"RX FOR SURVIVAL"--Global Health Series Spotlighting International Public Health
Jasmine Park, Mary Jue Xu, Kayvan Zainabadi
Wed Jan 9, 06-08:00pm, 4-370
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.
Web: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/rxforsurvival/
Contact: Jasmine Park, Mary Jue Xu, jaspark@mit.edu, maryxu@mit.edu
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"RX FOR SURVIVAL"--Global Health Series Spotlighting International Public Health
Jasmine Park, Mary Jue Xu, Kayvan Zainabadi
Wed Jan 16, 06-08:00pm, 4-370
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
"Rx for Survival" highlights the world's deadliest diseases, history of epidemics, research, patient perspectives and global healthcare initiatives.
"Disease Warriors" and "The Rise of the Superbugs," each an hour long, will be shown. Brief descriptions of each from the series's website are below.
'"Disease Warriors" chronicles the groundbreaking work of early researchers, such as the famed scientist Louis Pasteur, who unmasked germs as the source of illness...[and] major challenges in getting basic vaccines to those who still need them, and in creating new ones to combat modern nemeses, like AIDS.'
"Rise of the Superbugs" features "historic successes, as well as the growing threat posed by new strains of germs, such as tuberculosis and staph, that are resistant to our best antibiotics".
Web: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/rxforsurvival/
Contact: Jasmine Park, Mary Jue Xu, jaspark@mit.edu, maryxu@mit.edu
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"RX FOR SURVIVAL"--Global Health Series Spotlighting International Public Health
Jasmine Park, Mimi Yen, Karen Li, Mary Xu, Kayvan Zainibadi
Wed Jan 23, 06-07:30pm, 4-370
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
The episode "Deadly Messengers" will be followed by a Q&A with guest speaker Jeffrey Griffiths of the Department of Public Health and Family Medicine at Tufts Medical School, whose has worked both in America and Africa.
The website description of "Deadly Messengers" is below:
Today, the most dangerous vector on earth is the mosquito. From malaria to yellow fever to West Nile virus, mosquito-borne diseases continue to threaten the health of millions around the world. Deadly Messengers recounts the stories of heroic scientists and health workers who battled against the mosquito, and examines current efforts to control dangerous and spreading vector-borne diseases
Web: http://www.pbs.org/rxforsurvival
Contact: Jasmine Park, Mimi Yen, Karen Li, Mary Xu, mitai-exec@mit.edu
Cosponsor: Graduate Students Office
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"RX FOR SURVIVAL"--Global Health Series Spotlighting International Public Health
Jasmine Park, Mimi Yen, Karen Li, Mary Xu, Kayvan Zainabadi
Wed Jan 30, 06-08:00pm, Rm 4-270
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Screening of "How Safe Are We?" (website description below) with guest speaker Dr. David Jones,MD, PhD. He is a lecturer in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and is the director of the Center for the Study of Diversity in Science, Technology, and Medicine at MIT.
"How Safe Are We?":In the last few decades, however, thirty new infectious diseases have emerged and one of them — AIDS — is becoming perhaps the most devastating epidemic in history. New diseases travel the globe with unprecedented rapidity, and older killers that once seemed controllable are roaring back with a vengeance. How Safe Are We? examines the most critical threats we face today — including avian flu — and the pressing need to strengthen global public health systems.
Web: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/rxforsurvival
Contact: Jasmine Park, Mimi Yen, Karen Li, Mary Xu, mitai-exec@mit.edu
Cosponsor: Graduate Volleyball Club
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"RX FOR SURVIVAL"--Global Health Series Spotlighting International Public Health
Mary Xu
Wed Jan 23, 06-08:00pm, 4-370
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Since the plague killed millions of Europeans in the Middle Ages, vector-borne diseases—those that rely on insects and animals to spread infectious agents—have posed a serious threat to public health. Today, the most dangerous vector on earth is the mosquito. From malaria to yellow fever to West Nile virus, mosquito-borne diseases continue to threaten the health of millions around the world. Deadly Messengers recounts the stories of heroic scientists and health workers who battled against the mosquito, and examines current efforts to control dangerous and spreading vector-borne diseases.
We will have a discussion led by 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
Web: http://web.mit.edu/amnesty
Contact: Mary Xu, maryxu@mit.edu
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Kenya Election Crisis, A Personal Perspective
Leonid Chindelevitch
Fri Jan 25, 06-07:00pm, 4-231
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
A discussion of history of and present events in Kenya. food provided.
Contact: Leonid Chindelevitch, mitai-exec@mit.edu
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Pakistan: Forever in the Eye of the Storm
Sam Clark, Kayvan Zainabadi
Thu Jan 31, 07:30-09:00pm, 6-120
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Why is it that Pakistan is at the epicenter of local and global crisis? Dr. Adil Najam, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center at Boston University, will give a presentation and Q&A session on the current situation in Pakistan: a complex nation of 160 million which struggles in the face of military rule, human rights abuse, violent politics, extremism, and much more.
He will also discuss the pro-democracy movement in the country which, according to Prof. Najam, signifies a "democratic society trapped inside an undemocratic state."
Web: http://www.bu.edu/ir/faculty/najam.html
Contact: Kayvan Zainabadi, (617) 680-8746, kayvan@mit.edu
Cosponsor: Student Pugwash
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The Elections in Kenya: Ethnicity, Violence, and Human Rights Implications
Kayvan Zainabadi
Fri Jan 18, 06-07:00pm, 4-231
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
The Elections in Kenya: Ethnicity, Violence, and Human Rights Implications
Joseph Mwaura
Visiting Fellow, Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School
This event will focus on the historical and current context of violence in Kenya, as well as how the media reports on ethnic tribal violence, in the wake of the December 2007 elections.
Joseph Mwaura is a Visiting Fellow with the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School. Mwaura was admitted as an advocate of the High Court of Kenya in 1998, and taught law at the Kenya School of Professional Studies and is a member of the Law Society of Kenya. He currently teaches and researches in the areas of corporate law and human rights.
Sponsor(s): Amnesty International, GSC Off-Campus Subcommittee, Graduate Student Life Grants, GSC Funding Board
Web: http://web.mit.edu/amnesty
Contact: Kayvan Zainabadi, 4-231, (617) 680-8746, kayvan@mit.edu
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