(AP) — “The Role of Water and Food Security in Early Childhood Survival and Development: A Global Perspective” is the title of an upcoming Heuermann (HYU’-ur-man) Lecture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

This lecture is a panel presentation with Dr. Chris Elias, president of the Global Development Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Dr. Joan Lombardi, former deputy assistant secretary in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; and Dr. Nurper Ulkuer, former head of the Early Childhood Development Unit and senior adviser for early childhood development at UNICEF.

The lecture is scheduled to begin at 3 p.m. on April 22 in the Great Plains Room of the Nebraska East Union on university’s East Campus.