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Description
The Harvard College Chapter of Team HBV strives to promote general awareness about hepatitis B and liver cancer. In tandem with regular health education workshops around the Greater Boston area, we conduct grassroots outreach at various cultural events, facilitate screenings/vaccinations, and actively challenge the student body to get involved with the Jade Ribbon Campaign.
The following members comprise the Executive Board for 2009-2010:
President: Francis Deng
Vice President: Ada Lio
Secretary/Treasurer: Jenny X. Chen
Educational/Political Chair: Yue "Janie" Zhang
Community Outreach Chair: Darius Li
Campus Outreach Chairs: Daniel Kim and Hurnan Vongsachang |
Project Date/Time
9/2/2009 12:00 AM to 5/15/2010 11:59 PM
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Asian Liver Center at Stanford Univeristy
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Harvard College
Cambridge, MA 02138
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Health and Medicine, Politics, Race and Ethnicity
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This is an opportunity to discuss hep B medicine and policy with Dr. Daryl Lau of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston
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JianZheng
Congratulations to all Team HBV Collegiate Chapters for winning the first place on the EV Thanksgiving Points Challenge, with a total of 128,054 points! The top 3 chapters with most points are Harvard, Stanford, and Berkeley, hence each will receive a large portion of the award. C...
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francis
A Chinese group claims to explain partially why males infected with hepatitis B virus have more serious clinical outcomes than females. They find in a mouse model of hepatitis B infection (mice with the HBV genome inserted into their genome) that different forms of apolipoprote...
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francis
A few blog posts ago I mentioned how Dr. So told a group of APAMSA Hepatitis B conference participants that before one does any screening/outreach, you make sure there are institutions in the community that let the patients go on to the next step. In other words, if you educate them ab...
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beicatech
For those who yet have it, here is the 6 question survey that Team HBV uses to test people's knowledge of Hepatitis B. I will attach the answers in a separate blog. Normal 0 false false
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beicatech
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE
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francis
Dr. So told us he remade the world HBV prevalence map because some people are colorblind! What a great idea. Turns out that roughly one in 20 Asian males are red-green color blind, meaning it's extremely difficult to distinguish between red and green. The figure Dr. So showed ...
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francis
Currently listening to Dale Hu from the CDC. The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey: 1-3 Private Victory 4-6 Public Victory 7 All-encompassing Habit Be proactive. Taking initiative and responsibility for our lives ...
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francis
Members of Harvard Team HBV attended the Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association's annual Hepatitis B Conference on Halloween, which (on purpose) coincided with the annual meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases right across the street in the Back...
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Linked Organizations
Organization: Asian Liver Center at Stanford University
The Asian Liver Center at Stanford University is the first non-profit organization in the United States that addresses the high incidence of hepatitis B and liver cancer in Asians and Asian Americans. Founded in 1996, the center uses a three-pronged approach towards fighting hepatitis B through outr
Organization: Team HBV
Team HBV is the international coalition of student organizations and volunteers working with the Asian Liver Center to spread awareness about hepatitis B and liver cancer to their schools and communities. Team HBV is the organizational structure that works to promote the Jade Ribbon Campaign.
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