The Center for African Studies and the Center for Race and Ethnicity
Invite You to Attend a Talk by
Paul Epstein (Associate Director, Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard Medical School)
Entitled,
"Climate Change in Africa: Health Problems and Healthy Solutions"
Wednesday, November 7, 11:30am
Rutgers Student Center, Room 410 (CAC)
If you plan to attend you must RSVP to Renee DeLancey:
rdelance@rci.rutgers.edu by Friday, November 2.
Suggested Readings:
http://chge.med.harvard.edu/publications/journals/documents/ajtmh_epstein_07.pdf
http://chge.med.harvard.edu/publications/journals/documents/nejm.pdf
Paul R. Epstein, M.D., M.P.H. is Associate Director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School (http://chge.med.harvard.edu) and is a medical doctor trained in tropical public health. Paul has worked in medical, teaching and research capacities in Africa, Asia and Latin America and, in 1993, coordinated an eight-part series on Health and Climate Change for the British medical journal, Lancet. He has worked with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to assess the health impacts of climate change and develop health applications of climate forecasting and remote sensing. He also served as a reviewer for the Health chapter of the Millenium Ecosystem Assessment, and is coordinating the international project Climate Change Futures: Health, Ecological and Economic Dimensions, with support from Swiss Re and the United Nations Development Programme. This project involves scientists, UN agencies, NGOs and corporate/financial sector leaders in the assessment of the new risks and opportunities presented by a changing climate.
Paul Epstein's Bio: http://chge.med.harvard.edu/about/faculty/epstein.html
Center for African Studies: http://ruafrica.rutgers.edu
Center for Race and Ethnicity: http://raceethnicity.rutgers.edu
Directions to Rutgers Student Center: http://maps.rutgers.edu/building.aspx?id'8