Event Date: March 16, 2011 - 3:00 pm
Location: Social Sciences Building, 120 University Pvt., room 4004, Ottawa
A talk by Meredith Turshen, Rutgers University.
International Human Rights Lecture Series, co-sponsored by CIPS and HRREC.
Free. Registration not required. In English.
Meredith Turshen is a Professor in the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University. Her research interests include international health and she specializes in public health policy. She has written four books, The Political Ecology of Disease in Tanzania (1984), The Politics of Public Health (1989), and Privatizing Health Services in Africa (1999), and Women’s Health Movements: A Global Force for Change (2007); and she has edited five other books. She serves on the Board of the Association of Concerned Africa Scholars, as Treasurer of the Committee for Health in Southern Africa, as contributing editor of the Review of African Political Economy, and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Public Health Policy.