The Global Struggle against AIDS: The U.S. Role & Prospects for Sustainability

Speaker: 
Mead Over
 
03 Dec 2013
 
8:00 PM
 
Sun Room, Memorial Union

Mead Over is a former World Bank economist whose work focuses on the economic impact of the AIDS epidemic and efficient, effective, and cost-effective health interventions in developing countries. He co-authored the World Bank's first comprehensive treatment of the economics of AIDS in the book Confronting AIDS: Public Priorities for a Global Epidemic. His most recent book, Achieving an AIDS Transition, focuses on prevention efforts. Mead Over has taught economics at Williams College and Boston University and is currently at senior fellow at the Center for Global Development. World AIDS Awareness Week Event and part of the World Affairs Series


Mead Over earned a PhD in economics from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and served in the Peace Corps' first program in Burkina Faso.