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March 5

Brown Bag Seminar: Beyond the buzzwords: Why implementing people-centered care is essential to achieving universal health coverage

David Duong.
Location
Building 1, Room 1208
665 Huntington Ave.
Boston, Massachussetts 02115

Event Time

1:00 pm 2:00 pm

David Duong, MD, MPH, is the director of the Program in Global Primary Health Care at Harvard Medical School and in the Division of Global Health Equity at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital.  His research and teaching covers primary healthcare systems strengthening, education program development, and policy and advocacy across Southeast Asia and in the United States. He is also co-lead of the Lancet Global Health Commission on People-Centered Care for Universal Health Coverage.  Duong is a primary care physician, a member of the World Health Organization’s Technical Advisory Group on Integrated Clinical Care, and previously served on the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Health and Healthcare. He is also a former US Fulbright Scholar. Duong earned both his bachelor’s degree and master’s in public health degree from the University of Michigan and earned his medical doctor degree from Harvard Medical School. He completed his internal medicine residency at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. 

Speaker Information

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