[bioundgrd] HST S46 Evolution of an Epidemic

[Janice Chang]

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From: "Delaney, Kylerose" <KDELANEY7 at mgh.harvard.edu<mailto:KDELANEY7 at mgh.harvard.edu>>
Subject: Inquiry for new course advertisement
Date: October 13, 2016 at 9:07:40 AM EDT

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Are you interested in global health & public health policy?  Do you want to travel abroad this IAP?
Consider this for credit opportunity sponsored by IMES, HST, MIT Medical, MIT-South Africa Program, and the Ragon Institute.

Activities being planned include: traditional healers visit, a rural hospital visit, a rural clinic visit as well as a lab tour and a visit with the FRESH cohort.

HST S46 Evolution of an Epidemic<http://hst.mit.edu/academics/course/hst-s46>
January 13-23, 2017
MIT Units: 3-0-1
Instructors:  Bruce Walker, MD; Howard Heller, MD, MPH

Examines the medical, scientific, public health and policy responses to a new disease, by focusing on the evolution of the AIDS epidemic. Begins with a review of how this new disease was first detected in the US, followed by the scientific basis as to how HIV causes profound dysfunction of the body’s immune defense mechanisms, the rational development of drugs, the challenge of an HIV vaccine, and how public health and policy decisions have influenced the course of the global epidemic. Class conducted in Durban, South Africa by MIT instructors.
Sponsored by IMES, HST, MIT Medical, MIT-South Africa Program, and the Ragon Institute.

APPLY HERE: https://goo.gl/forms/BF52jKzJlCYGU7IA2

Application deadline is November 1.
Accepted candidates will be notified by November 15 and must attend a mandatory pre-departure meeting on November 18 at 4pm.



I am contacting you in regards to distributing advertising materials on a new course being offered during IAP at MIT in January 2017. We believe students in the Biology Department would be very interested in this course. Would you be willing to do this?

Thank you,
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Kylerose Delaney
Administrative Coordinator to the
Director and Associate Director
Bruce D. Walker, M.D.
Facundo Batista, Ph.D.
Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard
400 Technology Square * Cambridge, MA 02139
Direct: 857-268-7073 * kdelaney7 at mgh.harvard.edu<mailto:kdelaney7 at mgh.harvard.edu>

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