[Sci-tech-public] Mark your Calendars! Mon, March 12, 4pm: 2018 Morison Prize and Lecture w/ Sheri Fink, Ph.D., M.D., Pulitzer Prize winning author

[Gus Zahariadis]

The MIT STS Program proudly presents the 2018 Morison Prize and Lecture with guest speaker, Pulitzer Prize winning author, Sheri Fink, M.D, Ph.D

“Healthcare Ethics and Human Rights in Emergencies: From Katrina to Maria and Beyond"

Sheri Fink <http://www.sherifink.net/> is the author of the New York Times bestselling book, Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Crown, 2013) about choices made in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. 

She is a correspondent at the New York Times, where her and her colleagues' stories on the West Africa Ebola crisis were recognized with the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting, the George Polk Award for health reporting, and the Overseas Press Club Hal Boyle Award. Her story "The Deadly Choices at Memorial," co-published by ProPublica and the New York Times Magazine, received a 2010 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting and a National Magazine Award for reporting. 

A former relief worker in disaster and conflict zones, Fink received her M.D. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. Her first book, War Hospital: A True Story of Surgery and Survival (PublicAffairs), is about medical professionals under siege during the genocide in Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Five Days at Memorial was the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction, the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for nonfiction, the Ridenhour Book Prize, the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance Book Award, the American Medical Writers Association Medical Book Award, and the NASW Science in Society Journalism Book Award.

Please join us as the MIT STS Program presents the 2017-18 Morison Prize and Lecture!

Monday, March 12, 2018
4pm - Lecture, followed by a wine reception in the Atrium lobby
MIT
E15 - Bartos Theater, Lower Atrium
20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA 
FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

See you there!





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Gus Zahariadis
Assistant to the Director
Program in Science, Technology, and Society

T: (617) 253-3452
F: (617) 258-8118











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