Talk Thursday at UNM explores role of S&T in transforming global health

Dahl leads Gates Foundation's global health program

October 6, 2010—The Lab's Community Programs Office invites employees and the public to a talk about the importance of science and technology to transforming global health on Thursday afternoon (October 7). Dr. Carol Dahl, director of the Global Health Program at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, is speaking at 12:30 p.m. at Auditorium 1220 at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.

Dahl will make brief remarks about the Gates Foundation then talk about the challenges faced in the global health arena and how science and technology can play a role.

Prior to joining the Gates Foundation in 2003, Dahl served as vice president for strategic partnerships at Biospect Inc. (now Pathworks Diagnostics). From 1990 to 2001, Dahl worked at the National Institutes of Health in several capacities, including founding director of the Office of Technology and Industrial Relations at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and program director at the National Center for Human Genome Research.

Dahl received a bachelor's degree from the University of Iowa and master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received postdoctoral training at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and the Immunobiology Research Center at the University of Minnesota and served on the faculty of the Pittsburgh Cancer Institute and University of Pittsburgh.

The talk is sponsored by the Department of Internal Medicine at the UNM School of Medicine.