Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Duke Global Health

A couple events for my calendar (and yours if you are interested.)

USGH
Speaker: Andrew Boulle, University of Cape Town
Topic: Responding to HIV in Post-Mbeki South Africa

April 1, 2009 - 4:30 - 6:00 p.m.

Andrew Boulle, from the School of Public Health and Family Medicine at the University of Cape Town, will be the guest speaker.


University Seminar on Global Health
Peter Piot, UNAIDS
The Transformational Nature of the AIDS Response

April 23, 2009 - 4:30-6:00 PM

Dr. Peter Piot is the recent executive director of UNAIDS and Under Secretary-General of the United Nations. Under his leadership, UNAIDS became the chief advocate for worldwide action against AIDS. In July, he will begin as director of the Institute for Global Health at Imperial College in London. Among his many accomplishments, Dr. Piot is widely known for launching the first international project on AIDS in Africa and co-discovering the Ebola virus in Zaire in 1976.



Duke Global Health

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

windows.mirrors.

some insist to look only out windows and refuse to face the mirror.
-Ricky Caldwell