Connections Series: Winter 2006

Join us for an interdisciplinary perspective on Global Health

Come once or every Thursday at 7:30pm in Carson L02

• Thursday, January 12th, 7:30 pm
  Carson L02
  Ken Yalowitz, Director of the Dickey Center
  
  
• Thursday, January 19th, 7:30 pm
  Carson L02
  Dr. Richard Waddell, DMS
  Expert on HIV and TB testing and continuing experience in Tanzania, (brief recommended article)
  
  
• Thursday, January 26th, 7:30 pm
  Carson L02
  Professor Benjamin Bostick, Earth Sciences and Chemistry
  on his experience with environment and health, (short recommended reading)
  
  

• Thursday, February 2nd, 7:30 pm
  Carson L02
  Amish Parashar '03 on "Inventing Change"
  Founder of the International Humanitarian Foundation and Visiting Engineer at Thayer School
  (recommends Amartya Sen's Developement as Freedom, chapter 12)
  

• Thursday, February 9th, 7:30 pm
  Carson L02
  Current Student Perspectives on Global Health involvement at Dartmouth. Please feel free to contact any of us if something interests you. We'd love to hear from you!
  * Mike Mina '06: Global Health interest in treating disease and hunger via direct medical treatment, as well as in the prevention of these diseases through appropriate health, food, water and sanitation systems and practices.
  * Shreya Patel '07: Work in Ecuador, Nicarague, and India; presently working on designing her own Health Policy major and a program to send medical supplies overseas with traveling Dartmouth students
  * Chelsea Voake '06: Concentration in Geography and Environmental Studies, with a particular interest in International Development.
  * Ben Schwartz '06: Interested in education in poorer regions and how education can help individuals out of poverty, one of the greatest causes of poor health.
  

• Thursday, February 16th, 7:30 pm
  Carson L02
  Professor Mark Hunter, Geography Mellon Fellow
  on the political economy of AIDS in Africa
  
  

• Thursday, February 23rd, 7:30 pm
  Carson L02
  Professor Denise Anthony, Sociology
  Heath ineqaulities at home in the wealthiest nation in the world and policy possibilties from around the globe
  
  

• Thursday, March 2nd, 7:30 pm
  Carson L02
  Professor Lisa Adams, DMS
  and
  OTHERS TBA
  A final discussion across the disciplines

Campus Organizations and Opportunities

• The Tucker Foundation
• AIDS Workcrew
• Alternative Spring Break Trips
• Cross Cultural Exchange and Service Program
• Dartmouth Partners in Community Service
• Tucker Foundation Fellowships


• The Dickey Center for International Understanding
• Dartmouth Coalition for Global Health
• The Dickey Center Research Grant
• Richard D. Lombard '53 Public Service Fellowship


• The Rockefeller Center
• McSpadden Public Issues Forum
• Rockefeller Center Funding
• Student Organizations at The Rockefeller Center


• Engineers Without Borders
• International Humanitarian Foundation
• Nathan Smith Premedical Society
  
  
  
• PREVIOUS Connections Program for '09 Orientation