The Baker-Ort Chair
in International Healthcare Philanthropy

Annual Lectures

Sponsored by the Baker-Ort Chair

Fourth Annual Lecture on International Healthcare and Philanthropy

Robert S. Scott, M.D.

Dr. Scott is Trustee Chair of the Rotary Foundation.

Topic: Polio Eradication and Rotary International

Bob Scott was born and raised in Edinburgh, Scotland. He graduated in medicine from Edinburgh University in 1957 with distinction in dermatology and chest diseases. Bob emigrated to Cobourg, Ontario, Canada in 1966, where he continued in general practice. He was a Coroner for the Province of Ontario until retiring in May 2000 after investigating more than 1200 cases. Bob has taken part in many National Immunization Days in India, Pakistan, Nigeria and Egypt. In 2002-03 he was the Director of the Polio Eradication Fundraising Campaign.

Time & Date: November 3, 2008 at 3:30 PM

Location: IUPUI University Library Lilly Auditorium

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Robert S. Scott, MD

Third Annual Lecture on International Healthcare and Philanthropy

Patty Stonesifer

Ms. Stonesifer is CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She is a former senior vice president at Microsoft, volunteers with nonprofit organizations, and participated in the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on AIDS as a delegate from the United States. Stonesifer is an Indiana University graduate from Indianapolis.

Topic: The Challenge of Global Health

Patty Stonesifer and Diana Aviv, president and CEO of Indepedent Sector, engaged in a discussion addressing issues in healthcare philanthropy, global philanthropy and the role of the nonprofit sector. Moderated by Emmett Carson, CEO and president of the new Silicon Valley Community Foundation.

Second Annual Lecture on International Healthcare and Philanthropy

Jim Yong Kim, M.D., Ph.D.

Chair, Harvard Medical School Department of Social Medicine
Director, Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health
Head, Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston
Former Director, World Health Organization HIV/AIDS unit
Former Executive Director and Founding Trustee, Partners in Health

Topic: Bridging the Implementation Gap in Global Health

An audio recording of this lecture is available here

Dr. Kim laughs during his lecture at IUPUI

First Annual Lecture on International Healthcare and Philanthropy

James T. Morris

Executive Director of the
United Nations World Food Program

Topic: Hunger, Health, and Children

Presentation available to download here