Global Health: Why Me? Why You? Mary Lee 陳貽美副校長 Mary Y. Lee, MD, MS, is Associate Provost for Tufts University, Professor of Medicine, and former Dean for Educational Affairs at Tufts University School of Medicine. As Associate Provost, Dr. Lee is responsible for academic programs, particularly cross-disciplinary educational initiatives that span Tufts’ several schools—School of Arts and Sciences, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, School of Dental Medicine, School of Engineering, The Fletcher School (international affairs), Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, School of Medicine which includes the Sackler School of Biomedical Sciences, and Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service. Since the early 1990’s, Dr. Lee has facilitated creative uses of educational technology in health sciences education (see http://tusk.tufts.edu/), and is working with teams involved in Open Educational Resources http://ocw.tufts.edu/TuftsOER that include the Tufts OpenCourseWare (OCW) initiative (see http://ocw.tufts.edu/) and other open source projects. Dr. Lee leads several teams where these open educational resources are a key component of Tufts’ growing global health partnerships with institutions in the United States, Asia, and Africa. Within Tufts, Dr. Lee provides key academic leadership for the educational use of information technology, the University Library Council (for the university’s five libraries including Digital Collections and Archives http://dca.tufts.edu/ ), and the Tufts University Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching http://celt.tufts.edu/ that provides innovative faculty development and academic leadership support across the university. Dr. Lee received her medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine and trained in internal medicine at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts. She is board certified in internal medicine and geriatrics. In addition to her medical degree, Dr. Lee holds masters’ degrees in both Health Services Research and Asian Studies from Stanford University. News headlines for the global spread of emerging infectious diseases like H1N1 influenza illustrate how “small and fragile” our world is—how quickly diseases can race around the globe to become the next pandemic. The speaker will address how the thinking about global health has evolved, how it relates to each of us—how each of us is a participant, willingly or not. Illustrations of a few innovative global health initiatives will address how today’s solutions must be interdisciplinary and will include “open access” examples that invite voluntary contributions from any scientist or professional.

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