Talks on International Health
Spring 2009
Peter Singer
![[Photo]: Peter Singer speaking](/images/singer-1.jpg)
Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University; Laureate Professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE), University of Melbourne
Location: IUPUI Campus Center, Room CE 450 (Fourth Floor)
Date & Time: March 10th, 2009, 7:30 - 9:00 PM
About Peter Singer:
Peter Singer is an Australian philosopher. He specializes in applied ethics. He was educated at Scotch College, the University of Melbourne, and the University of Oxford. Outside academic circles, Singer is best known for his book Animal Liberation, widely regarded as the touchstone of the animal liberation movement. He has written on a wide range of other topics, including world poverty, abortion, euthanasia, infanticide, and many others.
His most recent publication is The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty (March 2009, Random House Publishers).
For more information on Professor Singer, see: http://www.princeton.edu/~psinger
To view a video of Peter Singer's talk, click here.
Fall 2007
Guillaume Lachenal
Post-doctoral Researcher, Centre d'Etudes des Mondes Africains, CNRS, Paris
Presented with support from the IUPUI African Studies Committee and the John Shaw Billings History of Medicine Society
Location: Lilly Medical Sciences Library, Room IB 301, 4-5 p.m.
Cees Th. Smit Sibinga, M.D.
Professor of International Development of Transfusion Medicine, University of Groningen, Netherlands; Senior Medical Advisor to the American Association of Blood Banks; consultant to PEPFAR (President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief)
Co-sponsored by the Global Health Student Interest Group (IUSM)
Location: Van Nuys Medical Science Building, Basement, Room MS B13, 12-1 p.m.
CEO, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
The 3rd Annual Baker-Ort Lecture in International Healthcare Philanthropy
Location: Auditorium, University Place Conference Center & Hotel, 2:45 p.m.
RSVP required.
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New Course Eligible for MHHS Elective Credit
Peter Schwartz, M.D., will be teaching Philosophy of Biology during the upcoming Fall 2009 Semester. This course, P383, is eligible as an elective for those pursuing a MHHS minor and for MHHS majors, with approval.
Spring 2007
Theodore Brown , Ph.D.
4:00 p.m. in the Medical Science Library, room IB 301.
Fall 2006
William H. Schneider, Ph.D.
Ellen Einterz, a physician from Indianapolis, has worked for twenty-four
of the past thirty-two years in Africa. She spoke about her recent
experiences as medical director of a district hospital in northern Cameroon,
where she has been working since 1990.
This talk co-sponsored by the Global Health Student Interest Group,
IU School of Medicine, and the Medical Humanities Program, IUPUI.
An audio file of the lecture is available here.