Monthly Archives: November 2010

Ringing the bell for AIDS awareness

What do AIDS, gay icons, fashion royalty, NBC comedy, and capitalism have in common?  They were all present on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange this morning to ring the opening bell. The Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR) … Read More

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Ambassadors for hope with a blues sensibility: Cornel West at APHA

Dr. Cornel West, American philosopher, author, critic, actor, and civil rights activist, spoke at the opening session of the American Public Health Association’s 138th Annual Meeting in Denver. West is a powerful rhetorician. In a speech bordering on poetry, and … Read More

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A special issue of the Lancet dedicated to malaria elimination

Last week, the Lancet published a special issue on malaria elimination.  There’s a good summary of the eight articles on our colleague Naman Shah’s blog, topnaman. For more on what IGHID is doing to combat malaria, read here, here, and … Read More

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Writing the history of international health agencies

Last week UNC global health policy expert Benjamin Mason Meier traveled to the great white north to join a select group of international scholars for a meeting on Politics, Exceptionality and “Reach”:  Writing the  History of International Health Agencies.  The meeting … Read More

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