Forum for Global Health and Human Rights presents "Health at the Borderlines," an event discussing the implications for health of geopolitical, social, and physical borders at the US/Arizona and Israel/Palestine borders.
Dr. Hatim Kanaaneh is a graduate of Harvard Medical School and School of Public Health. He worked as the Public Health physician in the Galilee for many years and founded the Galilee Society, the largest Palestinian NGO in Israel, which provides health services to this underserved community within Israel.
Jared Lunkenheimer is a medical student at the University of Rochester and has researched the health status of people entering the United States through Arizona with the group No More Deaths(http://www.nomoredeaths.org/), an organization committed to human rights at the US/Mexico border.
Friday 16 March 2012, 1 PM,
Hammer 301, Columbia University
