This week's Health Policy Dialogue is, "The Role of the Academic Medical Center in Attaining the United Nations' 2010 Sustainable Development Agenda." Please join us in welcoming Marcelo Korc, PhD, MPH; Advisor, Pan American Health Organization for Sustainable Development and Health Security, for a UTMB Health Policy Dialogue and Lunch, Wednesday, October 5, at noon. The free lecture is open to all UTMB students, faculty and staff, as well as those interested members of the public. The discussion begins at noon in the Levin Hall Dining Room on the UTMB campus. Lunch will be served beginning at 11:30 a.m.

For those unable to attend the lecture in person the Health Policy Lecture is available to remote Polycom equipped locations and via the web using a PC and speakers. To join via a Polycom system please video dial 4092016. To join conference via a PC/Speakers use the URL that is most suitable with the PC: For High Definition PC users - http://129.109.197.58/VEMSWeb/Widgets/EmbedPlayerControllerWidget.html?ver=6.3.7.6&autoplay=true&contentID=6. For Apple QuickTime PC users - http://stream.utmb.edu/stream.sdp. The broadcast will not be interactive. For additional information or to RSVP please contact Becky Trout, at rltrout@utmb.edu or (409) 747-2734.

Marcelo Korc, PhD, MPH; Advisor for Sustainable Development and Human Security, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)

Dr. Korc has been a regional advisor with the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) since 1998. Currently, he has the responsibility of developing the regional cooperation program on health and human security for the Region of the Americas. Prior, Dr. Korc provided policy and technical advice to senior government officials on environmental health, social health determinants, violence prevention, human security and healthy settings in the U.S.-Mexico border region, Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela. Dr. Korc received a B.Sc. in chemical engineering (cum laude) from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in 1987, a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Rochester in New York in 1992, and a master’s in public health from the University of Texas in 2011. He was an American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow in 1994 and received the Sandy Tyler Endowed Fellowship‏ in Health Sciences in 2011.