understand.
In 2012, consumers are supposed to get some new, improved health plan descriptions from insurance companies, thanks to health reform. The proposed six-page forms came out Wednesday for public comment.
My impression? The new forms are an improvement over the lengthy, jargon-filled, legalistic communications that consumers usually face when trying to buy health insurance or understand what they or their employer have already signed up for. There are simple questions and answers about what’s covered and what’s not. They’ve also added a few handy examples of what a given health plan would cover for specific situations: having a baby, treating breast cancer and managing diabetes.
At the same time, health insurance in America is just damn complicated, as these forms make clear—even as they attempt to boil it all down.
mandated summary of health insurance plan benefits is long overdue, Health Insurance Resource Center, August 18th, 2011.
Read more here.
