Global Health Sciences Lecture
Each year, Global Health Sciences at the University of California in San Francisco welcomes distinguished scholars and opinion leaders from around the world for a series of lectures, roundtables and special events. Attended by students, faculty and invited guests, the GHS lectures encourage open discussion and promote greater understanding of the most pressing local/global health issues of our time.
All lectures are held on Mondays, 4-5:30 pm in N-225, Parnassus Campus (unless otherwise indicated). The lectures are free and open to the public and are eligible for CME credit.
2009 Lectures
September 14Novel H1N1 Influenza: Origins, Current Epidemiology and Future Course
George W. Rutherford, M.D., Director of Global Health Sciences Prevention and Public Health Group, and Salvatore Pablo Lucia Professor of Preventive Medicine.
October 5Global Mental Health Research with Traumatized Populations
Susan Meffert, MD, MPH is Assistant Clinical Professor at UCSF, Burke Scholar at UCSF Global Health Sciences and Medical Director of the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma. She conducts randomized controlled trials with populations affected by armed conflict and natural disaster with the goal of developing sustainable, evidence-based mental health interventions delivered by local personnel. Dr. Meffert will be discussing her research with Sudanese and Darfur refugees as a case study of her work and the methods used in global mental health research. CME credit is available for this activity.
November 2Project Accept in Southern Africa: Preventing HIV Transmission in the Hardest Hit Area in the World
Tom Coates, PhD, is the Director of the UCLA Program in Global Health, and is the Michael and Sue Steinberg Endowed Professor of Global AIDS Research within the Division of Infectious Diseases at UCLA. He co-founded the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS) at UCSF, was the founding Executive Director of the UCSF AIDS Research Institute (ARI), and is currently co-director of planning for the UC Global Health Institute. His areas of emphasis and expertise are HIV prevention, the relationship of prevention and treatment for HIV, and HIV policies. This lecture is free and open to the public; CME credit is available.
December 7