ENGAGING NORTH KOREA ON TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL: Thursday, Feb. 24th

The Korea Economic Institute's Academic Paper Series presents:

Engaging North Korea on Mutual Interests in Tuberculosis Control

with:

Dr. Sharon Perry
DPRK Tuberculosis Project
Stanford School of Medicine

Thursday, February 24, 2011
12:00 – 1:30 p.m.
KEI Conference Room
1800 K Street NW Suite 1010

Since the DPRK famines of the 1990s, rates of tuberculosis (TB), a disease that exploits malnutrition and other conditions that compromise natural immunity, have risen dramatically in North Korea and are now among the highest in the world outside of sub-Saharan Africa. Launched in 2008, a unique collaboration of US-based voluntary interests, including a major medical institution, a humanitarian NGO, and a non-profit sponsor, began working with the civilian DPRK Ministry of Public Health to fight TB, and especially drug-resistant TB, inside North Korea. Since then, the DPRK Tuberculosis Project has achieved critical public health objectives during a period otherwise marked by a profound deterioration of relations between the United States and North Korea.

Join KEI on February 24th for a luncheon event, as Dr. Sharon Perry presents the paper she co-authored with three others on the DPRK TB Project and its implications for the future of North Korea and global health security interests.

A light luncheon will be served and an open audience discussion will follow the presentation.


RSVPs are required for this event.


Please register here:
http://www.keia.org/rsvp.php?event=APS+Engaging+with+DPRK+on+TB



"Engaging North Korea on Mutual Interests
in Tuberculosis Control"
is co-authored by:

* Sharon Perry, DPRK Tuberculosis Project
* Heidi Linton, Christian Friends of Korea
* Louise Gresham, Nuclear Threat Initiative
* Gary Schoolnik, Stanford School of Medicine

This paper is the forty-first in KEI's Academic Paper series, which began in December 2006. In its Academic Paper series, KEI commissions and publishes 10 papers per year on original subjects of current interest to Korea watchers, which KEI distributes to over 3,000 government officials, think tank experts, and scholars around the United States and the world. A public discussion at KEI with the author generally follows publication. Volume 4 of On Korea, which is a compilation of the 2010 paper series, will be released in February 2011.