September 16, 2006
Building Indo-BU Collaborations in Health and Development
Hosted by Boston University and the Alumni Association of India
Gerald Keusch, associate provost for global health and associate dean for global health at the School of Public Health, delivers the keynote address at the sixth annual BU alumni event in Mumbai, India. Keusch opens by discussing the recent sobering past and the disappointing present in terms of world health, emphasizing that health is the one essential requirement for development. The twentieth century can confidently be described as the “century of the life sciences,” he says, but it also was a “century of great disappointments,” one in which the challenges of poverty, overpopulation, environmental degradation, and struggling civil societies resulted in massive health disparities. He draws a direct connection between poor access to health care and terrorism and notes that even marginal increases in per capita income result in huge increases in life expectancy.
Keusch describes the medical and health resources that BU offers and the extensive collaboration between the University and both the public and the private sectors in India on numerous health initiatives.
September 16, 2006, 7:30 p.m.
The Taj Mahal Palace and Tower
Mumbai, India
Video length is 00:51:24.
About the speaker:
Gerald Keusch, associate dean for global health and a professor of international health at the School of Public Health and Medical Campus assistant provost, came to BU from the National Institutes of Health Fogarty International Center. He is the director of BU’s Global Health Initiative, which links the Charles River and Medical Campuses in common programs for education, research, and service activities in global health. He is involved in international health research and policy with the NIH, the U.S. National Academies Institute of Medicine, the United Nations, and the World Health Organization. He has received awards for excellence from the Society of Infectious Diseases, published more than 300 research papers, chapters, and books, and delivered numerous named lectures at leading institutions around the world
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