Innovative Approaches to Global Health Lecture Series
2009 Spring Semester
Economics And Global Health
as part of the Innovative Approaches to Global Health Lecture Series
Wednesday, April 22nd, 7:00-8:30pm, Eddy Auditorium, Biomed 291
A panel discussion with:
Michael F. Maltese, Founder, Global Medical Knowledge, Managing Director, Legatum Center, MIT
"Social Entrepreunership and Healthcare in Sub-Saharan Africa"
Ed Wood, Special Advisor to the Chairman, Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative
"Taming the African AIDS Tsunami: Is more money the answer?"
Refreshments to follow
Innovative Approaches to Global Health: Global Mental Health
Monday, April 13, 7-8:30 pm, Biomed Center Eddy Auditorium 291
A panel discussion with:
Cynthia Garcia Coll, PhD
Professor of Education, Psychology & Pediatrics, Brown University
"The adaptation of immigrant youth & children: a world-wide phenomenon"
Susan M. Kiene, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Community Health, Brown University
"Psychosocial Aspects of Prevention in the Global HIV-Epidemic"
Robert Kohn, MD
Department of Psychiatry, Brown University
"Global mental health: disability, prevalence, & treatment gap"
Thaddeus Shattuck, MD, MPH
Department of Psychiatry, Brown University
"An American's perspective on psychiatry in Kenya"
Innovative Approaches to Global Health: Global Health and Religion
Thursday, April 9, 2009, 7-8:30 pm, Biomed Center Eddy Auditorium 291
A panel discussion with:
Felicia Ackerman, PhD
Professor of Philosophy, Brown University
"Spirituality, Global Health, and 'Accepting' Death"
Susan Ellison
Doctoral Student in Anthropology, Brown University
"The Rome of Yesterday Reflected in the Bolivia of Today: Faith-based Advocacy, Structural Inequality, and Health in the Andes"
Engineering and Global Health
Tuesday, March 17th 2009, 7-8:30 pm, Biomed Center: Eddy Auditorium, Room 291
Appropriate Technology: Local Solutions to Local Problems
CHRISTOPHER BULL, Senior Research Engineer, Brown University
River Filtration Systems in India
THOMAS BOVING, PhD, Assistant Professor of Geosciences
University of Rhode Island
Gender Studies and Global Health
Thursday, March 12th 2009 Wilson 102 7-8:30 pm
Masculinity and HIV/AIDS
DANIEL J. SMITH, PhD, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Brown University
The Right to Know? Dilemmas of Diagnoses and Disclosure among HIV-Positive Women in Nigeria
KATIE RHINE, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Brown University
Health and the Environment — A Panel Discussion
Wednesday, February 25 from 7-8:30 pm in Macmillan 115
Conservation Medicine
Kate Smith, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biology, Brown University
Transboundary Movements of Environmental Hazards
Gregory Howard, DSc, MPH
Postdoctoral Researcher, Boston University School of Public Health
Climate Change and Emerging Disease
Charles Chester, PhD
Lecturer in Environmental Studies, Brandeis University
Supported by the International Public Health Coalition and the Framework for Global Health