Driving Down Infant and Child Mortality: Victories, Dilemmas, and Persistent Disparities

Bullitt History of Medicine Club and UNC Center for Bioethics present a Merrimon Lecture:
Driving Down Infant and Child Mortality: Victories, Dilemmas, and Persistent Disparities

Perri Klass, Professor of Journalism and Pediatrics at New York University, Co-Director of NYU Florence

Perri Klass Perri is the National Medical Director of Reach Out and Read, a national program which promotes early literacy through pediatric primary care, with guidance about reading aloud for parents and children’s books provided at routine well child visits. Her book, The Best Medicine: How Science and Public Health Gave Children a Future, is an account of how victories over infant and child mortality have changed the world. She has received numerous awards for her work as a pediatrician and educator

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