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style="margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; text-align: center;"
align="center"><strong><b><font color="red" face="Times New Roman"
size="4"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: red;">STUDENTS FOR
GLOBAL HEALTH and the DEPARTMENT OF GLOBAL HEALTH AND SOCIAL MEDICINE
AT HMS</span></font></b></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p
style="margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; text-align: center;"
align="center"><strong><b><font color="red" face="Times New Roman"
size="4"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: red;">Present:</span></font></b></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p
style="margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; text-align: center;"
align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5"><span
style="font-size: 20pt;">Film Screening of <i><span
style="font-style: italic;">¡Salud!</span></i></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in;"><font
face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Followed
by Q&A with <b><i><span
style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Arachu Castro</span></i></b>,
<b><i><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">PhD, MPH</span></i></b>,
Assistant Professor of Social
Medicine, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><font
face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">THURSDAY,
Jan. 8</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><font
face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">3:45PM</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><font
face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">TMEC
Amphitheatre</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><font
face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">2nd
Floor, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Harvard</st1:placename>
<st1:placename w:st="on">Medical</st1:placename> <st1:placetype
w:st="on">School</st1:placetype></st1:place>,
</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><font
face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">260
Longwood</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><font
face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><font
color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;"> </span></font><font color="red"><span
style="color: red;"> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><i><font face="Times New Roman"
size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> </span></font></i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><i><font face="Times New Roman"
size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> </span></font></i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><i><font face="Times New Roman"
size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Film
Synopsis:</span></font></i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"
size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">A timely examination of human
values and the health
issues that affect us all, <i><span style="font-style: italic;">¡Salud!</span></i>
looks at the curious case of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Cuba</st1:place></st1:country-region>,
a cash-strapped country with what the BBC calls 'one of the world's
best health
systems.' From the shores of Africa to the <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Americas</st1:place></st1:country-region>,
<i><span style="font-style: italic;">!Salud!</span></i> hits the road
with some of the
28,000 Cuban health professionals serving in 68 countries, and explores
the
hearts and minds of international medical students in <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Cuba</st1:country-region> -- now numbering 30,000, including
nearly
100 from the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">USA</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
Their stories plus testimony from experts around the world bring home
the
competing agendas that mark the battle for global health—and the
complex
realities confronting the movement to make healthcare everyone's birth
right. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"
size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Against the alarming backdrop
of the global health
crisis and deteriorating public health systems in even the richest
nations, <i><span style="font-style: italic;">¡Salud!</span></i> tells
the little-known story of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Cuba</st1:place></st1:country-region>: a
poor country overcoming its lack of resources to provide universal
health care
and help other developing nations do the same. A feature documentary, <i><span
style="font-style: italic;">¡Salud!</span></i> is directed by Academy
Award
nominee Connie Field and co-produced by Gail Reed. The film spans
three
continents to look at the philosophy and health professionals placing <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Cuba</st1:place></st1:country-region>
on the map
in the worldwide movement to make health care a global birthright.
Today,
Cubans are among the world's healthiest people, despite the island's
poverty. <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Cuba</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s
volunteer corps now posts 28,000 health professionals in 68 countries;
and
Cuban medical schools will graduate an unprecedented 100,000 new
doctors from
developing countries over the next decade. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"
size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"
size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The film's cameras reach into
The Gambia, rural <st1:country-region w:st="on">South Africa</st1:country-region>,
coastal villages of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Honduras</st1:place></st1:country-region>
and
river settlements in the Amazon, where a Cuban is often the first
doctor a poor
community has ever seen. In some nations they staff entire health
systems. In all, they take with them the experience and philosophy of
their own community-oriented, preventive and universal health care
model
fundamentally at odds with a global wave of healthcare privatization.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"
size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><i><font face="Times New Roman"
size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic;">¡Salud!</span></font></i><font
size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> questions what propels Cuban
doctors to
serve where most others won't, and grapples with the tensions their
presence
sometimes provokes.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><strong><b><font
face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Attached:</span></font></b></strong><font
size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> 'Barrio Adentro: A Look at
the Origins
of a Social Mission' - Dr. Castro's short essay on Cuban doctors in <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Venezuela</st1:place></st1:country-region>.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"
size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><b><font color="red" face="Times New Roman"
size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: red;">*ALL* students are
warmly invited to attend,
regardless of background or interest in global health. Please also note
that
global health is indeed global, which includes domestic settings!</span></font></b></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
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