Upcoming
Monday, May 5
Infectious Disease Lecture:
Partnerships for the Future: Building Scientific Capacity in Developing Countries
Presenter:
Eva Harris, UC-Berkeley
Armenise Building Amphitheater
Harvard Medical School
12:30-1:30 p.m.
Eva Harris, an assistant professor of infectious diseases at UC-Berkeley, is president and one of the founders of the Sustainable Sciences Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving public health worldwide by helping scientists in developing countries gain access to the resources needed to address local problems related to infectious diseases.
She is also director of the institute's Applied Molecular Biology/Appropriate Transfer Technology Program, which hosts workshops in developing countries to teach molecular biological techniques for use in public health and the biomedical sciences, emphasizing a low-cost yet rigorous approach to molecular epidemiology. Harris received a MacArthur Award for her work with the program.
This lecture is sponsored by the International Science and Health Network, a student organization founded in 2002 by graduate students in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences program at HMS. ISHN is working to address the problems faced by scientists in developing countries.