Global Challenges 2015

Interdisciplinary Answers on Health and Poverty

Q. “UW Freshmen in Honors 100, What keeps you up at night?”

A. “Lots of issues. Especially this: Healthcare access is limited by poverty, here and around the world.”

Global Challenges 2015 Article

Driven by student interest, the University Honors Program presents Global Challenges—Interdisciplinary Answers: where we explore big questions not just as intellectuals, but as potential agents of positive change.

Our first event centers on the complex interrelations between health and poverty. The format is dynamic: bring together passionate thought leaders from disparate disciplines and lead them in a fast-paced, no-gloves conversation addressing audience-generated questions.

GLOBAL CHALLENGES—
INTERDISCIPLINARY ANSWERS ON HEALTH AND POVERTY

Tuesday, Nov. 3, 6:00-7:30 p.m.
HUB South Ballroom

You are invited to bring your own passion and perspective to the discussion. See how interdisciplinary collaboration generates solutions to complex issues. All are welcome!

Featured Speakers

Our speakers are leading-edge educators and researchers whose work has broad public impact at the intersections of health and poverty:

LaShawnDa Pittman

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, AMERICAN ETHNIC STUDIES
URBAN POVERTY ETHNOGRAPHER

Steve Gloyd

PROFESSOR, GLOBAL HEALTH
HEALTHCARE EQUITY ADVOCATE

Chandan Reddy

UW Honors Associate Director Julie Villegas with Chandan Reddy and Steve Gloyd

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, GENDER, WOMEN AND SEXUALITY STUDIES AND ENGLISH
MIGRATION SPECIALIST

Vicky Lawson (moderator)

HONORS PROGRAM DIRECTOR, RELATIONAL POVERTY NETWORK CO-FOUNDER, AND PROFESSOR OF GEOGRAPHY

Want to learn more?

Here are a few suggested reading items from our speakers:

“The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that’s wrong with the world.”

– Dr. Paul Farmer

Creating a Caring Society
Evelyn Nakano Glenn
Contemporary Sociology
Vol. 29, No. 1, Utopian Visions: Engaged Sociologies for the 21st Century (Jan 2000) pp. 84-94
Published by: American Sociological Association
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2654934

To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation
Paul Farmer
California Series in Public Anthropology
(May 2013)
Published by: University of California Press
Available in print and digital formats

Continuing the Conversation

Wondering how to continue the conversation and keep involved in the challenge? Check out the classes offered by Honors! Course details are available at https://honors.uw.edu/courses/current.