The Collaborative is organizing it’s launch event to be put on Friday, April 10th from 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm in The Red Room in Converse Hall. The event will feature Dr. Bruce Walker who will be discussing grassroots health care initiatives with special regard to his own work in South Africa.
Dr. Walker is a leading infectious disease specialist who has devoted his career to bringing lifesaving anti-retroviral drugs to AIDS patients around the world. He is a professor of Medicine at Harvard University, an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and director of the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard University, a unique new $100 million effort to finally develop a vaccine that can halt the global HIV/AIDS pandemic.
Much of Dr. Walker’s work is based in Durban, South Africa, where with funding from the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, Doris Duke Foundation, and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Dr. Walker has set up a state-of-the-art research lab at the epicenter of the global AIDS epidemic. Dr. Walker is the recipient of the Doris Duke Distinguished Clinical Research Scientist Award, National Institutes of Health Merit Award, and the Commitment to Children Award from the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation.