Partners in Health medical director to speak at Rice’s BRC Dec. 1

FROM RICE NEWS STAFF REPORTS

	JOIA MUKHERJEE

In honor of World AIDS Day, Rice 360˚: Institute for Global Health Technologies and Beyond Traditional Borders (BTB) are hosting a Dec. 1 lecture by Joia Mukherjee, medical director of Partners in Health.

Her talk, “Global Health Implementation and Scale-up: A New Look at Translational Research,” will be at 6 p.m. Dec. 1 in Rice’s BioScience Research Collaborative, Auditorium 103. The lecture, which is part of the 2010 Global Health Technology Speaker Series, is free and open to the public. RSVPs are requested by Nov. 22 to 713-348-5840 or rice360@rice.edu.

Mukherjhee is an associate professor in the Division of Global Health Equity at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She trained in infectious disease, internal medicine and pediatrics at the Massachusetts General Hospital and has a Master of Public Health degree from the Harvard School of Public Health. She has been involved in heath care access and human rights issues since 1989 in the United States, Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean and the countries of the former Soviet Union. Since 2000, Mukherjee has served as the medical director of Partners in Health, an international medical nonprofit with clinical programs in Haiti, Rwanda, Burundi, Malawi, Lesotho, Peru, Mexico, Russia, Kazakhstan and inner-city Boston. She consults for the World Health Organization on the treatment of HIV and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in developing countries. Her scholarly work focuses on the human rights aspect of HIV treatment and on the implementation of complex health interventions in resource-poor settings.

BTB’s 2010 international student-interns will present their global health technology designs at a reception following the lecture.

The BTB initiative is made possible by a grant to Rice University from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute through the Undergraduate Science Education Program.

For more information, visit www.rice360.rice.edu/content.aspx?id=745.