Hello Ottawa and visiting friends,

The Hillman (CIHAD) seminar for Monday January 15th, 2007at 12pm  features special guest Firdaus Kharas and a talk entitled 'Using Animation to Induce Behaviour Change'.  Seminars continue this winter January to April at the Health Sciences Campus of University of Ottawa, every Monday at noon.  

Please see http://www.uottawaglobe.ca/globe/en/hillmanseminars 

Firdaus Kharas has been referred to in the media as a "world renowned" director and producer of animation, film and television media.  His current work focuses on creating various types of media to effect societal and individual behavioural change through mass communications spanning across many cultures and countries to better the human condition. 

His work has garnered 60 international awards in just the last 3 years.  Over 300 articles have been written in the international media about his work and graduate students in several universities have studied his efforts to cross cultural boundaries. 
---- from www.kharas.ca , more info is available there.


The Hillman Seminars in International Health and Development carries on the tradition of the CIHAD (Centre for International Health and Development) series, weekly Monday lunch hour sessions with some of the most interesting and experienced researchers, leaders, students and professionals working in this field. 

Always organized and attended by students of the health professions, the series is now part of a course attended by roughly 100 students from the five programs at the Health Sciences campus of University of Ottawa in the Roger Guindon building.  It is organized for and open to the public as well, and we invite you to join us for the winter seminars.  Roger Guindon is adjacent to CHEO and the General Campus of the Ottawa Hospital.  

January 22nd's seminar will be given by Dr. Kevin Pottie, co-director of the Immigrant Health Program at University of Ottawa.  Dr. Pottie will speak about Refugee Health based on the work done by this program in Ottawa. 

For the full schedule, go to http://www.uottawaglobe.ca/globe/en/hilmanseminars 

Thank you,

Arif Jinha - uottawaglobe.ca
Rainer Tan - seminars coordinator, CIHAD.






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