Cuba Report

Issue 4 December 2007    
     
  Leading Cuban Scientist to visit London Met: Reserve your seat now!
   

December 12 sees one of Cuba’s leading scientists, Professor Luis Montero, visit the IISC and London Metropolitan University for a series of talks and seminars.
Professor Montero, one of Cuba’s most distinguished chemists and chair of Havana University’s scientific council, will discuss possible collaborative research projects with the University.
Professor Montero will be giving a public seminar on the advances in Cuban Science at 7pm on 12 December at London Metropolitan University.
Full details can be found on the IISC website

It is strongly advised to reserve seat. Please email

 
   
       
 

IISC Spring seminar series announced
The IISC’s public seminar series continues into the New Year with three seminars in January, February and March.
The first seminar is on Wednesday January 9th. The IISC director Professor Patrick Pietroni and Professor Margaret Blunden will be presenting a seminar on Cuba’s Health system. In February, Dr Julia Buxton from the University of Bradford and Emily Morris from the Economist Intelligence Unit will analyze Cuba’s growing relationship with Venezuela and in March Professor Michael Chanan of Roehampton University will present on Cuba Cinema. Full details of all these events are on the IISC website here
The Bodeguita de Medio restaurant London is kindly supporting this series

   First London Metropolitan University Study Tour departs 8 Dec.

The first study tour by students from London Metropolitan University departs on 8 December. Five students are spending a week in Havana looking at aspects of Cuban history society and culture. IISC assistant director Dr. Stephen Wilkinson, who is already planning another tour for December 2008, is accompanying the tour. Please email him if you would like to go next year. More details on the IISC website

           
       
               
  IISC facilitates visit by Cuban health expert to conference on future of NHS
   

Dr Nidia Marquez Morales, one of Cuba’s leading primary health care experts was the guest of the UK Health Minister Lord Darzi at his keynote NHS clinical summit held at the Excel Centre in the Docklands on November 21-22. More than 1000 people attended the international clinical summit “Our NHS Our Future”.
For full story click here
Dr Morales was one of a number of expert speakers from around the globe who joined members of local clinical health care providers at the event held to stimulate ideas for the future of the Health Service.
Dr Morales explained the Cuban polyclinic system and delivered a talk on the preventive health programme of the Cuba health service. A full report and video of Dra Morales’ presentation is available here

Dr Morales’ visit was facilitated by the IISC and the IISC hopes to coordinate a study visit to Cuba for senior health care providers from the UK sometime in 2008. If you are a health care provider or worker and would be interested in joining this visit please contact stephen.wilkinson@cubastudies.org

  
   
       
  US has its feet 'set in concrete' over Cuba
   

The US has its "feet set in concrete" as far as Cuba policy is concerned, and while others get on with adapting to changes on the island, the administration of George Bush letting opportunities slip by.

That was the message that Cuba expert Philip Peters, Vice president of the Lexington Institute in Washington gave to a 70 strong audience of academics, students, former ambassadors and business people at London Metropolitan University on the evening of 14 November. Full story is here

  
   
       
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