Health and Pharmaceuticals (UNI330H1S)

University of Toronto

Dr. Nancy Olivieri

Wednesday 12:00 to 3:00 pm (ROOM: UC 52)

health.pharma@utoronto.ca

 

TDIThe Tommy Douglas Distinguished Speaker Series

Every Wednesday evening from 7-9 PM, you will have the unique opportunity to attend the Tommy Douglas DIstinguished Speaker Series (TDDSS) where you will be presented with the chance to hear many distinguished speakers present their talks outside of the classroom setting. Attendance is optional, but you are all strongly encouraged to take advantage of this opportunity. The TDDSS will launch a grass-roots campaign in the Health Studies Program at University College, University of Toronto that will honour the ideas of the "Greatest Canadian", Tommy Douglas, and commemorate the introduction of universal, publicly-funded health care in 1962 in Saskatchewan. Rooted in social justice and human rights, your support will ensure that the Health Studies Program will continue to provide a multidisciplinary foundation of social and health sciences, research and critical political science to inform and train the next generation of engaged citizens committed to preserving and extending public health care, ending inequalities in Canada that produce ill-health and defending the universal human right to well-being.

FINAL PAPER EXTENSION: The due date for the Final Paper has been moved to Monday, March 30, 2009. Please hand your paper in to Room A102, University College

Health and Pharmaceuticals (UNI330H1S)

The goal of this course is to provide undergraduate students with lectures, course material, required readings, and audio-visual aids to assist them in understanding the relationships between the pharmaceutical industry and physicians, academic institutions, scientists, granting agencies, journals, media, patient groups, regulators and the public, and the roles of health professionals and the pharmaceutical industry in the evaluation, marketing, licensing and promotion of prescription drugs. 

The course runs from noon to 3 pm on Wednesdays on the downtown University of Toronto campus at University College, Room 52 (UC52).

It is hoped that students in this course will attend a public lecture every Wednesday evening, 7- 9 pm from January 21 to April 1, 2009 inclusive (with an additional public lecture by activist Ralph Nader at Convocation Hall on Friday, January 30, 2009) within The Tommy Douglas Distinguished Speaker Series to be launched at University College, University of Toronto, in January 2009.  This Series will launch a grass-roots campaign within the Health Studies Program at University College, University of Toronto, to promote a Program rooted in social justice and human rights, which will honour the ideals of Tommy Douglas.  Many speakers in this Series will be guest-lecturing in UNI330H1 the same day as the evening’s public lecture.  The Tommy Douglas Distinguished Speaker Series public lectures will allow the students to experience the guest lecturer in a new venue and in a new format.  Students will have an opportunity to earn ½% of a mark for this course each time they attend The Tommy Douglas Distinguished Speaker Series (not including the lecture by Ralph Nader, January 30, 2009 or by Dr. James Orbinski, April 1, 2009) to a maximum of 4 marks.

 

 

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