Community Health in Mozambique Talk

Hesperian Health Guides invites you to a special presentation by Dr. Julie Cliff, world-renowned expert on community health work in Mozambique. Dr. Cliff has lived and worked in Mozambique for over 40 years, leading the epidemiology department at the Ministry of Health and the infectious diseases unit at Maputo Central Hospital, Mozambique's primary teaching hospital. Dr. Cliff has also taught community health at Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo, is an Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington in Seattle, and an Associate of the Burnet Institute in Melbourne.

Dr. Cliff will discuss the future of Mozambique's community health worker program, and what steps are needed to ensure its survival; her role in recognizing, responding to, and eliminating Konzo, the "Orphan Disease"; and more.

For further reading on the Konzo epidemic in Mozambique, and its connection to cassava, see "Bitter Harvest: Cassava and Konzo, the Crippling Disease", in Global Health NOW's "Untold Global Health Stories" series, 2017.

This is a free event, but space is limited. Please RSVP  here. Refreshments will be provided.

Contact: Rachel Grinstein (rachel@hesperian.org)