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University Faculty Lecture: “Achieving Health for All in 21st Century” with Assoc. Chair Stephen Gloyd, MD, MPH, Feb. 6, 7-8:30pm

University Faculty Lecture: “Achieving Health for All in 21st Century” with Assoc. Chair Stephen Gloyd, MD, MPH

Event date:

Thursday, February 6, 2014 – 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Location
Kane Hall, Room 130
Description

Office of the President and the Office of the Provost present: 38th Annual University Faculty Lecture, “Achieving Health for All in the 21st Century: Globalizing, Growing Inequality and Creative Response” with Stephen S. Gloyd, MD, MPH, Professor of Global Health and of Health Services. A reception will follow in the Walker-Ames Room in Kane Hall.

Dr. Gloyd is a family practice physician who has been a UW faculty member since 1986. He has worked for more than 30 years in Africa, Latin America and Asia as a clinician, manager, researcher, teacher and policy advocate. Dr. Gloyd teaches about the history, political economy and management of global health from a social justice perspective. Dr. Gloyd is Associate Chair for Education and Curriculum in the UW’s Department of Global Health, where he directs the MPH and PhD programs. In 1987, he founded Health Alliance International, a nonprofit organization that has worked for decades in solidarity with the ministries of health of Mozambique, Cote d’Ivoire, Timor-Leste and Sudan to strengthen primary health care and to improve approaches to global health assistance.

About the University Faculty Lecture: Since 1976, this University Faculty Lecture award has honored current or emeriti faculty whose research, scholarship, or art has been widely recognized by their peers and whose achievements have had a substantial impact on their profession, on the research or performance of others, and perhaps on society as a whole. It acknowledges outstanding creativity and scholarship. The recipient delivers the Annual Faculty Lecture to inform the University community about his or her work.

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