Wednesday, December 5, 2012 4:00 PM EST
The GSA would like to welcome Dr. John Mielke to our last Pub Lecture Series talk this term. It will be taking place at the Grad House, Wednesday December 5th at 4pm. Details below:
“As the branch is bent, so shall a tree grow . . . what can we do to ensure a healthy forest?”
John G. Mielke, PhD, CBiol
School of Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo
For more than a century, great strides have been made in extending not only the length of our lifespan, but also the period of time spent free of significant illness. However, our capacity to compress morbidity has begun to weaken, and the nature of illness has begun to change; whereas
infectious diseases were once a dominant cause of death, they have been supplanted by chronic diseases. The broad change in the pattern of human disease provokes the question: why? Whilst significant attention has been directed at finding the answer by examining adult disease, and
has indeed yielded significant results influencing health promotion and disease prevention, the lecture will hope to persuade that part of the answer requires extending our examination to include the earliest parts of the human lifespan.
Please join us for a beverage and our last informal lecture at the Graduate House this term! Our speaker line up for the Winter term will be announced in the January eNews. Details to come!
