Former Tennessee senator and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist will give a free, public talk Tuesday, Dec. 1, at Vanderbilt University to mark World AIDS Day.
Frist’s talk, “Celebrating Life, Mourning Death: Continuing the Fight Against Global AIDS,” begins at 7:30 p.m. in the ballroom of the Student Life Center located at 310 25th Ave. S. A 6:30 p.m. reception precedes the event.
A nationally renowned heart and lung transplant surgeon, Frist co-chairs the Save the Children organization’s “Survive to 5” campaign to save the lives of children under the age of five. His nonprofit organization, Hope Through Healing Hands, promotes improved quality of life for individuals and communities around the world through the idea that health care can be a currency for peace.
He also co-chaired ONE Vote ’08, an unprecedented, non-partisan campaign to make global health and extreme poverty foreign policy priorities in the 2008 presidential election.
Frist is currently an assistant professor of cardiac surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He annually leads medical mission trips to Africa.
The event is sponsored by The Commons, East House, Office of the Dean of Students, Office of Active Citizenship and Service, ONE, VandyCares, The Red Cross at Vanderbilt, Global Health Council and Vanderbilt Student Government’s Arts & Science Council Association.
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