Program Details and RSVP links:
Monday February 20, 12-1pm, LH 202 - Flexner Student Deans' Lectures
- Grace Fletcher, MPH/MA Candidate: “Integrating Anthropology and Global Health to Serve Latin American Populations”
- Shilpa Mokshagundam, VMS III: “The (He)Art of Healing: Lessons Learned from an Unexpected Hospitalization"
- Lunch provided
Monday February 20, 5:30pm, LH 412 - Evening Documentary Screening: The Interrupters
- Award-winning film about the work of CeaseFire, a violence prevention initiative modeled after infectious disease epidemiology
- Dinner provided
Tuesday February 21, 12-1pm, LH 407 - Panel: Ethical and Cross-Cultural Issues Encountered In Global Health Service and Research
- Douglas Heimburger, MD, MS, Associate Director for Education and Training, VIGH; Professor of Medicine
- Douglas Perkins, PhD, Professor of Human & Organizational Development, Founding Director of the Ph.D. Program in Community Research & Action, Peabody College
- Conor McWade, MPH, VMS IV
- Co-sponsored by VUSM Gold Humanism Honor Society
- Lunch provided
Wednesday February 22, 12-1pm, LH 208 - Flexner Deans’ Lectures: “Activating the Health Sector To Reduce Violence”
- Charles Ransford, MPP, Director of Science and Policy, Cure Violence
- Lunch provided
Thursday February 23, 12-1pm, LH 415 - Panel: Health and Healthcare In Global Conflict Zones
- Carol Zeigler DNP, NP-C, Assistant Professor of Nursing
- Jeffrey Stovall, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
- Grace Umutesi, BS, MPH Candidate
- Lunch provided
Friday February 24, 12-1pm, LH 411 - “Humanitarian Responses to Displaced Persons: Global and Local Initiatives”
- Carol Etherington, MSN, RN, Associate Prof of Nursing Emerita, VIGH
- Amy Richardson, MPH, Community Health Outreach Director, Siloam Family Health Center
- Lunch provided
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