Welcome back! We’re excited to confirm several world-renowned speakers who will be presenting at the National Conference on February 20, 2010.
- Helen Potts, PhD, Chief Program Officer of Health Programs, Physicians for Human Rights. Dr. Potts will speak about the Right to Health on a panel entitled “Human Rights and Health Education: Dueling Frameworks or Essential Integration?”
- Chris Beyrer, MD, MPH, Professor of Epidemiology, International Health and Health, Behavior and Society; Director of Johns Hopkins Fogarty AIDS International Training and Research Program. Dr. Beyrer will co-facilitate a Strategy Session entitled “Human Rights in Graduate Education.”
- Vincent Iacopino, MD, PhD, Adjunct Professor of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School; Senior Medical Advisor to Physicians for Human Rights. Dr. Iacopino will co-lead the panel entitled “Human Rights and Health Education: Dueling Frameworks or Essential Integration?” and will speak about the urgency of incorporating a human rights approach in professional medical training.
The deadline to apply to the Conference is January 20, 2010, so start building a team from your chapter, and be sure to reach out to faculty members you would like to invite! Consult our Faculty Guide if you have any questions. We look forward to reading your application!
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World AIDS Day (WAD) is a uniquely dynamic time of year where people from throughout your community are willing to come together and discuss the global AIDS crisis. We highly encourage your student chapters to take advantage and invite your colleagues to join you in recognizing World AIDS Day! Here are some resource recommendations to help as you consider event options, including, film recommendations, journal club articles, and tips for finding speakers.
Film Recommendations
A film screening can be an easy and effective way to get people involved and fill them in on the most pressing issues. Numerous powerful films have been made about the global AIDS crisis and themes such as human rights, women’s rights, and universal access. Here are a few suggestions of relatively recent and well received films:
- Coming to Say Goodbye: Stories of AIDS in Africa – This short (27 minute) feature weaves together the stories of several families dealing with AIDS in Tanzania and Kenya.
- Yesterday – Oscar nominated film about an HIV-positive mother in South Africa struggling to stay alive long enough to see her daughter off to school.
- A Closer Walk - Narrated by Will Smith and Glenn Close and featuring Kofi Annan, the Dalai Lama and Bono this expansive film about the global AIDS crisis travels between Africa, North America, Europe and South Asia as it explores the challenges and heartbreaks of AIDS.
- A Powerful Noise – A documentary about three women in different parts of the world (one of whom is an HIV-positive advocate for PWAs in Vietnam) overcoming gender barriers and poverty to affect positive changes in their respective communities.
- SASA – A 33 minute award-winning film that provides a glimpse into the lives of two East African women where intimate partner violence has made them susceptible to HIV. (The film is saved as a .mov file and thus needs to be played using QuickTime or a compatible player.)
Organize a Journal Club
A smaller event idea for interested members of your organization can be a discussion group to discuss relevant articles and brainstorm ideas. Consider using WAD as the inspiration for a journal club on health and human rights, global AIDS, or other related issues! Here are three good articles to use as a springboard to further discussion and reading:
- Confronting AIDS: Human Rights, Law and Social Transformation; Mark Heywood and Dennis Altman; Health and Human Rights, Volume 5, No. 1 (2000), Pages 149-179
- All for Universal Health Coverage; Laurie Garrett, A Mushtaque R Chowdhury and Ariel Pablos-Mendez; The Lancet, Volume 374, No. 9697, Pages 1294-1299
- Human Rights Approaches to an Expanded Response to Address Women’s Vulnerability to HIV/AIDS; Daniel Whelan; Health and Human Rights, Volume 3, No. 1 (1998), Pages 20-36.
Additional Health and Human Rights-related articles and Right to Health-related books and journals are available on our website.
Host a Presenter
Having a guest come speak is always a fantastic idea for an event. Check out our Host a Speaker Guide and read some tips for finding and inviting a speaker:
- Ask your professors! Faculty members tend to know many people in the field and often have insight into who in the area might be most likely to be able to attend your event. They can also lend their support by helping present the invitation and acting asde facto sponsors of your event.
- Do some investigation to find non-university activists or organizations from the local community.
- Take advantage of the internet. You may be pleasantly surprised and realize they are at a nearby institution or in the same city.
- Reach out to other student groups to co-host an event. Not only does this make publicity more effective, it also means you can pool funds to invite someone from further away than would otherwise be possible.
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