For your information - this year's global health lecture series.

(Please note that attendees will need to pay for admission to the
lectures).


Global Health and the Environment: Climate Change, Human Impact and Our
Earth's Resources

Co-sponsored by the new UW Department of Global Health, Global Health
Resource Center and International Health Program

A University of Washington Extension Lecture Series

In this speaker series, invited guest lecturers will introduce their
interdisciplinary, international perspectives and expertise on such topics
as Water, Hunger, Biodiversity, Climate Change and Environmental Health.
Participants will have a chance to explore these topics and develop an
analysis on how our continued existence and well-being depend on the
maintenance of a healthy planet.

Lectures are held Monday Evenings from 6 P.M. - 7:30 P.M. Turner
Auditorium, UW Health Sciences Center

April 2: Population Health and the Environment

Stephen Bezruchka, M.D., M.P.H.

April 9: Dinosaurs and Humans: Earth's Sixth Mass Extinction Just
Started

Mark Oberle, M.D., M.P.H.

April 16: Water and Global Health

Richard Palmer, Ph.D.

April 23: Occupational and Environmental Hazards

Matthew Keifer, M.D., M.P.H.

April 30: Nutrition, Agriculture and Food Security in Developing
Countries: Challenges and Opportunities

Jonathan Gorstein, Ph.D. and Britt Yamamoto, M.S., Ph.D.

May 7: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Traditional Herbal Medicine:
Examples from Columbia Plateau and Oaxaca Indigenous Communities

Eugene Hunn, Ph.D.

May 14: Malaria, Child Health, Use of Pesticides & Our Environment

Tekie Mehary, Ph.D.

May 21: Climate Change, Disasters, and Health

Jonathan Mayer, Ph.D.

For more information and online registration visit
http://www.extension.washington.edu/ext/special/globalhealth/default.asp

You may also call 206-897-8939 or 1-800-506-1324. The cost for this
series is $99. Individual lectures are available for $20 each.

Daren Wade, MSW
Director
Global Health Resource Center
Department of Global Health
C-314 Health Sciences
Box 356355
206-616-1159
dwade@...