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The goal of the GEANCO Foundation is to educate Africans in medicine. So, we've assembled a series of talks from heavy hitters in the fields of HIV & Malaria research and treatment. We hope that Africans, and anyone else interested in learning about these devastating global diseases, will enjoy this online symposium. Please contact us with your thoughts.
And, make sure to check out GEANCO COO Afam Onyema's talk on building a state-of-the art hospital in Nigeria.
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David Baltimore, Ph.D., Nobel prize-winning discoverer of the molecule that HIV uses to copy itself into our DNA, discusses the origins of HIV, the failure to find a cure, and his own approach toward treatment.
Kimberly Shriner, M.D. , leader of the Phil Simon Clinic Tanzania project, discusses the difficulties and rewards of ministering to HIV positive patients in Africa.
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Joel Breman, M.D., D.T.P.H., Senior Scientific Advisor at the Fogarty International Center of the NIH, discusses the battle against Malaria.
Bruce Hay, Ph.D., Caltech Associate Professor of Biology, explains a new way to spread genetically-engineered malaria-resistance throughout the African mosquito population.
Martha Sedegah, Ph.D., Senior Scientist at the NMRC's Malaria program, discusses two promising new malaria vaccines.
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this video of the reception following the symposium.
Scroll through the video to make the slides change.
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Credits:
Symposium Coordinators: Chess Stetson, Kenneth Yu
Cameras: Eileen Finkelstein, Erin Creznik
Post-production: Small Pond Pictures
Speaker Liaison: Carolyn Valdez
Publicity Coordinators: Jinwoo Lee, Peter Liu, Susan Shen
Caltech Global Health Association: Pradeep Bugga, Emily Kim, Ilia Shadrin, Christina Theodoris
We would like to extend our special thanks to...
Greg Fletcher and the Caltech Y
Karen Carlson and the Caltech Alumni Association]
James Endrizzi and the Caltech Student Affairs Fund
Betty St. Peter and KPCC, Southern California Public Radio
Joanne Laurence
Cherice Holloway
Ann Abernathy
Godwin Onyema
Eric Santiestevan
Charlie Kimball & Kirsten Potter
Signe Bray, Feras Habbal and the Caltech DJ Club
Tamara Knutsen
Tara Adele-Gomez, Ronnie Bryan and the Caltech Graduate Student Council
Michael Huynh
Tessa Yao
Jeong Hoon Ko
Link to our pre-symposium website.
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