Jason Beaubien, global health and development correspondent for National Public Radio and an alumnus of the Knight-Wallace Fellows at Michigan, will deliver the 30th Graham Hovey lecture at 5 p.m. Sept. 10.
The lecture in the Wallace House Gardens, 620 Oxford Road, will examine the rapid spread of disease in today’s globalized world.
Beaubien reports on a range of health issues across the globe. He’s covered circumcision drives in Kenya, abortion in El Salvador, drug-resistant malaria in Myanmar and tuberculosis in Tajikistan. He was part of an NPR reporting team that won a Peabody Award in 2015 for its extensive coverage of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
Prior to becoming NPR’s global health and development correspondent in 2012, Beaubien spent four years based in Mexico City covering Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. He was a foreign correspondent in Sub-Saharan Africa from 2002-06, visiting 27 countries on the continent. Beaubien was one of the first journalists to report on the mass exodus of people out of Sudan’s Darfur region into Chad.
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Beaubien earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from San Francisco State University. As a Knight-Wallace Fellow in 2006-07, he studied the intersection of the First and Third worlds.
The annual lecture honors Knight-Wallace alumni whose subsequent careers exemplify the benefits of sabbatical studies at U-M. It is named for the late Graham Hovey, director of the fellowship program from 1980-86 and a distinguished journalist for The New York Times.
The Hovey Lecture is open to the public. A reception hosted by President Mark Schlissel follows the lecture. The event also is sponsored by Michigan Radio.
