Join Advocates for Health and Social Justice in welcoming one of
international health's "senior statesmen," Dr. Zafrullah Chowdhury, to
Seattle. He will be speaking about the Impact of Economic Globalization
on Health and the People's Health Movement

THURSDAY, MARCH 6TH, 5:30PM in room T-435 of Health Sciences at the
University of Washington

OR

SATURDAY, MARCH 8TH, 7PM with RECEPTION TO FOLLOW
at Trinity United Methodist Church, 6512 23rd NW


Background:

Dr. Zafrullah Chowdhury has spent decades bringing health care to the
underserved rural population in Bangladesh. In 1972 he founded
Gonoshasthaya Kendra (GK), or the People's Health Center, to provide high
quality, affordable primary health care services. Since its founding the
organization has expanded into new areas and today it also works on:
nutrition, agriculture, employment generation, production of basic
low-cost medicines at Gono Pharmaceuticals factory, and women's
emancipation.

Dr. Chowdhury has been widely recognized for his work and was honored with
the Ramon Magsaysay Award (popularly known as the Asian Nobel Prize) in
1985, and under his leadership GK was given the Right Livelihood Award
(the Alternative Nobel Prize) in 1992.

In his work Dr. Chowdhury has seen that economic globalization is one of
the key factors that limits people's ability to achieve health and their
access to basic health care and essential medicines. In December 2000 his
organization hosted an Assembly on People's Health which brought together
advocates from over 90 countries; the effort has developed into the
People's Health Movement (http://phmovement.org/) with chapters around the
world.

Co-sponsored by the International Health Program, International Health
Group, Student Physicians for Social Responsibility, and the South Asia
Studies Center of the Jackson School at the University of Washington and
the Northwest Coalition for AIDS Treatment in Africa (NCATA), the
Population Health Forum, Seattle RESULTS, Interfaith Community Church, the
Northwest International Health Action Coalition (NIHAC), and Health
Alliance International with support from the Hesperian Foundation and
Doctors for Global Health.

For more information contact Meredith Fort at 206-285-1840,
mpfort@...