Events

IPD hosts or sponsors a number of events throughout the academic year aimed at promoting awareness of global health and other international issues.

Information regarding the time and location of guest lectures, symposiums, and conferences is advertised via the Global Health listserv and through other campus media.

Events are generally open to the university community.

Recent guest lecturers in the Global Health Series:

• Michael Pajonk, Deputy Executive Director of Health & Development International

• Carol Ciesielski, M.D., Chief of STD/HIV Epidemiology with the Chicago Department of Health 

• Mardge Cohen, M.D., Director of Women's HIV Research at the CORE Center in Chicago.

• Beth Houle, Senior Vice-President for Opportunity International, and Director of the Women's Opportunity Fund.

• Jeff Richardson, Executive Director of Step Forward, Abbott Laboratories

• Brennan Van Dyke, Regional Director of the UN Environmental Program, and Richard Tren, Director of Africa Fighting Malaria

Previous conferences hosted or sponsored by International Program Development:

• International Youth Volunteer Summit

• 2nd International Healthcare Conference and 29th Annual MacEachern Lecture: The (R)Evolution of International Healthcare Systems: The Art and Science of Improving Life

• Symposium on HIV/AIDS in China and India: Managing Emerging Crises

• The International Trade in Small Arms: Health and Legal Perspectives

• Pediatric and Adolescent HIV/AIDS: an International Perspective