Office of Global Health Initiatives Partnering with UB School of Medicine for Spring Clinical Day

 The Office of Global Health Initiatives is partnering with the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences for Spring Clinical Day 2015: Lessons learned in global health. The Office of Global Health Initiatives is facilitating a panel discussion Global is local: caring for refugees and immigrants in Western New York as well as presenting Survivors, a photo exhibit portraying survivors of a massacre that occurred at the Gatumba refugee camp in 2004 in Burundi.

The event will take place on Saturday, May 30 at Statler City in Buffalo. Dr. Dan Kelly, an infectious disease specialist, will be the keynote speaker.  The program will include discussions on clinical healthy systems and social pathologies of Ebola and how Ebola research can be a vehicle for global health equity. A review of improving delivery of culturally engaged healthcare for global communities in Buffalo will also be discussed.

To registercontact Jessica Scates at jmscates@buffalo.edu or 716-829-5371