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Democracy, Governance and Curbing Corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa

Location: Cheyney University of Pennsylvania

An international conference organized by the Master of Public Administration Program, in collaboration with The African & Caribbean Business Council.

While other regions of the world are making strides in improving the living standards of their citizens, Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is still trapped in poverty with more than 40% of its 600 million people living below the internationally recognised absolute poverty level of US$ 1 per day. Several reports highlight corruption as one of the institutional and systemic problems responsible for keeping million of Africans under absolute poverty. In fact, the 2008 Transparency International report demonstrates a direct link between corruption and failure of societal institutions to effectively achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in SSA. It is a serious concern that the goals of halving poverty in SSA by the year 2015 from the level of 1990 will not be met.

For additional information including call for papers, registration and lodging, please visit the conference website at: http://www.cheyney.edu/international-anticorruption/index.cfm

Presentations by:

Sara Karjoo, MD (Wells Lab)

Joshua Friedman, MD, PhD (Friedman Lab)

Jie Zheng, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Department of Physiology & Membrane Biology

University of California, Davis

Physiology Conference Room B400 Richards Building

4:00PM-5:00PM

Attendees: CDA, Practice Manager/Coordinator of each location, Clinical RN Manager

Call in #: 800-314-2582

Steven Artandi Stanford University  Lorena Beese Duke University  Robert Weinberg Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research Massachusetts Institute of Technology  Cynthia Wolberger Howard Hughes Medical Institute The Johns Hopkins University

Professor

Pathobiology

 Austrian Auditorium

Speaker: Jeffrey Thomson      Affiliation:  Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

This comprehensive institute is designed to develop skills that are useful in qualitative and mixed methods research, including:

1. Structuring and conducting an interview
2. Selecting an appropriate sample
3. Organizing and facilitating a focus group
4. Managing, coding and analyzing data
5. Publishing your work
6. Use and application of NVivo software. Advanced NVivo training will also be available.

Rates:

General Registration (3 days): $850
Student rate (3 days): $450
Group rate (3 days, 3 people or more - contact lahall@exchange.upenn.edu to register): $450
Lectures-only (2 days): $550