Global Diseases: Voices from the Vanguard

This lecture series brings to UGA leaders from the front lines of the global war on disease. The series is funded by the Knight Chair in Health and Medical Journalism, Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases and the Office of the Provost.

Lectures are held at the UGA Chapel and followed by a reception.

Spring, 2009

  • January 20  - Stephen Hoffman, Sanaria Inc. Download flyer here.
  • February 10 - Dan Colley, The University of Georgia.
  • March 17 - Barney Graham, NIH Vaccine Center
  • April 14 - Jennifer Friedman, Brown University

Previous Years

January 15, 2008  - Kate Winskell, Emory University, "Scenarios from Africa: Dramatizing stories of HIV/AIDS." Download flyer here.

February 12, 2008 - Jim Kim, Harvard School of Public Health, "Bridging the Implementation Gap: Global Health Deliver." Download flyer here.

March 18, 2008 - Frank O. Richards, Jr., M.D., The Carter Center, "Bundling Grassroots Services to Battle Neglected Diseases in Africa." Download flyer here

April 15, 2008, Anne De Groot, a nationally recognized expert in epitope-driven vaccines, discusses her work.

January 30, 2007 - Eric Ottesen, MD, Director of the Lymphatic Filariasis Support Center at Emory University, explains what is being done to control the parasite that causes disfiguring and debilitating elephantiasis.

February 20, 2007 - Zeda Rosenberg, CEO of the International Partnership for Microbicides, describes her long battle to put HIV/AIDS prevention into the hands of women in developing countries.

March 26, 2007 - Roger Glass, Director of the Fogarty International Center at National Institute of Health.

April 24, 2007 - Dick Thompson, Team Leader, Pandemic and Outbreak Communication Communicable Diseases Section for the World Health Organization tells what it's like to break bad news to the world about SARS, avian flu, and a host of other killer diseases.

January 10, 2006: Victoria Hale, an award-winning scientist and entrepreneur, who founded the world’s first non-profit pharmaceutical company.

February 28, 2006: Peter Hotez, George Washington University professor who invented the first vaccine to prevent hookworm disease.

March 28, 2006: Don Francis, the iconoclastic hero of Randy Shilts’s seminal book And the Band Played On, has devoted his entire career to preventing diseases including AIDS, smallpox, and polio.

April 18, 2006: Tony James is one of the world’s leading experts on the molecular biology of malaria.