This Week >> 1/22/2009
This week on Let's Travel! as we salute the new American President Susi talks with guest Jon Haggins, whose memoir,"YES I CAN" chronicles how he has lived out his dream of traveling the world as a video journalist. Our second intrepid traveler, Amy Stone, owner of a small medical communications company, gives us some tips on surviving 14-hour flights, where the great airports are around the world and how to minimize the risks of travel while maximizing the adventure.
Guests
An award-winning science writer, Amy Stone has been the owner of Amy Stone Scientific and Medical Communications, Inc. since 1994. She specializes in helping non-profit and government clients meet their goals through quality communication products and strategic planning. Currently, most of her work is with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where she works in HIV/AIDS, and for the Pediatric Dengue Vaccine Institute, in Seoul, Korea, where she works on projects related to dengue fever. Before starting her company, she was the director of scientific and medical communications for the national office of the American Cancer Society, and previous to that a senior medical writer for Emory University Woodruff Health Sciences Center, a reporter for the Atlanta Journal Constitution, and managed a small cancer research laboratory at Emory specializing in the immunology of prostate cancer. She holds bachelor degrees in physiology and design science, attended graduate school in physiology and microbiology, and has a masters degree in communication. She resides in the Atlanta area with her husband and two sons.
About Pediatric Dengue Vaccine Institute
In 2003, the Pediatric Dengue Vaccine Initiative was established with an office and secretariat hosted at the International Vaccine Institute in Seoul, Korea. The Initiative is governed by a Board of Counselors with a mission to “raise awareness and work with public and private partners in the North and South to accelerate the development and introduction of dengue vaccine(s) that are affordable and accessible to poor children in endemic countries”. It will also be a forum for improved advocacy and coordination of global efforts on dengue vaccine development. To date, PDVI has received grants totaling $56 million from the Rockefeller and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundations.
Jon Haggins is a motivational speaker who inspires people to get up and go, that anything is possible. His background includes travel, fashion, interior and food. Jon has been featured in and have written for numerous publications. He has also been a spokesperson for Procter and Gamble's Ultra Detergents. The Museum of the City of New York featured a retrospective of his fashion designs. And the Schomburg Library has acquired his fashion archive of photographs and editorials. Jon is the producer and host of a national travel show GlobeTrotter Jon Haggins TV, which is available every Sunday at 9PM in 2 million homes in New York City and it's also streamed over the Internet. In addition, he has contributed travel segments to NPR Radio. NPR has a listening audience of 25 million.