[Sci-tech-public] Schedule of Events: October 23-27, 2006

[Debbie Meinbresse]

A Schedule of Events for October 23-27, 2006 is attached.

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Please join us on Monday, October 23, for the 
2006 Arthur Miller Lecture on Science and Ethics:

Human Rights, Ethics and the Global Response to 
the AIDS Pandemic: Why We Can't Wait

Our speaker will be Jim Yong Kim, François Xavier 
Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights, 
Harvard School of Public Health; Professor of 
Social Medicine and Medicine, Harvard Medical 
School; Chief of the Division of Social Medicine 
and Health Inequalities, Brigham and Women’s 
Hospital; Director, François Xavier Bagnoud 
Center for Health and Human Rights; and Chair, 
Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Kim, an expert in tuberculosis, has 20 years 
of experience in improving health in developing 
countries.  He is a founding trustee and the 
former executive director of Partners In Health, 
a not-for-profit organization that supports a 
range of health programs in poor communities in 
Haiti, Lesotho, Peru, Russia, Rwanda, and the 
United States. Dr. Kim trained dually as a 
physician and medical anthropologist. He received 
his M.D. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. Dr. 
Kim returned to Harvard in December 2005 after a 
three-year leave of absence serving first as 
advisor to the director-general of the World 
Health Organization (WHO), and then as director 
of WHO's HIV/AIDS department.  Dr. Kim oversaw 
all of WHO's work related to HIV/AIDS, focusing 
on initiatives to help developing countries scale 
up their treatment, prevention, and care 
programs, including the "3x5" initiative designed 
to put three million people in developing 
countries on AIDS treatment by the end of 2005.

Abstract:
Worldwide attention and resources are focused as 
never before on saving the lives of millions of 
people with AIDS.  Yet we are still losing the 
battle against the epidemic.  Even as we face 
enormous challenges in scaling-up treatment and 
prevention of HIV in developing countries, 
controversies persist over whether the speed of 
our response is leading to unintended but serious 
human rights violations.  Dr. Kim will discuss 
these challenges and, with so many lives at 
stake, the urgent need for innovative and ethical
responses to one of the deadliest pandemics in human history.

The lecture will be held at 4:00 p.m. in MIT's 
Bartos Theater.  Please join us for a reception 
immediately following the lecture and discussion.

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Please see the attached schedule for information 
about the next meeting of the "Complexity and 
Emergence" Seminar at Harvard.  There are
two readings in connection with this presentation:
1) Israel, G. 2005. 'The Science of Complexity: 
Epistemological Problems and Perspectives'. 
Science in Context, 18 (3), 479-509 (attached herewith)
2) Horgan, J. 1995. 'From Complexity to 
Perplexity'. Scientific American, 272, 104-110
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Be sure to check the MIT Events Calendar for a 
complete listing of campus events: http://events.mit.edu/
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