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Berkeley Postdoctoral Association: Career Pathways Seminar - May 14, 2015

By Toast of Berkeley & VSPA

Date and time

Thursday, May 14, 2015 · 6:30 - 8pm PDT

Location

The Career Center, Gold Room

2440 Bancroft Way Berkeley, CA 94710

Description

Are you interested in hearing about inspiring career perspectives?

The Berkeley Postdoctoral Association is pleased to invite you to our Career Pathways seminar series designed to expose you to unique career paths and to connect you with people who are working in exciting fields outside of academia.

Come join us for a lively discussion on careers options in international development and global health.

We have an inspiring talk from Dr. Ruth Levine from the Hewlett Foundation and Dr. Daniel Zoughbie of Microclinic International (MCI), on career perspectives for you.

DATE: Thursday, May 14th, 2015
TIME: 6:30-8:00 pm.
LOCATION: Career Center, UC Berkeley
2440 Bancroft Ave (opposite Zellerbach Hall), in the Gold Room

Light snacks will be served.

REGISTRATION: This series is open to all Postdocs, Graduate Students, and Visiting Scholars.

Our SPEAKERS:

Dr. Ruth Levine is a development economist and expert in international development, global health, and education, serves as the director of the Hewlett Foundation’s Global Development and Population Program.

Before joining the Foundation, Ms. Levine was a deputy assistant administrator in the Bureau of Policy, Planning and Learning at the U.S. Agency for International Development. In that role, she led the development of the Agency’s evaluation policy.Previously, Ms. Levine spent nearly a decade at the Center for Global Development, an international policy research institute in Washington, D.C. There, she served as a Senior Fellow and vice president for programs and operations. Ms. Levine is the author of scores of books and professional publications, including a recent pair of influential reports from the Center for Global Development on development and adolescent girls: Girls Count: A Global Investment & Action Agenda and Start with a Girl: A New Agenda for Global Health. She also is co-author of the highly regarded report When Will We Ever Learn? Improving Lives through Impact Evaluation. Ms. Levine holds a B.S. in biochemistry from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in economic demography from The Johns Hopkins University.


Dr. Daniel Zoughbie is the CEO, President, and founder of Microclinic International (MCI), an organization that has pioneered a revolutionary social-network model for the prevention and management of major chronic disease epidemics. Founded in 2005 by Daniel Zoughbie in honor of his grandmother who died of diabetes in Palestine, Microclinic International (“MCI” which was originally incorporated as “Global Micro-Clinic Project”) is a not-for-profit development organization that seeks to revolutionize how deadly diseases are prevented and managed worldwide.

He also serves as the Principal Investigator for the organization, and in this capacity, directs all research activities. Under his leadership, MCI has impacted the lives of over 1,000,000 people through the establishment of microclinic networks, community initiatives, social media prevention campaigns, and large-scale training operations. He was appointed a Research Fellow at Harvard, a Visiting Scholar at Stanford, a Visiting Researcher at Georgetown University, and taught at the University of California, Berkeley. He was named a TED Fellow, a PopTech Fellow, a Rainer Arnhold Fellow, a Haas Scholar, and a Strauss Scholar. Among many honors, he has been awarded the College of Environmental Design Professional Promise Award at UC Berkeley, and a DoSomething Award. Dr. Zoughbie graduated Phi Beta Kappa and with highest honors from the University of California, Berkeley. He studied social anthropology at Oxford on a Marshall Scholarship and completed his doctorate in international relations, also at Oxford, as a Weidenfeld Scholar. Presently, he is a member of the Board of Directors of the San Mateo County Community Colleges Foundation, which serves 40,000 students.

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Co-sponsored by VSPA and Toast of Berkeley

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