MAR-A-12
AN INVITATION TO RETURN TO
GAINESVILLE
FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF
ANTHROPOLOGY
AMD THE KEYNOTE OF THEIR
FIRST-EVER
“GLOBAL HEALTH DAY”
From: Glenn Geelhoed
To: "afburns@anthro.ufl.edu".IA4GW.Harper
Date: 3/12/03 11:52AM
Subject: Re: Speak at international health day for 1st and 2nd year medstudents and more on April 14?
What a wonderful invitation!
As luck would have it, I happen to be in the US at that time just before I have a scramble of domestic trips starting on the 15th ( Long Island Jewish Hospital in New York 4/16‑‑17, Ohio 4/17‑‑18, and the AMAA meting 4/18‑‑20 before the 107th running of the Boston Marathon 4/21 in Boston) so I am very much here and eager to join you! I leave directly after the Boston to go to Malawi with a group of my senior medical students‑‑each veterans of previous trips with me to Asia or Africa‑‑for several weeks of volunteer service in Embangweni, where I had worked last year in a mission station hospital founded a hundred years ago by David Livingstone and his friend Robert Loudon.
I would be delighted to respond affirmatively to your invitation and look forward to the details with respect to air reservations and arrival and departure times which I will try to set up soon to do so as reasonably as possible. It may be possible for me to come in on a Saturday to achieve the additional economy of an over‑Saturday night stay, during which time I might visit my son and my grandson Andrew and granddaughter Kacie
Thank you again for the invitation!
GWG
>>> ALLAN F BURNS <afburns@anthro.ufl.edu> 03/11/03 05:21PM >>>
Hi Glenn,
On behalf of our "Global Health Office" and alliance for international
health, I would like to invite you to Gainesville again in order to talk at
the *first* international health day on April 14th. If you are interested
we will pay your travel and an honorarium. The international day is a
chance for the 40 or 50 students who have gone to Hait, DR, Yucatan, and
Ecuador to get together and inspire future students. We would like you to
speak for about 40 minutes in the afternoon. In addition to the first and
second year classes (including those who haven't gone on a medical
experience trip to another country), there will no doubt be many others who
will come to your talk, including several of our medical anthropology
professors.
Should you be able to come, we would also be more than happy to show you
around during the day and even tuesday morning if you wished so that your
trip would be useful to you as well.
As luck would have it, we are having the director of Physicians for Social
Responsibility, Robert Musil here the week before to talk to students and
faculty. Your appearance the next week would be especially well received.
Please let me know if you might be able to come to Gainesville again.
I enjoyed meeting you then and hope that we have the chance to talk some more.
Allan F. Burns
Professor and Chair
Department of Anthropology
1112 Turlington Hall
P.O. Box 117305
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611‑7305
Tel: 352 392 2253 X 202
FAX: 352 392 6929
www.anthro.ufl.edu