DL21C wishes everyone a Happy Thanksgiving!
See you at our December events, including DL21C's biggest holiday party yet on Thursday, December 10! But first . . .
This Tuesday, December 1, DL21C's Health Care Committee presents a panel discussion on the H1N1 virus, with local and global experts who will assess the impact of a potential citywide outbreak.
PLEASE NOTE: DL21C WILL BROADCAST President Obama's Afghanistan speech, following our H1N1 event.
Panelists:
Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations and author, The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
Howard Zucker, Senior Advisor to the Division of Global Health and Human Rights at Massachusetts General Hospital; former Assistant Director-General, World Health Organization
Chris Manning, Assistant Commissioner for Intergovernmental Affairs, New York City Health Department
About the Event
This panel of public health experts will discuss the emergency preparation and actual responses during this season's flu outbreak and will seek to address the following questions:
What is the true breadth of impact of the H1N1 outbreak?
What's worked better than expected, or been less effective? What are lessons learned for the next outbreak, and what happens if it's more 'serious' than expected?
What is the long term economic/social impact of H1N1 and other pandemics?
What other topics - public health or otherwise - are being overlooked because of the focus on the possibility of an H1N1 outbreak?
About the panelists:
Laurie Garrett
Laurie Garrett is currently the Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. Garrett is the only writer ever to have been awarded all three of the Big "Ps" of journalism: The Peabody, The Polk and The Pulitzer.
Garrett started reporting on science news at KPFA, a local radio station. The hobby soon became far more interesting than graduate school and she took a leave of absence to explore journalism. At KPFA Garrett worked in management, in news and in radio documentary production, where a documentary she co-produced won the 1977 George Foster Peabody Award in Broadcasting. After leaving KPFA Garrett worked briefly in the California Department of Food and Agriculture then went overseas, living and working in southern Europe and sub-Saharan Africa, freelance reporting for Pacifica Radio, Pacific News Service, BBC-Radio, Reuters, Associated Press and others. In 1980 Garrett joined National Public Radio and later in the 1980s worked at New York Newsday.
Garrett is the best-selling author of The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance and Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health. Over the years she has also contributed chapters to numerous books and has written for many publications, including Foreign Affairs, Esquire, Vanity Fair, The Washington Post, and appears frequently on national television programs. While at the Council on Foreign Relations, she has written several reports and articles including: "HIV and National Security: Where are the Links?" "The Next Pandemic?" "The Challenge of Global Health" and "The Future of Foreign Assistance Amid Global Economic and Financial Crisis." She is a member of the National Association of Science Writers, and served on the boards of numerous human rights organizations including the Center for Health and Human rights and the Health Worker Global Policy Advisory Group.
Garrett graduated with honors in biology from the University of California in Santa Cruz and originally pursued graduate studies in Bacteriology and Immunology at UC Berkeley, and conducted research at Stanford University in the laboratory of Dr. Leonard Herzenberg. She is a fifth-generation Los Angelino.
Dr. Howard Zucker
Dr. Howard Zucker serves as Senior Advisor to the Division of Global Health and Human Rights at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. During the 2009 spring semester, Dr. Zucker served as an Institute of Politics Fellow at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, leading a study group on global health diplomacy. Previously, Dr. Zucker served as Assistant Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) in charge of the Health Technology & Pharmaceuticals cluster, and Representative of the Director-General on Intellectual Property, Innovation, and Public Health. Prior to his appointment at WHO, Dr. Zucker served in the U.S. federal government, initially as a White House Fellow and then as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Health, focused on science, technology, and medicine. During his years in Washington he championed issues of public health preparedness, helped manage the anthrax crisis, and developed preventive health strategies. He was also the inspiration behind and developer of the nation's Medical Reserve Corps, now operational in all fifty states with close to 200,000 volunteers.
Howard is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Council for Emerging National Security Affairs, and was a 'high-level expert' for NATO on public health/emergency response. He received his B.S. degree from McGill University, and received his M.D. from George Washington University School of Medicine at age 22, becoming one of America's youngest doctors. Dr. Zucker has served as an Assistant Professor at Yale University School of Medicine, as an Associate Professor at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, on the clinical faculty at the National Institutes of Health and as a research affiliate at MIT. He also holds a J.D. from Fordham University School of Law and an LL.M. from Columbia Law School.
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Upcoming Events
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Monday, December 7
7:00 pm
DL21C's Political Author Series continues with
Michelle Goldberg, author, The Means of Reproduction
for a discussion of reproductive rights across the globe and here at home.
Mr. Dennehy's Pub
63 Carmine St (off 7th Ave)
1 to Houston St, A/C/E/B/D/F/V to West 4th
Books will be available for purchase and signing on-site
Free for members and book purchasers; $5 for everyone else
About Michelle Goldberg // her recent article on the Stupak amendment
Please RSVP!
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Thursday, December 10
8:00pm until 3:00am
DL21C's 17th Annual Holiday Bash!
Our biggest party of the year - with great music, dancing and special guests!
Club Imperial
17 W 19th Street (at 5th Avenue)
N/R/Q/W/B/D/F/V to 23rd Street OR 14th Street
Free for members; $10/nonmembers
Please RSVP!
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