Inside Duke Medicine
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3rd Annual Global Health Lecture
January 21st, 2010The Millennium Development Goals: Will Developing Countries Meet Them by 2015?
Gary Cohen
Executive Vice President
Becton, Dickinson & Company
4:30 p.m. on Thursday, January 21, 2010
Duke University School of Nursing Auditorium, room 1014
The lecture is free and open to the public. Register now.
Note: IACET Continuing Education Units will be available to health professionals attending the lecture.
Discussion of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is an exceedingly germane topic to students in health, engineering, policy, education and other disciplines, as well as the general campus community. In 2000, 189 countries from ten regions of the world signed the U.N. Millennium Declaration committing to eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, achieving universal primary education, promoting gender equity and empowering women, reducing maternal child mortality, combating HIV-AIDS and malaria, ensuring environmental sustainability and improving the health of the world's people by the target date of 2015. Gary Cohen, a distinguished leader and advocate dedicated to addressing health issues in developing countries, will discuss the challenges they face in meeting the MDGs, including the impact of the global economic downturn, and opportunities for service and research.
Cohen is a board director of the Perrigo Company, the U.S. Fund for UNICEF, the Centers for Disease Control Foundation and the Accordia Global Health Foundation. He is also chair of the CDC/Corporate Roundtable on Global Health Threats, a member of the Private Sector Delegation to the Global Fund and an advisor to the Clinton Global Initiative. Cohen and the BD team are extensively engaged in collaborations across the public, private and NGO sectors to curb infectious diseases in developing countries. He has addressed the U.N. General Assembly and Economic and Social Council, the World Bank, the U.S. State Department, the World Economic Forum (Davos) and the Council on Foreign Relations as an advocate for and expert on global health, child immunization, HIV/AIDS and health system strengthening. Cohen has been honored with the Corporate Leadership Award by MESAB (Medical Education for South African Blacks), the Distinguished Humanitarian Award by B’nai B’rith International and the Helenka Pantaleoni Award by the U.S. Fund for UNICEF.
The Office of Global and Community Health Initiatives at the Duke University School of Nursing and the Duke Global Health Institute are committed to addressing health disparities locally and abroad through research, education and service. This annual forum brings leaders and scientists in global health to campus to spotlight how their work makes a difference among vulnerable populations. Although the lecture is free and open to the public, registration is required. For more information, please contact Belinda Wisdom at 919-685-9554 or belinda.wisdom@duke.edu no later than January 11, 2010. Feel free to also download the flyer.