[GlobalHealth] This Week - More than 700 registered for conference

[Bobbi Nodell]

Dear All - More than 700 people have registered for the 9th Annual Western Regional International Health Conference,   "At a Crossroads: Choosing Hidden Paths in Global Health" being held in Kane Hall on the UW campus this weekend. The keynote speaker is acclaimed human rights advocate and thought leader Kavita Ramdas, whose talk at 7:30 p.m. tonight is titled, "Nothing Less than a Revolution: Why I'm Preoccupied with Inequality, Social Justice and Health."
Speakers over the weekend  include Jaime Sepulveda (UC-San Francisco), Timothy Brewer (McGill University), Guy Palmer (Washington State University), Judith Wasserheit (University of Washington), Jurgen Unutzer (University of Washington), Deepa Rao (University of Washington), Paul Bolton (Johns Hopkins University), Benita Beamon (University of Washington), and Lori Hunter (University of Colorado at Boulder).
Sixty abstracts touching on a wide  variety of topics were accepted as posters. Thirty will be displayed per day on Saturday and Sunday.

*         Conference schedule<http://wrihc.org/schedule-2>.

*         Follow blog posts from the Global Health Reporting class at UW and several undergraduate minor students at http://www.healthintersections.org/.

*         Our twitter hashtag is #uwghrc.

*         We will also be videotaping key talks.

We congratulate Dr. William Foege for being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom - the highest civilian honor. We have a link to an article in the Seattle Times and have excerpted some of his quotes in our newsletter. This Week in Global Health!<http://globalhealth.washington.edu/this-week>

Bobbi Nodell
Communications Manager
University of Washington Dept. of Global Health<http://www.globalhealth.washington.edu/>
c: 206.271.1429 email: bnodell at uw.edu
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