Fwd: Lecture on Health rights of persons with disabilities 10 March by David Werner
Vaishnavi Jayakumar
From: rajive raturi <rajive...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2022 at 12:50
Subject: Lecture on Health rights of persons with disabilities 10 March by David Werner
Dear Friends,
The Centre for Constitutional Rights is organizing the 5th lecture in
the Disability Rights lecture series on ‘The Right to health of
persons with disabilities’.
Our resource person for this lecture is David Werner. David is an
author and health activist, is co-founder and director of
HealthWrights (Workgroup for People's Health and Rights) and for years
was a visiting professor at Boston University’s International School
of Public Health. A biologist and educator by training, he has worked
for more than 50 years in village health care, community-based
rehabilitation, and Child-to-Child health initiatives in the global
south, mainly Mexico. From 1965 intothey 90s he was a facilitator and
adviser to Project Piaxtla, a pioneering villager-run health program
which contributed to the early conceptualization and evolution of
Primary Health Care (PHC). Out of Piaxtla grew PROJIMO, an innovative
Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) program organized and run by
disabled youth of Western Mexico.
David, who has a physical disability himself (Charot-Marie-Tooth
syndrom), is still active in this program, as well as in a sister
program that designs and constructs personalized children's
wheelchairs at low cost. More recently he helped start and advises
Habilítate Mazatlán, a service program for disabled children run and
staffed by disabled recovering drug users.
David has kindly agreed to deliver this lecture at 5 pm (India
time) on 10th March which coincides to 3.30 am in the morning in
California where he is based. .
We request you to please attend this lecture on 10 March which is
being organized virtually and the link for the lecture shall be sent
to you shortly.
With regards,
Rajive
Vaishnavi Jayakumar
'The Right to Health of Persons with Disabilities ' by David Werner at 5 PM (IST) today 10 Mar 2022 lecture ID and link are below.
Zoom Link
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83770417300?pwd=bGNud3BnNHpKWXdEbWVhNjA0WXczZz09
Date: March 10, 2022
Time: 05:00 pm- 06:00 pm (IST)
Meeting ID: 837 7041 7300
Passcode: 423041
Sign language interpretation and closed captioning will be provided for deaf and hard of hearing participants.
From: Varsha Gumashta <var...@slic.org.in>
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2022 at 04:34
Subject: REMINDER 'Lecture Today': The Right to Health of Persons with Disabilities ' by David Werner at 5 PM (IST)
Dear All,
The Centre for Constitutional Rights, a division of Socio Legal Information Centre, has successfully conducted its training programs and lecture series in collaboration with lawyers and activists from leading Civil Liberties organisations sharing their experience with leading cases/litigation on various constitutional rights in their courts. CCRI is hosting a series of lectures on "Disability Rights and the Law" which explores the experiences of human rights lawyers and activists on matters concerning rights of persons with disabilities.
The 5th lecture in the series is scheduled on 10.03.2022 and will be delivered by the veteran and health icon Mr. David Werner, Co-founder and Director of HealthWrights (Workgroup for People's Health and Rights). He has been a visiting professor at Boston University’s International School of Public Health. He has worked for more than 50 years in Village Health Care, Community-based Rehabilitation, and Child-to-Child health initiatives in the global south, mainly Mexico. David, who has a physical disability himself (Charot-Marie-Tooth syndrome), has authored and illustrated the handbooks "Where There Is No Doctor"(now in over 90 languages),"Helping Health Workers Learn,""Disabled Village Children,"and "Nothing About Us Without Us: Developing Innovative Technologies For, By and With Disabled Persons."He has been a consultant for UNICEF, WHO, the Peace Corps, UNDP, UN-ESCAP, World Bank and various state and federal governments ranging from Mexico to Brazil, India, and Iran. David has received awards and/or fellowships from the World Health Organization, the Macarthur Foundation, among others. For more information, see: http://www.healthwrights.org ; Email: david.b...@gmail.com
Mr. Werner will be discussing, ‘The Right to Health of Persons with Disabilities.’
We invite you to join the session.
Sign language interpretation and closed captioning will be provided for deaf and hard of hearing participants.
The lecture ID and link are below.
Zoom Link
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83770417300?pwd=bGNud3BnNHpKWXdEbWVhNjA0WXczZz09
Date: March 10, 2022
Time: 05:00 pm- 06:00 pm (IST)
Meeting ID: 837 7041 7300
Passcode: 423041
Hope to have you in the session.
Thank You.
Regards,
Varsha Gumashta
Assistant Director
Centre for Constitutional Rights
Socio-Legal Information Centre (SLIC)
576, Masjid Road, Jangpura
Delhi-110014
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