On the 20th of January the newly appointed cultural attaché Katia Bennett visited the Faculty of Medicine. During this visit she met dean Prof. MD Attila Miseta and Prof. MD Lajos Bogár leader of the Opeartional Medicin Department. She also met the colleauges from the migration health program. We discussed about different topics and aspects related to the research and educational programs at the UP MS and also about previous relations with the USA.

Katia Benett is also a director of the ’Regional Environment, Science, Technology and Health (ESTH) Hub Office’ operates in Budapest at the american embassy. This office supports 20 embassies in Middle-East Europe who are regionally coordinating studies on the field of ESTH.

During the visit we spoke about the supportment and the opprtunity of American and Hungarian researchers exchange programs. We also talked about the opportunity to use previous USA studies in WHO local and regional programs.