Doctor and international health activist Joia Mukherjee to speak on UN's Millenium Development Goals Oct. 17

Joia Mukherjee will present “Pursuing the Human Rights Framework: Strategies to meet the Millennium Development Goals” at 12 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 17, in Coffman Union, Mississippi Room, 300 Washington Ave. S.E., Minneapolis.

Mukherjee will discuss progress, setbacks and strategies towards meeting the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals. Adopted by 189 nations in 2000, the Millennium Development Goals provide concrete, numerical benchmarks for tackling extreme poverty in its many dimensions. This pledge became the eight Millennium Development Goals to be achieved by 2015.

Since 2000, Mukherjee has served as the Chief Medical Director of Partners In Health, an international medical charity with clinical programs in Haiti, Rwanda, Lesotho, Malawi, Peru, Mexico, Russia and inner city Boston.

After the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Mukherjee treated more than 800 earthquake patients within 24 hours of arriving in the country. She helped establish Partners In Health’s program in rural Haiti to treat patients with HIV. The program has become a model for the World Health Organization and other global AIDS initiatives.

Mukherjee is also an associate professor at Harvard Medical School where she teaches medical students, residents and fellows in the fields of infectious disease, global health and health disparities.

This event, free and open to the public, is part of the Magraw-Fuller Lecture Series. The Magraw-Fuller Lecture Series was established through the generous support of a College of Liberal Arts alumna and aims to improve the communication skills of pre-med and pre-health students through interdisciplinary topics in the liberal arts.

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