Measuring the Ethics of Global Health Education

Hi all,

To those of you who came to our "Choose your own adventure" event on Wednesday, 1/14.  If you couldn't make that event, but are still interested in the ethics of getting health education abroad, come to our next event, this Tuesday, 1/20 at 6pm.  See below for a full description of the panel discussion.

“Measuring the Ethics of Global Health Education”

-Thinking of learning abroad?  Do ethical dilemmas keep you up at night?

Come hear Dr. Linnea Capps, head of one of the P&S fourth year International Electives Programs, and Lauren Taggart Wasson, MPH, discuss and debate the ethics of international medical education and our current methods of evaluating these projects.

6:00 p.m. in Hammer 324 on January 20^th.

Food will be served.

Click here to read an article written by Lauren Taggart Wasson.

 Dr. Linnea Capps is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in addition to working as Assistant Clinical Professor of Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health and Associate Director of the Department of Medicine and director of the residency program at Harlem hospital.   She spends a part of each year working in her community health project in Chiapas, Mexico with Doctors for Global health which is a private non-profit organization promoting health, education, art and other human rights throughout the world.  Dr. Capps works with a small community hospital and health promoter training project in a Mayan indigenous population.  Dr. Capps received her MD from the University of Missouri – Columbia and her MPH from Columbia University.

Lauren Taggart Wasson, MPH, is a medical student at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. Her graduate studies at Johns Hopkins University and work for the USAID- funded POLICY Project focused on international HIV/AIDS.

The P&S Student Forum on Global Health and Human Rights is a partnership between the International Health Organization (IHO) and Physicians for Human Rights (PHR).  This year, it is graciously co-sponsored by Clinical Practice, FMIG, AMSA and Lambda.