Health Care as a Human Right: the true story of the Medical Committee for Human Rights (MCHR) and the civil rights movement.

Health Care as a Human Right: the true story of the Medical Committee
for Human Rights (MCHR) and the civil rights movement.

January l6, 17 Tifereth Israel Congregation
(7701 16th St NW, Washington DC 20012)

Prof John Dittmer, author "The Good Doctors: the MCHR and the Struggle
for Social Justice in Health Care" and Panel members (Saturday, Jan.
16---1.15 pm)
· Dr. SidneyWolfe, MCHR member, and currently director of Health
Research Group at Public Citizen
· Ms. Phyllis Cunningham, MCHR member, nurse involved in the south 1960s
and health care advocate
· Dr. Alfred Moldovan, MCHR treasurer and Dr. King's personal physician
for the Selma march
· Ms.Bonnie Lefkowitz, author of "Community Health Centers: A Movement
and the People Who Made it Happen"
· Dr. George Cohen, pediatrician with Mobile Medical Care in Montgomery
County, Md.

Book discussion led by Prof Dittmer: Sunday, January l7, 10.30 am