GPI Announcements
Monday, March 31, 2008
Purchase your tickets for the Millennium Campus Concert on Saturday 4/19 on the Dispatch Foundation website. Proceeds go towards Grassroots Soccer HIV/AIDS Education.
Monday, March 31, 2008
We would like to announce Senator John Edwards as our opening keynote for the Inaugural Millennium Campus Conference!
Saturday, March 15, 2008
The GPI Millennium Campus Conference site has been redesigned. Hope you enjoy the new look!
Wed. Jan. 9, 06-08:00pm
MIT Campus, Rm 4-370, Dinner provided
"RX FOR SURVIVAL"--Global Health Series Spotlighting International Public Health
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Screening of PBS series "Rx for Survival."
"Rx for Survival" highlights the world's deadliest diseases, history of epidemics, research, patient perspectives and global healthcare initiatives. The series also features Dr. Paul Farmer from Partners in Health, Dr. Alfred Sommers from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, as well as other experts from organizations like Doctors without Borders and the World
Health Organization.
"The Heroes" is a two-hour synopsis that delves into the work of health champions including people who have launched the Botswana HIV/AIDS program, who have built clean-water systems in Mexico, and who have found a five cent cure that alleviates nightblindness and reduces childhood mortality.
Later episodes of the series to be shown the following Wednesdays with speakers--
Jan. 23
Dr. Jeff Griffiths, MD, PhD, who is the director of the Global Health Division of the Tufts School of Medicine's Department of Public Health and Family Medicine
And
Jan 30
Dr. David Jones, MD, PhD, who is a professor at MIT, staff at the Psychiatric Emergency Service at Cambridge Hospital, and a lecturer in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Web: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/rxforsurvival/
Monday 12/3 - Friday 12/7
MIT Campus, Lobby 10
Handcrafted Cards from Rwanda and Calcutta
Products made in Rwanda by orphaned youth using hand-made paper
*Feature cards made in Africa
(http://www.cardsfromafrica.com)
Golden Tree Arts
Products made in India by women at high risk for prostitution
(http://tho.org/goldentreearts)
Stop by, buy a card, learn about GPI, and help share love this holiday season