Public Health Education - Link to Social Justice, Dr. Mikhail Volik

On Thursday, December 24, Dr. Mikhail Volik will give a talk on the link between public health education and social justice. As an alumnus of the Humphrey Fellowship Program, he is uniquely qualified to speak about this issue with a global perspective. Dr. Volik is Interim Regional Director in the Russian Federation of the Dutch nongovernmental, humanitarian public health organization AIDS Foundation East-West (AFEW). In 1999, he graduated with honors from Samara State Medical University and pursued a postgraduate specialization in infectious diseases (with a concentration on viral hepatitis). In 2001–2002, he was a part of a team working on HIV safety in a blood-banking program in Samara, Russia. Thereafter, until 2008, he served as peer education coordinator at Population Services International (PSI/Russia). Dr. Volik also pursued a Public Health Fellowship on AIDS Policy and Prevention at Emory University in Atlanta, GA (the Humphrey Fellowship Program) in 2007–2008. And in January 2008, he was named a NIDA International Fellow. At present he works for the Steering Group representative of the Health in Prison Project (HIPP), the World Health Organization. (Please note this presentation will be in Russian.)