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Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Ambassador Eric Goosby, U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, to deliver Barmes Lecture at National Institutes of Health
What
The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research and the Fogarty International Center, both part of the National Institutes of Health, jointly announce Eric Goosby, M.D., as presenter of the 2011 David E. Barmes Global Health Lecture. Dr. Goosby, who serves as an ambassador through his work at the U. S. Department of State, will discuss “PEPFAR: Moving from Science to Program to Save Lives.”
Who
Goosby, M.D., is the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator at the Department of State and administrator of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). He also manages the federal government’s participation in the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and serves on the operations committee of the Global Health Initiative.
When
Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2011, 11 a.m. EST
Where
Masur Auditorium, NIH Building 10, Bethesda, Md.
Backround
Dr. Goosby has been a pioneer in the fight against AIDS since the earliest days after the epidemic was recognized. He was among the very first physicians to treat people with HIV at San Francisco General Hospital, where he helped to integrate HIV treatment programs with methadone clinics. In 1991, Dr. Goosby moved to Washington to become the first director of the Ryan White CARE program, the nation’s domestic HIV care and support initiative. He then became the director of the Office of HIV/AIDS Policy for the Department of Health and Human Services and served in various capacities in the Clinton White House’s National AIDS Policy Office, where he helped to establish the Minority AIDS Initiative. He also served as CEO of the Pangea Global AIDS Foundation, which works with governments around the world to establish their own sustainable HIV treatment programs.
For additional information about the lecture see: http://www.nidcr.nih.gov/NewsAndFeatures/Announcements/BarmesLecture2011.htm
The Barmes Lecture is free and open to the public. The lecture, jointly sponsored by the NIDCR and Fogarty, also will be videocast at: http://videocast.nih.gov
The annual lecture series honors the late David E. Barmes, a long-standing World Health Organization employee, a special expert for health at the NIDCR and an ardent spokesman for global health who died in 2001. A public health dentist and epidemiologist by training, Barmes raised the profile of oral health, health promotion and non-communicable diseases while at the WHO, and was a tireless advocate for research aimed at improving health for those living in low-income countries.
The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research is the nation’s leading funder of research on oral, dental, and craniofacial health. For more information, visit http://www.nidcr.nih.gov. Fogarty, the international component of the NIH, addresses global health challenges through innovative and collaborative research and training programs and supports and advances the NIH mission through international partnerships. For more information, visit www.fic.nih.gov.
About the National Institutes of Health (NIH): NIH, the nation's medical research agency, includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NIH is the primary federal agency conducting and supporting basic, clinical, and translational medical research, and is investigating the causes, treatments, and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs, visit www.nih.gov.
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