February 9, 2008 This past week at Yale University included a series of events organized and executed by a dedicated group of students in order to raise awareness and catalyze discussions on important issues ranging from wastewater treatment in the developing world, to global access to clean drinking water, to preventable vector-born diseases and AIDS.
A Global Health Education Gala Reception was held on Thursday night, February 7, in the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library on the Yale campus. Richard Skolnick, Director of the Center for Global Health at the George Washington University, gave a keynote speech. Several students from across Yale University, undergraduate and graduate students alike, presented their work in the form of poster presentations.
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The crowd then had the opportunity to mingle and meet each other, and speak in more detail with each of the presenters. The Symposium covered a broad range of topics, and drew people from all sectors of the University: students, faculty, and staff, from the College, Faculty of Engineering, Graduate School, and Schools of Medicine, Public Health, Forestry, Nursing, and Law.
The initiatives of Global Health Week continue on Saturday, February 23, with an event called iDANCE, a dance marathon to raise funds for two non-profit organizations founded by Yale students and alumni, Nyaya Health, providing public health services to poor communities in Nepal, and Amman Imman, building permanent water sources for the Azawak people of Niger. More information about each group can be found online, at www.nyayahealth.org and www.waterforniger.org respectively.
Global Health Week @ YaleGlobal Health Week and iDANCE are activities of the Party for a Cause Foundation, a non-profit organization to enhance charitable giving on college campuses, with its beginnings at Yale University. More information is available on their website.
