Global Health

 

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

 

Schedule
Time Location Session Topic / Speaker

8:00 - 8:30 am

SSOM Dining Room 120

Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30 - 9:30 am

Seminar Rooms

 Small Group Reflection

9:30 - 9:45 am

 

Break

9:45 - 10:00 am

Tobin Hall 190

Introduction of Topics and Speakers

Amy Blair, M.D.
10:00 - 10:45 am Tobin Hall 190

Chronic Disease in Global Health

Kevin Simpson, M.D.
10:45 - 11:30 am Tobin Hall 190 Careers in Global Health                                          Jim Judge, M.D.

OBJECTIVES (at the end of this session, the student should be able to...):

  1. Define the general precepts of global health challenges using Haiti as an example

  2. Recognize the important relationship between poverty and poor health outcomes
  3. Describe the obstacles for successful interventions to improve maternal mortality in Haiti
  4. Understand the challenges to apply the WHO approach to children and malnutrition in Haiti

 

 

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