Richard Skolnik
LWVLA News:
The League of Women Voters’ monthly Lunch with a Leader event for the community is 11:45 a.m., March 19 at Mesa Public Library.
Featured speaker Richard Skolnik, who moved to Los Alamos a few years ago, will present “Fifty Countries Later – A Global Perspective on Healthcare in the US”.
During his presentation, Skolnik will address the fact that although the United States spends 50 percent more of its national income on health than any other country, its citizens are not living longer or healthier.
Skolnik has given scores of guest lectures and in 2011was the commencement speaker for the College of Health and Human Services at The George Mason University. He was a lecturer in the Department of Global Health at the George Washington University (GWU), and an Undergraduate Public Health Teacher of the Year at The George Washington University.
He was asked in 2009 to deliver a lecture in the GWU “Last Lecture” series. He also served as the Director of the Center for Global Health at George Washington.
Skolnik taught an introductory global health course twice a year to undergraduate students at Yale and also developed for Yale a massive open online course, Essentials of Global Health, which is on Coursera.
Skolnik has worked on health issues all over the world. He worked for more than 40 years in education, health, and development and is one of the world’s most experienced teachers of global health. He worked at the World Bank from 1976 to 2001as Director for Health and Education for the South Asia region with a focus on health systems development, family planning and reproductive health, child health, the control of communicable diseases, and nutrition in low-income countries.
Skolnik led two evaluations of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative. He also worked with the Results for Development Institute on the long run financing of HIV program in Cambodia, India and Nigeria.
In addition, Skolnik has served on the faculty for the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, the development of a women’s health program at Harvard University, and the Global Health Leadership Institute at Yale University. He recently served on the editorial advisory committee for Disease Priorities in Developing Countries, third edition.
Skolnik received his BA degree from Yale University and a Master of Public affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University.
To purchase a $10 lunch from the Co+op, contact Karyl Ann Armbruster at 505.231.8286 or kaskacayman@gmail.com for the extensive menu choices.
