Please join us for the launch of the

UC Berkeley Alliance for Global Health

Wednesday, May 14, 2008
4:00 –  7:00 pm
Robert Berdahl Auditorium, 105 Stanley Hall, UC Berkeley Campus

RSVP to pherme@berkeley.edu

Program

4:00 pm - Introductions

                  George Breslauer
                  Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, UC Berkeley

                  W. Geoffrey Owen
                  Dean, Division of Biological Sciences, College of Letters & Science, UC Berkeley

                  Stephen M. Shortell
                  Dean, UC Berkeley School of Public Health

4:20 pm - Keynotes

                  Peter Kim
                  President, Merck Research Laboratories

                  Donald P. Francis
                  Chairman and Executive Director, Global Solutions for Infectious Diseases

5:40 pm - Berkeley Leaders in Global Health

                  Tom Alber
                  Professor, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley
                  Director, Center for Emerging & Neglected Diseases

                  Marcos Espinal
                  Executive Secretary, Stop TB Partnership

                  Darren Higgins
                  Associate Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School

                  Eva Harris
                  Associate Professor of Infectious Disease, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley
                  Director, Center for Global Public Health

                  Moderator:
                  Arthur Reingold
                  Professor and Head, Epidemiology, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley

6:20 pm - Reception

In the developing world, more than 50,000 people die each day from HIV and TB, malaria, and poor access to basic health care. Lack of political will plays a role in this—but persistent challenges in the lab and the field have slowed improvements in health for the poor.

To achieve significant improvements in global health, the basic toolset for diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of disease must be expanded. In addition, the design and delivery of health systems must be advanced, drawing on partnerships with the public and private sectors. UC Berkeley is poised to address these challenges.

The Berkeley Alliance for Global Health is a new campuswide research initiative focused on improving health in developing countries and throughout the world. It represents an innovative “discovery to delivery” research consortium, comprising two closely linked centers:

The Center for Emerging and Neglected Diseases integrates bioengineering and discovery science with science policy, business, and law, to develop new treatments and vaccines for HIV and TB, malaria, and neglected tropical diseases.

The Center for Global Public Health is based at the School of Public Health and synergizes campus research on many critical global health issues, including maternal mortality, environmental health, information technology and health, and human rights.

Through these centers, Berkeley investigators are conducting cross-disciplinary and paradigm-shifting research in global health. The centers are also building new industry partnerships and international collaborations—to move academic research from the campus to the field, where it has the potential to save millions of lives.

About the Launch

This official launch of the Alliance is an opportunity to unite the community of nonprofit organizations, industry allies, overseas universities, supporters, and other partners who help transform our research into health impact throughout the world.

Getting to the Launch

View directions

Due to limited parking availability, we recommend that you use public transit if possible.

The UC Berkeley shuttle lines R, H and C travel frequently between the BART Downtown Berkeley station and Stanley Hall (take the Hearst Mining Circle/Evans Hall stop).

Parking

For Stanley Hall, the nearest public parking lot is in the Lower Hearst Garage at Hearst Avenue and Scenic Avenue (with the entrance on Scenic). Hourly Pay Parking is available on Level 2.

After 5:00 pm, public parking is also available in the Upper Hearst Parking Lot, at the corner of Hearst Avenue and Gayley Road.

Disabled accessible parking is available in the Virus Lot in front of Stanley Hall. For more information about accessible parking on campus, please visit UC Berkeley Parking and Transportation.