When Experts Disagree: The Art of Medical Decision Making
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Vancouver Institute Lecture Series. Dr. Jerome Groopman is the Dina and Raphael Recanati Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chief of Experimental Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and one of the world’s leading researchers in cancer and AIDS. He […]
Arianto Patunru and Zakir Machmud – Poverty and Globalization in Indonesia
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College. The costs and benefits of globalization have long been a major debate in the literature of development economics. Arianto Patunru and Zakir Machmud argue that it is important to understand the link between globalization and poverty for the case of developing […]
Nir Eyal – Medical Tourism in South Asia: Moving From Brain Drain to Brain Gain
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College. With the 2012 global turnover expected to reach $100-billion USD, medical tourism (travel across international borders to obtain health care) is rapidly expanding. India and Thailand are currently the lead global service suppliers. Unfortunately, providing health care to tourists may exacerbate […]
Jeffrey T. Parsons – Horny and High: Sexual Risk Behaviors and Substance Use Among Young Gay and Bisexual Men
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College’s Population Health Lecture Series. Jeffrey T. Parsons’ general research interests are health behaviors (e.g., HIV prevention, HIV medication adherence, sexual behavior, substance use/abuse); GLBTQ issues; interventions designed to change sexual/drug using behaviors among various populations; club drug use (ecstasy, cocaine, methamphetamine. […]
Laura Janara – Bringing the Collective Together: Nonhuman Animals, Humans and Practice
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College’s Principal’s Series: Thinking at the Edge of Reason: Interdisciplinarity In Action. In 2011-12, an ad hoc group of UBC students and faculty convened at Green College an interdisciplinary speaker series on the use of animals at the university. In the wake […]
Thomas Abel – Cultural Capital and the Production of Health
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College’s Population Health lecture series. Health is a societal resource to be produced in everyday life based on the (unequally distributed) resources people have individually and collectively available. In regard to such resources, economic and social forms of capital have been studied […]
Ashok Kotwal and Bharat Ramaswami – Food Security in India
India is on the brink of enacting a law to guarantee subsidised food to about two-thirds of its population. The proposed ‘right to food’ is contentious for its cost, coverage and efficacy. This lecture is about what reforms offer the best prospects. Bharat Ramaswami, Planning Unit, India Statistical Institute and Ashok Kotwal, Economics, UBC. This […]
Anthony Kupferschmidt – Understanding Dementia and Brain Health
A collaboration between Woodward Library, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, and Fraser Valley Regional Library, the Health Information Series presents Anthony Kupferschmidt. Hosted by the Fraser Valley Regional Library’s Ladner Pioneer Library, Anthony Kupferschmidt will be giving an important presentation on alzheimer and some of the work done by Alzheimer Society of BC. Healthy aging […]
Jan Wong – Out of the Blue
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. In collaboration with the Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society’s month of ExplorAsian festival, Jan Wong will read from “Out of the Blue, A Memoir of Workplace Depression, Recovery, Redemption and, Yes, Happiness”. For twenty years, Jan Wong had been one of the Globe and Mail’s best-known […]