Israeli team battling rural poverty in Brazil
July 14, 2002
A group of researchers from Ben-Gurion University's School of Management in Beersheva, Israel, is helping the Brazilian state of Ceara with a plan to reduce poverty in its rural areas as agricultural workers flee to increasingly crowded cities.
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Overview of MD Program in International Health and Medicine
In affiliation with Columbia University's Health Sciences Division, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev’s Joyce and Irving Goldman Medical School has instituted a four year medical degree program to graduate doctors with special skills in global health and medicine.
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Medical Students Headed To Nepal As Part of Global Health Program in Israel
December 16, 2002
In a few short weeks, a group of students in a collaborative American – Israeli medical degree program will journey from the desert city of Beersheva, Israel to eastern Nepal to spend two months preparing for careers physicians dedicated to advancing global health.
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Catastrophes and Humanitarian Action in the age of Globalization
This project examines contemporary catastrophes in the context of globalizing processes, and studies the latter through the perspective offered by the former. It seeks to establish a better understanding of the role catastrophe plays in the politics and culture of our times, of which it has become one of the most prominent figures. But it also wishes to elaborate on the puzzling notion of globalization, by considering the catastrophe as one of its most emblematic sites.
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