The Center for Global Peace Through Commerce at Dominican University will host a lecture by Dr. Evan Lyon, clinical director of the Partners in Health Right to Health Care program, which brings patients to medical services that are unavailable in poor countries. The lecture will be held Thursday, February 23 from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. in the Bluhm Auditorium, Room 108, Parmer Hall on Dominican’s Main Campus, 7900 Division Street, River Forest.
Dr. Lyon’s work as a physician and activist focuses on the right to health – providing comprehensive care in poor communities, assisting community-based HIV and TB care, and managing chronic illness using community health workers. He has worked in Haiti since 1996.
His research, advocacy work, and teaching have focused on economic, social, and political inequality, the health consequences of war and political violence, including the Iraq war, the right to health, and popular, community-based responses to global health problems. He has worked extensively on prisoner health and legal rights in Alabama and in Haiti.
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Dr. Lyon received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School in 2003 and completed residency training in Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 2007. He is currently an assistant professor at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and a hospitalist in the Section of Hospital Medicine at the University of Chicago Medical Center.
He is an editor for Health and Human Rights: an International Journal and is on the national steering committee for the People’s Health Movement in the U.S. He has worked with Partners in Health (PIH) since 1997, primarily on expanding clinical capacity in rural Haiti. Following the devastating earthquake of January 12, 2010, he helped manage disaster relief efforts through PIH at the public General Hospital in Port-au-Prince.
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Dominican will send students to Haiti as part of a service learning alternative spring break trip this March. This lecture is made possible in part through the generous support of Karen Lechowich '81 and the Dr. Scholl Foundation.
The Center for Global Peace through Commerce at Dominican University strives to create globally-conscious leaders whose work can promote peace through relevant business solutions. It was established in 2008 with a generous grant from the Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust.
