UNA/West Triangle invites you to its Lunch and Learn Program on March 24^th from 12 to 2 pm

Speaker:

Dr. James Lea, professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Director of International Affairs in the School of Medicine of UNC-Chapel Hill

Topic:

"International Perspective on Children's Health"

The health of children is critical all over the world -- for themselves, for their families, and for the future success of their countries. Nowhere is this more the case than in the developing world where two-thirds of the people of the earth, most of them children, live in a poverty that blights their lives and impairs their development. More than 10 million children die each year under the age of five, most from causes which are preventable.

Dr. Lea is leading the development of the new UNC Center for Global Health. The mission of the Center is to define new approaches to the major health and social development challenges of our time. With broad experience in the developing world, he will discuss the health condition of children around the world and its impact on their prospects for the future and the success (or not) of developing countries 'tomorrow.'

Since joining the UNC-Chapel Hill faculty in 1973, Dr. Lea has led the design and implementation of human resources development programs for health care providers, managers and trainers in more than 40 countries, traveling extensively in Sub-Saharan and Mediterranean Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean. From 1979 to 2002, he was founding director of INTRAH, the university's worldwide health services development program. In the U.S., he has assisted companies and consortia of medical schools to produce and present medical education programs using distance learning technologies. He also lectures to professional and trade organizations on topics in management and globalization and writes a bi-monthly syndicated newspaper column.

Time and Place:

The meeting will take place at noon on Wednesday, March 24^th, at the Holiday Inn on 15-501 Bypass in Chapel Hill (opposite Eastgate Shopping Center).

Price and Reservations:

Reservations may be made by sending a check in the amount of $15 payable to "UNA-West Triangle Chapter" to

Barbara Berke,

595B Fearrington Post,

Pittsboro, NC 27312.

The DEADLINE for Barbara to receive reservations is Friday, March 19^th.
Questions to Barbara at 542-0319.

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