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Women's Health and the World's Cities

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January 17, 2012, Volume 58, No. 17

On January 24, Penn Press and the School of Nursing will present an Urban Book Talk: Women’s Health and the World’s Cities at 5:30 p.m. in the Ben Franklin Room at Houston Hall. The volume editors and contributors of Women’s Health and the World’s Cities (Penn Press, 2011) will discuss key issues presented in the book and their impact on research agendas. From the interdisciplinary perspective of urban planners, scholars, health practitioners, and activists, this collection of essays examines the impact of urban living on the physical and psychological states of women and girls in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the United States.

Speakers include Afaf I. Meleis, Dean of the School of Nursing; Jeane Ann Grisso, Professor of Public Health, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Perelman School of Medicine; Kat Rosqueta, Founding Executive Director of the Center for High Impact Philanthropy at University of Pennsylvania; Lynn Sommers, Director, Penn’s School of Nursing Center for Global Women’s Health; Eugenie Birch, Co-Director, Penn Institute for Urban Resarch; and Susan Wachter, Co-Director, Penn Institute for Urban Research.

RSVP to penniur@pobox.upenn.edu by January 20. The event includes a book signing.

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Almanac - January 17, 2012, Volume 58, No. 17