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Global health topic of EPH talk
Dr. Derek Yach, executive director of the Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health Cluster at the World Health Organization (WHO), will visit the campus Monday, December 8.
Yach's lecture, titled "Global Health: More Than Infectious Disease," will be held at 4 p.m. in Rm. 101 of the School of Epidemiology and Public Health, 60 College St. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Yach's responsibilities at WHO include overall policy development and management of programs aimed at the prevention of major risk factors for chronic diseases, the management of cancer, cardiovascular diseases, mental disorders and genetics, and the prevention of injuries and violence.
Previously, Dr. Yach developed WHO's Tobacco-Free Initiative. From 1995 to 1998, he was responsible for the design and implementation of the WHO global consultative process that resulted in the development of the new global health policy, Health for All in the 21st Century, adopted at the 1998 World Health Assembly.
Prior to joining WHO, Dr. Yach held a variety of senior research and policy positions in South Africa, and served on a number of international and national advisory committees dealing with a wide range of public health issues. He has published over 200 articles, editorials and chapters. A particular focus of his writing has been the need for global actions to complement national policies in many areas of public health, as well as the relationship between research, policy development and implementation.
Writer and editor Leon Wieseltier will deliver the Henry Kohn Lecture of Yale Hillel on Tuesday, Dec. 9.
Wieseltier's talk, "Lies, Illusion and Errors: A Conversation on Israel/Palestine," will begin at 4 p.m. in the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale, 80 Wall St. Dr. Sherwin Nuland, clinical professor of surgery, will provide an introduction. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact the Slifka Center at (203) 432-1134 or visit the website at www.yale.edu/slifka.
Wieseltier has been literary editor of The New Republic since 1983 and is the author of "Nuclear War, Nuclear Peace" (1983), "Against Identity" (1996) and "Kaddish" (1998), which has been praised for its synthesis of religious and secular learning.
A founder of the Slifka Center, Henry Kohn '39, '42 LAW, established the lectureship in his name to enable the center to bring to Yale speakers from all areas of discourse who might deepen and expand the community's sense of Jewish history and destiny.
Barbara Katz Rothman, professor of sociology at Baruch College at the City University of New York, will deliver two lectures on Wednesday, Dec. 10, as part of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies Bioethics and Public Policy Seminar Series.
Rothman will discuss "Through a Crystal Darkly: The Racial Politics of the New Genetics" at a noon seminar in the auditorium of the Peabody Museum, 170 Whitney Ave. In a public lecture at 7:30 p.m. in the Joseph Slifka Center, 80 Wall St., she will discuss "Now You Can Choose!: Sex Selection and Beyond." Both lectures are open to the public free of charge. For further information, contact Carol Pollard at (203) 432-6188 or carol.pollard@yale.edu.
A faculty member at Baruch College since 1979, Rothman's research focuses on issues of procreation, midwifery, new reproductive technologies and bioethics.
Rothman is the author or co-author of numerous books which have been published internationally, including "In Labor," "The Tentative Pregnancy," "Recreating Motherhood" and "The Book of Life: A Personal and Ethical Guide to Race, Normality and the Implications of the Human Genome Project." She was also an editor of "The Encyclopedia of Childbearing." She has lectured throughout the U.S., England, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands, where she was also a Fulbright Scholar.
Rothman's professional honors and awards include the American Sociological Association's Jesse Bernard Award, the Sociologists for Women in Society's mentoring award and the Southern Sociological Society's Promotion of Human Welfare Award.
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