You are warmly invited to attend Global Health Histories Seminar 108: ‘Tuberculosis, Infectious Disease Control & Primary Health Care’, which will be held at the University of York, UK, on Thursday 5^th July 2018. Please do circulate to colleagues, students and friends you feel would be interested in attending this event.

Global Health Histories Seminar 108

‘Tuberculosis, Infectious Disease Control & Primary Health Care’

5 July 2018, 14:30 pm

Venue: The Treehouse, Berrick Saul Building, University of York, UK

Admission: Free and open to all – but please do email [log in to unmask] to indicate your interest in attending.

Speakers: Niels Brimnes (Aarhus University, Denmark);

Shiva Murugasampillay (Global Public Health, Switzerland & Former Senior Adviser, Global Malaria Programme, WHO)

In this seminar Niels Brimnes examines India’s National Tuberculosis Programme which was launched with great enthusiasm in the early 1960s, and became quickly viewed as a model to be followed elsewhere. Yet the programme failed to live up to expectations, and Dr Brimnes examines the problems and obstacles which faced the ambitious programme. The WHO’s constitution sought to address both fighting diseases and strengthening health systems, yet the past 70 years has seen the rise and fall of both. Bringing the story up to the present, Shiva Murugasampillay will explore the unfinished business of eradicating Polio, Guinea Worm, Malaria, Yellow Fever, Tuberculosis, Ebola and new challenges of HIV, Zika and Non-Communicable Diseases in the context of Universal Health Coverage.

For further information please see: https://www.york.ac.uk/history/global-health-histories/events/ghh-108-tb/

Information about the Global Health Histories series is available at www.york.ac.uk/history/global-health-histories/ where you can also find future seminar listings. For recordings of previous seminars, please visit our YouTube page: http://www.youtube.com/CGHHYork

Best wishes,

Centre for Global Health Histories