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Office of Global Health Events and Other Activities
OGH Seminar Series: Academic Year 2007-08
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Paul D. Bouey, PhD, MPH
U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)
Wednesday, February 13, 2008, 1:15pm
Blue Cross Blue Shield Auditorium
Michael Hooker Research Center
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health |
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Godfrey Woelk, PhD
Senior Research Epidemiologist, International Studies Program, Statistics and Epidemiology
RTI International
"Implementing Behavioral HIV/AIDS Prevention Interventions in Africa: Zimbabwe"
March 28, 2008, 12:30pm
Blue Cross Blue Shield Auditorium
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
Dr. Yvan Hutin, MD, PhD
Medical Officer, Field Epidemiology Training Programme
India Country Office
World Health Organization
"The Meaning of Life, the Universe and Everything: Relevance of Two-By-Two Tables"
April 11, 2008, 12:30pm
Blue Cross Blue Shield Auditorium
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
Henry Perry, MD, PhD, MPH
Carl
E. Taylor Professor of Equity and Empowerment
Future
Generations
Friday, April 18, 2008
12:00 pm
3005
Michael Hooker Research Center
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
Co-sponsored with Student Global Health
Committee
Street Kids from Kinshasa (film)
Viewing and discussion with
producer Gilbert Mulamba
and UNC SPH professors Frieda Behets and Stuart Rennie
Thursday, April 22, 2008
3:00 pm
Blue Cross Blue Shield
Auditorium
Michael Hooker Research
Center
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
Special Seminar
Gilbert Burnham, MD, PhD
Director, Center for Refugee and Disaster Response, Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health"Challenges to Rebuilding Health Services in Afghanistan"
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Fed Ex Global Education Center
Co-hosted with PUBH 510: Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Global Health
Other Seminars and Events: Academic Year 2007-08
Peking University-UNC Global Health Forum
January 31-February 1, 2008
Location: The Carolina Club
For more information
African Healthcare Worker Shortage: Forum on Private Sector Responses
November 29-
December 1, 2007
Location: Duke Fuqua School of Business
Information and Registration
FHI-UNC Public Health Fellowship Program -- Panel Discussion
Come discuss the Fellowship Program with current and past Fellows
Tuesday, December 4, 2007, 3:30-4:30pm
3005 Michael Hooker Research Center
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
Applications for the Fellowship Program are available on the Office of Global Health website.
15-501 Global Health Dinner Club
An activity of the GSK UNC-Duke Global Health Project
Delegation of speakers from the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria
Tuesday, December 4, 7pm
Malawi-Carolina Summer Institute Poster Reception
Come view and discuss the posters students have created based on their internships in Malawi during this past summer.
Thursday, November 29, 2007, 11am-12pm
Atrium, Michael Hooker Research Center
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
View the posters online.
Applications for the Malawi Summer Institute are available on the Office of Global Health website.
Richard Pollack
Harvard University School of Public Health
"Maize, Mosquitoes, And Malaria
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Location: NC State University
College of Veterinary Medicine
Room D-236
4700 Hillsborough St.
Raleigh, NC 27606
contact Jay Levine for more information
Sir Mark Malloch Brown
British Foreign Office Minister for Africa, Asia,
and the UN
2007-2008 Frank
Porter Graham Lecture
"Making
Private Capital Work for the Poor"
Monday, October 1, 2007, 7:30 pm
Memorial Hall
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
UNC's Public Health Grand Rounds
"An Innovative Approach to Fighting Disease in Uganda,"
Thursday,
September 27, 2-3pm
Blue Cross Blue Shield Auditorium
Michael Hooker Research Center
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
Breastfeeding and Feminism 2007
Focus: Reproductive Health, Rights and Justice
September 24-25, 2007
Location: William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education, Chapel Hill, NC
For more information
Student Roundtable Discussion with Sheila Leatherman
Microcredit and Health
Monday, September 24, 2007, 1pm
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OGH Seminar Series: Academic Year 2006-07
Steven Sinding, PhD
former Director General
International Planned Parenthood Federation
Wednesday, January 31, 2007, 12:00pm
Co-sponsored with the Department of Maternal and Child Health
Video
Anaclaudia Gastal Fassa
Associate Professor of the Post-graduate Program in Epidemiology
Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Topic: Child Labor in Brazil
Co-sponsored with the Injury Prevention Research Center
Kathy Sikkema, PhD
School of Nursing, Duke University
Wednesday, February 28, 2007, 12-1:15pm "Coping with HIV and Sexual Trauma: Secondary Prevention Intervention Trial Outcomes"
Co-sponsored with the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education
Steven Blount, MD, MPH
Director, Coordinating Office for Global Health
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Monday, March 19, 2007, 12pm
"Global Health Activities at CDC"
Video
Navigating the Global American South Conference
Theme: global health and regional solutions
April 19-20, 2007
Sponsored by UNC Center for Global Initiatives (formerly University Center for International Studies), SPH Office of Global Health, Center for the Study of the American South, Quintiles Transnational Corp.
Gil Burnham, MD, MSc, PhD
Co-director of the Center for Refugee and Disaster Response
Johns Hopkins University
"Public Health Looks at War"
September 11, 2006, 11:30 am
Flyer - Video
 Tim Uyeki
National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases
Coordinating Center for Infectious Diseases
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
"Human Infections with Avian Influenza A (H5N1) Virus"
Tuesday, October 3, 2006, 12:00pm
Co-sponsored with the UNC Center for Infectious Diseases
Flyer
Laura Caulfield, PhD
Center for Human Nutrition, Johns Hopkins University
"Global Burden of Disease"
Monday, October 9, 2006, 2:00pm
Flyer - Video
Oscar Kashala, DSc
Former Presidential Candidate
Democratic Republic of Congo
"DRC: Public Health Crisis and Challenge;
The Paradox of a Country of Plenty"
Thursday, October 12, 2006, 12:30pm
Video
Andres Villaveces, MD, PhD, MPH
UNC Injury Prevention Research Center
"Injury Prevention Policies in Bogotá, Colombia over the Last 13 Years"
December 6, 2006, 3:30 pm
Co-sponsored with the Injury Prevention Research Center
Flyer - Presentation - Video
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Other Seminars and Events: Academic Year 2006-07
Dr. Vivian Go
Johns Hopkins University
"Intra-couple communication about HIV risk behaviors among injecting drug users and their sexual partners in northern Vietnam?
Tuesday, October 17th, 2006, 11am
Rosenau 324, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
Part of the Narratives of HIV series
Wallace Broecker, an international global warming expert
"Global Warming: What Should We Do About Fossil Fuel CO2?"
Tuesday, October 17, 2006, 7 p.m
111 Carroll Hall. Reception will follow.
For more information, contact Dee Reid at 919-843-6339.
Professor Owen Kalinga
NC State University
Friday, October 20, 2006, 8:30-9:30am
Ground Floor Conference Room
Lineberger Cancer Center
ID Seminar Series
Dr. Kalinga is a well known historian of Malawi. He will be presenting on the history and culture of Malawi, to inform UNC's research.
Carol Bellamy, JD
President and CEO, World Learning
President, School for International Training
Former Executive Director, UNICEF
Global Poverty: Reflections on Millennium Development Goals
November 14, 2006 from 5:00-7:00
Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History
UNC-Chapel Hill
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OGH Seminar Series: Academic Year 2005-2006
Philip Harvey, MSPH
President, DKT International
"Social Marketing: Better Health through Contraception"
Noon, May 4th, 2006
Mark Sorenson, PhD
Department of Anthropology, UNC-Chapel Hill
"Health Consequences of the Post-Socialist Transition: Diet, Lifestyle and Risk for Cardiovascular Disease in Siberia "
Wednesday, March 1, 2006, 1:15-2:15pm
Flyer - Video
Sten Vermund, MD, PhD
Amos Christie Chair in Global Health, Professor, Departments of Pediatrics, Medicine, Preventive Medicine, and Obstetrics & Gynecology , Director, Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health
Vanderbilt University
"Controversies in the prevention of mother-to-child transmission in resource-limited settings"
Friday, February 10, 2006
Seminar: 11:30-12:30pm
Informal Discussion: 12:30-1:00pm
Flyer - Video
Afaf Meleis, PhD, FAAN
Margaret Bond Simon Dean of Nursing, School of Nursing
University of Pennsylvania
"Safe Womanhood in a Challenging Global Environment"
Friday, February 3, 2006, 12:30-1:30 pm
Flyer - Presentation - Video
Eddie Mhlanga, MD, MPH
Deputy Head of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
"Lessons from the Audit of Maternal Deaths in South Africa"
1:00 pm, December 15th, 2005
Flyer - Presentation - Video
Laura Murphy, PhD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of International Health and Development
Tulane University
"Crops, Cellphones and T-Cells: Technology Change for Livelihood Security in Sub-Saharan Africa"
1:00 pm, November 17th, 2005
Flyer - Presentation - Video
Panel Discussion and Video Preview
Introducing
PBS Documentary Series
12:30 pm, October 27th, 2005
Panelists:
- Steve Meshnick, Professor, Departments of Epidemiology and Microbiology and Immunology, UNC Schools of Public Health and Medicine
- Sian Curtis, Director, MEASURE Evaluation, Research Associate Professor, Department of Maternal and Child Health, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
- Ron Strauss, Professor, Departments of Dental Ecology and Social Medicine, UNC Schools of Dentistry and Medicine
- Moderator: Melissa Roche, Co-Chair, Student Global Health Committee; PhD Student, Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
is a series of documentaries that originally aired on PBS, November 1, 2, and 8, 2005 covering topics including vaccines, drug development, healthcare delivery systems, infectious diseases, nutrition, and emerging threats. This series is being supported with both a media and impact campaign lead by the Global Health Council.
Suzanne Maman, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Health Behavior and Health Education
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
"Skinning the Goat and Pulling the Load': HIV Risk and Violence Among Youth in Tanzania"
12:30 pm, September 16th, 2005
Flyer - Presentation - Video
Other Seminars and Events: Academic Year 2005-2006
Sexual Trafficking: Breaking the Crisis of Silence
This national conference on sexual trafficking, with the aid of international and national experts, aims to continue the fight against commercial sexual exploitation of young women and children by bringing awareness to the human rights violations caused by trafficking including its mental and physical effects on its victims. In addition the conference seeks to examine the demand side of the problem and its impact on local and global economics.
Radisson Hotel, Research Triangle Park
April 7th-8th, 2006
The Office of Global Health was a co-sponsor of this conference.
UCIS International Education Week Photography Exhibit
The exhibit features photographs from around the world taken by UNC faculty, staff, students and alumni. These are award-winning pictures selected by a juried panel of area artists, documentary filmmakers and photographers.
Atrium, Michael Hooker Research Center
March 21st-August 1st, 2006
Stephen Lewis
 Melissa Roche, Peggy Bentley, Stephen Lewis
Former Canadian Ambassador to the UN
Former Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF
From 1995 to 1999, Mr. Lewis was Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF at the organization's global headquarters in New York City. He was first appointed as Special Representative for UNICEF in 1990. In that capacity, he spoke and traveled regularly, acting as a spokesperson for UNICEF's passionate advocacy of the rights and needs of children, especially children of the developing world.
7:00 pm, February 23rd, 2006
Grumman Auditorium, Friday Center
Sponsored by the SPH Office of Global Health, UNC Center for AIDS Research, Student Global Health Committee, Student Congress, Graduate and Professional Student Federation, University Center for International Studies. Part of the Narratives of HIV Series.
UNC Press Release
**PLEASE NOTE: WE ARE UNABLE TO MAKE A RECORDING OF THIS TALK AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC**
Office of Global Health Open House
4th Floor of McGavran-Greenberg Hall
10:00 am - 3:00 pm, September 14th, 2005
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OGH Seminar Series: Academic Year 2004-2005
Al Sommer, MD, MHS
Dean, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
"The Vitamin A Story"
Noon, March 30th, 2005
Flyer
John Briscoe, PhD
Senior Water Adviser, Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development Network
The World Bank
"Water Challenges in the Developing World: The View of the World Bank"
Noon, March 4th, 2005
Co-sponsored by the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering
Flyer - Presentation, Part 1 - Presentation, Part 2 - Video
Nata Duvvury, PhD
Director, Gender, Violence, and Rights, International Center for Research on Women
"Intimate Partner Violence: New Risks and New Responses"
1 pm, February 2nd, 2005
Co-sponsored by the Injury Prevention Research Center
Flyer
Bert Peterson, MD, FACOG
Chair, Department of Maternal and Child Health
"Promoting Reproductive Health Globally: Challenges and Opportunities"
Noon, November 18th, 2004
Flyer - Video
Zeda Rosenberg, ScD
CEO, The International Partnership for Microbicides
"State of the Art Report on Microbicide Development"
Polly Harrison, PhD
Director, The Alliance for Microbicide Development
"Microbicides in Clinical Trials: A Detailed Look"
Noon, October 21st, 2004
Flyer - Video - Dr. Harrison's Presentation
Nils Daulaire, MD, MPH
President and CEO of the Global Health Council
"Global Health and Global Inequity"
Noon, September 16th, 2004
Flyer - Presentation, Part 1 - Presentation, Part 2 - Video
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Other Seminars and Events: Academic Year 2004-2005
Janxin Leu, PhD
Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholar, UC-Berkeley, UC-San Francisco
"The Importance of Culture, Place, and Psychology: New Directions in Understanding Immigrant Health"
3:30 pm, April 21st, 2005
Flyer
David L. Heymann, MD
Executive Director, Communicable Diseases, World Health Organization
The 2005 Fred T. Foard, Jr. Memorial Lecture
"From Smallpox to SARS, Avian Influenze and Polio: Dilemmas in Public Health"
April 20th, 2005,
6:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Link to webcast
OGH Seminar Series: Academic Year 2003-2004
Steve Meshnick, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Epidemiology
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
"Pregnancy and Malaria"
Noon, April 22, 2004
Video - Flyer - Presentation
Graeme Simpson, MA, LLB
Executive Director, Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation
" 'Revealing is Healing': The Psycho-social and Political Context of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission"
Noon, March 29, 2004
(Co-Host with HBHE/Hocbaum Lecture)
Video
Donald Lauria, PhD
Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
"Community Water Supply: Should the Poor Have to Pay?"
Noon, February 12, 2004
Flyer - Presentation - Video
Robert Lawrence, MD
Edyth H. Schoenrich Professor of Preventive Medicine and Associate Dean for Professional Practice and Programs
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
"Food Security and the Right to Health: Are they achievable?"
Noon, January 21, 2004
Flyer
Carlos Castillo-Salgado, MD, JD, DrPH
Special Program for Health Analysis
Pan American Health Organization
"Latin America: Health Situation and Trends in the Americas as they Affect Health Services Needs and Demands"
12:30 PM, November 12, 2003
Flyer
Willard Cates Jr., MD, MPH
President/Chief Executive Officer, Institute for Family Health
Family Health International
"Contraceptive Choices amidst the Global Backdrop of HIV
Noon, October 15, 2003
Flyer - Presentation
Catherine Wilfert, MD
Scientific Director, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
"Prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV: Problems and Progress"
Noon, September 17, 2003
Flyer
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Other Seminars and Events: Academic Year 2003-2004
Dr. Richard Feachem
Executive Director, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
The 2004 Fred T. Foard, Jr. Memorial Lecture
"Fighting the Great Pandemics: Leadership, Technology, Money and Research"
April 8, 2004,
6:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Link to webcast
Narratives of HIV: A series of UNC-CH media events about HIV/AIDS around the world
Sponsored by: UNC-CH Schools of Public Health, Medicine and Journalism & Mass Communication
Flyer
- February 11, 7 p.m.
"A Closer Walk"
- February 25, 5:30 p.m.
Mark Schoofs, Pulitzer prize-winning journalist
- March 22, 7:15 p.m.
"HIV Positive Voices" and panel discussion
Suzanne Maman, PhD
Department of International Health
Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
"Women's experiences with violence: Implications for HIV prevention in Sub-Saharan Africa"
Noon, February 7, 2004
Flyer
Jean-Louis Sarbib
Senior Vice-President, Human Development Network, The World Bank Group
"Global Child Health Priorities in the 21st Century"
5:30 pm, February 5, 2004
Flyer
UNC Student Global Health Committee Annual Potluck
6pm, February 4, 2004
Photos
Necdet Ipekyuz, MD
President of Diyarbakir Chapter of the Turkish Medical Association) and Selim Olcer, MD
Past President of Turkish Medical Association
"Healthcare in Southeastern Turkey in the New Millennium: Problems, Solutions, and Opportunities"
Noon, February 4, 2004
Flyer
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