HPH NOW, August 4, 2006, Around the School

Update: Work-Life Efforts

Bright Horizons

HSPH has negotiated the use of eight slots at the day care center Bright Horizons in the Landmark Building, 401 Park Drive. There are no open slots currently available, but HSPH members are invited to add their names to a wait list to be given priority when openings emerge. Benefits-eligible faculty and academic appointees, as well as all postdoctoral fellows, students, and staff are eligible to enroll their children. Contact Bright Horizons to be added to the wait list and for additional information, including tuition schedules and fees. Phone: 617-450-0790. Other questions may be directed to Audrey Smith, Dean's Office, 617-432-4397, asmith@hsph.harvard.edu. More child care information is available online. (http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k7434&pageid=icb.page28919). The Bright Horizons slots are in addition to five previously established slots for HSPH members at the Longwood Medical Area Child Care Center (LMACCC).

University Funding

Harvard University has announced that it will spend an additional $7.5 million over three years to improve work-life benefits. An article with details is available on Harvie: http://harvie.harvard.edu/working/resource/features/story2.shtml. The funding will be geared towards efforts such as a 50 percent increase in child care scholarships; creation of a new child care scholarship fund just for faculty members; a "Just in Time" program that reimburses employees who earn less than $55,000 up to $250 a year to pay for back-up child care; vacation week camps; and preferred access to back-up child care at Bright Horizons centers.

HSPH Women in Science

Additional work-life balance resources are available online: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/women_in_science/

Global Health Fellowship

The Cuban Studies Program of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) at Harvard University invites applications to its first Global Public Health Leadership Fellowship for academic year 2006-07. The deadline for application is September 15. The Center will select one clinician from a high-HIV prevalence country for a research fellowship in collaboration with Harvard faculty and colleagues from the Institute of Tropical Medicine Pedro Kouri in Havana, Cuba. Proposals should describe a well-defined research project or question and, where relevant, an indication of how the research will be aided by scholarly resources uniquely available at Harvard and at the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Havana. For more information, e-mail yrivera@fas.harvard.edu.