King Holmes, the William H. Foege Chair of Global Health who heads the recently established Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Department of Global Health, is featured in a new Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµTV program, HIV: In Your Global Neighborhood. In his lecture, Holmes discusses the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ’s training, education, research, and public health efforts to improve health around the world. The program will be airing in February, and is available now on the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµTV Web site.
Holmes’ talk was part of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµorld Global Lecture Series, a series of panels on the topic of global health, called A Just Cause: Bringing Health Care to All. Holmes is introduced by William H. Gates, Sr., co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and a Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ regent.
In the talk, Holmes highlights the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ’s contributions to many of the efforts to fight AIDS/HIV around the world, including the Tumaini Project, a clinic in Nairobi, Kenya, providing free medical care for patients with HIV; the International Training and Education Center on HIV (I-TECH), a consortium for training health care workers in countries affected by HIV and AIDS; and Health Alliance International, an organization that builds public health programs in the developing world.
To view the program, visit the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµTV Web site: .