When: Friday, Oct. 11, 3:30 p.m.
Where: Lied Center for Performing Arts, 301 N. 12th St.
Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 26, 2002 -- Paul Farmer, who was called the "good doctor" in a profile in The New Yorker, will deliver the next lecture in the E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Farmer's lecture, "Infectious Diseases and Poverty: A View from Haiti," will begin at 3:30 p.m. Oct. 11 in the Lied Center for Performing Arts, 301 N. 12th St. It is free and open to the public and will be broadcast live online (www.unl.edu), on Lincoln cable channel 21, UNL's KRNU radio station (90.3 FM), UNL campus TV, the NebSat satellite system, and at satellite sites in Grand Island, Norfolk, North Platte and Scottsbluff.
In 1993, Farmer was awarded a MacArthur genius grant, which rewards those with exceptional creativity, dedication and potential.
He is co-director of the Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change at Harvard Medical School and is an unpaid chief consultant to the World Bank. He is also the founding director of Partnership in Health with outposts in Haiti, Mexico, Cambodia, Peru and Massachusetts. Shifting operations between Haiti, the United States, Paris and Russia, Farmer's goal is to heal the world of preventable, treatable diseases.
Contact: Annette Wetzel, University Communications, (402)
472-8524 (awetzel1@unl.edu)
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