You Gotta Eat Sometime, right?

[International Health]

As you know, World Malaria Day is this Friday, April 25th. We want to let you know of some opportunities for you to become even more involved around this important day that are in your own backyard!

You have to eat sometime, so why not at Pizzeria Paradiso in Georgetown in honor of World Malaria Day? One quarter of all proceeds from the night will be donated to Nothing But Nets! Bring your friends and family and dine for a cause.

Pizza night at Pizzeria Paradiso
Thursday, April 24th, 5:00 pm 11:00pm
3282 M Street NW
Washington, DC
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Come out to Georgetown University on World Malaria Day and learn more about the disease and what you can do about it from leading experts! The World Malaria Day Symposium is open to the DC community and will feature experts from the National Institute of Health, World Health Organization, President's Malaria Initiative, and universities across the country. Click here for more information about the afternoon events being held in the New Research Building and to RSVP. Space is limited. 

World Malaria Day Symposium
Friday, April 25, 9:00 am 1:00pm
Georgetown University Gaston Hall
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Morning Symposium: Gaston Hall, Georgetown University Main Campus

Opening Introductions: 9:00-9:10
Panel #1: 9:10 am – 10:25 am. The Intolerable Burden of Malaria
      Chair: Dr. Daniel Lucey, Georgetown Medical School and Mortara Center
      Associate, School of Foreign Service.
Keynote Speaker: Admiral Timothy Ziemer, Director
                           "The President's Malaria Initiative"
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Joel Breman, Fogarty International Center, NIH.
                           "The intolerable global burden of malaria".
Commentator: Dr. Mireille Kanda, Dikembe Mutumbo Foundation
                            Malaria in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Panel #2: 10:25 am – 11:45 am Prevention and Cure of Malaria
Chair: Dr. Paul Roepe, Co-director, Center for Infectious Diseases,
                             Georgetown University Medical School
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Steve Hoffman, CEO, Sanaria, Inc.
                           "Progress with Malaria Vaccines"
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Jonathan Vennerstrom, University of Nebraska
                           "New Antimalarial Drugs"
Commentators: Dr. Roepe, Dr. David Roos, University of Pennsylvania
                        Medical School, and Dr. Kirk Dietsch, Cornell University Medical College

11:45: First Lady Laura Bush (invited: reply pending as of April 5th)
Panel #3: 12:00 – 1:00 Policy Challenges and Action
Chairs: Ben Berkman and Dr. Jeff Collmann, O'Neill Institute for National
             and Global Health Law
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Nelle Temple Brown, World Health Organization,
                           Director, Washington, D.C. Office
Presentations: Malaria Bednet Activists: (1) Students from Holy Trinity
                       School; (2) Georgetown University students and the UN Foundation (DC).
                      Website for Georgetown student team raising funds to purchase and
                      deliver long-lasting insecticide-treated malaria bednets:
                       www.nothngbutnets.net/Georgetown

Invited Speaker and Panelists Lunch 1:00 – 2:00
Leavey Center Faculty Club Restaurant

Afternoon Symposium and Science Break-out Sessions
New Research Building, Georgetown University Medical Center, Dr. Paul Roepe

Panel #4: 2:00 – 5:00 Recent Technological Breakthroughs
2:00 – 2:30 Dr. David Roos, University of Pennsylvania Medical School
2:30 – 3:00 Dr. David Elliot, University of Arizona
3:00 – 3:30 Dr. Kirk Dietsch, Cornell University Medical College
Coffee Break
3:45 – 4:15 Dr. Carolina Barillas-Mury, National Institutes of Health
4:14 – 4:45 Dr. Paul Roepe, Georgetown University
5:00 Social and Mixer
(Outdoor Pavilion level, Georgetown University Medical Center)

Even if you aren't able to make it out for World Malaria Day, there is still something you can do to save lives from malaria! Play Deliver the Net, our fun online game. When you sign up and play, a generous sponsor will send a net to Africa on your behalf. Click here to play, win, and save a life all at once!

Thanks again from Nothing But Nets! We hope to see you out this week! Together, we can make a difference this World Malaria Day.

Malaria kills. Send a net and save a life.

The Nothing But Nets team
http://www.nothingbutnets.net/

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