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McGaw Global Health Clinical Scholars Program: Lecture Series

March 4, 2015 @ 6:30 PM

Prentice 3rd floor conference room: L-North

"Global Issues in Reproductive Health" - John Sciarra, MD, PhD

Food will be provided

Sponsored by:Institute for Public Health and Medicine - Center for Global Health
Global Health Initiative

John J. Sciarra, MD, PhD, served as Professor and CHair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of Northwestern University Medical School and Northwestern Memorial Hospital from 1974-2003. He is presently Professor and Chairman Emeritus of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Northwestern. Among his numerous accomplishments, he initiated the Program for Applied Research on Fertility Regulation (PARFR) whose primary objective was to develop contraceptives that would enhance family planning programs in low-resource settings. This program moved to Northwestern in 1975 and was responsible for much of the fundamental research leading to family planning methods that are used today around the world. Internationally, Dr. Sciarra served as a Member and Chair of the Scientific and Ethical Review Group of the WHO's Special Program for Research in Human Reproduction and was the founding Editor of the Global Library of Women's Medicine that was launched in November 2008, and now has readers from over 170 countries.