The New York University Master s Program in Global Public Health will host a discussion with noted author and public health specialist Dr. Helen Epstein on her new and influential book, The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West, & the Fight Against Aids. The presentation will take place on Monday, December 3, 2007, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. at the King Juan Carlos I Center, Auditorium, 53 Washington Square South, Manhattan. The event is free and open to the public.
The New York University Masters Program in Global Public Health will host a discussion with noted author and public health specialist Dr. Helen Epstein on her new and influential book, The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West, & the Fight Against Aids. The presentation will take place on Monday, December 3, 2007, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. at the King Juan Carlos I Center, Auditorium, 53 Washington Square South, Manhattan. The event is free and open to the public.
In 1993, Helen Epstein, a scientist working with a biotechnology company searching for an AIDS vaccine, moved to Uganda, where she witnessed firsthand the suffering caused by the epidemic. In her unsparing and illuminating account of this global disease, she describes how international health experts, governments, and ordinary Africans have struggled to understand the rapid and devastating spread of the disease in Africa and traces the changes wrought by new medical developments and emerging political realities. The AIDS epidemic is partly a consequence of the rapid transition of African societies from an agrarian past to an impoverished present. Millions of African people have yet to find a place in an increasingly globalized world, and their poverty and social dislocation have generated an earthquake in gender relations that deeply affects the spread of HIV. Yet, as Epstein argues, there are solutions to this crisis, and some of the most effective ones may be simpler than many people assume.
The event will be moderated by Professor John Gershman, Clinical Associate Professor of Public Service & Director of Undergraduate Programs at NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Professor Gershman is Associate Director of the Masters Program in Global Public Health.
- WHAT: A discussion of the recent book, The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West, & the Fight Against Aids
- WHO: Dr. Helen Epstein, prominent author and public health expert; Professor John Gershman, NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
- WHEN: Monday, December 3, 2007, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
- WHERE: New York University, King Juan Carlos I Center, Auditorium, 53 Washington Square South, Manhattan
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