The second annual GHI Pre-departure Training Workshop will be held on March 17, 2012. This interactive full-day workshop aims to prepare students participating in global health projects and electives for safe and responsible travel. A series of interactive modules will challenge students to discuss issues of cultural competency, professionalism, and ethical engagement in low resource communities. The event is mandatory for all medical students participating in summer global health projects or electives and is open to students from all disciplines.
Keynote address by Jonathan Smith.
Biography: Jonathan Smith filmed, edited, and directed the film They Go to Die. He is a lecturer in Global Health and Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases at Yale University and an affiliate of the Yale Global Health Leadership Institute, where he researches epidemiology of TB and HIV in the context of migrant populations. For his extensive work at as an ethnographic researcher and for creativity in the field of global health, he was awarded the Yale Global Health Leadership Institute Field Experience Award (2010), the distinguished Lowell S. Levin Award for Excellence in Global Health from Yale University (2011), and the International Tuberculosis Survival Prize from the Lilly MDR-TB Partnership (2011). Since he began researching the issue, he has been invited to speak on the intersection of TB, HIV, and human rights at universities both domestically and internationally.
Date: March 17, 2012
Time: 8 am – 3 pm
Location: MSAC (map) – videoconferenced to distributed Medical school sites
*Laptop computer required for participation
Food and refreshments provided.