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GlobeMed Benefit Dinner: Lessons from the Frontline

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Start Date and Time: 04/19/2012 07:00 PM

End Date and Time: 04/19/2012 08:30 PM

Location: Kaleidoscope Room, Newcomb Hall Charlottesville, VA 22904

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GlobeMed at UVA

GlobeMed at UVA is committed to advocating for social justice and global health equity. We partner with Build Your Future Today in Siem Reap, Cambodia to establish sustainable health, nutrition, and education programs. We believe in empowering students and disadvantaged populations to pull themselves out of poverty and poor health.

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GlobeMed Benefit Dinner: Lessons from the Frontline

On Thursday, April 19th, GlobeMed at UVA will host our annual benefit dinner in the Kaleidoscope Room of Newcomb Hall. All proceeds from this event will go towards sustainable health, nutrition, and education programs at at the Build Your Future Today Center in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

This year funds will go towards daily nutrition programs for children under 5, maternal health classes, and the establishment of an early education center to reduce the number of children repeating the first grade.

Dr. Christopher Colvin and AIDS/HIV Services Group based in Charlottesville are the keynote speakers. Dr. Colvin is a visiting professor at the University of Virginia who received his MPH while working with HIV/AIDS in communities in Capetown, South Africa. Dr. Colvin received his PHD in anthropology from the University of Virginia. The AIDS/HIV Services group works with the AIDS/HIV population in the local community. They have extensive experience in countering public health challenges faced in local communities.

Please join us in Newcomb Hall on April 19th to enjoy food and entertainment, while also learning more about the AIDS epidemic and how we strive to improve global health equity.

Thursday, April 19th, 2012
Kaleidoscope | Newcomb Hall
7pm

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04/10/2012

Christopher J. Colvin, PhD, MPH Program Co-Director Chris is an anthropologist based in Cape Town, South Africa. He has an M.A. and Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from the University of Virginia, as well as a master’s in public health from the University of Cape Town (UCT) in epidemiology and biostatistics. His doctoral research examined the politics of traumatic storytelling with a Cape Town support group for victims of apartheid-era political violence. After his Ph.D., he developed this work further as a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University’s Center for Comparative Literature and Society. Since returning to South Africa, he has lectured in anthropology and public health at the universities of Cape Town, Stellenbosch, and the Western Cape and was a postdoctoral fellow for two years in health and human rights at UCT. He has also consulted in the areas of HIV/AIDS, gender, community-based care, and health systems development for a number of national and international NGOs and development agencies. He is currently the senior research officer in social sciences and HIV/AIDS, TB, and STIs in the Infectious Disease Epidemiology Unit at UCT’s School of Public Health. His research areas include HIV/AIDS and masculinity, community mobilization and health activism, and community health workers. Chris has served as the IHP South Africa country coordinator and is currently program director of the Health and Community program.

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