Guest
Jennifer Ruger, Associate Professor, Yale School of Public Health

Previous Episodes

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November 4, 2009
Guest: Susan Hyde, Assistant Professor of Political Science
Subject: International election monitoring
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October 28, 2009
Guest: Thad Dunning, Associate Professor of Political Science
Subject: Cross-cutting cleavages and ethnic voting in Mali

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October 21, 2009
Guest: Kamari Clarke, Professor of Anthropology
Subject: International Criminal Court and Legal Pluralism in Africa

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October 14, 2009
 Guest: Robert Harms, Henry J. Heinz Professor of History & African Studies
Subject: Slave traders and colonialism in equatorial Africa

 

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Episode: January 28, 2009

An Associate Professor at the Yale School of Public Health, and co-director of the Yale/World Health Organization Centre for Health Promotion, Policy, and Research, Professor Ruger is working to promote the creation of public health programs that make more efficient use of scarce resources while improving current healthcare practices. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) recently invited her to testify about how the management of global health institutions and governance might be improved. Professor Ruger talks about the IOM report on Global Health.


Learn more about Professor Ruger
View Institute of Medicine’s Report, “The U.S. Commitment to Global Health: Recommendations for the New Administration”