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Media Advisory: UAlbany's School of Public Health Announces 15th Annual Poster Day
Contact: Catherine Herman (518) 437-4980
ALBANY, N.Y. (April 26, 2006)
What:
The 15th Annual University at Albany
School of Public Health Poster Day involves
80 students presenting their research or
internship work to public health
professionals from the university and
community. Dr. Carole Mitnick from Partners
in Health, the organization that is the
focus of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy
Kidder's Mountains
Beyond Mountains, will give the
keynote address.
Who:
UAlbany School of Public Health Graduate
Student Researchers
Keynote address: Dr.
Carole Mitnick, Partners in Health: "Conducting
Research within Complex Health Interventions in
Resource Poor Settings: The Partners in Health
Approach".
When:
Friday, April 28, 2006
10:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. -- Poster presentations
2 - 3 p.m. Keynote address
3 - 3:30 p.m. Awards presentation
Where:
Gen*NY*Sis Center for Excellence in Cancer
Genomics, University at Albany, One
University Place, Rensselaer (East Campus)
Background:
About Keynote Speaker
Carole Mitnick:
Since 1996, Carole Mitnick, ScD, of Brigham
and Women's Hospital and the Harvard Medical
School, has worked closely with Partners in
Health, the organization founded by Dr. Paul
Farmer who is the subject of the current
UAlbany Reading Project book by Tracy
Kidder, Mountains
Beyond Mountains. The title of Dr.
Mitnick's talk will be "Conducting Research
within Complex Health Interventions in
Resource Poor Settings: The Partners in
Health Approach".
About the School of Public
Health:
Through its partnership with the New York State
Dept. of Health, UAlbany's School of Public
Health offers students immediate access to
internships at the Health Department, Albany
Medical College and variety of other public and
private health institutions throughout New York
State. Students have unique access to study the
most profound health issues facing us today: the
threat of bioterrorism; the spread of HIV/AIDS
and other emerging diseases; the lack of
affordable and accessible healthcare for
individuals and families; environmental hazards;
substance abuse and social violence; maternal
mortality in developing countries; the promises
and threats of genetic engineering; protecting
food and water supplies. For more information,
visit UAlbany's
School of
Public Health.
