Monday, April 16, 2007

IPJ Speaker Series Presents

“Tackling Africa’s Health Care Crisis:
Toward Solutions in Post-Conflict Settings”

7:00 p.m.

Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice

Ted Alemayhu is the founder and president of U.S. Doctors for Africa (USDFA), a California-based non-profit organization dedicated to mobilizing volunteer doctors, nurses, medical students, and other health care professionals in order to fulfill the overwhelming medical staffing needs throughout the African continent. USDFA addresses urgent local needs while working for the long-term creation of self-sustaining and self-directed public health systems. The organization works in partnership with governments, nongovernmental organizations, and local medical institutions across the African continent.

Ethiopian-born, Ted Alemayhu emigrated to the United States at the age of 13 after being sponsored by an American family, and was educated in Santa Barbara, California. He envisions a future for Africa in which it produces and invests the economic wealth, intellectual capital and human resources required to provide medical care to its entire people.

Alemayhu was introduced by Dr. Anita Hunter, Director of the Master’s Entry and Clinical Master’s Programs in the Hahn School of Nursing and Health Science at the University of San Diego.

Alemayhu’s visit to San Diego is co-sponsored by:

Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice
U.S. Doctors for Africa
Hahn School of Nursing and Health Science

This event is free and open to the public.