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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