Centre for International Health, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
presents

"The Global Health Challenge in North American Universities"

with
James M. Sherry M.D., Ph.D.Director, Center for Global Health, George Washington University

introduction by
Aaron Yarmoshuk, Director, HIV/AIDS Initiative-Africa
Program Manager, AMPATH-RH

Tuesday, October 19 at 4:30pm-5:30pm
Room 100, 155 College Street, Health Sciences Building
RSVP to elayna.fremes@utoronto.ca

Dr. Jim Sherry is a physician with doctorate degrees in medicine (University of Michigan), biochemistry (Carnegie-Mellon University) and clinical training in pediatrics (Children’s Hospital of Michigan). He has extensive program, policy, political, governance, and institutional development experience in global health, including seventeen years as a senior officer and director in the United Nations System with responsibilities ranging from the establishment of the Children’s Vaccine Initiative, UNAIDS, and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to: the re-establishment of basic health care services in postwar Rwanda; supporting the negotiation of global health policy by the UN General Assembly and Security Council; providing support to the World Food Programme in the design of the Ending Child Hunger Initiative. Previous assignments have included serving as a U.S. Foreign Service Officer in India as Director of Biomedical Research and Technology Development with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and as Chief of Staff for a Member of the House of Representatives of the U.S. Congress. Currently, Dr. Sherry is serving as Professor and Chair of the Department of Global Health of George Washington University.

George Washington University is the lead North American university for the Public Health component of the Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (AMPATH). The AMPATH Consortium is composed of a number of medical schools in North America. The University of Toronto is the lead North American university for the Reproductive Health component of AMPATH. Indiana University is the overall North American lead of AMPATH, The AMPATH Consortium works to support the capacity development of Moi University School of Medicine and the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital and primary health care services in western Kenya.