Global Health in the New Millennium: Moving Ethics into Action

Below is information about the March 8 talk by Laurie Garrett. Please distribute this information to campus and community groups that may have an interest in attending. I will provide a poster in pdf form when it becomes available.

Note that the Heartland Consortium meeting is scheduled for 10:30am-12:30am on March 8 on the 2nd floor of Cowles Library, Drake University (posted signs in the library will direct you to the right room). Laurie Garrett will be in attendance. A buffet lunch will be served at 11:30am (so the last hour will be a working lunch). Besides a discussion with Laurie Garrett about the role of higher education in global public health, the meeting will include committee reports. If you plan to attend this meeting, please reply to me at david.skidmore@drake.edu by noon on Friday, February 29. Please specify if you would prefer a vegetarian lunch. There will be no charge to consortium participants for the lunch.

Laurie Garrett will be meeting with a group of Drake students from 9:10am-10:10am, also on the 2nd floor of Cowles Library. A continental breakfast will be available. We would welcome students from other consortium schools who would like to attend this breakfast meeting (for reasons of space, however, no more than 3 students from each school can be accommodated). If you plan to bring students for the breakfast meeting, please let me know in your reply.

For driving directions to Drake, go to: http://www.drake.edu/about/directions.php

A campus map can be found at: http://www.drake.edu/about/campusmap.php

Park in the pay parking lot North of University Ave. (designated by number 50 on campus map). There is no charge on Saturdays. Cowles Library is located to the east of the parking lot (number 13 on the map). Sheslow Auditorium is located in Old Main (number 63 on the map).

Saturday, March 8, 1pm-2:30pm: Author Laurie Garrett

Topic: "Global Health in the New Millennium: Moving Ethics into Action"

Location: Sheslow Auditorium

Sponsors: CGC and the Department of Education

Free and open to the public.

As a medical and science writer for Newsday, in New York City, Laurie Garrett became the only writer ever to have been awarded all three of the Big "Ps" of journalism: The Peabody, The Polk (twice), and The Pulitzer. Laurie is also the best-selling author of The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance and Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health. In March 2004, Laurie took the position of Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations. She is an expert on global health with a particular focus on newly emerging and re-emerging diseases; public health and their effects on foreign policy and national security.