{"id":890,"date":"2008-03-20T02:31:18","date_gmt":"2008-03-20T06:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/2008\/03\/20\/pardee-center-seminar-disease-and-development\/"},"modified":"2011-07-28T14:27:31","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T18:27:31","slug":"pardee-center-seminar-disease-and-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/2008\/03\/20\/pardee-center-seminar-disease-and-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Pardee Center Seminar: Disease and Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment889\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment889\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/files\/news-cms\/photos\/disease-seminar-081.jpg\" alt=\"Disease &amp; Development\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment889\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pardee Center Seminar: Disease &amp; Development<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Pardee Center launches its new inter-disciplinary seminar series on key future challenges with a panel discussion on &#8220;Disease and Development&#8221; featuring BU profesors Jim McCann (History), Randy Ellis (Economics), and Jerry Keusch (Public Health).<\/p>\n<p>The seminar series will focus on a variety of inter-disciplinary issues and invite experts from different disciplines to discuss the long-range challenges and trends in that particular issue. <\/p>\n<p>The first seminar &#8211; titled <strong><em>Future Challenges: Disease and Development<\/em><\/strong> &#8211; will be on Monday, March 24, 2008, at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/about\/contact\/\">Pardee House<\/a> (67 Bay State Road, Boston, MA 02215). The panel will include: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bu.edu\/phpbin\/africa\/profiles\/app\/details.php?id=49\"><strong>Prof. Jim McCann<\/strong><\/a>, Department of History and the Africa Studies Center, Boston University.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/people.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/\"><strong>Prof. Randy Ellis<\/strong><\/a>, Department of Economics, Boston University.<br \/>\n<br \/><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sph.bu.edu\/index.php?option=com_sphdir&amp;id=239&amp;Itemid=340&amp;INDEX=11573\">Prof. Jerry Keusc<\/a>h<\/strong>, Global Health Initiative and School of Public Health, Boston University.<\/p>\n<p>Lunch will be available from 11.30am, and the seminar itself will start at noon. Please send RSVP to <a href=\"mailto:pardee@bu.edu\">pardee@bu.edu<\/a> by March 19, 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Co-sponsored by <a href=\"http:\/\/bu.edu\/econ\/ied\">The Institute for Economic Development<\/a> (IED), <a href=\"http:\/\/bu.edu\/africa\">The African Studies Center<\/a> (ASC), and the <a href=\"http:\/\/bu.edu\/ghi\">Global Health Initiative<\/a> (GHI), all at Boston University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pardee Center launches its new inter-disciplinary seminar series on key future challenges with a panel discussion on &#8220;Disease and Development&#8221; featuring BU professors Jim McCann (History), Randy Ellis (Economics), and Jerry Keusch (Public Health).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1562,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[318,60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1562"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10024,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions\/10024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}