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Global Health Issues and Challenges

October 26, 2005

Ernest Darkoh chairman, BroadReach Healthcare

Nils Daulaire president, CEO, Global Health Council

Brad Spellberg professor, medicine, Harbor UCLA Medical Center

Larry Klein executive producer, RX for Survival, WGBH

Gail Willumsen producer, RX for Survival, WGBH

Jon Beaupre reporter

A panel of internationally renowned medical experts and two producers from the six hour PBS documentary RX for Survival: A Global Health Challenge, discuss global health issues and challenges with award-winning journalist Jon Beaupre.

The discussion follows an advance KCET screening event of RX for Survival: A Global Health Challenge at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Theater in Beverly Hills.

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Topics: Health & Happiness | Media & Technology

Tags: Medical Treatment

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Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (2001)

Binding: Paperback, 112 pages

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