Global Health
Lecture Series Schedule

2009-2010

September 9, 2009
Jarbas Barbosa da Silva, Jr., MD, MPH, PhD
Manager, Health Surveillance and Disease Management
Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization
"Pandemic H1N1 2009: The Americas' Response"
Power Point Presentation

October 9, 2009
Richard Skolnik, MPA
Lecturer in Global Health
"The Unfinished Agenda in Global Health"
Power Point Presentation

October 23, 2009
Alan E. Greenberg, MD, MPH
Professor and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
"Global Epidemiology of HIV-1"

2008-2009

September 15, 2008
Victor Barbiero, PhD
Visiting Professor, GW School of Public Health and Health Services, Dept of Global Health
"HIV and Development: Critical Issues on the Reauthorization of the HIV/TB/Malaria Bill"

October 3, 2008
Paolo Teixeira, MD
Regional Advisor in Urban Health, PAHO
"Promoting Urban Health."

November 18, 2008
Karen Davis, PhD
President, The Commonwealth Fund
"Health Policy and Women's Health- Current Status and Future Priorities"

January 8, 2009, 12-1 pm, Ross Hall, Ambassador Mark Dybul, MD, The United States Global AIDS Coordinator for PEPFAR, "Global HIV/AIDS: Challenges, Opportunities, and Responsibilities"

February 2, 2009,
Peter Berman, PhD, Lead Health Speciatist of the World Bank
Ruth Levine, PhD, Vice President and Senior Fellow of the Center for Global Development
"The Fate of Aid: What Impact Should the Economic Crisis Have on Global Health"

February 18, 2009
John Howe, III, MD, President and CEO of Project Hope and
Stanley Reiser, MD, MPA, PhD, Clinical Professor of Health Care Sciences
"The Hospital Ships of Project HOpe: Spreading American Medicine and Values Abroad"

April 20, 2009
Peter Hotez, MD
Chair of the Department of Microbiology and Tropical Medicine
"A Global Network for Neglected and Tropical Diseases"

2007-2008

October 5, 2007
Ronald Waldman, MD, MPH, Avian and Pandemic Influenza Response Unit Team Leader, Pandemic Planning/Humanitarian Response, USAID
“Responding to Humanitarian Emergencies”

October 29, 2007
Alan Greenberg, MD, MPH, Professor and Chair, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services
"Global Epidemiology of HIV-1"

November 15, 2007, 12-1 pm, Ross Hall 117, Dr. Mohammed Ahmed Abdallah, Darfur Doctor and Human Rights Defender.

November 30, 2007
Eliot Sorel, MD
“Modernizing Healthcare Systems, Achieving Universal Health Care - 21st Century Imperatives”

January 18, 2008
Jian Tang, Visitng Scholar
"US vs Chinese Medical Education: Perspectives from a Chinese Scholar"

March 12, 2008
David A. Kessler, MD Professor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology and Biostatistics School of Medicine University of California, San Francisco
"Obesity, the Public Health Crisis of the 21st Century: How Did it Happen?"

2006-2007

September 28, 2006, 12-1 pm
Howard Zucker, MD, JD,
Assistant Director-General, World Health Organization
"Technology Gurus for Health: The 21st Century Renaissance"

October 24, 2006
Eckhard Deutscher, PhD
Executive Director for Germany, The World Bank
"Global Health Programs-The Millennium Development Goals and the World Bank"

November 7, 2006
Gilbert Kombe, MD, MPH, Senior HIV/AIDS Technical Advisor, ABT Associates Inc.
"Shortage of Health Workers in Low Resource Countries and the Impact on Service Delivery"

January 24, 2007
Fitzhugh Mullan, MD
GW Murdoch Head Professor of Medicine and Health Policy
"Healers at Home and Abroad: Issues in Globalism and Health Workforce"

February 20, 2007
Peter Hotez, MD, Walter G. Ross Professor and Chair, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine, GWUMC
"The Neglected Tropical Diseases: New Tools and Promise for their Control"

April 4, 2007
Edward O'Neil, Jr, MD
President of Omni Med
"Global Health Inequality: A Call to Understanding and Action"

2005-2006

September 13, 2005
Ronald Waldman, M.D., Columbia University
"Health and the Millennium Development Goals: A Long, Long Way to Go"

October 18, 2005
Gino Strada, M.D, Emergency
"War as a Major Public Health Crisis"

November 29, 2005
Alan Greenberg, M.D., Department of Epidemiology
"Overview of Global Epidemiology"

January 26, 2006
Ciro Ugarte, M.D.
Pan American Health Organization
"The Effects of Global Terrorism on Health"

February 28, 2006
Victor K. Barbiero, M.H.S., Ph.D
"Public Health Approaches to Malaria"

March 28, 2006
Mark Dybul, MD, Deputy US Global AIDS Coordinator and Chief Medical Office, Office of the US Global AIDS Coordinator, US Department of State
"US Response to Global HIV/AIDS: Challenges and Opportunities"