It is educating a new cohort of scholars in academe, while we
progressives wait for
future windows of opportunity in the policy arena. In the intervening
four years,
of course, much damage may be done to population health -- tax cuts for
the rich may be extended, social security may be partially privatized &
benefits may be reduced, health
programs may be cut, the dollar may collapse, inflation may increase,
unemployment may increase...as the US continues waging the illegal and
immoral and ill-advised war in Iraq, causing an estimated 100,000
premature deaths of Iraqis, an estimated 25,000 killed or
wounded Americans so far, further draining the Treasury of funds which
might have promoted health...
Barbara Krimgold
-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis Raphael [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 11:09 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [SDOH] Pretty major event re: health disparities, BUT
This looks like a temendous opportunity. And since it will be
web-archived, it can be accessed and saved, I would think on CDs.
But the big question is, and I ask this in the greatest sympathy to my
neighbours to the south:
Can this come to anything in George Bush's America? - dr
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HEALTH DISPARITIES & THE BODY POLITIC:
POLICY, RESEARCH, DATA & GOVERNMENT RESPONSIBILITY
Three international symposia sponsored by the Harvard School of Public
Health:
March 3, 2005 - April 14, 2005 - May 5, 2005
For free registration & information on accessing free webcast, see
website
at: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/disparities
Social inequality may be harmful to your health. It increases the
burden of disability and disease in communities and cuts short lives.
Economic deprivation, discrimination, lack of access to health services,
and violation or neglect of human rights all play a part in shaping
population health. Yet, despite centuries of evidence on the toll of
adverse living and working conditions on health, only been in the past
decade has concern with social inequalities in health become part of the
mainstream public health agenda. To explore the role that governments
and engaged communities can play in reducing and rectifying social
inequities in health worldwide, the Harvard School of Public Health is
hosting a three-part symposium series.
--Thursday, March 3, 2:00 pm -- 5:00 pm, Harvard Conference Center, 77
Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston "Spreading the Health: Government's Role
in Addressing Health Disparities."
--Thursday, April 14, 2:00 pm -- 5:00 pm, Harvard Conference Center, 77
Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston.
"Investigating Health Disparities: New Agendas for National Health
Research Institutes"
--Thursday, May 5, 2:00 -- 5:00 pm, Harvard Conference Center, 77
Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston "Making Disparities Count: From Government
Statistics Systems to Action"
To enhance the global reach of the symposia, each session will be web
cast live, with free access. All sessions will be archived, also with
free access, at this symposium web site hosted by the Harvard School of
Public Health.
The content of all the symposia has been developed independently of our
sponsors. Admission is free. Seating is limited. See symposium
descriptions for registration deadlines.
SYMPOSIUM PARTICIPANTS:
--March 3, 2005: "Spreading the Health: Government's Role in Addressing
Health Disparities"
Moderator:
David Studdert, PhD, HSPH Associate Professor of Law and Public Health
Speakers:
Carolyn Clancy, MD, Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality, United States Department of Health and Human Services; Fiona
Adshead, MD, Deputy Medical Officer, Department of Health, United
Kingdom; Asa Christina Laurell, MD, Minister of Health, Mexico City;
Irene Nilsson Carlsson, Director, Division for Public Health, Sweden.
Discussant:
Sir Donald Acheson, professor emeritus, University College of London,
author of The Acheson Inquiry
Q & A Panel:
Deborah Prothrow Stith, MD, HSPH Professor of Public Health Practice,
Facilitator Kalahn Taylor Clark, HSPH graduate student; Sofia Gruskin,
HSPH Associate Professor of Health and Human Rights; Ashih Jha, HSPH
Assistant Professor of Health Management and HMS Research Fellow in
Medicine; Brent Staples (invited), The New York Times, columnist.
--April 14, 2005: "Investigating Health Disparities: New Agendas for
National Health Research Institutes"
Moderator: Lisa Berkman, HSPH Professor of Public Policy, Departments
of Society, Human Development, and Health and Epidemiology, Harvard
School of Public Health
Speakers:
Elias Zerhouni, MD, Director, U.S. National Institutes of Health; John
Frank, PhD, Scientific Director, Institute of Population and Public
Health, Canada; Mirta Roses Periago, MD, Director, Pan American Health
Organization; PAHO/WHO Sujatha Rao, MD, Member Secretary of the
National Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, India.
Discussant:
Harvey Fineberg, MD, PhD, MPH, President, Institute of Medicine
Q & A Panel:
Howard Koh, MD, HSPH Professor of Health Policy, Facilitator JudyAnn
Bigby, MD, Director of Community Health Programs and HMS Center of
Excellence in Women's Health, Brigham and Women57;s Hospital;
Christopher Murray, MD, PhD, HSPH Professor of Population Policy,
Director of the Harvard Global Health Initiative; Atul Gawande, MD,
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Maria
Glymour, SD, Research Associate, HSPH Department of Society, Human
Development, and Health.
--May 5, 2005: "Making Disparities Count: From Government Statistics
Systems to Action"
Moderator: Nancy Krieger, PhD, HSPH Associate Professor of Society,
Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health
Speakers:
John Fox, PhD, Director of Statistics, Department of Health, United
Kingdom Vickie Mays, PhD, Professor of Clinical Psychology, University
of California-Los Angeles and Director, UCLA Center on Research,
Education, Training, and Strategic Communications on Minority Health
Disparities; Eduardo Mota, SD, Chief of Health Statistics, Instituto de
Saude Coletiva, Brazil;
Discussant:
Godfrey Woelk, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Communitiy
Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of Zimbabwe;
Q & A Panel:
Robert Blendon, ScD, HSPH Professor of Health Policy and Management,
Facilitator Howard Koh, MD, HSPH Professor of Health Policy; Mary
Waters, PhD, Professor of Sociology, Harvard; Evelynn Hammonds, PhD,
SM, Professor of the History of Science and African and African American
Studies, Harvard;
David Rehkopf, MPH, doctoral candidate, Harvard School of Public Health
Organized by the HSPH Health Disparities Working Group symposia
committee: Nancy Krieger, Lisa Berkman, David Studdert, Bev Freeman,
Alix Smullin
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