Korean Center San Francisco

Program Highlights:

Wednesday, May 19th
Check-in: 6:00PM, Program: 6:15pm
Reception with Korean refreshments: 7:00PM

A discussion with Dr. Sharon Perry, Senior Research Scientist from the Division of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, Stanford University, and Science Fellow with the Stanford Freeman-Spogli Institute, Center for International Security & Cooperation.

About the Speaker: Sharon Perry and her team were recently featured in the New York Times for their cutting-edge humanitarian work in North Korea. The Stanford-led Bay Area Tuberculosis Consortium was organized to promote opportunities for professional collaboration with North Korea on mutual interests in TB control. Dr. Sharon Perry directs the DPRK TB Health Policy Project, which seeks to develop opportunities for academic exchange on tuberculosis control. Dr. Perry will discuss the consortium’s work with the DPRK Ministry of Public Health to develop the country’s first laboratory with capacity to diagnose tuberculosis by culture and drug susceptibility testing. Implications of the project for regional and Pacific Rim TB programs will also be discussed.

Global health diplomacy: This lecture is framed around the critical issue of health diplomacy as a way to engage North Korea, and comprises Part II of the Global Health Diplomacy subseries of the “North Korea: Human Face” program. An emerging field of global policy, international health diplomacy is an exciting field that interfaces between foreign policy, public health, and law and economics.

Free public lecture (suggested donation $5-$10).
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