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DESCRIPTION:As co-convener of the People’s Health Movement-USA, the Hesperian 
 Foundation is proud to announce:  Indian health activists speak in Berkeley 
 on globalization and health  Dr. Balaji Sampath and Ms. Kalpana Karunakaran 
 are currently touring the U.S. to speak on issues of health and 
 globalization. Sponsored by the People’s Health Movement-USA and the 
 Association for India’s Development, they will speak in Berkeley at the 
 North Berkeley Senior Center (1901 Hearst Ave. @ Martin Luther King Jr. 
 Way, Berkeley) on May 20, 2004 at 7 p.m.  Dynamic and motivating speakers, 
 Balaji’s presentation will be of interest to everyone concerned with 
 issues of public health, science and education in a globalizing world; 
 Kalpana will focus on how poverty and gender discrimination affect 
 women’s health.     Balaji Sampath and Kalpana Karunakaran are both 
 involved in the Tamil Nadu Science Forum. Balaji has worked on several 
 large campaigns to improve health, literacy, and the quality of education 
 in Indian schools. Kalpana has helped establish rural women’s 
 self-help-groups and trained rural women coordinators to run the associated 
 savings and credit programs. Both were involved in organizing the Arogiya 
 Iyakkam (Health Movement), a visionary, multi-pronged rural intervention 
 and development program judged by the UN in 2001 to be one of the top ten 
 most effective in the world. It now reaches over 1000 villages in 10 
 districts in Tamil Nadu.   Balaji and Kalpana were active as well in 
 organizing the People’s Health Movement-India. As State Coordinator, 
 Kalpana helped bring the campaign to 30,000 villages across India. Balaji 
 developed training and publicity materials, and planned program and 
 logistics for the 2,000+ delegates who attended the People’s Health 
 Assembly in Calcutta, precursor to the historic founding meeting of the 
 People’s Health Movement in Bangladesh in December 2000.   Balaji earned 
 his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in 1997 and is quite familiar 
 with issues of health and education in the United States. While the U.S. 
 may be exporting jobs to India, Balaji and Kalpana will argue against the 
 folly of trying to export our crumbling, increasingly expensive health 
 system as well.   \n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/05/10/38473.php
SUMMARY:Indian health activists speak on globalization
LOCATION:North Berkeley Senior Center  1901 Hearst Ave.   @ Martin Luther King Jr. 
 Way  Berkeley
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/05/10/38473.php
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