Eat crepes! Give back to the community!

Eat crepes! Give back to the community! Stop by Health Leads NYU's fundraiser at Crepeaway!

As the holidays roll around the corner, NYU's Health Leads volunteers work diligently to help low-income families achieve what they need. Volunteers partner with providers in urban clinics to connect low-income patients with the basic resources — such as food, housing, and heating assistance — that they need to be healthy.

By taking a study break between 8 and 9pm on Friday, 30% of Crepeaway's profits will go to Health Leads to help them serve more low-income families!

Bring some friends, meet our volunteers, and hear about our stories!

Check us out on FB: http://www.facebook.com/events/239413552792227/?notif_t=event_invite
Get more information: http://www.healthleadsusa.org/

Need an On-Campus Job? Come to this info session!

Committee Packet Workshop!!

Research Opportunity: Summer Research Program for Undergraduates at Columbia Univeristy!

Biostatistics Enrichment Summer Training (BEST) Diversity Program at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health

BEST is a rigorous eight-week program that is focused on expanding and diversifying the behavioral and biomedical sciences’ workforce by introducing undergraduates from underrepresented populations to biostatistics and cardiovascular and pulmonary disease research.

Students are currently being recruited for the 2012 program (May 29-July 20) and have extended the application deadline.

Application Deadline: February 1, 2012!

Qualified applicants must:

• Be enrolled and have completed at least one year of undergraduate work at an accredited school or university OR be enrolled at a community or junior college, completing at least 3 courses per academic term.
• Have completed at least 1 semester of college calculus
• Be U.S. citizens or non-citizen nationals of the U.S. OR lawfully admitted for permanent residence.

For more information about the program and the online application, students can visit the following website:
http://www.mailman.columbia.edu/academic-departments/biostatistics/best-diversity-program

SAVE THE DATE: CPR Course @ NYU OP

Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Providers

This course is a detailed, comprehensive,
life support course designed to develop and hone CPR skills and techniques of using an automated external defibrillator (AED). This course teaches the participant how to recognize an emergency, how to stabilize and maintain stability of an emergency scene, how to perform a full initial assessment on a patient, how to perform rescue breathing, CPR, conscious choking, unconscious choking, and use an AED. Care for adults, children, and infants are taught and emphasized equally.

In addition, the use of more advanced medical equipment is taught in this course, certifying participants to use or assist in the usage of face shields, resuscitation masks, and bag-valve masks in responding to an emergency. If participants do not work in a healthcare setting, they will be fully trained in assisting emergency medical responders in using the above mentioned equipment upon arrival of advanced medical care.

Vital skills such as pulse check are taught only in this CPR course, and respiratory emergencies are emphasized along with cardiac emergencies.

• January 17^th OR 18^th. Open to first 50 students. Cost is $25
• 3 sessions, 4 manikin stations at each session, 4 students per station
• Course Length: 5.5 hours for every 16 students