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2011 Boyarsky Lecture in Law, Medicine & Ethics

Solomon Benatar, MBChB, DSc (Med)
Emeritus Professor of Medicine
Founding Director, UCT Bioethics Centre
University of Cape Town, South Africa

Wednesday, April 27, 2011
5:30pm
Nasher Museum of Art
Duke University
Reception to follow

Free and Open to the Public

Despite having the resources and knowledge for achieving improved global health, a new critical paradigm is required on health as an aspect of human development, human security and human rights. Such a shift is required to sufficiently modify and credibly reduce the present dominance of perverse market forces on global health. While new scientific discoveries can make wide-ranging contributions to health, improving global health will depend on achieving greater social justice, economic redistribution and enhanced democratization of social institutions responsible for essential health care, education and public welfare. As with the quest for an HIV vaccine, the challenge of improved global health requires an ambitious multidisciplinary research program.

For more information contact the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at 919.668.9000

Email: trent-center@duke.edu/

Website: http://trentcenter.duke.edu

Limited parking available in the Nasher lot.

Additional free parking on Anderson St. and Alexander Ave.

The Boyarsky Lectureship, created through a gift from Drs. Saul and Rose Boyarsky, brings distinguished lecturers to Duke University who can inspire achievement in social justice and public health through science.

Solomon Benatar is currently Director of an NIH Fogarty International Center program for capacity-building in International Research Ethics in southern Africa. He is also professor in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and Joint Centre for Bioethics at the University of Toronto.

Dr. Benatar has published over 300 journal articles and book chapters on respiratory medicine, health economics, health care systems, academic freedom, medical ethics, human rights, and global health. In February 2011, his book Global Health and Global Health Ethics (Solomon Benatar & Gillian Brock, Editors) was published by Cambridge University Press. In addition to being an invited lecturer at universities around the world, he has served as an ethics advisor to organizations including UNAIDS, Médecins Sans Frontières, Family Health International, and the Nelson Mandela Foundation.

He is a past president of the International Association of Bioethics and his many honors include election as Foreign Associate Member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine and Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.