REMINDER — Founder’s Day with Dr. Gary Slutkin
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Founder’s Day — Sunday, Dec. 10, 3:55 pm PT — Featuring Dr. Gary Slutkin
I am pleased to offer my premium members the opportunity to meet Dr. Gary Slutkin, who some of you know through Lucid but may not know his incredible work in the field of treating violence as a contagious disease. Dr. Slutkin is a World Health Organization (WHO) physician and epidemiologist who led efforts to combat epidemics in over 25 countries in east and central Africa, Latin America, and Asia. He was assigned to the epidemics of AIDS in Uganda, Rwanda, Zaire — now Congo — and other countries. At the WHO, he founded the Intervention Development Unit and Dr. Slutkin also adapted epidemic control methods to violence - founding and leading Cure Violence Global, rated as the #9 NGO in the world, and rated the #1 NGO for reducing violence in the world. He will explain his research on violence as a contagion, and here is a link to a Ted Talk that clearly lays out his findings, which proved to be very prescient.
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