[GlobalHealth] NEXT THURSDAY: Washington Global Health Alliance Discovery lecture: David Heymann, MD, WHO, THURSDAY, June 19, 5:30p

[Daren Wade]

Thursday, June 19, 2008, 5:30pm

"Challenges and Controversies in Polio Eradication"

 

David Heymann, MD

Assistant Director-General for Health Security and Environment and Representative of the Director-General for Polio Eradication, World Health Organization (WHO)

 

When: Thursday, June 19, 2008 5:30 p.m.

Where: Foege Auditorium S-060, 

Genome Sciences Building, 

1705 NE Pacific St. Seattle, WA 98195

University of Washington Campus




Reception to follow in the Vista Café

 

Dr David Heymann is the Assistant Director-General for Health Security and Environment and Representative of the Director-General for Polio Eradication. Prior to this, from July 1998 until July 2003, Dr Heymann was Executive Director of the WHO Communicable Diseases Cluster. From October 1995 to July 1998, Dr Heymann was Director of the WHO Programme on Emerging and other Communicable Diseases, and prior to that he was the chief of research activities in the WHO Global Programme on AIDS. Before joining WHO, Dr Heymann worked for 13 years as a medical epidemiologist in sub-Saharan Africa on assignment from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Dr Heymann also worked for two years in India as a medical epidemiologist in the WHO Smallpox Eradication Programme.

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Take a look at the new Global Health Calendar:

http://myuw.washington.edu/cal/showMain.rdo?date=20080503&calendar=ghrc

 
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