Jan 4, 2010
Lecture: Julio Frenk at National Institutes of Health
Listen to Dr. Julio Frenk deliver the National Institutes of Health 2009 David E. Barmes Lecture on Global Health. Frenk is currently dean of the Harvard School of Public Health, and he previously served as Mexico’s minister of health. Frenk’s address, titled “Globalization and Health: The Role of Knowledge in an Interdependent World,” discusses the changing landscape of global health and disease. Now more than ever, he says, chronic and infectious diseases are affecting Western and developing nations at increasingly similar rates. The days of defining disease as chronic versus communicable are done with. Of course, it’s more poignant than that—you’ll just have to hear Frenk himself.
Watch the lecture online (RealMedia player required). Or (if you’re short on time) read the Harvard Gazette’s recap of his key points and supporting stats.
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