Issue date: 3/28/08 Section: News

Media Credit: Alyssa Cwanger Doctors perform surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, which will host Global Health Career Day 2008 tomorrow at the Biomedical Research Building of Penn Med. [Click to enlarge]

Next time your parents ask you why they are paying so much money for you to sleep through your morning classes, tell them you woke up for an educational program at 8 a.m. on a Saturday.

Tomorrow, Global Health Programs is sponsoring Global Health Career Day 2008 at the Biomedical Research Building of the School of Medicine. The event is scheduled to begin at 8 a.m. and end at 3:30 p.m.

The program will feature speakers from Children's Hospital of Pennsylvania, University of Virginia School of Medicine, the Environmental Protection Agency, Philadelphia Global Water Initiative, Temple University College of Health Professions, Engineers Without Borders and Penn Schools of Medicine, Nursing, Dentistry, Law, Engineering and Wharton.

The speakers will discuss multi-disciplinary approaches to global health problems, collaborative partnerships in global health and multi-disciplinary opportunities in global health.

Global Health Career Day offers students, faculty and all those interested in international health real-life ways to apply their interests and to tackle problems.

The program was created in a cooperative effort by the School of Medicine students and administration to showcase how to develop careers that incorporate global health initiatives.

Nancy Biller, Administrative Director of the Medical school's Global Health Programs encourages students of all academic departments to attend the event, stressing that people from "all kinds of disciplines can make contributions."

Last year, which was the first time the event was held, Global Health Programs estimated that slightly more than half of those who attended the event came from Penn, while the other half came from other institutions, most in the Delaware Valley area.

Lunch will be provided at 12:30 p.m. for those who attend, and during that time speakers will be interspersed at tables to answer any questions attendees might have.

The event is free, however, online registration is required. Those interested may register at http://www.med.upenn.edu/globalhealth/ghcd2008.shtml.

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