A physician with MSF (Doctors without Borders) will be speaking at Weill Cornell on Tuesday, February 10th at 4pm. All Columbia students welcome.
Dr. Buddhima Lokuge is a medical practitioner with MSF/Doctors Without Borders in New York. As US manager of the organization's Access to Essential Medicines Campaign, he coordinates nutrition-related policy and advocacy for MSF in the US. Dr. Lokuge has field experience with MSF in India and Afghanistan, where he ran MSF's malnutrition programs in hte district of Ghazni.
He will speak about MSF's work in areas devastated by malnutrition. This ongoing crisis contributes to 3.5 to 5 million deaths in children under five each year, and leads to long term disability for many, and poor health and educational outcomes for many more.
February 10th, 4pm
Weill Auditorium
Weill Cornell Medical College
1300 York Ave, NY NY
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