Medical School Hosts Conference on Health and Social Change in Africa, Asia

The Department of Social Medicine will host a conference titled "Health and Social Change in Africa & Asia." Sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation and the Freeman Foundation, there will be several addresses, including presentations given by Carnegie and Freeman Fellows.

Keynote presentations for day one include "Political & socio-cultural variables' effect on health in Africa," by Michael Chege, director, Center for African Studies, University of Florida; and "Social change and the political economy of HIV/AIDS," by Joe Lugalla, associate professor, Department of Anthropology, University of New Hampshire.

William Hsiao, K.T. Li Professor of Economics, Harvard School of Public Health, will address "Economic changes' effect on health and health care in Asia"; and Sing Lee, associate professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong, will speak on "From neurasthenia to prozac: The social production of depression in post-reform China," as part of the day two presentations.

The conference will take place on Thursday, April 30, from 9:15 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and on Friday, May 1, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., at the Medical School, Vaderbilt Common Room, 107 Avenue Louis Pasteur and in the Medical Education Center, Room 227, 260 Longwood Avenue, Boston. Contact Mary Bigelow at 432-2558 for complete program information.