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March 28: A Future for Kenya by Dr. Wangeci Gatei PDF Print E-mail
Written by Gerald L. Rudolph   
Monday, 17 March 2008

Africa Night at West Quad

Featuring Dr. Wangeci Getei

Also

African drumming group

Preach Jacobs, vocalist

light refreshments

Friday, March 28th

Green (West) Quad,

USC Campus

6:30-9pm


Dr. Wangeci Gatei
Benedict College
Saturday, March 29th
10:00 am

Business Development Center
Corner of Two Notch and Reid St.
(Across from the BC Charlie Johnson Stadium)
Ample parking
(front and back of building)
Refreshments will be served.

 

Wangeci Gatei, a graduate of the University of Nairobi, public health researcher at Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), received her Masters degree from University of Prince Edward Island, Canada, and a PhD in Tropical Medicine from the University of Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (UK).

Her research focus has been in communicable diseases including HIV/AIDS. Dr Gatei works with impoverished communities, because she believes that infectious diseases are the real threat to human survival and that they claim more lives than any war or famine in sub-Saharan Africa.

Dr. Gatei believes that a healthy people and access to natural resources are the greatest assets in any economy and are a foundation to national sustainability and peace.

She is currently an Adjunct Assistance Professor at the Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta and an Honorary Fellow at the School of Infection and Host Defence, University of Liverpool, U.K.

Kenya Development Network Consortium (KDNC)

S ince coming to the US as a post doctoral fellow at the Centers for Disease Control, she has been a senior member of the Kenya Development Network Consortium (KDNC) a NGO with headquarters in Boston, MA. The organization’s main objective is to spearhead a member platform for knowledge emergence with an aim developing solutions to alleviate poverty through social, economic and environmental development in Africa. She has chaired several highly successful diaspora forums and workshops in the US.

Lately, KDNC has championed the call for leadership and social justice in Kenya following the political unrests after the last presidential elections in December. This has been done through archiving and dissemination of witness testimonials of atrocities, organizing, and coordinating peace marches in different cities including New York (at the UN headquarters) and Atlanta, as well as petitions to US congressmen to draw attention to the humanitarian crisis in the country. Like many Kenyans and friends of Kenya, at this moment, KDNC is working to nurture and support true leadership for long term peace and stability in the country.

Download pdf Wangeci Gatei Flyer 258.09 Kb for Distribution

 
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