Date:
Tuesday, April 23, 2024, 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location:
REB 109 and Zoom
Please join us in person or via Zoom, Tuesday April 23 as we host Awa Coll Seck, MD, PhD, former senior minister to the president of the Republic of Senegal .
Dr. Seck has twice served as minister of health, from 2001-2003 and from 2012-2017, and was named “Best Minister in the World” in February 2017 at the World Government Summit. A specialist in infectious diseases, she sits on the boards of Resolve to Save Lives; AFRIVAC; GAVI, The Vaccine Alliance; Grand Challenges Canada; Exemplars in Global Health; and UNU International Institute for Global Health. She was chair of AFRIVAC, chair of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative in Senegal, and co-chair of the Lancet Commission on the Future of Health and Economic Resiliency in Africa.
She also serves as president of the Scientific Committee of the Galien Forum Africa. Coll Seck previously served as executive director of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership (2004-2012) and as director of the Department of Policy, Strategy and Research of UNAIDS (1996-2001).
Her lecture titled" HIV/ AIDS in Africa: opportunities and challenges for ondontostomatologists" Will take place on the 23rd of this month in REB109 at 12pm. A light lunch will be provided for those attending inperson, first come, first served.
