The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is hosting its annual meeting and symposia titled "Flattening the World: Building the 21st Century Global Knowledge Society" in Vancouver Feb. 16-20, 2012. The deadline to submit symposium proposals is April 26, 2011.

AAAS is an international non-profit organization dedicated to advancing science around the world by serving as an educator, leader, spokesperson and professional association.

The course schedule is 8 weekly seminars on Thursdays from 1:00 – 3:00pm, February 16 – April 12, 2012 (no class February 23). It is a non-credit version of SPPH 513 (Clinical Epidemiology) and is open to anyone in the Faculty of Medicine, with priority given to third year residents.

Location: Room 3336-1, 3rd floor Jim Pattison North, VGH
Instructor: Ralph Brands

Global health: prospects and challenges beyond the Millennium Development Goals.
This presentation will use results from a series of analyses related to the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study to highlight global and regional transitions in major global health risk factors and consider the consequences for the health of populations worldwide

Majid Ezzati, Chair in Global Environmental Health, Imperial College London
Majid Ezzati is the Chair in Global Environmental Health at Imperial College London. Dr. Ezzati's research interests are centred around understanding the determinants of, and risk factors for, health and disease at the population level, especially as they change through technological innovation and technology management. His research focuses on the exposure to and health effects of environmental, behavioural, nutritional, and metabolic risk factors and their interventions. His research group has conducted field research in Kenya, Ghana, and The Gambia. He led the World Health Organization’s collaborative project on risk factors (titled “the Comparative Risk Assessment Project”) which appeared in the World Health Report 2002: Reducing Risks, Promoting Healthy Life and is currently leading the Comparative Risk Assessment component of the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors 2005 Study and the Global Burden of Metabolic Risk Factors for Chronic Diseases.