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Bill Goldman – Retired Foreign Service Officer with USAID |
| Friday March 29, 2013 12:30-1:30 p.m. Dampeer Room Kelvin Smith Library Case Western Reserve University Dear Colleagues: It is relatively easy to ignore problems beyond one’s own doorstep. Similarly, governments tend to be preoccupied with challenges within their own countries, unless direct national interests depend on international events. Yet it seems to be a bit more difficult to ignore other peoples’ health challenges, and so international development assistance is an important aspect of health development in many countries. From AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa to insufficient access to vaccinations in Haiti; international governmental and non-governmental organizations work to improve health both for its own sake and as an aid to all other aspects of development. Bill Goldman graduated in mathematics from CWRU in 1967, did this tough and rewarding work as a foreign service officer for 25 years and then continued with private organizations. He will focus on the U.S. Government’s activities through USAID: the scope of assistance, political challenges, impact of public health aid, and its future. All best regards, About Our Guest… Bill Goldman grew up in Michigan and Ohio, and met his wife at and graduated in mathematics from Case Western in 1967. They were Peace Corps Volunteers in Tonga in 1970-71 and spent the year 1972 backpacking around Asia. He studied for an MSC in Demography at the London School of Economics in 1974-75, and then joined the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) as a foreign service officer in 1976. Over the following 25 years Bill worked and lived with his family in the Philippines, Ecuador, Bangladesh, India and Jordan managing international assistance for reproductive health, population, child survival, HIV/AIDS, infectious diseases, and related public health programs. After retirement from the government, he worked in international public health for private companies in the Philippines and Moldova. Bill and his wife moved back to Cleveland in 2011 after 43 years, 30 of them abroad, in order to be near their baby granddaughter. Parking Possibilities We regret that there is no convenient free parking, especially with the current construction on Bellflower. The closest lot is the Severance garage, which can be entered from East Boulevard. One can avoid going outside the garage by using an entry door to the library that is just northeast of the main parking lot entrance from East Boulevard. It leads to an elevator which goes to the library entrance. You can also go up the stairway or elevator labeled “Thwing Center,” from which it is a short walk to the library. Another possibility is the parking lot of the Church of the Covenant on Euclid, which can be entered from the north side of Euclid Ave, opposite Cornell Road. Visitors would walk west on Euclid, past the Thwing Center, and then follow the walkway to the library entrance. Friday Lunch Upcoming Topics and Speakers: April 5: Military Ethics and Dehumanizing the Enemy. With Anthony Jack, Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science, Philosophy, and Psychology and Shannon French, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Inamori Professor of Ethics. April 12: The New Cuyahoga County Government: Perspective from the Council. Julian Rogers, Councillor for District 10 April 19: Mass Murder for the Media: The Breivik Case in Norway. Mark Turner, Institute Professor and Professor of Cognitive Science April 26: Advocacy for Children, Who Don’t Vote. Doug Imig, Professor of Political Science, University of Memphis |
