Former Botswana Minister of Health Serves as Resident in International Studies (Beloit College) |
| Former Botswana Minister of Health Serves as Resident in International Studies (Beloit College) Posted: 24 Feb 2010 06:37 AM PST Message from fivefilters.org: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it.
Nursing educator and AIDS specialist Sheila Dinotshe Tlou holds Weissberg Chair March 8-13 A professor of nursing at the University of Botswana and former director of a World Health Organization Collaborating Centre in Primary Health Care, Dr. Tlou has conducted research and taught courses on gender issues, HIV/AIDS, sexual and reproductive health, and the rights of aging and older persons. She has played a key role in the development of national nursing and pre-medical education curricula in her home country of Botswana, working to broaden the scope of health sciences education there. Beyond her educational and political work, Tlou has published on numerous topics and co-authored AIDS in Africa (2002). In 2001, she addressed the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women on "Women, the Girl Child and HIV/AIDS," and was a panelist in sessions on women and HIV/AIDS for the U.N. Special General Assembly on AIDS. The public is invited to her Friday evening keynote address as well as a Monday, March 8 brown-bag book discussion with Tlou, in which she will discuss the book series The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency. This event will be held from noon to 1 p.m. at the Beloit Public Library. Also open to the public is the "Weissberg Conference: The Right to Health" on Saturday, March 13 from 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Moore Lounge of Pearsons Hall on the college campus. The conference will include two panel discussions. The first, "Defining the Problem," features Alicia Ely Yamin, Joseph H. Flom Fellow on Global Health and Human Rights at Harvard Law School, Sam Halabi of the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University and Lorraine Lathen, health advocate and president of Jump at the Sun Consultants. It begins at 1 p.m. The second panel discussion, "Effecting Change: Examples from Philanthropy, Government, and Education," features Tlou, Peter Navario, Fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations and Sherryl Broverman of the Duke University Kenya Project, and begins at 2:45 p.m. Throughout the two discussions, panelists will discuss topics ranging from health as a human right to infant mortality, government policies on health to women's empowerment, including domestic and international perspectives. The Weissberg Professorship in International Studies, which recently celebrated its 10th anniversary, provides an on-campus residency each year for a distinguished individual who has made an important contribution to international understanding. The professorship is underwritten by Marvin Weissberg, a businessman and Beloit College parent. It is designed to enrich the global perspective and international education programs at Beloit and allows for an extended period of exchange and interaction with respected active "players" on the international stage as they examine some of the key issues of our time. For more information on this and other events at Beloit College, visit www.beloit.edu. Issued: February 24, 2010 Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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