Thursday, May 24, 2018 12pm to 1pm
About this Event
25th Annual Alice Hamilton Lecture
Mineworkers’ Health in South Africa
The Perfect Storm of Dust, Tuberculosis and HIV
SPEAKER:
Rodney Ehrlich, MD
Emeritus Professor
School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town
http://tiny.ucsf.edu/MGR2018stream
EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES:
*To illustrate how an epidemic of occupational lung disease can occur when
you are not looking
*To understand the complex relationship between tuberculosis, and silicosis and HIV infection
BIOGRPAHY:
Emeritus Professor Rodney Ehrlich, MBChB, DOH, FCPHM(SA), PhD, is currently Senior Research Scholar at the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, after a career as Professor jointly in the School of Public Health and Family Medicine and the Department of Medicine at UCT. He is co-Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Industrial Medicine, and has held adjunct appointments at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York and the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. He was a Gruber Fellow in Global Health Justice at Yale University in 2013. He has been engaged with mining related lung disease throughout his career as a clinician, educator and researcher, and has a particular interest in diseases caused by silica dust, including tuberculosis, the epidemiology of these diseases in the South African migrant miner population, and workers’ compensation. He is currently pursuing interdisciplinary collaborations examining the co-immunology of silica and tuberculosis, morbidity and mortality estimation among the ex-miner population and social determinants of occupational lung disease.