"Burma's Spring": Watch Interviews with Experts on Burma from a Recent SRF Lecture

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On May 21, the Institute of International Education (IIE) held a special lecture at its New York headquarters on "Burma’s Spring" by Dr. Myint Oo, Alumnus of IIE’s Scholar Rescue Fund (SRF) and the Hubert H. Humphrey (HHH) Fellowship Program. Suzanne DiMaggio, Vice President for Global Policy Programs at the Asia Society, moderated the discussion afterward.

Dr. Oo is visiting the United States from Burma as a recent recipient of the Scholar Rescue Fund’s new "Hite Lecture Awards," made possible by the SRF Hite Foundation Chair for Communications. A leading physician and public health educator, he received a Humphrey Fellowship to the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 2003-2004. From 2010-2011, Dr. Oo joined the faculty of the department of health at Tufts University through IIE’s Scholar Rescue Fund, which provides support to threatened academics around the world. Since returning home last fall, he has resumed his work with Burma’s General Practitioners’ Society as Secretary for the Committee of Ethics.

To read more about the lecture, and to watch brief interviews with Dr. Oo and Robert H. Lieberman, a documentary filmmaker, please visit: www.iie.org/Who-We-Are/News-and-Events/Events/2012/SRF-Burma-Spring-Lecture.