Today the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Medicine is poised to officially open its innovative new Centre for Global Public Health, housed in the Department of Community Health Sciences and established in collaboration with the Department of Medical Microbiology.

Accompanying the opening will be an  announcement by University of Manitoba President and Vice-Chancellor David Barnard on a multi-year, multi-million dollar award by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to the Centre for Global Public Health for groundbreaking health research in a developing country.

Official Opening of Centre for Global Public Health
& Multi-Million Dollar Funding Announcement
Monday, December 7, 2009
2:00 p.m.
Brodie Centre Atrium
727 McDermot Ave.
University of Manitoba Bannatyne Campus

For more information contact Ilana Simon, Director of Communications & Marketing, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, (204) 789-3427 or cell (204) 295-6777 or simoni@cc.umanitoba.ca.

Founded in 1883 as Western Canada’s first medical school, the University of Manitoba Faculty of Medicine has graduated more than 9,000 physicians who have become influential medical leaders, world renowned health researchers and dedicated doctors. As Manitoba’s only medical school, the U of M Faculty of Medicine has educated and trained the majority of our province’s physicians.