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Part of the CPHI's 2012/2013 Seminar Series Proof or Consequences: Evidence and Controversy in Public Health
Paul A. Offit, MD is the Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and the Director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.He is also the author of five medical narratives: The Cutter Incident: How America’s First Polio Vaccine Led to Today’s Growing Vaccine Crisis (Yale University Press, 2005), Vaccinated: One Man’s Quest to Defeat the World’s Deadliest Diseases (HarperCollins, 2007), for which he won an award from the American Medical Writers Association, Autism’s False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure (Columbia University Press, 2008), Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All (Basic Books, 2011), and Killing Us Softly: The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine (HarperCollins, 2013).
RSVP: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHJLMDJPUE1yNEtTeGtLMUFhVUJibXc6MQ
Associate Professor, Medicine
Immunology & Rheumatology
Stanford School of Medicine
“Dissecting Autoimmunity Using Multiplexed Assays”
Austrian Auditorium
The outreach lecture this month is on 'Respiratory distress and CHF.'
This lecture is a part of the Fall 2012 Public Health 519 course "Issues in Global Health." If you would like to attend as a guest, please contact Dustin Utt (uttd@upenn.edu) to see if there is room available.
Information about the course: PUBH519 presents an overview of issues in global health from the viewpoint of many different disciplines, with emphasis on economically less developed countries. Themes include the state of the planet, including populations, resources, and environment; determinants of global health, ethical perspectives, challenges in communicable and non-communicable disease, and intervention strategies. If you are interested in registering for the entire course, please follow the protocol used in your home school. This is usually accomplished by checking with the home school program coordinator or advisor. Medical students should contact Helene Weinberg.
This lecture is a part of the Fall 2012 Public Health 519 course "Issues in Global Health." If you would like to attend as a guest, please contact Dustin Utt (uttd@upenn.edu) to see if there is room available.
Information about the course: PUBH519 presents an overview of issues in global health from the viewpoint of many different disciplines, with emphasis on economically less developed countries. Themes include the state of the planet, including populations, resources, and environment; determinants of global health, ethical perspectives, challenges in communicable and non-communicable disease, and intervention strategies. If you are interested in registering for the entire course, please follow the protocol used in your home school. This is usually accomplished by checking with the home school program coordinator or advisor. Medical students should contact Helene Weinberg.