The Rosenthal Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine

 

and the

 

Department of Epidemiology

Mailman School of Public Health

 

present

 

 

Gerard Bodeker, Ed.D.

 

 

Global trends in complementary and traditional (indigenous) medicine:

Public health and policy perspectives

 

                                                                               

Friday May 5, 2006

1:00 pm to 2:30 pm

 

Location: Hammer Health Sciences Center (HHSC) 

Room 301, 701 W. 168th Street, 3rd floor 
 
 

Hosts:  Judith Jacobson, Dr. PH and Fredi Kronenberg, Ph.D.

 

Dr. Gerard Bodeker is Senior Clinical Lecturer in Public Health, University of Oxford Medical School & Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health Columbia University.  He is Editor-in-Chief of the WHO Global Atlas on Traditional, Complementary & Alternative Medicine (2005).  Dr. Bodeker will present findings from the WHO Global Atlas on TCAM and will speak on his work on traditional medicine use among Burmese refugees at the Thai border, and his group’s work on traditional medicine and malaria (www.gifts-ritam.org) and HIV (www.giftsofhealth.org).

 

 

*Directions   to HHSC, Room 301, 701 W. 168th St.,@ NW Corner West 168th St. & Ft. Washington Ave., 1 long block west of B’way (W. 168th St. becomes Haven Ave. west of Ft. Washington Ave.). For a map (HHSC is #4 on map) go to http://www.cumc.columbia.edu/about/map.html.  Parking garage at W. 165th St. & Ft. Washington Ave.