!Salud! Film and Director Discussion September 2, 2007

Academy Award Nominee director/producer will facilitate present for the post screening discussion

!Salud!

Latin American Medical School

Cuba & the Global Health Workforce

Sunday September 2, 2007 2 P.M. $5.00

Parkway Theater 1834 Park Boulevard Oakland , California

SALUD! Produced and directed by Academy Award nominee Connie Field and co-produced by Gail Reed (Cuba/USA, 2006, 93 min), documentary.

Find out what puts Cuba on the map in the quest for global health …

A timely examination of human values and the health issues that affect us all, ¡Salud! looks at the curious case of Cuba , a cash-strapped country with what the BBC calls ‘one of the world’s best health systems.’ From the shores of Africa to the Americas !Salud! hits the road with some of the 28,000 Cuban health professionals serving in 68 countries, and explores the hearts and minds of international medical students in Cuba -- now numbering 30,000, including nearly 100 from the USA . Their stories plus testimony from experts around the world bring home the competing agendas that mark the battle for global health—and the complex realities confronting the movement to make healthcare everyone’s birth right.

Official Website: http://www.saludthefilm.net