Leading Authority on International Health to Speak at Smith

Upon graduating from Harvard Medical School in 1976, Nils Daulaire went to work in a rural clinic in Bangladesh. His plan was to return to Vermont to practice primary care, but the appalling health conditions and low status of women and girls he encountered in Bangladesh charted his life's work in another direction.

Today, Daulaire is president and CEO of the Global Health Council and the former senior health advisor of the U.S. Agency for International Development. He has done fieldwork in over 20 countries, including Nepal, Mali, Haiti, Guatemala and Bolivia. He speaks seven languages.
According to Daulaire, "Saving women's lives requires decent health services within reasonable range of people's households[Maintaining women's health] goes to the heart of what we consider to be sustainable development, which is a system that is always there and always working."

Daulaire will be at Smith College Tuesday, March 28, at 8 p.m. in Neilson Library Browsing Room to discuss the connection among health, population and the environment. The event is sponsored by the Population Committee of the Pioneer Valley Sierra Club, the Smith College Project on Women and Social Change and the Office of the Smith College President and a number of other departments across the Five Colleges.

For more information on the event-which is free, open to the public and wheelchair-accessible-call Anita King at (413) 268-9212.

March 9, 2000