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World Leaders Lecture Forum
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2009-2010 World Leader Lecture Forum
Dr. James Orbinski
President, Doctors Without Borders
"Dignity and Global Health"
April 6, 2010
11:00am
Location TBA
We are pleased to announce that Doctors Without Borders’ President Dr. James Orbinski will be the 2010 World Leaders Lecturer. Dr. Orbinski is a humanitarian advocate who accepted the Nobel peace prize for his organization in 1999.
Doctors without Borders has provided humanitarian aid, protection, and medical assistance for thousands of people during the genocide in Rwanda, the winter crisis in Afghanistan, and the civil wars in Somalia and Zaire. It works for access to essential medicines, global health governance, and humanitarian crisis management.
Please mark April 6th, 2010 on your calendar for the events surrounding Dr. Orbinski’s World Leader Lecture.
The World Leaders Lecture Forum Advisory Cabinet
Paul Ahlstrom, Managing Director, vSpring Capital
Michael T. Benson, President, Southern Utah University
Carol Browning, Community Member
Joseph A. Cannon, Editor, Deseret Morning News
Spencer P. Eccles, Chairman & CEO, Longbow Holding Co., Eccles Management Group
Robert Goldberg, Director, Tanner Humanities Center
Kirk Jowers, Director, Hinckley Institute of Politics
David Peterson
Reba Wilcox
Kim Wirthlin, Vice President of Government Relations, University of Utah