Symposium on Global Health
The Department of Medicine and the Office of Global Health are co-sponsoring a symposium focused on the challenges to improving people's health throughout the world. Prominent experts will discuss how to reduce health disparities, improve access to drugs, vaccines, technology and build manpower capacity worldwide.
The goal of the series is to increase interest in global health initiatives and delineate some of the ethical implications and challenges for these collaborative efforts. The program hopes to generate interest amongst faculty at Stanford in the area of global health. The speakers will appear at Medicine Grand Rounds throughout 2009-2010.
Upcoming Speakers include:
| Date | Speaker |
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Sept.23, 2009
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Michele Barry, MD, FACP Professor of Medicine, Senior Associate Dean, Director of Global Health Initiatives for Stanford Department of Medicine As a member of the Institute of Medicine and National Academy of Science, Dr. Barry served on a task force to mobilize a volunteer U.S. Global Health Service Corps for HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria. She founded the subsection of global health in the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and served as co-director for more than 25 years on what is now the Yale/Stanford Johnson & Johnson Physician Scholars Program. Topic: Global Health, Why Now, Why Here |
| Jan.27, 2010 | Sir Richard Feachem, MD, PhD Professor of Global Health, UCSF, San Francisco and Berkeley Dr. Feachem served as executive director of the Global Fund to Fight, Aids, TB, and Malaria and Under Secretary General of the United Nations. In 2007, he founded the Global Health Group at UCSF. Sir Richard was knighted by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in 2007. Topic: Shrinking the Malaria Map |
April 21, 2010 |
Peter Singer, MD, MPH, FRCPC, FRSC Professor of Medicine, Sun Life Financial Chair in Bioethics and Director at McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health, University Health Network and University of Toronto Dr. Singer's research is on life sciences and the developing world. He has published over 260 research articles and is a member of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and has advised the UN Secretary General's Office and the Candian government on issues related to global health. Topic: From Lab to Village: Life Sciences and Global Health |