Evening Seminar
Thursday 21st February 2008, 6.00 pm
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An evening exploring the importance of biological diversity to our health, our
livelihoods and our well-being.
Aaron Bernstein, M.D., is a Research Associate at the Center for Health and the Global
Environment at Harvard Medical School, and Resident, Boston Combined Residency in
Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School/Boston Children’s Hospital. Dr. Bernstein is co-editor of
the forthcoming book Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity, to be
published by Oxford University Press. This book explores the ways in which our health depends
on nature, from the medicines we take, to the control of infectious disease agents, to the reliance
of biomedical science on model organisms.
Chris Shaw, PhD., is Professor in Drug Discovery within the School of Pharmacy at Queen’s
University, Belfast. Prof. Shaw's exciting work involves the discovery and characterisation of
biologically active agents within nature, most notably from amphibian venoms that are
harvested worldwide.
Conor Kretsch is founder and director of the global initiative for Co-operation on Health and
Biodiversity (the COHAB Initiative) an international programme of work addressing the gaps in awareness, policy and action on the
links between biodiversity and human health and well-being.
Click here or on the image above to download a registration form.
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