LSEAIDS and LSE Health Joint Public Lecture in conjunction with DFID
Date: Thursday 29 November 2007
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: New Theatre, East Building
Speaker: Helen Epstein
Chair: Professor Tony Barnett
This lecture is one event in the LSEAIDS series of Public Lectures on HIV/AIDS, Infectious Diseases and Reproductive Health funded by the Department for International Development (DFID).
Helen Epstein is a molecular biologist by training. In the early 1990s she worked at Makerere University in Uganda. She was until recently visiting scholar at the Center for Health and Wellbeing at Princeton University in the US and is currently working for Human Rights Watch. She has written extensively about public health issues in developing countries. Her public health-related articles have been published in both academic journals and popular magazines such as The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, and Granta. Helen earned a PhD from Cambridge University, UK, and MSc from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She is the author of The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West and the Fight against AIDS, (Viking Books, New York, 2007).
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