Calendar of Events
No events for July.
The MGH Center for Global Health Seminars Series is free of charge, and open to the MGH community. Watch this space for announcements of our second season of seminars, to begin in fall 2008.
Archive of past seminars:
"Health, Human Rights and Social Justice"
Speaker: Paul Farmer, MD, PhD
Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Founding Director, Partners in Health
Date: Thursday, November 1, 2007
Time: 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm
Location: MGH Ether Dome
Click here for a video recording of this seminar. To view the video, you will need Windows Media Player, available for download here.
"Global Implications of Human Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery"
Speaker: Kevin Bales, PhD
President, Free the Slaves, and Author of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated book, Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy
Date: Thursday, November 15, 2007
Time: 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm
Location: O'Keeffe Auditorium (in the Blake building on the MGH campus)
Click here for a video recording of this seminar. To view the video, you will need Windows Media Player, available for download here.
“International Humanitarian Emergencies: a Panel Discussion”
Speaker/Moderator:
Frederick "Skip" Burkle, Jr., MD, MPH, Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences and Epidemiology and Director of the Asia-Pacific Center for Biosecurity, Disaster and Conflict Research at the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine
Panelists:
Susan Briggs, MD, MPH, FACS, Attending General and Trauma Surgeon, MGH; Founder and Director of the International Medical Surgical Response Team (IMSuRT); Director,International Trauma and Disaster Institute; and Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Lydia Mann-Bondat, MS, MPH, Director of Research, MGH Center for Global Health and co-author of The Uprooted: Improving Humanitarian Responses to Forced Migration
Michael VanRooyen, MD, MPH, FACEP, Co-Director, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative; Director, Division of International Health and Humanitarian Programs, Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; and Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health
Date: Thursday, January 10, 2008
Time: 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm
Location: O'Keeffe Auditorium (in the Blake building on the MGH campus)
"Key Issues in Achieving Global Child Health in the 21st Century"
Speaker: Charlie MacCormack, President and CEO of Save the Children
Date: Monday, February 25, 2008
Time: 5:00 to 6:30 pm
Location: O'Keeffe Auditorium (in the Blake building on the MGH campus)
Click here for a video recording of this seminar. To view the video, you will need Windows Media Player, available for download here.
"HIV/AIDS and Global Health"
Speakers: Bruce Walker, MD, Director of the Partners AIDS Research Center and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School; and Thomas F. Burke, MD, Director of the MGH Center for Global of Health and Instructor at Harvard Medical School
Date: Thursday, April 10, 2008
Time: 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm
Location: O'Keeffe Auditorium (in the Blake building on the MGH campus)
"Climate Change and Global Health"
Speakers:
Bianca Jagger, Council of Europe Goodwill Ambassador; Chair, World Future Council; Chair, Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation
Paul R. Epstein, MD, MPH, Associate Director, Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School
Date: Thursday, May 15, 2008
Time: 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm
Location: O'Keeffe Auditorium (in the Blake building on the MGH campus)
Click here to view Dr. Epstein's PowerPoint presentation.
The MGH Cancer Center and the MGH Center for Global Health present:
"Strategies for Health Care Financing in Under-Resourced Environments"
Speaker: Muhammad Yunus, PhD, 2006 Nobel Laureate for Peace and Managing Director of Grameen Bank
Date: Saturday, June 7, 2008
Time:
9:15 AM to 10 AM Seminar with Dr. Yunus,
10 AM to 11 AM Discussion on Grameen Health
Location: O'Keeffe Auditorium (In the Blake building on the MGH campus)
Click here for a video recording of this seminar. To view the video, you will need Windows Media Player, available for download here.
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OUTSIDE CALENDARS
For more global health events outside the MGH campus, please see these listings:
The Center for Global Health coordinates global health activities throughout the MGH. If you are part of the MGH community and wish to post details of your group's global health event on this website, please email Hannah Chapel at hchapel@partners.org.
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