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2007-2008 Global Health Events

May 7                   Notes from an American Doctor Living in the Amazon
                                Linnea Smith, MD
                               
Founder and Medical Director, Yanamono Clinic, Peru
                                Author of La Doctora: An American Doctor in the Amazon
                                Recipient of 2008 UW-Madison Distinguished Alumni Award
                               
Global Health Seminar Series

April 30               "Nutrition, Mental Health and Quality of Life of Palestinian Preschoolers:
                               Resilience and Vulnerability"
                              
Salwa Massad
                               
Population Health PhD Candidate
                              
Global Health Seminar Series

April 7                  Adult Male Circumcision as an Intervention Measure for Control of
                               Heterosexual HIV Transmission—Lessons from Rakai
                               Health Sciences Program
                               Nelson Sewankambo, MD
                               Dean, Medical School, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
                               Co-Chair, Academic Alliance for AIDS Care and Prevention in Africa
                              
Population Health Monday Seminar Series

                               European Union Workshop
                              Health and Development in Africa: An International Dialogue
                               For more information visit www.eucenter.wisc.edu

April 2                   Health Care Delivery Systems in Mexico
                                Gloria Cambray, RN
                               
Nursing Supervisor, Adolfo Prieto General Hospital, Taxco, Mexico
                                Lucila Acevedo, RN
                               
Supervisor of Quality Control, Adolfo Prieto Hospital, Taxco, Mexico
                               
Global Health Seminar Series

March 26             "Globalization and Emerging Infectious Diseases"
                                Nina Marano, DVM, MPH
                               
Associate Director for Veterinary Public Health in the Division of Bacterial
                                and Mycotic Diseases of the Centers for Disease Control
                                Global Health Seminar Series

March 3-7             Refugee Health Awareness Week

March 6                The Human Rights Initiative Spring Lecture Series
                               Health as a Human Right: The Right to Health in Theory and Practice
                               
Stephen Marks, Docteur d’état, Dipl. IHEI
                               
François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights
                                Director, Program on Human Rights in Development Harvard University
                               
March 7                The Wisconsin International Law Journal's 26th Annual Symposium
                              "Medical Tourism Meets Health Law: US-EU Dialogue"
                               For more information visit www.eucenter.wisc.edu

March 5                Fourth Annual Global Health Symposium
                              "
Global Health and Human Rights"
                    
          Keynote Speaker: Florence Chenoweth, MS, PhD
                             
Health Care and Human Rights: The World Cannot Wait
                               Managing Director, UW Human Rights Initiative
                               Former U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) representative in
                               Gambia and South Africa
                               Former Executive Director of the FAO Liaison office in New York                               

November 28     Food Security and Human Rights
                               A Human Rights Initiative workshop
                              
Featuring: Florence Chenoweth
                               Former United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) representative
                               and UW-Madison Honorary Associate Fellow, International Studies
                              
November 27     
AIDS Action 2007

                               Giving Women Power Over AIDS
                               A walk-through exhibit
                               In Women’s Hands
                              
A film and microbicides update                             

November 12     "Can I Take This Spectrophotometer as Carry On?”                                
                                Bernie Micke, MD
                               
Wisconsin Medical Project
                               
Global Health Seminar Series

October 22          Twenty-Five Years of HIV/AIDS in Africa
                                Peter Mugyenyi, MD
                               
Director, Joint Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Center
                                Kampala, Uganda
                               
Population Health Monday Seminar Series

October 17           NIH/Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholars Program
                                for Graduate-level U.S. Students in the Health Professions

                                Pierce Gardner, MD
                               
Fogarty International Center at the
                                National Institutes of Health (NIH)

October 15          "A Global Veterinary Perspective on the Concept of One Health"
                                David Sherman, DVM
                               
International Veterinary Consultant, Author and Editor
                                Global Health Seminar Series

October 15          "Walking with Children" benefit
                                Orpheum Theatre Lobby
                                Sponsored by the Global Health Interest Group

October 10          "Essential Medications for Pain Relief:
                                Global Efforts to Improve Patient Access"

                                Rosa Buitrago, BS, MCPh, PANAMA
                                Gabriel Madiye, DPH, SIERRA LEONE
                               
Pain Policy Fellows
                               
Global Health Seminar Series

October 8             "A New Face of Aging in Latin America and the Caribbean"
                                 Enrique Vega, MD
                                
Regional Advisor on Aging and Health Pan American Health Organization
                                 Population Health Monday Seminar Series

September 25    "What is Keeping Us from Realizing a World Without Poverty?"
                              
 Ken Patterson
                               
Global Grassroots Manager, RESULTS
                               
Global Health Interest Group Noon Series

September 17    "The Global AIDS Epidemic:
                                Where Epidemiology Meets Biology and Public Health"

                                Dr. Myron Cohen
                                Population Health Monday Seminar Series

                               "Health in China--From Mao to the Olympics: A Society in Transition"
                                Gail Henderson, PhD

                               
Professor, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina
                                Global Health Seminar Series
 

2006-2007 Global Health Events

May 9                   "Rethinking the Healthcare Model In Africa"
                               Dr. Ernest Darkoh
                              
Founder and Chairman, BroadReach Healthcare
                               Global Health Seminar Series                             

April 30                Screening of the film ¡Salud!
                              
April 18             
  "Managing HIV/AIDS in Low Resource Settings"
                               Dr.  Denis Nansera
                              
Pediatrician/Lecturer, Mbarara University of Science and Technology
                               Global Health Seminar Series

April 16               "War on Cancer" and Accountability for Outcomes
                              
 European Union-US Health Workshop

March 22        
     Beyond the ABCs: AIDS Vaccines and Other New Prevention Technologies
                               Mitchell Warren
                               Executive Director of the AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition
                               
Global Health Seminar Series                              

March 12              Stephen Lewis
                              
Distinguished Lecture Series
                              
February 7
          Third Annual Global Health Symposium
                               Interdisciplinary Approaches to Improving Global Health
                               Keynote: New Paradigms in Public Health and Human Rights
                             
 Joia Mukherjee, MD, MPH
                              
Medical Director and clinician, Partners in Health
                              
Assistant Professor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School

December 6         Public Health Responses to Natural and Human Disasters:
                               What We Can Learn from Sri Lanka

                  
          Richard Brooks
                                Director, Health Promotion, Department of Professional Development

                            
   & Applied Studies
                                Outreach Program Manager, Consultant and Instructor,
                                UW-Madison DCS
                                Global Health Seminar Series                               

November 29      Student Global Health Experiences Noon Series
                               
Africa, Room 1325, HSLC

November 16      Student Global Health Experiences Noon Series
                              
Sri Lanka/China, Room 1325, HSLC

November 9        Addressing Issues of Violence against Women in Mexico
                    
     Rachel Rodriguez, PhD, RN

                         
Executive Director, UNIDOS Against Domestic Violence
                         
Yolanda Garza, EdD.

                         
Assistant Dean of Students, Student Advocacy and Judicial Affairs
                         Global Health Seminar Series                              

November 7       Student Global Health Experiences Noon Series
                              Europe

October 19         Student Global Health Experiences Noon Series
                             
Guatemala

October 13         Student Global Health Experiences Noon Series
                       
      South America

October 12
         Children, Vulnerability, and ‘Social Vaccines: 
                              HIV/AIDS and Schooling in Southern and Central Africa

                           
  Nancy Kendall, PhD
                              Assistant Professor, Educational Policy Studies
                       
Comparative and International Education concentration
                       
Global Health Seminar Series                             

                              Surviving the Pandemic
                           
  How your business or organization, your community, and your family can plan
                              and prepare
                             
Alliant Energy Center - Exhibition Hall

September 21   Access to Medicines and South Africa's HIV/AIDS Pandemic
                           
  Heinz Klug, SJD
                             
Professor of Law and H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellow
                              Director of the Global Legal Studies Initiative
                              UW Law School
                             
Global Health Seminar Series                                                          
 

2005-2006 Global Health Events

April 27               Teaching New Dogs Old Tricks: Immunization Programs in Kenya
                              James H. Conway, MD
,
                              Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Infectious Disease
                              Global Health Seminar Series                              

April 24                Public Health and Comparative Health Policy in the European Union:
                              A Transatlantic Dialogue
 
                              A workshop Co-sponsored by the European Union Center of Excellence (EUCE),
                              the Department of Population Sciences of the Medical School, the Health Law
                              Project  of the UW Law School and Center for World Affairs and Global Economy
                              (WAGE).

April 6                 The Global Burden of Cardiovascular Disease
                              Laura Hayman, PhD, RN
, FAAN
                              Professor of Nursing, Nutrition and Public Health, New York University
                              Global Health Seminar Series                           

March 30            One Health Approach to Mountain Gorilla Conservation
                              Mike Cranfield, DVM,
Director, Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project
                              Senior Veterinarian, Maryland Zoo in Baltimore
                              Global Health Seminar Series                             

March 9               World Kidney Day

March 1               Politics and Love: Medical Training in Malawi
                              Claire Wendland, MD, PhD

                              UW Department of Anthropology
                              Global Health Seminar Series                             

February 8        The Promotion of Women’s Health and Human Rights in Bolivia:
The
                             Experiences of an Aymara Woman Leader

                             Srta. Felipa Huanca Llupanqui
, Aymara grassroots leader from La Paz, Bolivia
                            
Global Health Seminar Series 

December 7      Second Annual UW-Madison Global Health Symposium
                     
 
      Inaugurating the Center for Global Health at UW Madison: Global Health and
                             the Millennium Development Goals

                          
  Keynote Speaker: Francis Westley, PhD

November 2      Linking Environment and Genetics
                            
Mario Salguero, MD
                            
Global Health Seminar Series      

October 13        Advancing Global Health Amidst Conflict—Iraq, Afghanistan, Haiti, Liberia
                            
Richard Garfield, RN DrPH 
                             Global Health Seminar Series
         
September 14   Beating the Drum Loudly: Uganda’s Response to HIV/AIDS
                             Cindy Haq, MD, Professor of Family Medicine and Population Health Sciences
                             Director, Global Health Program
                            
Global Health Seminar Series
 

2004-2005 Global Health Events

April 27               Wind, Sand and Flies: Documenting Health and Human Rights
                       
     Dr. Lynn Amowitz Lawry, MD MSPH
                             Physicians for Human Rights
                             Global Health Seminar Series

March 17            Malaria Research and the Scientific Policies of the Institut Pasteur
                           
 Paul Brey, Institut Pasteur

March 16 
           Academic and Private Partnerships for International Health
                            
Mark Anderson, President and CEO of the Milwaukee-based
                             Center for International Health
                             Global Health Seminar Series

February 23       Disease Emergence from Global Ecological Change
                              Jonathon Patz, MD MPH, Director, Global Environmental Health
                              Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment
                              Global Health Seminar Series

January 26         Veterinary Public Health: A Portal to Peace
                             
Col. Gary Vroegindewey, Assistant Chief, US Army Veterinary Corps
                              Global Health Seminar Series

December 1        First Annual UW-Madison Global Health Symposium
                              Wisconsin and the World: Networking for Global Health

November 3       Training Health Care Providers to Treat AIDS in Uganda
                       
       Mike Madalon, DPharm, UW-Madison Hospital
                               Global Health Seminar Series

October 6            Global Tobacco Control: Effective Strategies and Obstacles
                       
       Dr. Armando Peruga, Pan American Health Organization
                               Global Health Seminar Series
 

2003-2004 Global Health Events
May 5                    Pediatric Orthopedics in Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Senegal: Issues and
                               Challenges of High Tech
Medicine in Low Tech Environments                       
                            
  David Mann, MD, Department of Surgery, UW-Madison Medical School
                               Global Health Seminar Series

April 7
                   Capacity Building for Diabetes Care and Research in Vietnam
                               Linda Baumann, RN, PhD, School of Nursing
                               Global Health Seminar Series

March 3
                Health and Nutrition in Children in Uganda
                               John Kakitahi, School of Medicine, Markerere University, Uganda
                              
Global Health Seminar Series

February 4
          Ecosystem Health and Conservation Medicine: the Interface between Ecology,
                               Animal Health and Human Health
                               Kurt Sladky, MS DVM, School of Veterinary Medicine
                               Global Health Seminar Series

December 3
        A Legacy of Mistrust: Western Medicine in the Postcolonial World
                               Dr. Richard Keller, History of Medicine
                               Global Health Seminar Series

November 5 
      Diabetes In Uganda
                              Dr. James Ntambi, Department of Nutrition Sciences and Biochemistry
                              Global Health Seminar Series

October 1            Epidemiology of Developmental Disabilities in Low-Income Countries
                              Dr. Maureen Durkin, Department of Population Health Sciences
                              Global Health Seminar Series
 
 
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