Tuesday, April 6:
Infant and Maternal Health Petition
Time: 11:00-2:00 pm
Location: Commons Rotunda
Petition for legislation to renew American leadership in child survival. Co-hosted by UNICEF and Amnesty International.
American Red Cross at Yale: Blood Drive
Time: 1:00-6:15 pm
Location: Yale Rep Theater
To donate, sign up online at www.yale.edu/redcross/signup. Come for Yale-Harvard T-shirts, coupons, and lots of snacks!
Engineers Without Borders: Cool Demo!!
Time: 4:00-5:00 pm
Location: Cross Campus
Want to check something off your bucket list? Visit EWB on Cross Campus and have fun learning about water testing kits, running with buckets, and helping build a gravity-fed water system.
Health Care: Europe vs. America
Time: 8:00-9:00 pm
Location: WLH 114
A panel discussion on health care policies and systems in Europe and the United States with Professors Ted Marmor, Mark Schlesigner, Kieke Okma and Mercedes Carerras.
Wednesday, April 7:
American Red Cross at Yale: Blood Drive
Time: 1:00-6:15 pm
Location: Yale Rep Theater
To donate, sign up online at www.yale.edu/redcross/signup. Come for Yale-Harvard T-shirts, coupons, and lots of snacks!
Feigning Disease: Psychology of Childhood Trauma
Time: 4:00-5:00 pm
Location: WLH 207
A conversation with Julie Gregory, author of Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood. A part of UNICEF's Children's Week.
Road to Recovery: Panel Discussion with Comfort Zone Camp
Time: 5:30 pm
Location: LC 211
A discussion on overcoming childhood trauma with the nation's largest bereavement camp for children. Food will be provided. A part of UNICEF's Children's Week.
Bad Sugar Screening: Unnatural Causes
Time: 7:00-8:30 pm
Location: Native American Cultural Center, 295 Crown St.
Learn how socioeconomic factors led two Arizona tribes to have the highest diabetes rates in the world. Snacks will be provided. Co-sponsored by ANAAY, AISES and MAPS.
Latinos and Mental Health: A Cultural Taboo
Co-Sponsored by Yale Ballroom Dancing Team
Time: 7-10 pm
Location: Dwight Hall Common Room
Presentation and discussion led by Dr. Luis Anez Nava and Dr. Silva, co-directors of the CT Latino Behavioral Health System, an an organization which seeks to provide culturally relevant treatments for the Latino community in Connecticut.Brain Boosting Study Break featuring feature foods that have been known to promote positive mental health. The Yale Ballroom Dance Team will get our bodies moving and endorphins rushing by providing lessons of traditional Latin-themed dances.
Food provided by a whole bunch of places!
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Thursday, April 8:
Dinner with Dr. Chisara Asomugha, Director of New Haven Health Department
Location: Dwight Hall Library
Time: 5:30 pm
Have dinner with Dr. Chisara Asamogu and discuss the multitude of health issues around New Haven. Thai food will be provided!
America the Beautiful Movie Screening
Time: 8:00-10:00 pm
Location: Silliflicks, Silliman Basement: Entryway C
Come watch this award-winning documentary about how increasingly unattainable images from the fashion industry contribute to eating disorders and body dysmorphia. Snacks will be served. Co-sponsored by ECHO.
Latinos in Medicine
Co-Sponsored by MAS Familias
Time: 6-7 pm
Location: La Casa Gallery
Delicious dinner featuring professors from the History of Science, History of Medicine department as they discuss their research and experiences in the area of Latino health.
Dinner provided by La Carreta.
Friday, April 9:
Lunch with Dr. Oxiris Barbot
Time: 12:30 pm
Location: Branford Dining Annex
Join PHC for a special lunch with Dr. Barbot, the Medical Director of the New York City Bureau of School Health. Barbot provides pediatric expertise and medical leadership for the restructuring and revitalization of NYC's school health program.
A Call to Action: Coordinating an Interdisciplinary Response to HIV/AIDS in New Haven and Abroad
Time: 1:30 pm
Location: Branford Common Room
A panel discussion with AIDS Activist Gregg Gonsalves, Director of AIDS Project New Haven Chris Cole, Executive Director of CIRA Elaine O'Keefe, and Leeway AIDS Hospice. Hosted by UAID.
Empowering Communities in Developing Countries
Time: 4:00 pm
Location: Branford Common Room
Talk with Steve Atamian, the President of Global Brigades, the world's largest student-led global health and sustainable development organization. Hosted by UAID.
Saturday, April 10:
Saturday, Food and Health in the Latino Body
Co-Sponsored by Yale Sustainable Food Project and Yale College Alliance for Animal Welfare
Time: 6-8 pm, 8:30-9:30 pm
Location: La Casa
Cooking demonstration and vegetarian feast led and catered by the
New York-based Dominican and Latino fusion restaurant Yiya Natural. Screening of "Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days," a film that follows a diverse group of diabetics through an intense diet of raw foods and traces their progress from several to almost no doses of insulin a day.
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Sunday, April 11:
AIDS Walk New Haven
