[act-ma] 12/04 "The Future of Global Health"

[Charlie Welch]

  12/4/2007: Annual Dudley Allen Sargent Lecture,


   "The Future of Global Health"

*When:*

Tuesday, December 4, 2007 at 4:00 p.m. Reception to follow in the 
Setterberg Lounge at 5:00 p.m.

*What:*

Annual Dudley Allen Sargent Lecture, "The Future of Global Health" 

*Speaker*:

Jim Yong Kim, M.D., Ph.D./Co-founder of Partners in Health

He co-founded the nonprofit medical organization Partners in Health 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partners_in_Health> together with Dr. Paul 
Farmer <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Farmer>. In 2003 he received a 
MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant, in 2005, he was recognized as one 
of America's Best Leaders [1] 
<http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/051031/31intro.htm> and in 
2006, he was listed as one of the top 100 most influential people by 
/Time Magazine/ 
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1187277,00.html].

He is a Professor of Medicine and Social Medicine and Chair of the 
Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Medical_School>, Chief of the 
Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities at Brigham and 
Women's Hospital, Director of the Francois Xavier Bagnoud Center for 
Health and Human Rights and a former director of the World Health 
Organization <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Organization> 
HIV <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV>/AIDS 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS> department.  (from Wikipedia)

*Where:*

Boston University
635 Commonwealth Avenue, Sargent College Room 101, Boston, MA

Free and open to the public