Gun Epidemic Topic for Talk on April 13

A public health expert will talk about "Social Injustice & Public Health and the Global Gun Epidemic" at noon on Thursday, April 13, in the School of Nursing, room N 721. Victor W. Sidel, MD, is the Distinguished University Professor of Social Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, NY, and an adjunct professor of Public Health at Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York City. Sidel has spoken and published widely on the economic, social, environmental and health consequences of the arms race, on the risks posed by the proliferation of nuclear, chemical, biological and small arms and light weapons, and on the problems posed by dysfunctional responses to the threat of terrorism, and the denial of human rights. The presentation is co-sponsored by the UCSF Student Health Professionals for Social Responsibility and the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. Sidel is a past president of the Public Health Association of New York City and of the American Public Health Association (APHA). He was one of the founders in 1961 of Physicians for Social Responsibility and in 1980 of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, the recipient of the 1985 Nobel Prize for Peace, and has been president of both. He is co-editor of War and Public Health (2000), Terrorism and Public Health (2003), and Social Injustice and Public Health (2006), all published by Oxford University Press in cooperation with APHA, and is co-author of The Global Gun Epidemic, published by Praeger in 2006. For questions, contact [email protected]. Source: Lisa Cisneros