REMINDER: Lunch lecture Tues, Apr 1, noon, HIV policy in the African workplace

[International Health]

Dear IHIG

Please join us for another great installment in our lunchtime Global Health Seminar Series. 

This week we welcome Dr. Myriam Vučković (bio follows) of Georgetown University's School of Nursing and Health Studies and the German branch of the Global Fund to discuss HIV/AIDS policies in the African workplace.  This will be an interactive lecture open to discussion and feedback, so come with an appetite and questions!

Who:  Dr. Myriam Vučković
When: Tuesday, April 1, noon
Where: GA2-4
What: HIV/AIDS policy in the African workplace
*lunch provided*

Dr. Myriam Vučković is an assistant professor in the Department of International Health at Georgetown University's School of Nursing and Health Studies. From 2001-2006, Dr. Vučković worked for the German development organization GTZ in the field of HIV/AIDS control in developing countries, focusing on HIV/AIDS mainstreaming and HIV/AIDS workplace programs in eastern and southern Africa. As a long-time member of the German delegation to the Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM), Dr. Vučković has gained in-depth knowledge of international partnerships and policies in the field of HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria control.  

Dr. Vučković teaches the department's course in maternal and child health and coordinates and teaches the "Internship in International Organizations" class. Since the fall of 2007, she is also teaching a seminar on the political, economic and legal dimensions of HIV/AIDS, together with Prof. McGreevey and Prof. van Puymbroek. She is a graduate of the University of Kansas (Ph.D. 2001) and holds further social science degrees from the University of Wyoming (BA 1992) and the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany (MA 1995).

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