Introduction to Global Health: Disparities, Determinants, Policies & Outcomes Course Syllabus for GH 101, GEOG 180, SIS 180 Instructors: Profs. Steve Gloyd & Matthew Sparke “It is in the context of global forces that the suffering of individuals acquires its own appropriate context.” Paul Farmer For Professor Gloyd's departmental page and links to Global Health news articles click here For Professor Sparke's departmental page and links to some of his articles click here

Course Goals:

This course introduces global health by putting its contemporary definition, determinants, development and direction as a field into a broad global context. It is open to students from all disciplines. The class is divided into four core topics: i) the burden and distribution of disease and mortality; ii) the determinants of global health disparities; iii) the development of global health policies; and, iv) the outcomes of global health interventions. All are examined in relation to wider patterns of global interdependency, highlighting how both global health disparities and global health policy responses are themselves shaped by global ties and tensions.

1. We describe the global burden of disease and mortality in multiple dimensions – by geography, social class, race, and gender – and examine patterns of health and welfare disparity among all of these dimensions. Disparities in both acute and chronic disease patterns over time are also addressed, exploring the associated role of global social, political, and economic changes.

2. We examine the social, political and economic determinants of health disparities. Particular attention is paid in this respect to the ways in which global interdependencies that do not appear immediately related to health – the ties of global trade, of global finance, and of global governance – nevertheless play a role in explaining unequal experiences of sickness and health.

3. We explore ways in which different concepts of globalization shape distinct approaches to policy. We trace how health policy takes different forms in changing political-economic environments including discussions of primary health care systems (e.g. inadequate investment, health workforce migration management); disease specific policies (e.g., child survival, AIDS treatment); and economic policies (e.g. World Bank & IMF Structural Adjustment Programs, pharmaceutical patent protections). The course focuses on the most important and consequential of these with a view to helping students better understand the terrain of global governance in which any new global health policy is necessarily developed.

4. The fourth part of the class examines the outcomes resulting from the ways in which new global health policies change patterns of health practice and intervention globally. In this way we circle back to the basic question of definition, thereby evaluating the degree to which policy responses to global health disparities are taking global health further away from the fields of tropical medicine, international health and national public health from which it first developed.

PLEASE NOTE: THIS CLASS IS A 5 CREDIT CLASS AND COUNTS FOR A WRITING (W) CREDIT AS WELL AS ONE OF THE CORE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE GLOBAL HEALTH MINOR. IT COUNTS IN THESE WAYS WHETHER YOU TAKE IT UNDER THE GH 101 OR GEOG 180 OR SIS 180 REGISTRATION NUMBERS.

Required Texts

A set of selected readings that will be made available in a GH 101 READER available from Professional Copy and Print on University Ave after January 2nd.

These same selected PDFs are also downloadable from the links listed below under Reading

 

Recommended Music

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Assessment of student work:

Midterm Exam in class , Feb 2nd ARC 147	30%
Final Exam Wednesday, March 14, 2012,1030-1220, ARC 147	30%
Research project	40%

For opportunities for extra credit click here or scroll to list at bottom of this page

 

Definitions of student work:

a) The midterm exam

This will be an in-class (closed-book) exam worth 30% of the final grade. STUDY GUIDE

b) The final exam

This will be a 2 hour (closed-book) exam worth 30% of the final grade. Wednesday, March 14, 2012,1030-1220, ARC 147

c) Research work 

The research work and section participation will contribute 40% towards your final grade.Your major research project for Global Health 101 will be to write a modified Global Fund proposal.
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria “was created to dramatically increase resources to fight three of the world's most devastating diseases, and to direct those resources to areas of greatest need.” By following key components of this disease specific policy development process, you will learn about the wider mechanics effecting funding for Global Health while also developing knowledge about heath needs and systems in a poor country setting. Over the quarter you will complete a series of seven assignments that will culminate with a modified proposal for submission to the Global Fund at the end of the quarter. Each assignment will contribute to the final product and allow for consistent progress on your proposal throughout the quarter. For a worksheet guide for the Global Fund research project with the 7 component assignments click here

SERVICE LEARNING OPTION Alternatively students can complete the research work for 101 through Service Learning which can therefore also count towards 40% of the final grade. You can browse a list of organizations and service-learning positions matched with this course at www.depts.washington.edu/leader and follow the link to WINTER 2012 Service-Learning for GH 101. You can log in using your UW Net ID to browse positions starting on Tuesday, January 3rd; the Carlson Center will send you an email if browsing is available before this time. For this class, service-learning registration opens on Friday, January 6th at 8 am and closes on Monday, January 9th at noon. All students are expected to complete an orientation with their registered service-learning organization as soon as possible after registering for service-learning (unless otherwise noted in the description). Please be proactive in contacting your organization (after your service-learning registration is confirmed) by phone and e-mail to either 1) schedule an orientation or 2) confirm your attendance at an already scheduled orientation session. It is expected that all service-learning students will have completed an orientation and begun their service-learning experience no later than January 16th. Carlson Center staff are available between the hours of 9:00 am-5:00 pm Monday-Friday to assist you. Feel free to e-mail, serve@u.washington.edu with any questions you may have, or to call the office at (206) 616-2885 if you are unable to come to Mary Gates Hall 171. SERVICE LEARNING RUBRIC

 

 

Week by week schedule of lectures, sections, and assignments

Week 1: Introductions
Jan 3	Lecture 1: What is global health? Introducing the field, class, and the global scale of health citizenship (Gloyd and Sparke) Download PDF of lecture Reading: After lecture 1 you need to read this schedule and syllabus, as well as: REQUIRED: Jeffrey P Koplan, T Christopher Bond, Michael H Merson, K Srinath Reddy, Mario Henry Rodriguez, Nelson K Sewankambo, Judith N Wasserheit, "Towards a common definition of global health," The Lancet 2009; 373: 1993–95 Download PDF Linda P Fried, Margaret E Bentley, Pierre Buekens, Donald S Burke, Julio J Frenk, Michael J Klag, Harrison C Spencer, "Global Health is Public Health," The Lancet, 2010, 375: 535 - 537 Download PDF Declaration of Alma-Ata, from the International Conference on Primary Health Care, Alma-Ata, USSR, 6-12 September 1978 Download PDF
Jan 5	Lecture 2: Determinants of health and origins of Primary Health Care (Gloyd), plus movie: Child survival, the silent emergency, WGBH / UNICEF. Download PDF of lecture Reading: REQUIRED: Global Health History Modules 2, 5, 6, 7. Introduction to The World Health Report 2008 - primary Health Care (Now More Than Ever), available online from the WHO, or Download PDF RECOMMENDED: M Cueto, "The origins of primary health care and selective primary health care," Am J Public Health 94 (2004), pp. 1864–1874. Download PDF K. W.Newell, "Selective Primary Health Care: The Counter Revolution," Social Science and Medicine 26 (1988): 903–906.Download PDF
Section	TAs Introduce themselves and students to each other. Go over how to find the syllabus online, how to access the password protected sections, and how to get the most out of the class.
Weekly assignments: Watch the first episode of the online movie Unnatural Causes, and ask yourself the question: how do the social determinants of health in the US that are highlighted by this documentary help us understand global health inequalities in the context of globalization? If you have time, also explore if the "Place Matters" analysis might be scaled up to analysizing disparities between different global locations? What does a global social gradient of health look like? Prepare yourself to talk about these questions in quiz section next week.
Week 2: The global economy and debt as a determinant of health
Jan 10	Lecture 3: Debt, SAPs, and impact on PHC (Gloyd) Download PDF of lecture Reading: REQUIRED: Steve Gloyd, "SAPping the Poor: The Impact of Structural Adjustment Programs," Download PDF Margaret Chan, WHO Keynote address at the 12th World Congress on Public Health. Istanbul, Turkey. 27 April 2009. RECOMMENDED: De Vogli R., Gimeno D. (2010). The G20 and the Three Global Crises: What Prospects for Global Health? J Epidemiol Community Health, 64(2), 99-100. Download PDF Chapter One, The World Health Report 2008 - primary Health Care (Now More Than Ever), The challenges of a changing world, available online from the WHO, or Download PDF
Jan 12	Lecture 4: Movie Life and Debt Reading: REQUIRED: Gorik Ooms, Ted Schrecker, "Expenditure ceilings, multilateral financial institutions, and the health of poor populations," The Lancet, 2005; 365: 1821–23 Download PDF De Vogli R., "Neoliberal globalisation and health in a time of economic crisis," Social Theory & Health 2011, Vol. 9, 4, 311–325 Download PDF RECOMMENDED: David Stuckler, Sanjay Basu, and Martin McKee, "IMF and Aid Displacement," International Journal of Health Services, 2011, Download PDF Washington Post article on contemporary debt crisis impact in Europe, "In Greece, fears that austerity is killing the economy."
Section	Discuss how the online movie Unnatural Causes helps us explore the contextual political and economic forces that shape health, and what needs to be added analytically to make it a more global analysis.
Weekly assignments: Download the worksheet guide for the Global Fund research project with the 7 component assigments click here. Prepare to discuss this 7 step research process and its organization with your TA in the upcoming quiz section in Week 3.
Week 3: Globalizaton and the verticalization of global health
Jan 17	Lecture 5: How do different understandings of globalization lead to different approaches to global health (Sparke) Download PDF of lecture Reading: REQUIRED: Paul Farmer, "An Anthropology of Structural Violence," in Current Anthropology Volume 45, Number 3, June 2004, including follow-up exchange Matthew Sparke, 2009, “Unpacking economism and remapping the terrain of global health,” in Adrian Kay and Owain Williams, editors, Global Health Governance: Transformations, Challenges and Opportunities Amidst Globalization, New York: Palgrave Macmillan: 131 – 159. Download PDF RECOMMENDED: WHO 2008 Report on the Social Determinants of Health pages 1 - 40 Ronald Labonté, Arne Ruckert, The Commission on Macroeconomics and Health: was it the right recipe? The Lancet, Vol 378 December 3, 2011, Download PDF
Jan 19	Lecture 6: From PHC to SPHC and Vertical programs: The role of Unicef, WHO, USAID, CDC (Gloyd) Download PDF of lecture Reading: REQUIRED: Gorik Ooms et al, "The 'diagonal' approach to Global Fund financing: a cure for the broader malaise of health systems?," Download PDF WHO Maximizing Positive Synergies Collaborative Group, An assessment of interactions between global health initiatives and country health systems, The Lancet 2009; 373: 2137–69, Download PDF RECOMMENDED: The Obama Global Health Initiative, US Government website and theglobalhealthinitiative.org, The Future of Global Health: Ingredients for a Bold & Effective U.S. Initiative Download PDF
Section	Discuss the challenges posed and questions raised by the worksheet guide for the Global Fund research project click here
Weekly assignments: Global Fund Assignment #1 Download Assignment 1 Worksheet Prepare to give your TA your completed assignment sheet in section (or if necessary because of a holiday) in class in the upcoming week 4. For global fund research support, related search engines, global health maps and more click here
Week 4: Global health targets & the challenge of the market
Jan 24	Lecture 7: Targets of global health intervention and the enclaving of global health action (Sparke) Download PDF of lecture Reading: REQUIRED: Laurie Garrett, "The Challenge of Global Health," Foreign Affairs, January /February 2007, Download PDF Peter Redfield, "Doctors, Borders, and Life in Crisis," Cultural Anthropology, Vol. 20, Issue 3, pp. 328–361, Download PDF RECOMMENDED: Vinh-Kim Nguyen, Government-by-exception: Enrolment and experimentality in mass HIV treatment programs in Africa, Social Theory and Health, 7(3): 196–217.Download PDF
Jan 26	Lecture 8: Global trade agreements, TRIPS and monopoly rents on IP (Sparke) Download PDF of lecture Reading: REQUIRED: Susan Craddock, 2007: “Market incentives, human lives, and AIDS vaccines,” Social Science & Medicine 64.5, March 2007: 1042-1057. Download PDF Tina Rosenberg, A Trade Barrier to Defeating AIDS, New York Times online July 26, 2011 MSF, What’s Next For TRIPS And Health? 22 November 2011 IP Watch RECOMMENDED: Paul Farmer on Structural Violence and Health, Interview and Chapter One of Pathologies of Power
Section	Hand in Assignment 1 to TAs; Prepare for midterm STUDY GUIDE
Weekly assignments: Re-read to prepare for midterm STUDY GUIDE
Week 5: Global health NGOs and the challenge of partnering with governments
Jan 31	Lecture 9: International Agenices and NGOs (Gloyd) Download PDF of lecture Reading: REQUIRED: James Pfeiffer et al, 2008, "Strengthening Health Systems in Poor Countries: A Code of Conduct for Non-Governmental Organizations," American Journal of Public Health, 98 (12). Download PDF Anne Emanuelle Birn, Chapter 3 International Health Agencies, pages 61-131. Download PDF RECOMMENDED: TED talk on NGO failure on TED David McCoy, et al, 2008, "Salaries and incomes of health workers in sub-Saharan Africa," Lancet 2008; 371: 675–81. Download PDF
Feb 2	Lecture 10: In-class midterm exam in ARC 147 DOWNLOAD MID-TERM STUDY GUIDE
Section	TAs will be grading during section time
Weekly assignments: Global Fund Assignment #2 Download Assignment 2 Worksheet Prepare to give your TA your completed assignment sheet in section (or if necessary because of a holiday) in class in the upcoming week 6. For global fund research support, related search engines, global health maps and more click here
Week 6: Mapping the global spaces of public health
Feb 7	Lecture 11: “Health Care Reform”: PHC, Drugs and Workforce (Gloyd) Download PDF of lecture Reading: REQUIRED: Cynthia Eldridge, Natasha Palmer. Performance-based payment: some reflections on the discourse, evidence and unanswered questions. Health Policy and Planning, 2009; 24:160–166 Download PDF RECOMMENDED: Expansion of the private for-profit health sector in East and Southern Africa. Equinet Policy Series No. 26 Equinet-University of Cape Town Health Economics Unit with TARSC Nov 2011 Download PDF
Feb 9	Lecture 12: Disease surveillance and biopolitical profiling: from the ghost map to google maps (Sparke) Download PDF of lecture Reading: REQUIRED: Andrew Lakoff, Two Regimes of Global Health, Humanity Fall 2010 Download PDF Didier Fassin, Another Politics of Life is Possible, Theory Culture Society 2009 26: 44 Download PDF RECOMMENDED: Global health mapping innovation examples:WHO'S Health Mapper, HealthMap, WorldMapper, If It Were My Home
Section	Hand in Assignment #2 to TA in section. Use section time to discuss how mapping tools can be used to represent results of Gap Analyses and research on economic context for Global Fund proposal
Weekly assignments: .Global Fund Assignment #3 Download Assignment 3 Worksheet and also begin Assignment #6 Download Assignment 6 Worksheet Be ready to hand in the completed worksheet for Assignment 3 in Section in week 7.
Week 7: Global biocapital and the epidemiology of inequality
Feb 14:	Lecture 13: The global epidemiology of inequality and the case of the flu (Sparke) Download PDF of lecture Reading: REQUIRED: Matthew Sparke, with Dimitar Anguelov, "H1N1, Globalization and the Epidemiology of Inequality," accepted and forthcoming in Health and Place, 2012. Robert G. Wallace, "Breeding Influenza: The Political Virology of Offshore Farming," Antipode, Vol. 41 No. 5 2 pp 916–951 Download PDF RECOMMENDED: Rob Wallace's Blog Farming Pathogens
Feb 16:	Lecture 14: The ties of global (bio)capital (Sparke) Download PDF of lecture Reading: REQUIRED: João Biehl, "Pharmaceuticalization: AIDS Treatment and Global Health Politics, Anthropological Quarterly, 2007, Download PDF Brian Salter, Melinda Cooper, Amanda Dickins & Valentina Card, "Stem cell science in India: emerging economies and the politics of globalization," Regenerative Med. (2007) 2(1), 75–89 Download PDF RECOMMENDED: Adriana Petryna, "Clinical Trials Offshored: On Private Sector Science and Public Health," BioSocieties (2007), 2, 21–40. Download PDF Margaret Chan, 2011, "Better access to generic medicines," WHO
Section	Hand in Assignment #3 to TA in section; TAs provide guidance on Assignment #4: Leadership & Capacity: including on using two or three scholarly sources, describe the political climate in your chosen country.
Weekly assignment: Global Fund Assignment #4 Download Assignment 4 Worksheet Be ready to hand in the completed worksheet for Assignment 4 in Section in week 8.
Week 8: Linking global and local
Feb 21	Lecture 15: Global health and myths of overpopulation (Gloyd) Download PDF of lecture
Feb 23	Lecture 16: Global cities, global health and Seattle’s curative cosmopolitanism (Sparke) Download PDF of lecture Reading: REQUIRED: Matthew Sparke, 2011, "Global Seattle: The City, Citizenship and the Meaning of World Class," in Michael Brown and Richard Morrill, eds. Seattle Geographies, Seattle: University of Washington Press. Download PDF and WGHA video
Section	Hand in Assignment #4 to TA; Review recent lecture materials and discuss plan to review online maps in ways that provide useful feedback from both TAs and fellow students.
Weekly assignment: Global Fund Assignment #5 Download Assignment 5 Worksheet and also complete Assignment #6 Download Assignment 6 Worksheet Prepare to hand-in Assignment 5 in section in Week 9, and put the URL for your online map (created as Assignment 6) on the class map blog page.
Week 9: Population control, war and other western tools of change
Feb 28	Lecture 17: Movie:- Dead Mums Don't Cry click here for more information Reading: REQUIRED: Hogan MC, Kyle J et al. Maternal mortality for 181 countries, 1980–2008:a systematic analysis of progress towards Millennium Development Goal 5. Published online April 12, 2010 www.thelancet.com Download PDF
March 1	Lecture 18:War, imperialism and global health (Gloyd) Download PDF of lecture Reading: REQUIRED: People's Health Movement, "Terror, War and Health," from Global Health Watch 2: An Alternative World Health Report, London and Cairo: Zed Press, 2008: 112 - 125. Download PDF
Section	Use section time to do peer review of work done to date on Global Fund project. Bring 4 copies of your draft paper to class (it must be at least 7 pages long by now and ideally include a print out of your map(s) too). Share with your country/region specific sub-group.. Be sure to incoporate insights from the 2 academic articles. Peer subgroups develop and give feedback on draft papers in class time. :
Weekly assignments: Global Fund Assignment #7 Download Assignment 7 Worksheet It is not obligatory, but if you want more feedback on your term paper from your TA, fully revise it as a 3,000 word paper to be handed in by March 4th.
Week 10: The future of global health
March 6	Lecture 19: Examples of work for change: GlobeMed, Global 99 and the Critical Development Forum Reading: REQUIRED: Where are YOU on the wealth pyramid? WSJ UW student Dean Chahin's call to fellow millennials at Humanosphere Call to support Occupy movement from Peoples Health Movement The relevance of your work on the GF project as it relates to measuring health gaps today: Interview with John Idoko
March 8	Lecture 20: The Future is YOU: Reflections on what to do with critical knowledge (Sparke and Gloyd) Reading: REQUIRED: Julio Frenk, Lincoln Chen et al, Health professionals for a new century: transforming education to strengthen health systems in an interdependent world, The Lancet, November 29, 2010 Download PDF Betsey Brada, "'Not Here’: Making the Spaces and Subjects of ‘‘Global Health’’ in Botswana," Cult Med Psychiatry (2011) 35:285-312 Download PDF
Section	Review lecture and reading material for Final For Final Exam review sheet click here
Weekly assignments: Finish research paper to hand in during lecture on March 8.
Final Examination Wednesday, March 14, 2012,10:30-12:20, ARC 147 For Final Exam review sheet click here

Extra credit is also available in this class for going to lectures listed immediately below this note (and proving your attendance to your TA with a one paragraph statement highlighting how the extra talk addressed key learning goals of GH 101). You can get a maximum of 5% extra credit this way over the quarter, 1% per lecture added to your overall % grade.

Extra credit lectures for Winter 2011 (please check back here as we frequently add newly announced events on campus)

Jan 4 - 10, listen online to the BBC special on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and write a one page review exploring how the work of our local Seattle foundation positions itself vis-a-vis the diversity of global determininats of health (from micro to macro) discussed in 101 BBC

Jan 6, Jessica Dempsey, Ph.D. "Enterprising nature: economics and finance in global biodiversity politics," Dept of Geography Colloquium,3:30pm in Smith 304

Jan 10, Global 99 Group, UW General Assembly, a student-led session on "how to build a more democratic and participatory UW" 5pm Kane Hall Lobby

Jan 11 David Roodman, “Does microfinance 'work,' and how can it be made to work better?” 4:15 to 5:30PM at UW's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in Belltown, for directions see IHME.

Jan 12, Martin Luther King, Jr. Tribute, Health Sciences, 11:30a-1:15p in the Health Sciences Building Lobby. Program includes musical performances by Eckstein Middle School Senior Jazz Band, a poetry reading by former Seattle Poet Populist, Jourdan Keith, presentation of Community Service Awards, and a dance performance by Etienne Cakpo.
Keynote Address will be provided by Professor James Pfeiffer, Department of Global Health, "“Health and the Struggle for Economic Justice: The Legacy of Dr. King”. UW President Michael Young will be in attendance. Long-time public health advocate, Dorothy Mann will be honored as the recipient of the 2012 Distinguished Service Award.

Jan 12 Jennifer Slyker, PhD, MSc, "Pediatric HIV in Kenya:A Tale of 3 Viruses" Room 1360 Ninth & Jefferson Building, Harborview, 12:30 p.m.

Jan 17 Johanna Crane, PhD, "The Value of Inequality: AIDS, Africa, and the Rise of Global Health Science" Smith Hall 306: 12.30 to 1.20pm

Jan 25 Chris Murray, MD, PhD, “Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors 2010 Study: advancements, results, and implications.” 4:15 to 5:30PM at the IHME office in Belltown. For directions see IHME.

Jan 28 - Feb 7, the Burke Museum presents "Hungry Planet: What the World Eats," an exhibit that is a place to gather and discuss the myriad of 21st century food issues Burke

Jan 30 Biological Futures in a Globalized World seminar: "What 'Biological Futures' issues are of concern to practicing scientists? And how best can humanists and social scientists address them?" Convened by Roger Brent 4pm, Fred Hutchinson Center

Jan 31, President Jimmy Carter, "Waging Peace, Fighting Disease, Building Hope" (World Affairs Council Event) Paramount Theatre, 911 Pine Street, Seattle, WA 98101 Tickets $20.

Jan 31, Richard Lester, "mHealth and Global HIV/AIDS Control: What Works And Where Is It Going?" Bioengineering Building (Foege North), Room N130, University of Washington, 3720 15th Avenue NE, Tuesday, January 31, 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Feb 1, Kim Ives, "2 Years of Reconstruction: Where Haiti is Now?" 4-5:00 p.m.. Health Sciences Building, Room T-747 Ives is is a founding editor of the weekly newspaper Haïti Liberté, the host of a weekly Haiti show on WBAI-FM, and a filmmaker who has helped produce several documentaries about Haiti, including Rezistans (1997). He is a founding member of the International Support Haiti Network (ISHN) and a contributor to several books on Haiti, including Haiti: A Slave Revolution (2004).http://globalhealth.washington.edu/event/5411

Feb 1, Robert D. Plotnick, Marieka M. Klawitter, Rachel Garshick Kleit, and Marcia Meyers, UW Evans School.Changing face of American poverty,  February 1, 5:30pm – Roundtable, Penthouse Theater, UW Seattle campus.  Reception following at 6:30pm.  RSVP to esevents@uw.edu or 206.221.7779

Feb 2, Bruce Robbins, Ph.D. "The Beneficiary: Cosmopolitanism and Inequality," Communications 120, 4:00pm

Feb 2. Jesse Bloom, PhD, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Pathobiology Seminar: "Predicting the Evolution of Influenza Antiviral Resistance" 4:00 PM, Health Sciences Building: Room T-739.

Feb 3, Tom Koch, MD, PHD, "Mapping disease," Dept of Geography Colloquium, 3:30pm in Smith 304, with a reception to follow

Feb 7 A special evening of fast-paced food talk at the Neptune Theater. Nine food experts, including UW students and retired faculty, will offer six-minute presentations on topics ranging from what we ate 10,000 years ago and the power of women farmers, to bees in literature and how to subsist on wild food in the city. (Plus tips on eating bugs and slugs!)

Feb14, Sarah Gehlert, New horizons in eliminating health disparities, 8:30-9:30am, School of SOCIAL WORK room 305. 

Feb 15, Alan Aderem, A systems approach to dissecting immunity, 3:30-4:30pm, Foege Auditorium S-060.  Refreshments at 3:20pm. 

Feb15,  Tuberculosis drug discovery: A global efforts, Tanya Paris, Infectious Disease Research Institute. (includes networking and refreshments) @ Fred Hutchinson CRC, Weintraub Building, Pelton Auditorium.  Enter through Thomas Building; free visitor parking. 6:00-7:30pm 

Feb16:  Cancer and Infectious Diseases: Making a Global Impact Thomas Building, Pelton Auditorium @ Fred Hutchinson 7-8:30pm

Feb 16, SEATTLE BIOMED Global Health 101, 7:30am - 9:00am Seattle BioMed invites you to an informal introduction to our global infectious disease research. Join us in the morning (light breakfast provided) to hear from Seattle BioMed leaders.RSVP to Meredith Boyd in the Advancement Office at 206-256-7276. Space is limited.

Feb 18 Minority Affairs Pre-Health Conference, all-day Saturday with talks by Rachel Chapman, Julian Perez and Dorothy Mann in JOHNSON HALL 9AM—5PM.

Feb 21 Mary L. (Nora) Disis, M.D and James A. Taylor, M.D. The vaccine trail - what's down the road? Why are childhood vaccines now so controversial, what’s new in immunization delivery and take a look behind laboratory doors as others push for new vaccines to treat cancer and other chronic diseases. 7 p.m. in Hogness Auditorium at the Warren G. Magnuson Health Sciences Center.

Feb 23 Wesley C. Van Voorhis, MD, PhD, "Protect the Mosquitoes? New Strategy for Malaria Eradication” Foege Building, Auditorium, 12-1pm

Feb 27 In conjunction with a recent lecture by journalist, Kim Ives, the Global Health Resource Center's World Health Cinema series is screening, "Bitter Cane" (75 minutes) a film Ives produced. This film focuses Haiti's 20th century history. Though made in 1983, this film is relevant today as it presents historical background and geopolitical influences that left Haiti so impoverished that it did not have the infrastructure to withstand the devastation wrought by the 7.0 magnitude earthquake in January 2010.3:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m., Health Sciences, Room K-069.

Feb 29 Allyn L. Taylor, JD, LLM, JSD Tackling the Global Health Workforce Shortage: The 2010 WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel, 12:30-1:20 p.m.William H. Gates Hall, Room 133 School of Law

March 9, Lesley Sharp, PhD. "Hybrid Bodies and Animal Science: Moral Thinking in Xenotransplant Research" 3:30pm, Savery 206

Extra credit is also available for all students who apply for the Seattle Global Health Nexus competition. You can post or check out ideas for this on the GO POST SITE

New horizons in eliminating health disparities, Sarah Gehlert, UW Social Work and UW Medicine.  February 14, 8:30-9:30am, School of Social Work room 305. http://socialwork.uw.edu/