‘Decent Care: Option or Necessity?’ is Topic of Feb 8 Public Health Forum.

On Wednesday, Feb. 8, BUSPH and the Center for Global Health & Development will host The Reverend Canon Ted Karpf, ThM, as the featured speaker for the February Public Health Forum.

The Reverend Karpf is the Director of Development and Alumni Relatons of the BU School of Theology and was Partnerships Officer at the World Health Organization in Geneva from 2004-2010. From 2001-2004 he was Provincial Canon Missioner for HIV/AIDS and Deputy to the Archbishop of Cape Town, The Most Reverend Njongonkulu Ndungane, in the Anglican Church of Southern Africa.

He is an Episcopal priest in the Diocese of Washington, where he was also Canon to the Ordinary for Clergy Deployment and Congregational Development and also a canon of Washington National Cathedral. From 1993-1997, he was Executive Director of the National Episcopal AIDS Coalition and a consultant to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Health and the Health Resources and Services Administration on HIV/AIDS issues and the role of faith communities. He has also been a campus minister and teacher of religion and chair of the philosophy and religion department at the University of North Texas, and served for some years as a parish priest and rector.

Public Health Forum:

Decent Care: Option or Necessity?

Wednesday, February 8

12:00PM-1:00PM

BUMC Main Instructional Building

Room L-112