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Fighting Ebola – Prevention, Progress, and Perspectives

Wednesday, February 18, 2015 18:30to20:00
McIntyre Medical Building Room 522, R. Howard Palmer Amphitheatre, 3655 promenade Sir William Osler, Montreal, QC, H3G 1Y6, CA
Price: 
$10.00 (student) $20.00 (general)

On Wednesday Feb 18th, McGill Students Fight Ebola will be hosting “Fighting Ebola – Prevention, Progress, and Perspectives’, a speaker series featuring experts on the Ebola Virus outbreak. Each of the speakers will give a talk on their perspective on the Ebola Virus outbreak in West Africa and other parts of the world, followed by a question period and a wine and cheese.

The event will be held in the Palmer Amphitheatre in the McIntyre Medical Building at McGill University from 6:30PM – 8:00PM. For tickets and more information, please go to www.mcgillfightsebola.ca/events.

The speakers:

1. Dr. Srinivas Murthy

Dr. Srinivas Murthy is an infectious disease clinician based in British Columbia. He completed his Medical degree at McGill and Pediatric Residency Training at Boston Children’s Hospital (Harvard Medical School). He has special clinical and research interests in severe infections of childhood. He was recently in Liberia working on Ebola response management with the World Health Organization.

2. Dr. Rachel Kiddell-Monroe

Rachel Kiddell-Monroe, a lawyer and an activist, specializes in humanitarian assistance, global health, governance and bioethics. After working on indigenous rights and East Timor independence with grassroots organisations in Indonesia from 1989 to 1992, Rachel joined Médecins sans Frontières. With MSF she headed emergency humanitarian missions in Djibouti, Democratic Republic of Congo (then Zaire) and Rwanda before, during and after the genocide. After becoming programme director of MSF Canada, she was appointed Regional Humanitarian Affairs Advisor for Latin America based in Costa Rica from 1999-2003.

3. ...and one more speaker!

The Ebola outbreak is still not over. Despite the lag of Ebola in the media, the virus continues to ravage West Africa and has now taken over 8,000 lives. McGill Global Health Programs and several student groups at McGill have joined efforts in support of two well-recognized charitable organizations: Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors without Borders (MSF) and Partners in Health who have been working tirelessly to get this epidemic under control by running treatment centres, coordinating education and community building programs and facilitating Ebola vaccine clinical trials.  

Join our fight against the Ebola outbreak. Go to McGillFightsEbola.ca to DONATE to this amazing groups.

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 If you want to get involved in promoting this campaign as a student or an organization, please email info [at] mcgillfightsebola.ca

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