Briefing:
When: Monday, January 14, 2002
Where: Santa Rosa, California
Speaker: Steven Durand, Senior Program Officer, Population
Resource Center
Co-Sponsors: American University of University Women,
League of Women Voters, Peace and Justice Center, United Nations Association,
and the World Affairs Council
Factoids:
"Major diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis are making a deadly comeback
… Until recently, antibiotics were regarded as the solution … Today they
are becoming less and less effective as resistance to them spreads"
World Health Organization
"... diseases that arise in other parts of the world are repeatedly
introduced into the US... controlling disease outbreaks in other
countries is important not only for humanitarian reasons. It also
prevents those diseases from entering the US, at great savings to US lived
and dollars."
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
Please contact Steven Durand at (202) 467-5030 for more information
about this program.
This briefing is open to the public.