Larry Krotz on Tour!

Larry Krotz, author of seven books including Piecing the Puzzle: The Genesis of AIDS Research in Africa, will be giving several guest lectures on Global Health in November, including stops at McGill’s Global Health Department and UWO’s Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry.

About the Book
In 1979, Dr. Allan Ronald, a specialist in infectious diseases from Canada, and Dr. Herbert Nsanze, head of medical microbiology at University of Nairobi, met through the World Health Organization. Ronald had just completed a successful project that cured a chancroid (genital ulcer) epidemic in Winnipeg and Nsanze asked him to come to Kenya to help with Kenya’s “sexual diseases problem.” That initial invitation led to a groundbreaking international scientific collaboration that would uncover critical pieces in the complex puzzle that became today’s HIV/AIDS pandemic. In Piecing the Puzzle, journalist and documentary filmmaker Larry Krotz chronicles the fascinating history of the pioneering Kenyan, Canadian, Belgian, and American research team that uncovered HIV/AIDS in Kenya, their scientific breakthroughs and setbacks, and their exceptional thirty-year relationship that began a new era of global health collaboration.

About Larry Krotz
Larry Krotz is an award-winning writer, filmmaker, and author of seven books, including The Uncertain Business of Doing Good: Outsiders in Africa as well as 2012’s Piecing the Puzzle: The Genesis of AIDS Research in Africa. Over the past 25 years he has traveled to a number of African countries, where he produced the documentary film, Searching for Hawa’s Secret, and wrote extensively for magazines and newspapers on scientific research and foreign aid projects. Originally from Winnipeg, he currently lives in Toronto.