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Students Improving Global Health in Texas

UTHSC at Houston Chapter

Students Improving Global Health in Texas (SIGHT) aims to further awareness of global health issues among medical students and advocate long-term, sustainable relationships with medically underserved populations both locally and internationally, by encouraging students to engage in global health efforts through clinical medicine, public health, and research.

Semester-at-a-Glance

  • March 19
    SIGHT: Dr. Chris Greely 12-1pm MSB 5th floor gallery
  • March 15
    SIGHT: 2009-2010 Officer Applications
  • March 21
    SIGHT: 2009-2010 Officer Applications Due
  • April TBD
    SIGHT: Dr. Robert Furno
  • April 2
    SIGHT: 2009-2010 Officer Announced
  • April 14
    SIGHT: Joanne Carter, Ph.D., RESULTS 12-1pm MSB 2.006; "Tuberculosis: A Forgotten Epidemic, Now a Growing Global Threat"

SIGHT: Dr. Chris Greely

Dr. Greely (pediatrics) will be speaking on his experiences abroad in Cambodia. Info session to follow on SIGHT officer positions available.

2009-2010 Officer Applications

SIGHT officer applications will be sent out.

Officer Applications Due!

SIGHT: Dr. Robert Furno

Dr. Furno will be speaking on his experiences abroad in Africa. Dr. Furno is a SIGHT faculty sponsor and an Emergency Medicine faculty member.

SIGHT: New Officers Announced

New officers will be announced, as well as a New/Old/All member meeting TBD!

SIGHT: Joanne Carter, Ph.D., RESULTS

This presentation and discussion will provide the latest information on the global TB and TB-HIV epidemics, a technical and policy perspective on why a disease that kills nearly two million people each year and is the biggest killer of people with AIDS has been too often ignored, and what can and must be done to reverse this neglect and tackle this killer. Dr. Joanne Carter, Executive Director of the Washington, D.C.-based international anti-poverty advocacy organization RESULTS/RESULTS Educational Fund (REF) (www.results.org), and project leader for the multi-country TB advocacy project, ACTION (www.ACTION.org) will discuss the global epidemic, including the links between TB and poverty, the deadly synergy of TB and HIV/AIDS, the growing threat of drug resistance (including XDR-TB), and the way in which the global epidemic poses a major threat to health domestically. She will also address progress to-date in building a global response and what action is still needed in order to stop needless deaths.