WISER

Johnson & Johnson will host their 2nd Annual WISER Gala Event on August 5, 2008 at the India Community Center in San Francisco, California. Co-Founder Dr. Sherryl Broverman will deliver remarks and host a silent auction to benefit WISER.  All are invited to attend. 

Location: 525 Los Coches St. Milpitas, California from 6:00pm - 10:00pm    

For ticket details contact hka2@Duke.edu.

This event is sponsored by Johnson & Johnson and is a fundraiser held on behalf of WISER.

Emily Matthews, current co-president of the WISER Duke Student Group, presented at the MIT Global Poverty Initiative Millennium Campus Conference on April 18-20 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The conference focused on student efforts to alleviate poverty and hosted other speakers such as Senator John Edwards, Administrator Henrietta Fore and Dr. Paul Farmer. Emily represented WISER in a panel discussion titled “Stories from the Field: Student Action in Alleviating Poverty.” She also presented at a poster session and led a workshop on “Starting Projects for Global Change.”

The Duke Global Health Institute co-sponsored with the Duke University School of Nursing the 1st Annual Lecture on Global Health by Paul Farmer, MD, PhD.

Dr. Paul Farmer, a Duke alumnus, co-founder of Partners in Health, and member of the WISER advisory board spoke on Monday, April 21st to the community in Page Auditorium.  

As a demonstration of its continued dedication to Kenya in the face of recent conflict, WISER led fundraising efforts to support those suffering from political violence in the country. WISER at Duke members sold water bottles reading “Duke loves Kenya” to raise money for the Makina Clinic in Nairobi.