Julie Parsonnet
Julie ParsonnetSenior Associate Dean of Medical Education
Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Disease and Geographic Medicine and Division of Epidemiology
Stanford University
Dr. Parsonnet graduated from Harvard-Radcliffe College and Cornell Medical School before doing her Internal Medicine residency and Infectious Diseases Clinical Fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. From Boston, she went to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention where she worked as an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer in the Enteric Diseases Branch (now the Foodborne Disease Branch) of the Division of Bacterial Diseases. She came to Stanford in 1989 to join the Geographic Medicine Division and to direct the diarrheal disease field site in Chiapas, Mexico. From 1998 - 2001, Dr. Parsonnet was Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine with a joint appointment in the Division of Epidemiology (Department of Health Research and Policy). She now is the Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education, although she also actively continues her research and clinical work with the ID Division.
Natasha MartinFounder and Executive Director of GRACE International, Kenya;
Founder and President of GRACE USA.Natasha Martin, F.I.M.L.S. founded the Grassroots Alliance for Community Education (GRACE) to support community-driven initiatives that are geared towards positive social change. GRACE provides Education and Training as well as small grants to help grassroots organizations implement their individual action plans. Skills-building workshops further strengthen local organizational capacity to deliver sustained and effective HIV/AIDS related programs in African communities. Ms. Martin has been involved in Pediatric AIDS Research at the University of California in San Francisco since the beginning of the epidemic. Prior to founding GRACE, she started this community work as a cofounder and research director of the US nonprofit organization Global Strategies for HIV Prevention.
Sheri FinkSheri Fink is a physician and writer based in New York who has worked with the humanitarian organization International Medical Corps to provide relief to victims of armed conflict and natural disaster. She received her B.S. at the University of Michigan, her M.D. and Ph.D. at Stanford University, and has worked in the Balkans, the north Caucasus, southern Africa, Central Asia, and the Middle East. She serves on the Advisory Council of Physicians for Human Rights and is a senior writer for the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative. Her writing has appeared in such publications as the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the International Herald Tribune, Wilson Quarterly, Discover Magazine, JAMA, and the American Journal of Public Health. She spent the spring of 2003 directing medical assistance programs in Iraq. Her first book,War Hospital: A True Story of Surgery and Survival (PublicAffairs 2003) was praised by the Washington Post for its "artistry," "impeccable and comprehensive research," and "scrupulous regard for historical truth." The New York Times lauded War Hospital as "an antidote to the abstract calls of glory, honor and heroism, words that can fill hearts with pride but that sound hollow in crowded, bloodied hospital corridors."
Sunil ChackCoordinator, Health, S.P.I.K.E ., South Centre, Geneva, An Intergovernmental Organization of Developing Countries
Executive Director, Fondation Science et Conscience, Geneva, SwitzerlandSunil Chacko is Executive Director of the Science and Conscience Foundation in Geneva. He conducts science, technology, finance and equity analysis on the medical, digitalgenomics, pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors. He has received an M.D. from Kerala University in India, a masters in public health from Harvard University and an M.B.A. from Columbia University, along with training in information technology and database/software programming. He has worked as a physician; as adviser to the Rockefeller Foundation on harnessing new sciences for technology development and partnerships; as a project director at the International Commission on Health Research for Development on applying debt-swap methodology for financing social development; and for the World Bank Group, Harvard University and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). He served as Chief Executive Officer of New Info Solutions, an Internet and medical technologies consulting company. His most recent publication is The Rise of the Value-Added Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Industry in India.
Robert DesowitzAdjunct Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Public Health; Emeritus Professor, University of HawaiiA parasitologist by training, Prof. Desowitz is also well known for his books on the politics and history of infectious diseases. Titles include Federal Body Snatchers and the New Guinea Virus, The Malaria Capers, New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers, and others.
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Created: December 7, 2003Robert Siegel