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Please pass this along to whomever you think might be interested in coming to
some of these events.
Sincerely,
Josh Bloom
Co-Chair
The International Student Association for Health and Human Rights
Harvard School of Public Health
jbloom@hsph.harvard.edu
617-783-5946
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hhr
The International Student Association for Health and Human Rights
Religion, Health and Human Rights Speaker Series
1) Thursday April 5: God Has Commanded! The Denial of Medical Attention to
Children in Religious Groups
2) Thursday April 12: Health & Human Rights in the Baha'i Community of Iran: An
Update
3) Wednesday April 18: Medicine and Public Health in the Shadow of the
Holocaust: The Nazi Doctors, Racial Hygiene, Murder and Genocide
4) Monday April 23: Male Circumcision, Religion, Ethics, & Rights
5) Monday April 30: HIV Prevention & the Catholic Church
6) Wednesday May 2: Health & Human Rights Under the Taliban Regime in
Afghanistan
7) Wednesday May 16: Understanding Women's Rights and Role in Islam: An Islamic
Perspective
8) PASSOVER ACTION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AVAILABLE
___________________________________________________________________
1)
The Religion, Health and Human Rights Speaker Series of
The International Student Association for Health and Human Rights
At Harvard School of Public Health
Presents:
“God Has Commanded! The Denial of Medical Attention to Children in Religious
Groups.”
with
Robert Pardon, Director of New England Institute of Religious Research
Date: Thursday April 5th
Time: 12:30-1:30 PM
Location: FXB Building, Room G12.
651 Huntington Ave., Boston
This seminar will explore the ethical dilemmas created in denying medical care
for children living in religious groups. What are the pressure points,
limitations and responsibilities for both the parents and society regarding the
children?
Robert Pardon, M.Div., did his theological and professional training at
Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Hamilton,Massachusetts. He pastored two
Churches for fifteen years. During that time he continued his graduate studies
at Princeton Theological Seminary where he graduated with a Masters in Theology
(Th.M.) with a concentration in medical ethics. In 1991 he left the pastoral
ministry and founded the New England Institute of Religious Research with four
others; an organization committed to understanding the changing religious
landscape in Western society, from the benign to the destructive. He currently
serves as director and meets with people from diverse religious groups, both
aberrational Christian and non-Christian. He speaks extensively throughout New
England and the rest of the country. Most recently he served as Court appointed
Guardian Ad Litem for 14 children removed by the State from a religious group
where two had children died.
This event is free and open to all students, faculty, staff, and the general
public.
Directions to the school can be found at http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/maps/ .
Lunch will be provided.
For more information, see http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hhr or contact Josh Bloom
at jbloom@hsph.harvard.edu or 617-783-5946.
____________________________________________________________________
2)
The Religion, Health and Human Rights Speaker Series of
The International Student Association for Health and Human Rights
At Harvard School of Public Health
Presents:
"Health & Human Rights in the Baha'i Community of Iran: An Update."
with
Changiz Geula and John Woodall, faculty at Harvard Medical School
Date: Thursday April 12th
Time: 12:30-1:30 PM
Location: FXB Building, Room G12.
651 Huntington Ave., Boston
Changiz Geula, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Medicine (Neuroscience) at
Harvard Medical School and Director of the Laboratory for Neurodegenerative and
Aging Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical School. In addition to his
active work in relation to neurodegenerative disorders, Dr. Geula studies the
relationship between health and human rights. In particular, Dr. Geula and
others at the Harvard Medical School initiated a project aimed at determining
the effects of human rights violations on health care of Iranian Baha'is. The
results of this ongoing investigation have been presented in lecture and
publication formats in the past two years. The presentation at this meeting
will represent an up to date summary of the results.
Dr. John Woodall is a psychiatrist on the faculties of the Medical Schools at
Harvard, Tufts and Boston Universities. His area of expertise concerns the
treatment of severe trauma, especially victims of war and refugees. He has run
clinics that deal with trauma, coordinated training programs for clinicians
from war zones on behalf of USAID at various Harvard trauma centers and has
lived for nearly a year in the Balkans developing local responses to the
post-war reconstruction effort in that region. This work has informed his
academic research into the consequences of severe trauma on the formation of
the social identity and ethics of survivors. Specifically, how it is that some
who experience trauma become far more ethno-centric in their identity, while
others become committed to humanitarian values and action. He has lectured and
written on issues of race for over 20 years. He has also consulted to the US
Congress and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia on
ways to collect evidence from rape victims in psychologically sensitive ways.
This event is free and open to all students, faculty, staff, and the general
public.
Directions to the school can be found at http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/maps/ .
Lunch will be provided.
___________________________________________________________
3)
In Commemoration of Holocaust Memorial Day (Yom Hashoah):
"Medicine and Public Health in the Shadow of the Holocaust:
The Nazi Doctors, Racial Hygiene, Murder and Genocide."
With Michael Grodin
Director of the Law, Medicine and Ethics Program
at the Boston University School of Public Health
Date: Wednesday, April 18th
Time: 12:30-1:30 PM
Location: Kresge 213
Harvard School of Public Health
677 Huntington Ave, Boston
Michael Alan Grodin, M.D., is Director of the Law, Medicine and Ethics Program
and Professor of Health Law, Psychiatry and Socio-Medical Sciences and
Community Medicine at the Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public
Health. In addition, Dr. Grodin is a Professor of Philosophy in the Boston
University College of Arts and Sciences. He is the Medical Ethicist at Boston
Medical Center and for 13 years served as the Human Studies Chairman for the
Department of Health and Hospitals of the City of Boston. Dr. Grodin is the
Co-Founder of Global Lawyers and Physicians: Working Together for Human Rights,
Co-Director of the Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights: Caring
for Survivors of Torture. He has received a special citation from the United
States Holocaust Memorial Museum in recognition of his "profound contributions
- through original and creative research - to the cause of Holocaust education
and remembrance." Dr. Grodin has delivered several hundred national and
international addresses, written more than one hundred and fifty scholarly
papers, and edited or co-edited four books including The Nazi Doctors and the
Nuremberg Code: Human Rights in Human Experimentation and is presently working
on a new book entitled Mad, Bad or Evil: Physician Involvement in Human Rights
Abuses From Nazi Germany to the Former Yugoslavia. Dr. Grodin's primary areas
of interest include: the relationship of health and human rights, bioethics and
the philosophy of psychiatry.
This event is part of the HSPH Interntional Health and Human Rights Student
Group month-long theme on Religion, Health and Human Rights and is cosponsored
by CHAI - The Jewish Graduate Student Association at HSPH and Global Chat.
This event is open to students, faculty, staff, community members and the
general public.
Directions to the school can be found at http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/maps/ .
Lunch will be provided by Sebastians. To request a kosher lunch, e-mail Josh
Bloom at jbloom@hsph.harvard.edu.
For more information, see http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hhr or contact Josh Bloom
at jbloom@hsph.harvard.edu or 617-783-5946.
______________________________________________________________
4)
The Religion, Health and Human Rights Speaker Series of
The International Student Association for Health and Human Rights
At Harvard School of Public Health
Presents:
“Male Circumcision, Religion, Ethics, & Rights.”
with
Ronald Goldman, Executive Director of the Circumcision Resource Center
and Rabbi Dr. Terry Bard, Director of the Department of Pastoral Care and
Education at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Date: Monday April 23rd
Time: 12:30-1:30 PM
Location: FXB Building, Room G11
651 Huntington Ave., Boston
Ronald Goldman, PhD., is a psychologist, educator, and executive director of
the Circumcision Resource Center in Boston, a non-profit educational
organization. He authored Questioning Circumcision: A Jewish Perspective. Dr.
Goldman gives lectures and seminars on the psychosocial aspects of circumcision
and counsels parents and circumcised men. Dr. Goldman has been a featured guest
on local and national radio and television shows and has been cited in numerous
newspapers and periodicals.
Rabbi Dr. Terry R. Bard has just begun his 18th year leading the Department of
Pastoral Care and Education at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He
initiated the ethics program at the then Beth Israel Hospital in 1986 and has
served on the Faculty of the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School
since 1975. Dr. Bard lectures nationally and internationally, provides
consultation to medical practices and centers, and maintains a private
counseling practice. Dr. Bard is Rabbi Emeritus of Congregation Shalom,
Chelmsford, MA. Rabbi Bard was a member of the core Faculty that trained a
number of physican mohalim sponsored by the Union of American Hebrew
Congregation. Most recently, he wrote some brief thoughts on the topic "Are
Hospitals the Best Locus for Ritual Circumcisions?" that will appear in the
Spring edition of Interfaith Family magazine published byJewish Family and Life
Media Network.
This event is Co-Sponsored by the HSPH Jewish Student Association. The event is
free and open to all students, faculty, staff, and the general public.
Directions to the school can be found at http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/maps/ .
A light kosher lunch will be provided.
For more information, see http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hhr or contact Josh Bloom
at jbloom@hsph.harvard.edu or 617-783-5946.
___________________________________________________________________
5)
The Religion, Health and Human Rights Speaker Series of
The International Student Association for Health and Human Rights
At Harvard School of Public Health
Presents:
"HIV Prevention & the Catholic Church."
with
James Keenan and Jon Fuller
Editors of Catholic Ethicists on HIV/AIDS Prevention
Date: Monday April 30th
Time: 12:30-1:30 PM
Location: FXB Building, Room G11
651 Huntington Ave., Boston
James Keenan, S.J., is professor of moral theology at Weston Jesuit School of
Theology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and chairperson of the Catholic
Theological Coalition on HIV/AIDS Prevention. He served as lead editor of the
book Catholic Ethicists on HIV/AIDS Prevention. He recently wrote "Applying the
Seventeenth-Century Casuistry of Accommodation to HIV Prevention," Theological
Studies 60 (1999), and edited with Joseph Kotva, Practice What You
Preach:Virtues, Ethics, and Power in the Lives of Pastoral Ministers and Their
Congregations (Franklin, Wis.: Sheed and Ward, 1999).
Jon D. Fuller, S.J., M.D., is assistant director of the adult Clinical AIDS
Program at Boston Medical Center, associate professor of medicine, Boston
University School of Medicine, and adjunct faculty member to both Weston Jesuit
School of Theology and Harvard Divinity School. He edited the book Catholic
Ethicists on HIV/AIDS Prevention with James Keenan, Lisa Sowle Cahill and Kevin
Kelly. Among his other writings are: with D.E. Craven, K.A. Steger et al.,
"Influenza Vaccination of HIV-Infected Adults: Impact on Plasma Levels of HIV
Type 1 RNA and Determinants of Antibody Response," Clinical Infectious Diseases
28 (1999), and "Needle Exchange: Saving Lives," America 179 (1998).
This event is free and open to all students, faculty, staff, and the general
public.
Directions to the school can be found at http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/maps/ .
Lunch will be provided.
For more information, see http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hhr or contact Josh Bloom
at jbloom@hsph.harvard.edu or 617-783-5946.
___________________________________________________________________
6)
The Religion, Health and Human Rights Speaker Series of
The International Student Association for Health and Human Rights
At Harvard School of Public Health
Presents:
“Health & Human Rights Under the Taliban Regime in Afghanistan.”
with
Lynn L Amowitz MD, MSPH, MSc
Physicians for Human Rights Researcher and
Instructor in Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital
Date: Wednesday May 2nd
Time: 12:30-1:30 PM
Location: Kresge Building, Room 213
677 Huntington Ave., Boston
Dr. Amowitz, a specialist in internal medicine, women's health and
epidemiology, is Health and Human Rights Fellow with Physicians for Human
Rights-USA (PHR). Dr. Amowitz has represented PHR in medical fact-finding
investigations in Afghanistan and Pakistan to document the health consequences
of a wide range of human rights violations as well as conducting human rights
seminars in Kosovo. Dr. Amowitz also teaches at Harvard Medical School and is a
published clinical researcher in the field of women's health. Between 1992 and
the present, Dr. Amowitz has served as Medical Director and/or a consultant for
several non-profit organizations in Kenya, the former Zaire, Rwanda, Albania,
and Kosovo providing emergency medical care and public health programing. Dr.
Amowitz also completed a two-year General Medicine research fellowship with
Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in 1998, and since that
time has been conducting clinical research at this institution and human rights
research at PHR. Dr. Amowitz is an Instructor in Medicine and a faculty
attending at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School where she
continues to teach medical students and residents as well as maintaining a
primary care clinical practice.
This event cosponsored by Global Chat and is free and open to all students,
faculty, staff, and the general public.
Directions to the school can be found at http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/maps/ .
Lunch will be provided by Sebastians.
For more information, see http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hhr or contact Josh Bloom
at jbloom@hsph.harvard.edu or 617-783-5946.
____________________________________________________________________________
7)
The Religion, Health and Human Rights Speaker Series of
The International Student Association for Health & Human Rights
At Harvard School of Public Health
Presents:
“Understanding Women's Rights and Role in Islam:
An Islamic Perspective.”
with
Mona Abo-Zena
Principal of the Islamic Academy of New England
Date: Wednesday May 16th
Time: 12:30-1:30 PM
Location: Kresge Building, Room 213
677 Huntington Ave., Boston
Mona Abo-Zena received her Masters in Education from Harvard Graduate School of
Education, and is currently the principal of the Islamic Academy of New England
in Sharon, MA. Having been raised in the United States, she became aware of
many negative stereotyping images and misinformation about women's status in
Islam and developed special interest in this issue as an educator. She became a
member of the outreach committee of the Islamic Society of Boston, and worked
with other religious and educational institutions to educate the American
public on the understanding of women's rights and role in Islam.
This event cosponsored by Global Chat and is free and open to all students,
faculty, staff, and the general public.
Directions to the school can be found at http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/maps/.
Lunch will be provided by Sebastians.
For more information, see http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hhr or contact Josh Bloom
at jbloom@hsph.harvard.edu or 617-783-5946.
_____________________________________________________________________
8)
PASSOVER ACTION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS (AT HSPH)
I (Josh) serve on the National Steering Committee of Amnesty International
USA's Interfaith Network for Human Rights. Last year I wrote and coordinated
the organization's first ever Passover Action for Human Rights. The Action
materials include seder symbolisms and readings that link modern human rights
abuses to the ancient Israelite oppression in Egypt. The Action highlights the
cases of three human rights defenders who have been imprisoned for their
non-violent advocacy of some of their basic rights. As part of the project, we
ask people to send card of hope to these three prisoners at some point during
the week long holiday.
I am again coordinating the Passover Action this year. If you would like copies
for yourself or seders you will be going to, please e-mail me at
jbloom@hsph.harvard.edu let me know (include a mailing address), and I'll make
sure you get them.
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Please pass this along to whomever you think might be interested in
coming to some of these events.<br>
<br>
Sincerely,<br>
Josh Bloom<br>
Co-Chair<br>
The International Student Association for Health and Human Rights<br>
Harvard School of Public Health<br>
jbloom@hsph.harvard.edu<br>
617-783-5946<br>
<a href=3D"http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hhr"=
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<b>The International Student Association for Health and Human Rights
<br>
Religion, Health and Human Rights Speaker Series<br>
<br>
1) Thursday April 5: God Has Commanded! The Denial of Medical Attention
to Children in Religious Groups<br>
2) Thursday April 12: Health & Human Rights in the Baha'i Community
of Iran: An Update<br>
3) Wednesday April 18: Medicine and Public Health in the Shadow of the
Holocaust: The Nazi Doctors, Racial Hygiene, Murder and Genocide<br>
4) Monday April 23: Male Circumcision, Religion, Ethics, &
Rights<br>
5) Monday April 30: HIV Prevention & the Catholic Church<br>
6) Wednesday May 2: Health & Human Rights Under the Taliban Regime in
Afghanistan<br>
7) Wednesday May 16: Understanding Women's Rights and Role in Islam: An
Islamic Perspective<br>
<font color=3D"#008000">8) PASSOVER ACTION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AVAILABLE<br>
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1)<br>
The Religion, Health and Human Rights Speaker Series of <br>
The International Student Association for Health and Human Rights <br>
At Harvard School of Public Health<br>
Presents: <br>
<br>
=93God Has Commanded! The Denial of Medical Attention to Children in
Religious Groups.=94 <br>
with<br>
Robert Pardon, Director of New England Institute of Religious
Research<br>
<br>
Date: Thursday April 5th<br>
Time: 12:30-1:30 PM<br>
Location: FXB Building, Room G12. <br>
651 Huntington Ave., Boston <br>
<br>
This seminar will explore the ethical dilemmas created in denying medical
care for children living in religious groups. What are the pressure
points, limitations and responsibilities for both the parents and society
regarding the children?<br>
<br>
Robert Pardon, M.Div., did his theological and professional training at
Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Hamilton,Massachusetts. He
pastored two Churches for fifteen years. During that time he continued
his graduate studies at Princeton Theological Seminary where he graduated
with a Masters in Theology (Th.M.) with a concentration in medical
ethics. In 1991 he left the pastoral ministry and founded the New England
Institute of Religious Research with four others; an organization
committed to understanding the changing religious landscape in Western
society, from the benign to the destructive. He currently serves as
director and meets with people from diverse religious groups, both
aberrational Christian and non-Christian. He speaks extensively
throughout New England and the rest of the country. Most recently he
served as Court appointed Guardian Ad Litem for 14 children removed by
the State from a religious group where two had children died.<br>
<br>
This event is free and open to all students, faculty, staff, and the
general public.<br>
Directions to the school can be found at
<a href=3D"http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/maps/" eudora=3D"autourl">http://www.=
hsph.harvard.edu/maps/</a>
.<br>
<br>
Lunch will be provided. <br>
<br>
For more information, see <a href=3D"http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hhr"=
eudora=3D"autourl">http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hhr</a> or contact Josh=
Bloom at jbloom@hsph.harvard.edu or 617-783-5946.<br>
<br>
____________________________________________________________________<br>
2)<br>
The Religion, Health and Human Rights Speaker Series of <br>
The International Student Association for Health and Human Rights <br>
At Harvard School of Public Health<br>
Presents: <br>
<br>
"Health & Human Rights in the Baha'i Community of Iran: An=
Update."<br>
with<br>
Changiz Geula and John Woodall, faculty at Harvard Medical School<br>
<br>
Date: Thursday April 12th<br>
Time: 12:30-1:30 PM<br>
Location: FXB Building, Room G12. <br>
651 Huntington Ave., Boston <br>
<br>
Changiz Geula, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Medicine (Neuroscience) at=
Harvard Medical School and Director of the Laboratory for Neurodegenerative=
and Aging Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical School. In addition to=
his active work in relation to neurodegenerative disorders, Dr. Geula=
studies the relationship between health and human rights. In particular,=
Dr. Geula and others at the Harvard Medical School initiated a project=
aimed at determining the effects of human rights violations on health care=
of Iranian Baha'is. The results of this ongoing investigation have been=
presented in lecture and publication formats in the past two years. The=
presentation at this meeting will represent an up to date summary of the=
results.<br>
<br>
Dr. John Woodall is a psychiatrist on the faculties of the Medical Schools=
at Harvard, Tufts and Boston Universities. His area of expertise concerns=
the treatment of severe trauma, especially victims of war and refugees. He=
has run clinics that deal with trauma, coordinated training programs for=
clinicians from war zones on behalf of USAID at various Harvard trauma=
centers and has lived for nearly a year in the Balkans developing local=
responses to the post-war reconstruction effort in that region. This work=
has informed his academic research into the consequences of severe trauma=
on the formation of the social identity and ethics of survivors.=
Specifically, how it is that some who experience trauma become far more=
ethno-centric in their identity, while others become committed to=
humanitarian values and action. He has lectured and written on issues of=
race for over 20 years. He has also consulted to the US Congress and the=
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia on ways to=
collect evidence from rape victims in psychologically sensitive ways.<br>
<br>
<br>
This event is free and open to all students, faculty, staff, and the general=
public.<br>
Directions to the school can be found at <a=
href=3D"http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/maps/"=
eudora=3D"autourl">http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/maps/</a> .<br>
<br>
Lunch will be provided. <br>
<br>
___________________________________________________________<br>
3)<br>
In Commemoration of Holocaust Memorial Day (Yom Hashoah):<br>
<br>
"Medicine and Public Health in the Shadow of the Holocaust: <br>
The Nazi Doctors, Racial Hygiene, Murder and Genocide."<br>
<br>
With Michael Grodin <br>
Director of the Law, Medicine and Ethics Program<br>
at the Boston University School of Public Health<br>
<br>
Date: Wednesday, April 18th<br>
Time: 12:30-1:30 PM<br>
Location: Kresge 213<br>
Harvard School of Public Health<br>
677 Huntington Ave, Boston<br>
<br>
Michael Alan Grodin, M.D., is Director of the Law, Medicine and Ethics=
Program and Professor of Health Law, Psychiatry and Socio-Medical Sciences=
and Community Medicine at the Boston University Schools of Medicine and=
Public Health. In addition, Dr. Grodin is a Professor of Philosophy in the=
Boston University College of Arts and Sciences. He is the Medical Ethicist=
at Boston Medical Center and for 13 years served as the Human Studies=
Chairman for the Department of Health and Hospitals of the City of Boston.=
Dr. Grodin is the Co-Founder of Global Lawyers and Physicians: Working=
Together for Human Rights, Co-Director of the Boston Center for Refugee=
Health and Human Rights: Caring for Survivors of Torture. He has received a=
special citation from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in=
recognition of his "profound contributions - through original and=
creative research - to the cause of Holocaust education and=
remembrance." Dr. Grodin has delivered several hundred national and=
international addresses, written more than one hundred and fifty scholarly=
papers, and edited or co-edited four books including The Nazi Doctors and=
the Nuremberg Code: Human Rights in Human Experimentation and is presently=
working on a new book entitled Mad, Bad or Evil: Physician Involvement in=
Human Rights Abuses From Nazi Germany to the Former Yugoslavia. Dr.=
Grodin's primary areas of interest include: the relationship of health and=
human rights, bioethics and the philosophy of psychiatry.<br>
<br>
This event is part of the HSPH Interntional Health and Human Rights Student=
Group month-long theme on Religion, Health and Human Rights and is=
cosponsored by CHAI - The Jewish Graduate Student Association at HSPH and=
Global Chat.<br>
<br>
This event is open to students, faculty, staff, community members and the=
general public.<br>
Directions to the school can be found at <a=
href=3D"http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/maps/"=
eudora=3D"autourl">http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/maps/</a> .<br>
<br>
Lunch will be provided by Sebastians. To request a kosher lunch, e-mail Josh=
Bloom at jbloom@hsph.harvard.edu.<br>
<br>
For more information, see <a href=3D"http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hhr"=
eudora=3D"autourl">http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hhr</a> or contact Josh=
Bloom at jbloom@hsph.harvard.edu or 617-783-5946.<br>
<br>
______________________________________________________________<br>
4)<br>
The Religion, Health and Human Rights Speaker Series of <br>
The International Student Association for Health and Human Rights <br>
At Harvard School of Public Health<br>
Presents: <br>
<br>
=93Male Circumcision, Religion, Ethics, & Rights.=94<br>
with <br>
Ronald Goldman, Executive Director of the Circumcision Resource Center <br>
and Rabbi Dr. Terry Bard, Director of the Department of Pastoral Care and=
Education at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center <br>
<br>
Date: Monday April 23rd<br>
Time: 12:30-1:30 PM<br>
Location: FXB Building, Room G11 <br>
651 Huntington Ave., Boston <br>
<br>
Ronald Goldman, PhD., is a psychologist, educator, and executive director of=
the Circumcision Resource Center in Boston, a non-profit educational=
organization. He authored Questioning Circumcision: A Jewish Perspective.=
Dr. Goldman gives lectures and seminars on the psychosocial aspects of=
circumcision and counsels parents and circumcised men. Dr. Goldman has been=
a featured guest on local and national radio and television shows and has=
been cited in numerous newspapers and periodicals.<br>
<br>
Rabbi Dr. Terry R. Bard has just begun his 18th year leading the Department=
of Pastoral Care and Education at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He=
initiated the ethics program at the then Beth Israel Hospital in 1986 and=
has served on the Faculty of the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard=
Medical School since 1975. Dr. Bard lectures nationally and=
internationally, provides consultation to medical practices and centers,=
and maintains a private counseling practice. Dr. Bard is Rabbi Emeritus of=
Congregation Shalom, Chelmsford, MA. Rabbi Bard was a member of the core=
Faculty that trained a number of physican mohalim sponsored by the Union of=
American Hebrew Congregation. Most recently, he wrote some brief thoughts=
on the topic "Are Hospitals the Best Locus for Ritual=
Circumcisions?" that will appear in the Spring edition of Interfaith=
Family magazine published byJewish Family and Life Media Network.<br>
<br>
This event is Co-Sponsored by the HSPH Jewish Student Association. The event=
is free and open to all students, faculty, staff, and the general public.=
Directions to the school can be found at <a=
href=3D"http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/maps/"=
eudora=3D"autourl">http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/maps/</a> .<br>
<br>
A light kosher lunch will be provided. <br>
<br>
For more information, see <a href=3D"http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hhr"=
eudora=3D"autourl">http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hhr</a> or contact Josh=
Bloom at jbloom@hsph.harvard.edu or 617-783-5946.<br>
<br>
___________________________________________________________________<br>
5)<br>
The Religion, Health and Human Rights Speaker Series of <br>
The International Student Association for Health and Human Rights <br>
At Harvard School of Public Health<br>
Presents: <br>
<br>
"HIV Prevention & the Catholic Church."<br>
with<br>
James Keenan and Jon Fuller<br>
Editors of Catholic Ethicists on HIV/AIDS Prevention<br>
<br>
Date: Monday April 30th<br>
Time: 12:30-1:30 PM<br>
Location: FXB Building, Room G11 <br>
651 Huntington Ave., Boston<br>
<br>
James Keenan, S.J., is professor of moral theology at Weston Jesuit School=
of Theology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and chairperson of the Catholic=
Theological Coalition on HIV/AIDS Prevention. He served as lead editor of=
the book Catholic Ethicists on HIV/AIDS Prevention. He recently wrote=
"Applying the Seventeenth-Century Casuistry of Accommodation to HIV=
Prevention," Theological Studies 60 (1999), and edited with Joseph=
Kotva, Practice What You Preach:Virtues, Ethics, and Power in the Lives of=
Pastoral Ministers and Their Congregations (Franklin, Wis.: Sheed and Ward,=
1999).<br>
<br>
Jon D. Fuller, S.J., M.D., is assistant director of the adult Clinical AIDS=
Program at Boston Medical Center, associate professor of medicine, Boston=
University School of Medicine, and adjunct faculty member to both Weston=
Jesuit School of Theology and Harvard Divinity School. He edited the book=
Catholic Ethicists on HIV/AIDS Prevention with James Keenan, Lisa Sowle=
Cahill and Kevin Kelly. Among his other writings are: with D.E. Craven,=
K.A. Steger et al., "Influenza Vaccination of HIV-Infected Adults:=
Impact on Plasma Levels of HIV Type 1 RNA and Determinants of Antibody=
Response," Clinical Infectious Diseases 28 (1999), and "Needle=
Exchange: Saving Lives," America 179 (1998).<br>
<br>
This event is free and open to all students, faculty, staff, and the general=
public.<br>
Directions to the school can be found at <a=
href=3D"http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/maps/"=
eudora=3D"autourl">http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/maps/</a> .<br>
<br>
Lunch will be provided. <br>
<br>
For more information, see <a href=3D"http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hhr"=
eudora=3D"autourl">http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hhr</a> or contact Josh=
Bloom at jbloom@hsph.harvard.edu or 617-783-5946.<br>
<br>
___________________________________________________________________<br>
6)<br>
The Religion, Health and Human Rights Speaker Series of <br>
The International Student Association for Health and Human Rights <br>
At Harvard School of Public Health<br>
Presents: <br>
<br>
=93Health & Human Rights Under the Taliban Regime in Afghanistan.=94<br>
with<br>
Lynn L Amowitz MD, MSPH, MSc<br>
Physicians for Human Rights Researcher and <br>
Instructor in Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital<br>
<br>
Date: Wednesday May 2nd<br>
Time: 12:30-1:30 PM<br>
Location: Kresge Building, Room 213 <br>
677 Huntington Ave., Boston <br>
<br>
Dr. Amowitz, a specialist in internal medicine, women's health and=
epidemiology, is Health and Human Rights Fellow with Physicians for Human=
Rights-USA (PHR). Dr. Amowitz has represented PHR in medical fact-finding=
investigations in Afghanistan and Pakistan to document the health=
consequences of a wide range of human rights violations as well as=
conducting human rights seminars in Kosovo. Dr. Amowitz also teaches at=
Harvard Medical School and is a published clinical researcher in the field=
of women's health. Between 1992 and the present, Dr. Amowitz has served as=
Medical Director and/or a consultant for several non-profit organizations=
in Kenya, the former Zaire, Rwanda, Albania, and Kosovo providing emergency=
medical care and public health programing. Dr. Amowitz also completed a=
two-year General Medicine research fellowship with Brigham and Women's=
Hospital and Harvard Medical School in 1998, and since that time has been=
conducting clinical research at this institution and human rights research=
at PHR. Dr. Amowitz is an Instructor in Medicine and a faculty attending at=
Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School where she continues=
to teach medical students and residents as well as maintaining a primary=
care clinical practice.<br>
<br>
This event cosponsored by Global Chat and is free and open to all students,=
faculty, staff, and the general public.<br>
<br>
Directions to the school can be found at <a=
href=3D"http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/maps/"=
eudora=3D"autourl">http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/maps/</a> .<br>
<br>
Lunch will be provided by Sebastians.<br>
<br>
For more information, see <a href=3D"http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hhr"=
eudora=3D"autourl">http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hhr</a> or contact Josh=
Bloom at jbloom@hsph.harvard.edu or 617-783-5946.<br>
____________________________________________________________________________=
<br>
7) <br>
The Religion, Health and Human Rights Speaker Series of<br>
The International Student Association for Health & Human Rights<br>
At Harvard School of Public Health<br>
Presents:<br>
<br>
=93Understanding Women's Rights and Role in Islam: <br>
An Islamic Perspective.=94<br>
with<br>
Mona Abo-Zena<br>
Principal of the Islamic Academy of New England<br>
<br>
Date: Wednesday May 16th<br>
Time: 12:30-1:30 PM<br>
Location: Kresge Building, Room 213 <br>
677 Huntington Ave., Boston<br>
<br>
Mona Abo-Zena received her Masters in Education from Harvard Graduate School=
of Education, and is currently the principal of the Islamic Academy of New=
England in Sharon, MA. Having been raised in the United States, she became=
aware of many negative stereotyping images and misinformation about women's=
status in Islam and developed special interest in this issue as an=
educator. She became a member of the outreach committee of the Islamic=
Society of Boston, and worked with other religious and educational=
institutions to educate the American public on the understanding of women's=
rights and role in Islam.<br>
<br>
This event cosponsored by Global Chat and is free and open to all students,=
faculty, staff, and the general public.<br>
<br>
Directions to the school can be found at <a=
href=3D"http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/maps/"=
eudora=3D"autourl">http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/maps/</a>.<br>
<br>
Lunch will be provided by Sebastians.<br>
<br>
For more information, see <a href=3D"http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hhr"=
eudora=3D"autourl">http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hhr</a> or contact Josh=
Bloom at jbloom@hsph.harvard.edu or 617-783-5946.<br>
_____________________________________________________________________<br>
8)<br>
PASSOVER ACTION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS (AT HSPH)<br>
<br>
I (Josh) serve on the National Steering Committee of Amnesty International=
USA's Interfaith Network for Human Rights. Last year I wrote and=
coordinated the organization's first ever Passover Action for Human Rights.=
The Action materials include seder symbolisms and readings that link modern=
human rights abuses to the ancient Israelite oppression in Egypt. The=
Action highlights the cases of three human rights defenders who have been=
imprisoned for their non-violent advocacy of some of their basic rights. As=
part of the project, we ask people to send card of hope to these three=
prisoners at some point during the week long holiday.<br>
<br>
I am again coordinating the Passover Action this year. If you would like=
copies for yourself or seders you will be going to, please e-mail me at=
jbloom@hsph.harvard.edu let me know (include a mailing address), and I'll=
make sure you get them.<br>
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