May 11, 2006
Foege to speak on global health shortcuts
Dr. William Foege, for whom the UW’s new Bioengineering and Genome Sciences Building was named, will speak on Global Health: Looking for Shortcuts for the 2006 Stephen Stewart Gloyd Endowed Lecture, at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, May 18, in the Hogness Auditorium a the Health Sciences Center.
The lecture is presented by the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, and all are welcome.
Foege is a 1961 graduate of the UW School of Medicine and best known for developing the strategy that eradicated smallpox. He is a former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and a former executive director of the Carter Center in Atlanta, where he remains a fellow in health policy. He has helped to develop the global health program for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle and is now a fellow there.
The lectureship, endowed by the Gloyd family, was originally established at Children’s Hospital in 1982 and named for Dr. Park Willis Gloyd, longtime chief of the orthopaedics service there. The senior Dr. Gloyd renamed the lectureship in honor of his son, Dr. Stephen Stewart Gloyd, director of the UW International Health Program in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine and professor of health services. It was transferred to the School of Public Health in 2001.
Foege’s speech at the March 8 dedication of the building was moved to a smaller venue indoors due to inclement weather. The May 18 talk, while on a different topic, will be a second chance for many who didn’t hear Foege the first time.
