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2009 Stephen Stewart Gloyd Endowed Lecture
"Two Concepts for Health: How to Radicalize the Global Response to Planetary Threats"

Richard Horton, BSc MB FRCP FMedSci
Editor-in-Chief of the Lancet

Date: Monday, November 2nd, 2009
Time: 5:30pm
Location: Hogness Auditorium, Room A-420, Health Sciences Building, University of Washington

Reception to follow in the Health Sciences Lobby.

Richard Horton is Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet. He was born in London and is half Norwegian. He qualified in physiology and medicine in 1986 and began a career in academic hospital medicine before being seduced into writing and editing. He joined The Lancet in 1990 and was North American Editor in New York from 1993-95. He was the first President of the World Association of Medical Editors and is a Past-President of the US Council of Science Editors. He is an honorary professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University College London, and the University of Edinburgh. He has received Honorary Doctorates in Medicine from the University of Birmingham, UK, and the University of Umea, Sweden. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and a Founder Fellow of the UK's Academy of Medical Sciences. In 2005 he wrote the report for the Royal College of Physicians' on the future of medical professionalism - Doctors in Society. He also led and wrote the Royal College of Physicians' 2009 report into physicians and the pharmaceutical industry - Innovating for Health. He co-chairs the College's Medicine's Forum; is a Council Member of the Global Forum for Health Research; and is a Board Member of the Health Metrics Network. In 2007, he received the Edinburgh Medal for professional achievements judged to have made a significant contribution to the understanding of human health and wellbeing. In 2009, he was awarded the Dean's Medal by Johns Hopkins School of Public Health for activism and leadership in addressing the needs of poor women and children worldwide. In 2008, he was appointed a Senior Associate of The Nuffield Trust, a think tank for research and policy studies in health services. He has a strong interest in issues of global health. He has been a medical columnist for The Observer and writes regularly for the Times Literary Supplement and New York Review of Books. A book about controversies in modern medicine, Health Wars, was published in 2003. He enjoys cooking and arguing, and lives in London with his wife, Ingrid, a paediatrician, and their eight-year old daughter, Isobel. In 2004, The Lancet won the UK's Medical Publication of the Year.

Weekly SEH meeting, 5:30-6:30 PM in Thomson 101. Anyone is welcome to attend!

Students for Equal Health (SEH) and Minority Association of Pre-Health Students (MAPS) are hosting a dodgeball tournament to fundraise for the Sinsoluka Foundation in Quito, Ecuador, a nonprofit organization that provides shelter and services to over 200 homeless youth. Last quarter we raised over $500 from our badminton tournament, and we're hoping to top that this time!

Date: Saturday, May 30th
Time: 12-3 PM
Location: IMA Gym B
Cost: $5 per Individual, $30 per Team of Six
Events: Women's, Men's, and Mixed (3 women 3 men) double-elimination brackets
Participants: UW Students, Staff, and Faculty only

Tentative Schedule:
Womens Brackets: 12-1 pm
Men's Brackets: 1-2 pm
Mixed Brackets: 2-3 pm

Depending on the number of teams that register for each category the schedule may change slightly. Teams will play in the order they register.

Prizes will be given to winners of each event. Food will be provided. All proceeds go to the Sinsoluka Foundation. The final schedule will be posted the day before the event.

Registration is available below via PayPal, and at the door.

Date: Wednesday, May 20th
Time: 6:30 - 7:30 PM
Location: Thomson 101

Join Students for Equal Health (SEH) for a round table discussion about the conditions and realities of public health work in Zimbabwe.

Guest speakers:

-Danuta (Danka) Kasprzyk, PhD - Battelle Seattle Research Acai Berry Center
-Tariro Makadzange, MD, PhD

RSVP to the Facebook event at: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=82959990039. Event is free and open to the public. Hope to see you there!