Perelman School of Medicine Events Calendar

Please join us for the fifth event of CPHI’s Seminar Series,
Crisis as Catalyst in Public Health.

To RSVP to this event, click here or email cphi@pobox.upenn.edu

For more information about CPHI’s 2010/2011 Seminar Series – Crisis as Catalyst in Public Health – click here (http://www.cphi.upenn.edu/CrisisasCatalyst.shtml)

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

Location: Austrian Auditorium, CRB

Advisor: Dr. Katherine High

• Understand the expectations of a cohesive team
• Gain a basic understanding of the degree to which the team meets the expectations.
• Identify steps they can take to improve their teams’ functioning

UT Southwestern Medical Center

The role of TREX1 in innate immunity and antiviral response

Austrian Auditorium

Speaker: Surafel Mulugeta Affiliation: University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Division

Christopher Fitzgerald, MS “Executive Functioning, Treatment Adherence, and Parental Involvement in Youth with Chronic Illness:  Implications for OSA Populations”