The Hertog Global Strategy Initiative, The Department of History, The
Center for the History & Ethics of Public Health at the Mailman School
of Public Health, and the Columbia University Global Strategy Seminar
present:
Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., Director, National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health
"Thirty Years of HIV AIDS: A Personal Journey."
Thursday, August 4, 2011
6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Columbia University Faculty House
64 Morningside Drive
New York, New York
This event is free and open to the public. Seating is limited. Advance
registration is necessary via the Columbia Calendar at
http://calendar.columbia.edu/ For more information, visit
http://globalstrategy.columbia.edu or email globalstrategy@columbia.edu.
Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., is director of the National Institute of
Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the National Institutes of
Health. Since his appointment as NIAID director in 1984, Dr. Fauci has
overseen an extensive research portfolio devoted to preventing,
diagnosing, and treating infectious and immune-mediated diseases. Dr.
Fauci also is chief of the NIAID Laboratory of Immunoregulation, where
he has made numerous important discoveries related to HIV/AIDS and is
one of the most-cited scientists in the field. Dr. Fauci, a member of
the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, has received numerous awards
for his scientific accomplishments, including the National Medal of
Science, the Mary Woodard Lasker Award for Public Service, and the
Presidential Medal of Freedom. He has been awarded 36 honorary
doctoral degrees and is the author, coauthor, or editor of more than
1,100 scientific publications, including several major textbooks.
The Hertog Global Strategy Initiative is a research program in the
Department of History that employs historical analysis to confront
present and future problems in world politics. Each summer, invited
experts and select students gather at Columbia University for twelve
weeks of intensive study, independent research, and collaborative
writing on a critical issue in international affairs. The 2011 topic
is: "The History and Future of Pandemic Threats and Global Public
Health." Students in the program spend the first two weeks of the
summer in an intensive seminar and the following eight weeks
conducting independent and group research projects. In August, the
class reconvenes and participants present their research and
participate in group exercises. The program demonstrates the potential
for collaborative historical research on key problems in world
politics. The 2011 program is being co-taught by Matthew Connelly,
Professor of History at Columbia University, and Stephen Morse,
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at Columbia's Mailman School of
Public Health. The program has been made possible by a gift from the
Hertog Foundation. For more information, visit
http://globalstrategy.columbia.edu.
The Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health is a group in
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health's Department of
Sociomedical Sciences where students and faculty rely on historical
methods and ethical analysis to investigate critical and complex
public health issues. The idea behind the Center's research and
teaching activities is to confront the challenges facing public health
by understanding their ethical dimensions and political, social,
cultural, and economic roots. At the Center, ethical questions inspire
historical research, which in turn helps reframe contemporary choices
and policy options. In addition to undertaking historical inquiry, the
Center has been vital in developing the field of public health ethics.
While bioethics has stressed the importance of protecting individual
patients and research subjects, public health ethics has made
protecting populations a priority. The Center boasts a faculty who
have pioneered a new way of thinking about ethics and population
health. The Center's faculty is also committed to training the next
generation of engaged scholars. For more information, visit
http://www.mailman.columbia.edu.
The Global Strategy Seminar is one of more than seventy University
Seminars at Columbia University that offers sustained intellectual
interaction across departmental boundaries. Each seminar acts as an
autonomous and voluntary grouping of scholars and practitioners
brought together under the auspices of Columbia University by their
dedication to a particular line of investigation. The movement is not
only interdisciplinary, but inter-institutional, and involves members
of the community who might not otherwise participate in university
activity. The seminars have as their central goal the integration of
otherwise fragmented knowledge, a pulling together of the many threads
of knowledge and experience through the stimulus of continuing
discussion. Frank Tannenbaum, Professor of Latin American History at
Columbia, founder of the University Seminars, and director until his
death in 1969, was an ardent believer in the potential for
enlightenment contained in meaningful dialogue. Members of the
seminars are drawn from numerous departments in the faculties of
Columbia University, from other colleges and universities, and from
experts and specialists in nonacademic pursuits. Apart from the
members, seminars attract authorities in many fields of scholarship as
speakers and guests. Seminars range from small discussion groups to
larger bodies that, in some cases, have become regional centers for
intellectual exchange where such centers would not otherwise exist.
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