February 2023 Page 6 CDU Newsletter
Rwandan Diplomat Visits CDU Campus
A delegation from the Central African county of Rwanda , including Professor Mathilde Mukantabana , Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Rwanda to the United States of America , visited the CDU Campus in February .
They met with representatives from the University , including President David M . Carlisle , Senior Special Assistant Sylvia Drew Ivie , and COM Dean Deborah Prothrow-Stith . The ambassador from the Republic of Rwanda shared the challenges her nation faced following a destructive civil war and a horrific period of genocide . She highlighted how the people came together following that dark moment in their history , putting aside long entrenched differences to unite around a common cause of improving life in Rwanda .
The meeting concluded with a pledge to keep a dialog open about potential collaborations or programs between CDU and Rwanda .
Library Partners With NLM for Traveling Exhibit
The CDU Health Sciences history ,” said Darlene Parker Library and Academic Services Kelly , Director of Library / collaborated to present “ Outside / Learning Resource Center . “ This Inside : Immigration , Migration , is a fantastic exhibit about and Health Care in the United immigration and how the things States ,” a National Library of that people are fighting for now Medicine ( NLM ) Traveling Exhibit . were once accepted in the 1800s .” The exhibit , which ran from
The history portrayed in the January 23 through February images demonstrated how health 17 , depicted many of the care and medicine have played a challenges that immigrants and role in inclusion and exclusion , in migrants have faced in obtaining assimilation and discrimination , health care , along with the in dividing communities and improvements that have been strengthening them . made over the past 130 years .
As a part of the exhibit there was a The exhibit highlighted the panel discussion on immigration medical inspection of immigrants , and migrant health care in the the public health campaigns that
United States . The panel was targeted immigrants based on facilitated by Sylvia Drew Ivie , their national origin rather than
Senior Special Assistant to the scientific assessment of risk , the
President for Community Affairs . invention of immigrant health
Panelists included Dr . Hafifa services , the actions immigrants
Siddiq , Assistant Professor , SON , and migrants took on behalf of
Sana Abbasi , BMS graduate , their own health and rights , and and Brandon Rodas , RadTech more . student .
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