Recording:
Agenda:
45 minutes | Panel Discussion | Moderated by Ganaa Zagdbazar, BIM Project Engineer at Hathaway Dinwiddie
45 minutes | Small group discussions in breakout rooms | Each breakout room will have one of our guest speakers present for open Q&A and networking.
Guest speaker panelists include:
PhD, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Assistant Professor in the Department of Nutrition at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) | Harvard Medical School | Boston
Dr. Ganmaa is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Nutrition at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) with expertise in TB, vitamin D and nutritional trials. She is a PI of a double-blind, parallel-group individually randomized placebo-controlled, phase III trial, testing the effect of vitamin D3 (14000 IU weekly) on acquiring LTBI in 8,851 school age children (6-16 years) in Mongolia. She founded the Mongolian Health Initiative NGO, which has conducted nutrition research and capacity building projects in Mongolia since 2004. In 2016, Dr. Ganmaa and her team launched the Zero TB Mongolia Initiative to improve national TB diagnosis and treatment.
Principal | Sant School | Ulaanbaatar
Enkhmunkh joined Sant School in 2009, shortly after graduating from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. His career began in Sant School as an international relations manager, and shortly after he was promoted to the principal of the school. Enkhmunkh is passionate about technology and its effect on young children in Mongolia. His passion for both technology and education has led him to initiate the One Laptop Per Child program in Mongolia. Enkhmunkh holds an MA in Education from the Stanford Graduate School of Education.
Shinee J Erdenebileg
Founder and Principal | Blue Sky Day Care & After School Program | Los Angeles
Shinee founded Blue Sky Child Care and After School Program in 2015 while she was completing her Early Childhood education degree. Located in Los Angeles California, the Blue Sky Child Care provides creative programs for children ranging from 6 months through 16 years old, and has an emphasis on math, science, and languages. Many Mongolian families in the Los Angeles area have benefited from the program over the last 5 years. In 2018, Shinee became a Music Together trained/licensed teacher. With her love of music and her ability to connect with children, teaching music was a natural choice for Shinee. Her contribution to the Mongolian community has been recognized and awarded by the City Council of Los Angeles. Shinee’s goal is to expand her learning center into a larger dual-language early childhood education center in the near future.
Thanks to our sponsor Egulen Systems, for supporting our virtual speaker series events!
