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Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship. Through innovative and rigorous curricula and projects, EPIIC prepares young people to play active roles in their communities, whether at the local, national or global level.

Date & Time February 12, 2013 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location
Barnum 008
Program
EPIIC

EPIIC Film Series: Living in Emergency

Rwanda. Kosovo. Sierra Leone. Pakistan. Just a few of the world's humanitarian and political crises in the past years. Whether the result of war or nature, these disasters devastate populations and cripple health systems. Despite the immense dangers and difficulties of the work, one organization, Doctors Without Borders, has continuously intervened at these frontlines of overwhelming human need.

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Date & Time February 5, 2013 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location
Barnum 008
Program
EPIIC

EPIIC Film Series: Flow

Flow is Irena Salina’s award-winning documentary investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century - The World Water Crisis. The film will be introduced by Shafiqul Islam, Tufts Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

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Date & Time January 29, 2013 7:00pm
Location
Barnum 008
Program
EPIIC

EPIIC Film Series: Contagion

Contagion follows the rapid progress of a lethal airborne virus that kills within days. As the fast-moving epidemic grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself. At the same time, ordinary people struggle to survive in a society coming apart.

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Date & Time February 26, 2013 8:00pm
Location
Cabot Intercultural Center, ASEAN Auditorium Tufts University
Program
EPIIC

New Global Health Challenges - Peter Piot Mayer Lecture

Peter Piot MD, PhD is the Director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Professor of Global Health. He was the founding Executive Director of UNAIDS and Under Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1995 until 2008. Professor Piot co- discovered the Ebola virus in Zaire in 1976, and led research on AIDS, women’s health, and public health in Africa. He was a Scholar in Residence at the Ford Foundation and a Se- nior Fellow at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He held the 2009 chair “Knowledge against poverty” at the College de France in Paris.

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Date & Time January 22, 2013 7:00pm
Location
Tufts University
Program
EPIIC
Date & Time February 21-24, 2013 12:00pm - 9:00pm
Location
Tufts University
Program
EPIIC

2013 EPIIC Symposium: Global Health and Security

2013 EPIIC Symposium: Global Health and Security at Tufts University.

 

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