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Saul Landau, an Emmy award-winning filmmaker and internationally known scholar, will speak during a symposium to be held at the UA.

Saul Landau, an Emmy award-winning filmmaker and internationally known scholar, will speak during a symposium to be held at The Unversity of Arizona that is focusing on issues related to health and social justice.

The third annual Social Justice Symposium, "In Solidarity: Paving The Path to Action," will be held April 3. The event – which includes a series of breakout sessions – will be held at the UA Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health's Roy P. Drachman Hall, located at 1295 North Martin Ave.

Registration and breakfast begin at 8:15 a.m. with the keynote set to begin at 9 a.m. in the Duval Auditorium. Attendance is free and lunch is provided, but attendees are asked to register in advance.

The event is open to members of the UA community and also the greater community who are interested in issues related to social justice and health.

Saul Landau, a filmmaker and human rights activist who is currently a senior Fellow at the Washington D.C.-based Institute for Policy Studies, is this year's keynote speaker.

Landau is an internationally-known scholar, author, commentator and filmmaker who has produced work on foreign and domestic policy issues.

He earned an Emmy award in 1980 for "Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang." During his time as a filmmaker, he has produced more than 40 films related to social and political related to human rights around the world. For his work, Landau has been honored with the Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award, the George Polk Award for Investigative Reporting and the First Amendment Award.

Also, Landau has written more than 10 books, short stories and poems and also received the Edgar Allen Poe Award for "Assassination on Embassy Row," a report on the 1976 murders of Chilean Ambassador Orlando Letelier and his colleague, Ronni Moffitt.

Last year, Landau was awarded the Bernardo O'Higgins award from the Republic of Chile in recognition of his lifetime dedication to human rights work.

The symposium will also include informational sessions about issues related to global health, environmental health, institutionalized and structural racism, rural and urban health care, economics, the education system, housing, health policy, poverty and other topics.