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Global Health Sciences Seminar Series
The Global Health Seminar and Lecture Series started in February of 2005 with the goal to encourage and facilitate campus-wide multidisciplinary global health discussion and collaboration, and to support and share international health research initiatives. Here is an archive of the previously held seminars.
February 24, 2005 Presented by Regis B. Kelly, Ph.D., the executive director of the Institute
of Quantitative Biomedical Research (QB3). QB3 works at ways to develop
drugs at a cost that developing countries can achieve for diseases that
are not a high priority or money maker for the U.S. like malaria and tuberculosis.
May 18, 2005 Associate professor Dr. Eva Harris introduced the Sustainable Sciences
Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving public health
worldwide, by helping scientists in developing countries gain access to
the resources needed to address local problems related to infectious diseases.
She also discussed her multidisciplinary approach to studying dengue fever
in Latin America.
September 27, 2005 Dr. Bruce Alberts explored how to keep science healthy and maximally
productive in the United States in the first of the Fall 2005 Seminar
Series. He analyzed our present incentives and examined ways to improve
the situation.
November
1, 2005 Dr. Haile Debas, GHS Executive Director will introduce MacArthur Fellow and leading social entrepreneur David Green, to speak at the "Scientist to CEO" Speaker Series. Green will present "Bottom of the Pyramid Approaches to Health Care Delivery: Financially self sustaining paradigms for health services; delivery of affordable medical products that is profitable; and financing of global health innovation." Green will draw upon his experiences as a social entrepreneur and experiences in what he terms "compassionate capitalism." A serial entrepreneur, Green has already successfully launched systems for the production and distribution of intraocular lenses and surgical sutures, and is purusing the Affordable Hearing Aid Project. His long-term vision is to spread his proven and self-sustaining model of compassionate capitalism to other global healthcare challenges, such as AIDS treatment. For more
information on the series and the event visit the Center
for BioEntrepreneurship.
November 16, 2005 See Article...
November 30, 2005 Dr. Haile T. Debas, Executive Director of UCSF Global Health Sciences,
will begin his lecture with a discussion about the impact of globalization,
particularly as it affects Sub-Saharan Africa and the crisis in the health
workforce. He will discuss the response of the University of California
and UCSF Global Health Sciences and close with a proposal for a coordinated,
collaborative global health agenda for the leading US Universities.
December 14, 2005 Dr. Marya Levintova, a postdoctoral fellow at the
Institute for Global Health, will talk about the mortality crisis in the
Russian Federation. Her presentation will focus on the impact of non-communicable
diseases, including cardiovascular incidents, alcohol consumption, smoking,
intentional and unintentional injuries. She will also discuss the responses
of the Russian government to the ongoing crisis.
January 12, 2006 Six years ago Global AIDS Interfaith Alliance (GAIA)
was founded by an Episcopal priest and a brain surgeon, an unlikely beginning.
Taking an interfaith approach to reach into the villages where 90% of
the population lives, GAIA has worked primarily through faith-based leaders
to encourage and fund proposals originating in individual congregations
(80% Christian, 20% Muslim). The break-through came in 2003 when GAIA
received a major grant from the Gates Foundation to work in Southern Malawi
to advance the status of women, a project that now involves 37 villages.
We have learned that a sharp focus on preventing the further spread of
AIDS, when analyzed as one component of a system with multiple inter-dependencies,
requires a much broader approach to be truly effective. Conditions in
Malawi have been harsh, requiring difficult decisions by our Board of
Trustees. GAIA has learned much, and it is the lessons learned that constitute
the core of this presentation.
January 26, 2006 This interdisciplinary lecture will cover essential elements in disaster preparedness and response, applied through firsthand reports from providers responding to these two widely covered disasters of 2005, and from prior experience.
April 24, 2006 At the 4th Annual Global Health Symposium on April 24 at 4pm in N-217, Dr. Gerald Keusch of Boston University will deliver a keynote address entitled, “Is Academia Relevant to Global Health?” The event will showcase UCSF students’ international research, project work, or service completed during professional school. Oral presentations will be given by the four winners of the abstract competition decided by a panel of global health faculty. Additional projects will be presented as posters, as part of a poster contest that will be judged by attendees at the symposium. Also featured is a slide show of images captured by students and faculty working on projects around the world. A reception featuring food and music will follow in the Nursing Mezzanine.
September 26, 2006 Global Health Sciences, along with Dr. Haile Debas and Dr. David Bangsberg, is pleased to announce a special lecture: Restoring Intellectual Capital in Health and Science in African Institutions. Dr. Richard Feachem, Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, will speak on Rebuilding Africas Medical Schools: A Neglected Priority. Following Dr. Feachem will be Dr. Frederick Kayanja, Vice Chancellor of Mbarara (Uganda) University of Sciences and Technology, who will speak on Research Training Needs in Sub-Saharan Africa. A discussion period and reception will follow the lectures.
This lecture is open to the public. Please feel free to distribute this message to colleagues. Contact Robert Mansfield at 476-0509 or mansfieldr@globalhealth.ucsf.edu if you have questions.
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