Global Health Grand Rounds is a monthly lecture series designed to foster additional discussion of topics relating to the Global Health Curriculum’s Core Competencies while simultaneously introducing the Weill Cornell community to renowned global health leaders. Open to the public. Post-lecture Receptions will follow each Grand Rounds lecture, providing students with the opportunity for face-to-face dialogue with the speaker in a more intimate setting. For Weill Cornell students and NYP residents only. Global Health Grand Rounds 2011-2012 April 11, 2012 5-6pm Per Pinstrup-Andersen, PhD Professor, Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management (AEM) Professor, Division of Nutritional Sciences (DNS) Cornell University ~~~~
March 5, 2012 6pm-7pm Weill Auditorium "The Cost of Service: Combating HIV/AIDS in Iran" Arash and Kamiar Alaei Co-Founders of the first "Triangular Clinic" in Iran targeting populations at high risk for HIV Co-Authored Iran's National Strategic Plan for the Control for HIV/AIDS 2002-2007 Awarded the Jonathan Mann Award for Global Health 2011 The Alaei brothers were detained in 2008 and convicted as conspirators working with an "enemy government" to overthrow the government of Iran. Their travel to international AIDS conferences was used as a basis for this charge. The brothers spent over two years in imprisonment for their pioneering public health work. Join us in learning about their professional and personal journeys as they remain committed to their battle against HIV. ~~~~
February 8, 2012 Weill Auditorium, 5pm-6pm "Delivering Solutions for Girls and Women: Advancing Global Maternal and Reproductive Health" Jill Sheffield Women Deliver, Founder Family Care International, Founder ~~~~
January 11, 2012 Weill Auditorium, 5pm-6pm "From Times Square to Mogadishu to Mumbai: One Journalist's Role in Global Health" Donald McNeil Science and Health Reporter New York Times ~~~~ December 1, 2011 A-126, 5pm-6pm "Enhancing Global Maternal Health: The AmeriCares Model" Frank Bia, MD Medical Director AmeriCares Professor Emeritus Internal Medicine [Infectious Diseases] Yale School of Medicine ~~~~
November 3, 2011 A-250, 5p-6pm "Health and Human Rights of Non-Citizens: Undocumented Migrants, Unaccompanied Children, and Refugees" Jacqueline Bhabha, JD Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School Executive Director of the Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies Director of Research at the Francois Bagnoud Xavier Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard ~~~~
October 6, 2011 Uris Auditorium, 5pm-6pm "Solutions to Poverty vs. Rights for the Poor" William Easterly, PhD Professor of Economics at New York University ~~~~
September 7th, 2011 Weill Auditorium, 5pm-6pm "Following Virchow: The New Global Health Challenges" Sir George Alleyne, MD Chancellor of the University of West Indies Former Director of PAHO (Pan American Health Organization) Fall 2010 - Spring 2011 Scheduled Speakers October 25, 2010 Stephen Lewis Former Special Envoy, UN Co-Director, AIDS-Free World November 22, 2010 Panel on WCMC Earthquake Relief Response in Haiti: Warren Johnson, MD Satchit Balsari, MD November 22, 2010 Mehmood Kahn, MD Senior Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer, PepsiCo Inc; Former President of Takeda Global Research and Development Center, Inc; December 1, 2010 Katherine Marshall, MPA,MA Senior Fellow at the Berkeley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs at Georgetown University; Former Senior Advisor at the World Bank, Former Country Director for the World Bank's Africa region February 2, 2011 Valentin Fuster, MD Director, Mt. Sinai Heart; Former President of the American Heart Association; Former President, World Heart Federation May 2, 2011 Jean Pape, MD Founder, Director of NIH-funded GHESKIO clinics in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti May 4, 2011 Nicholas Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn Authors of "Half the Sky" |
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