UNM Health Sciences Center presents “Global Health Partnerships,” the first Southwest Regional Symposium on Global Health, Tuesday, Oct. 13-Wednesday, Oct. 14 at the Domenici Center for Health Sciences Education.
The Southwest Regional Symposium on Global Health is a free public event hosted by the UNM Global and Geographic Medicine Program with support from the Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Internal Medicine. The event highlights international cooperation in research, education and clinical medicine between the UNM School of Medicine and partners in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Speakers include UNM faculty and international partners from the disciplines of biology, anthropology and civic government, as well as the fields of medicine and infectious diseases.
Topics include Malaria in African Children: A Genetics Approach, Schistosomiasis in Africa, Project ECHO and India, Kala Azar in Bihar State: A Paratransgenic Approach, Hantavirus in New Mexico and South America, West Nile Virus, Anthropological Research in Bolivia, and Telemedicine in Ecuador.
For more information visit: UNM Global and Geographic Medicine Program or call (505) 272-8207.