[GlobalHealth] GHRC Newsletter for Dec 4-8

[Global Health Resource Center]

Here is a list of some highlighted news and upcoming events for the week of
December 4-December 8. See a more detailed version of upcoming events
attached.

Highlighted Events:

 

Thursday

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<http://myuw.washington.edu/cal/eventView.do?eventId=679857&calendar=ghrc>
4:00 PM -   Pathobiology Seminar: Tuberculosis biology in the search for new
drug targets

 

Friday

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<http://myuw.washington.edu/cal/eventView.do?eventId=656086&calendar=ghrc>
UNEMBEDDED Ends-- Four Independent Photojournalists on the War in Iraq 

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<http://myuw.washington.edu/cal/eventView.do?eventId=669309&calendar=ghrc>
12:30 AM - 1:50 PM  Global Health Seminar 

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<http://myuw.washington.edu/cal/eventView.do?eventId=669584&calendar=ghrc>
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM  Brokered Boundaries: The Construction of Immigrant
Identity in Anti-Immigrant Times 

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<http://myuw.washington.edu/cal/eventView.do?eventId=687489&calendar=ghrc>
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM  TEACH-IN: "Confronting the Food Crisis: Cultivating Just
Alternatives to the Corporate Food System

 

Saturday

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<http://myuw.washington.edu/cal/eventView.do?eventId=687494&calendar=ghrc>
9:00 AM - 5:30 PM  Confronting the Food Crisis: Cultivating Just
Alternatives to the Corporate Food System

 

Tuesday Dec. 9

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<http://myuw.washington.edu/cal/eventView.do?eventId=686575&calendar=ghrc>
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM  AIDS Sutra Book Discussion with Authors

 

Thursday Dec. 11

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<http://myuw.washington.edu/cal/eventView.do?eventId=681065&calendar=ghrc>
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM  World Report and Conference on Child Injury Prevention 

 

News Articles:

 

* Atlanta
<http://www.ajc.com/services/content/printedition/2008/11/30/aids.html>
Journal-Constitution. Helene Gayle: HIV/AIDS progress made; more to do

* MSNBC: Some doctors may stop <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27997151/>
vaccines because of cost

* Seattle <http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/389232_pandemic25.html>
Post-Intelligencer (Opinion), Bailouts create health pandemic (authors Dr.
Scott Barnhart, Medicine, School of Public Health & Community Medicine; Dr.
Amy Hagopian, Health Services, School of Public Health & Community Medicine)

* Seattle
<http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/schoolzone/archives/155355.asp>
Post-Intelligencer, Hiring freezes don't apply across the board (Dean Ana
Mari Cauce, College of Arts & Sciences)

* New <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/26/world/africa/26aids.html?_r=1&hp>
York Times, Harvard study finds heavy costs for South Africa's misguided
AIDS policies

Northwest <http://www.nwpr.org/07/HomepageArticles/Article.aspx?n=4621>
Public Radio, WSU's School of Global Animal Health could help state economy
(UW mention)

* Reuters, <http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSTRE4AN3U620081124>
Indonesia's Papua plans to tag AIDS sufferers

* New
<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/24/business/media/24health.html?_r=1&ref=med
ia>  York Times, Foundation starts health policy news service

 

 

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Health Sciences Building | Room T433
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ghrc at u.washington.edu
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Take a look at the new Global Health Calendar:

http://myuw.washington.edu/cal/setView.do?viewType=monthView
<http://myuw.washington.edu/cal/setView.do?viewType=monthView&calendar=ghrc>
&calendar=ghrc

 

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