Dec
21
The Essential Role of Death Certificates in Public Health
December 21, 2009 | 1 Comment
[Don't forget, you have until Wednesday, December 23rd at noon ET to be eligible for a copy of the Child Abuse Quick Reference, 2nd Edition. Just answer the question here to enter your name into the random drawing.]
Over at ReachMD, they have an interesting podcast I haven’t heard discussed elsewhere: The Essential Role of Death [...]
Dec
14
The Choking Game
December 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment
ABC News is running an article on their site about the choking game, which is a popular search term on this site. The article doesn’t break any new ground, but it does a decent job of providing an overview to the lay public. What I liked about the article, though, was the mention of an [...]
Dec
8
The Spread of HIV Through Sexual Violence
December 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment
ReachMD has a new podcast available now on the spread of HIV through sexual violence against women. It’s part of their Clinician’s Roundtable series. Access is free, but you must register to access the site. You have the choice of listening online, downloading the podcast for later review or downloading transcripts of the session. You [...]
Dec
4
Weekly Wrap-Up @ the Sustainability Blog
December 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Heading home from a long, but satisfying week in Miami working with prosecutors at our sexual assault institute. But before I get on a plane, I just want to mention a couple things over at the sustainability site:
*A plethora of business management and leadership audio and video podcasts from Harvard Business Publishing (a favorite read [...]
Nov
18
Organ Trafficking & Transplant Tourism
November 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment
A subset of human trafficking, organ trafficking and transplant tourism are significant concerns around the globe. And while they’re not discussed to the same extent as sexual exploitation and forced child labor, quite a bit’s available on the subject. It initially caught my eye when I noticed Harvard’s Initiative to Stop Human Trafficking had an [...]
Nov
12
A Call to Men
November 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Prevention Connection’s latest newsletter is pretty fantastic. It includes audio recordings from the 4th Annual A Call to Men conference (PDF), held last spring in NYC. If you’re not familiar with the project, A Call to Men “challenges men to reconsider their long held beliefs about women, in an effort to create a more just [...]
Nov
3
Trafficking: New Offerings from the Week that Was
November 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Over the past week there have been several new offerings related to human trafficking:
Phil Borges has an interview on his blog with Rachel Lloyd, founder of GEMS (Girls Educational and Mentoring Services). “Rachel told me that historically law enforcement in our country has punished the victims of the sex industry—the vulnerable and exploited adolescent girls [...]
Oct
27
Physicians & Executions
October 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment
ReachMD has a roundtable discussion on physicians and executions, facilitated by Dr. Atul Gawande. He is joined by Deborah Denno, professor of law at Fordham University; Dr. Robert Truog, professor of medical ethics, anesthesiology, and pediatrics at Harvard Medical School; and Dr. David Waisel, associate professor of anesthesia at Harvard Medical School, in a conversation [...]
Oct
8
Engaging Men
October 8, 2009 | 3 Comments
An interesting coincidence (if you believe in those sorts of things) happened yesterday. I received an email from a reader asking about resources to engage men in ending violence against women; and I checked my Facebook page last night and saw that EVAW had posted some info about one of Canada’s latest campaigns to engage [...]
Oct
6
Evaluating Elder Competency & Abuse
October 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment
ReachMD has a new offering as a part of their Focus on Geriatric Medicine and Aging series: Evaluating Elder Competency & Elder Abuse. This podcast features Dr. Lisa Gibbs from the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine, who “describes the different types of elder abuse and who is most vulnerable. She explains how physicians [...]
