BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260612T183603EDT-19230WBNvu@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20260612T223603Z DESCRIPTION:\n \n \n As part of McGill's bicentennial celebration\, McGill Glo bal Health Programs present:\n\n Lasting Legacy of the McGill-Ethiopia Comm unity Health Project\n\n This panel discussion will reflect upon the legacy and impact of the McGill-Ethiopia Community Health Project\, which was ca rried out in several phases in the 1980s-1990s. The event will feature an expert panel of global health researchers who were closely involved in the project. The event will begin with the debut screening of a 5-minute mini -documentary encapsulating the Ethiopia Community Health Project.\n\n Ahead of the event\, Panel Moderator\, McGill GHP Interim Director Dr. Charles Larson shared a few thoughts on his time on the McGill-Ethiopia Community Health Project.\n\n Speakers:\n\n \n Dr. Abdulaziz Addus Adish\, Regional Dir ector and Nutrition Adviser (Africa)\, Nutrition International\n \n\n Dr. Ab dulaziz Adish is a Physician with over 30 years of experience in public he alth\, working in areas of primary health care\, child immunization\, and micronutrient deficiencies in developing countries. He has a PhD in Nutrit ional from McGill University in Montreal\, Canada and a Masters in Public Health in Primary Health Care from Addis Ababa University\, Ethiopia. Prio r to joining Nutrition International\, Abdulaziz worked as Chief of UNICEF ’s Nutrition Section in Jakarta and a Technical Officer for the introducti on of new vaccines in South East Africa (WHO SARO). His background include s employment as an Assistant Professor at the Jimma Institute of Health Sc iences. Abdulaziz has published over 30 articles in peer-reviewed scientif ic journals\, authored more than ten technical reports and presented more than 100 papers related to the planning and implementation of nutrition pr ograms.\n\n \n Dr. Richard Cruess\, Dean Emeritus\, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences\, McGill University\n \n\n Richard L. Cruess graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Princeton in 1951 and an MD from Columbia Universi ty in 1955. Having completed residency training in orthopedic surgery at t he Royal Victoria Hospital and Columbia University\, he joined the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University and has spent his entire professional ca reer in that institution. He is Dean Emeritus and Emeritus Professor of Su rgery and of the McGill Institute for Health Sciences Education. An orthop edic surgeon\, he served as Chair of Orthopedics (1976-1981)\, directing a basic science laboratory and publishing extensively in the field. He was Dean of the Faculty of Medicine from 1981 to 1995. He was President of the Canadian Orthopedic Association (1977-1978)\, the American Orthopedic Res earch Society (1975-1976)\, and the Association of Canadian Medical Colleg es (1992-1994). He is the recipient of an honorary degree from Laval Unive rsity. He is a Companion of the Order of Canada and an Officer of l’Ordre National du Québec. Since 1995\, with his wife Dr. Sylvia Cruess\, he has taught and carried out independent research on professionalism in medicine . They have published widely on the subject and been invited speakers at u niversities\, hospitals\, and professional organizations throughout the wo rld. Together they have received the Ian Hart Award from the Canadian Asso ciation of Medical Education\, the Gold Medal of the Association for the S tudy of Medical Education (ASME) in the United Kingdom\, and the Flexner A ward from the Association of American Medical Colleges. In 2010 McGill Uni versity established the Richard and Sylvia Cruess Chair in Medical Educati on and in 2018 the McGill University Health Centre named its principal amp hitheater in their honor.\n\n \n Dr. Joyce Pickering\, Professor\, General I nternal Medicine\, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences\, McGill Univer sity\n \n\n Dr. Pickering is a general internist\, currently the Director of the Medical Clinical Teaching Units at the Royal Victoria Hospital\, McGi ll University Health Centre and an associate member of the McGill Institut e for Health Sciences Education. After training in internal medicine\, com munity medicine and epidemiology\, she worked with the McGill Ethiopia Com munity Health Project for 3 years between 1988 and 1992 and was the direct or of this project from 1991-1992. She was the course director for the cou rse Health in Developing Countries in the McGill Department of Epidemiolog y and Biostatistics between 1994 and 2004. She has continued to return to Ethiopia to teach in the context of the current link between the McGill Di vision of Infectious Diseases and Addis Ababa University. She has been act ively involved in medical education\, and was the Associate Dean of underg raduate medical education at McGill from 2004 to 2011. She has taught epid emiology and medical education in Ethiopia\, Uganda\, Russia and Japan and was a visiting professor of medical education at the University of Tokyo in 2013-14. Her clinical work is in general internal medicine and at the T ropical Disease Centre of the McGill University Health Centre.\n\n \n Dr. Da vid Zakus\, Professor\, University of Toronto\n \n\n David Zakus is retired from full-time academia\, having had professorial appointments at McGill U niversity\, University of Toronto\, University of Alberta and Ryerson Univ ersity from 1991 to 2018. He is the Founding Editor and Publisher of the f ree Planetary Health Weekly (planetaryhealthweekly.com) from 2015 to date\ ; an Adjunct Professor in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health (Universi ty of Toronto\, 2018 to date)\; and was a part-time global health course d irector at York University (Toronto\, 2019 and 2021). He recently retired as Professor of Distinction in Global Health at Ryerson University (2015-1 8) and Professor of Preventive Medicine\, University of Alberta (2011-2015 ). Prior to this\, he was an Assistant and Associate Professor of Health P olicy\, Management and Evaluation and Founding Director of the Centre for International Health at the University of Toronto (from 2000 to 2009). His first full-time academic appointment was in the Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McGill University (1991-1995) where he served as Directo r of the McGill-Ethiopia Community Health Project in Addis Ababa and for t he last year as Director of the McGill-Hungary Health Management Project. \n\n He has a BSc in Biochemistry (University of Saskatchewan\, 1975)\, Mas ter of Environmental Studies in Nutrition and Environmental Health (York U niversity\, 1978)\, and MSc and PhD in Community Health/Health Services Ma nagement/Organization Behaviour (University of Toronto\, 1988 & 1992\, res pectively)\; and has had a long career in teaching and research. He has ov er 50 peer reviewed publications and book chapters\; and until very recent ly was active in research and development work in Niger\, Mozambique\, Uga nda\, Ethiopia\, China and Laos. He has worked in some 45 countries\, as a professor in four Canadian universities (Toronto\, Alberta\, Ryerson and McGill)\, as the President and CEO of Canadian Physicians for Aid and Reli ef\, and at the International Development Research Centre and Canadian Pub lic Health Association in Ottawa\, among others. He strongly believes in t he importance of planetary health\, the combination of global health and e cological wellness.\n\n \n Moderator: Dr. Charles Larson\, Interim Director\ , Global Health Programs\, McGill University\n \n\n Dr. Charles Larson compl eted his medical degree and subsequent specializations in Pediatrics and P reventive Medicine & Public Health at McGill University. As a medical stud ent he was a co-founder of the Pointe St Charles Community Health Centre\, precursor to Quebec's local community clinic system of primary care. In m any ways this was his introduction to global health and his eventual caree r path. His actual global health career began in 1987 when he joined the M cGill-Ethiopia Strengthening Community Health Project\, which he directed from 1989 to 1992. Dr. Larson then returned to McGill as an Associate Prof essor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Epidemiology\, Biostatistics an d Occupational Health (EBOH). He also headed the McGill Global Health Offi ce within the Faculty of Medicine and led a five-year McGill population ch ild health project in Chelyabinsk Russia. In 2002 Dr. Larson moved to Bang ladesh where\, on secondment from McGill\, he directed the Health Systems and Infectious Diseases Division at the International Centre for Diarrheal Diseases Research\, Bangladesh (icddr\,b)\, In 2008 Dr. Larson returned t o Canada\, joining the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Briti sh Columbia as Professor and Director of the UBC-BC Children's Hospital Ce ntre for International Child Health (CICH). In 2015\, Dr. Larson returned to Montreal at which time he assumed the role of National Coordinator of t he Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research (CCGHR) until it merged t o become the Canadian Association for Global Health (CAGH). At the same ti me\, he joined the Departments of EBOH and of Pediatrics as an Adjunct Pro fessor\, and the McGill Global Health programs\, for which he currently se rves as the Interim Director. Dr. Larson’s interests focus on capacity bui lding and development or delivery research in support of the scale-up of l ife-saving interventions in under-five children.\n\n This event will be pre sented in a hybrid format. Online attendees will be able to watch the live broadcast on YouTube.\n\n \n Watch live on YouTube\n \n\n \n McGill University 's Global Health Week\n \n\n \n Full Global Health Week Program\n \n \n \n\n DTSTART:20220518T130000Z DTEND:20220518T143000Z LOCATION:and online\, Faculty Club\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0E5\, 3450 ru e McTavish SUMMARY:Lasting Legacy of the McGill-Ethiopia Community Health Project URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/globalhealth/channels/event/lasting-legacy-mcgill -ethiopia-community-health-project-339254 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR