Thursday evenings, October 15 – November 19
7:00 to 8:45 p.m., 513 Parnassus Avenue
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The shift from the term “International Health” to “Global Health” reflects the fact that many health problems in “developing” countries with limited resources also affect “developed” countries with abundant resources. This course presents a framework for understanding complex global health problems, and highlights how some of these problems are understood and confronted by those seeking to alleviate them. Topics include emerging infections such as H1N1 (swine flu) and SARS; the epidemic of HIV/AIDS; the fight against malaria; and health
as a human right. For each topic, implications for us (and the US), and how we all might get involved to help address these issues is discussed.
Course Chair Bio / Why should you attend?
Course Chair:
Christopher C. Stewart, MD,
Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics;
Director, Child Abuse Evaluation and Management,
San Francisco General Hospital
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October 15
Global Health: Past to Present, Struggles and Successes
Christopher C. Stewart, MD, Associate Clinical
Professor of Pediatrics, UCSF; Director, Global Health
Pathways to Discovery
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October 22
Living with Smoke: Global Health Impact of Air Pollution
from Household Cooking Fires
Lisa M. Thompson, FNP, MS, PhD, Assistant Professor,
Family Health Care Nursing
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October 29
Shrinking the Malaria Map
Sir Richard Feachem, DSc, PhD, Professor Global Health
Sir Richard, former director for Health, Nutrition and Population at the World Bank and Dean of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, was also the founding Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and Under Secretary General of the United Nations. During this time, the Global Fund grew from scratch to become the world’s largest health financing institution for developing countries, with assets of US $11 billion, supporting 450 programmes in 136 countries. He now directs the Global Health Group at UCSF, with a focus on eliminating malaria, and strengthening health systems through Public-Private Investment Partnerships (PPIP), and Social Franchising.
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November 5
Health as a Human Right
Madhavi Dandu, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of
Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine
Sheri Weiser, MD, MPH, Assistant Adjunct Professor
of Medicine, Positive Health Program
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November 12
HIV and the Epidemic in Africa
Craig R. Cohen, MD, MPH, Professor, Department of
Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences
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November 19
Avian Flu, Swine Flu and Global Health
Susan E. Fernyak, MD, MPH, Director, Communicable
Disease Control and Prevention Section San
Francisco Department of Public Health
