Boston International September event: “Assessing the technical efficiency of HIV/AIDS prevention intervention in Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa and Zambia: Methods of the orphea project”
Boston International would like to invite you to our September event where Dr. Wamai will discuss his research on HIV Policy in an International Context – Assessing the technical efficiency of HIV/AIDS prevention intervention in Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa and Zambia: Methods of the orphea project. The event will take place on Tuesday, September 24th starting at 6:30 PM.
About the Speaker:
Richard G. Wamai, Ph.D. is an assistant professor of public health at Northeastern University Department of African American Studies. He earned his Ph.D. in International Health and Development from the University of Helsinki Finland (2004). Prior to joining Northeastern Dr. Wamai was a research fellow in the Takemi Program in International Health at the Department of Global Health and Population at Harvard School of Public Health. Before that, Dr. Wamai was a research associate at Oxford University Department of Social Policy. He has previously worked in a number of institutions including the Johns Hopkins University Institute for Public Policy and the Bloomberg School of Public Health, the World Bank, the London School of Economics, the Nordic-Africa Institute in Sweden, and the University of Nairobi in Kenya. Dr. Wamai conducts research in the areas of HIV/AIDS (male circumcision for HIV prevention and cost efficiency of interventions), neglected and infectious tropical diseases (NTDs) (leishmaniasis) and health systems and policy, and has published widely in leading journals such as Science, Future HIV Therapy, BMC Public Health, Journal of Public Health in Africa, Am J Prev Med, JMAJ, J Community Health, AIDS Care, J Int AIDS Soc and J Law Med. He is a co-founder of the recently launched Integrated Initiative for Global Health at Northeastern University and is the recipient of the Blood:Water Mission 2012 World AIDS Day Unsung Hero Award in the company of former US Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist.
Logistics:
6:30 PM, Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Hosting Venue:
The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. (http://www.draper.com)
159 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139
Parking available at 555 Technology Square, Cambridge
The red line T station is 0.4 mile from the venue.
RSVP
Tickets, which include light hors d’œuvre and drinks, are $7 and are available at: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/8065162117
