UBC Life Sciences Centre 2350 Health Sciences Mall Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Hans Rosling
Hans Rosling is professor of International Health at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. As a young MD working in Mozambique, he discovered a
formerly unrecognized paralytic disease induced by hunger and malnutrition. His 20 years of global health research concerned the nature of links between economy and health in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
He has been an adviser to WHO and UNICEF, co-founded Médecins sans Frontières in Sweden, and started new courses and published a textbook
on Global Health. He is a member of the International Group of the Swedish Academy of Science and of the Global Agenda Network of the World
Economic Forum in Switzerland. Rosling co-founded Gapminder Foundation with son and daughter-in-law to promote a fact-based worldview by converting statistics into interactive and enjoyable animations.
His award-winning lectures on global trends have been labeled "humorous, yet deadly serious."
Keynote Speaker: Shauna Sylvester
Shauna Sylvester is the Director of Canada's World - a national citizen's dialogue on Canadian international policy. She was also the co-founder of IMPACS- the Institute for Media, Policy and Civil Society, and has served on dozens of boards and committees at the local, national and international level.
She has also written and edited several publications related to social and environmental issues and has provided policy advice to governments and foundations on subjects as varied as forestry, human rights, media, peace building and AIDS. Finally, Ms. Sylvester was recognized as one of Canada's Top 40 Under 40 in the Globe and Mail.
Schedule of Events
The theme of the conference is "Local Action to Global Impact: Vision, Action, Voice". There will be 4 "streams" of workshops and panels, representing the 4 core values of EWB: Capacity Building, Advocacy, Engineers Serving Global Society, and Connecting to Africa.
Click on the links below to find out more about each session!
Hans Rosling is professor of International Health at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. As a young MD working in Mozambique, he discovered a
formerly unrecognized paralytic disease induced by hunger and malnutrition. His 20 years of global health research concerned the nature of links between economy and health in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Shauna Sylvester is the Director of Canada's World - a national citizen's dialogue on Canadian international policy. She was also the co-founder of IMPACS- the Institute for Media, Policy and Civil Society, and has served on dozens of boards and committees at the local, national and international level.