Speakers List

DAY 1 – May 03, 2007

 

Opening Remarks

Highlights on UMASS involvement in Global Health

Speakers: President Jack Wilson, PhD, University of Massachusetts.

          Marcellette Williams, PhD,Senior Vice-President for International Relations. UMASS

 

Plenary 1.

Public policy issues related to global health: The South African Perspective

Speaker: Dean Marion Jacobs MBChB, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town. SA

 

Plenary 2.

Addressing global health in China & Southeast Asia. The importance of academic alliances.

Speaker: Chairman Dakui Yin, China Medicine Foundation. President of the National Doctors Association.

 

Panel 1. Global Health Challenges

Moderator: Katherine Luzuriaga MD, UMMS

 

The Burden of Infectious Diseases and Impact on Global Health

Davidson Hamer, MD, FACP, Boston University Schools of Public Health and Medicine

 

Geographical mapping and societal burdens of Global Health pandemics

Timothy Downs D.Env., Clark University, Dept of International Development, Community & Environment

 

Challenges in improving MCH in developing countries

Edward O’Rourke, MD, Harvard Medical School   

 

Panel 2. Balancing academic priorities in Global Health

(The relative importance of research, new sciences, training, program interventions)

Speakers: John Sullivan MD; UMMS, Vice Chancellor for Research

                 John Cunningham PhD, FACN; Deputy Provost, School of Public Health. UMASS Amherst

 

DAY 2 – May 04, 2007

 

Plenary 4

NIH’s vision of Global Health: (funding priorities, and insights for academic institutions and scientists)

Speaker : James Herrington PhD, MPH

                 Director, Division of International Relations, Fogarty International Center

 

Panel 3.  Structures of academic programs in Global Health

Moderators: Onesky Aupont MD PhD MPH, UMMS

                    Mick Godkin, PhD UMMS

 

The REACH Program, University of Michigan,

David Stern, MD, PhD, Director

 

The Student International Program, Harvard Medical School

Edward J O’Rourke, MD, Director

 

UMASS Institute of Global Health, UMASS SPH, Amherst Campus

David Buchanan, Dr.PH, Director

 

Concurrent discussion groups

Guidelines for development of university initiatives

Facilitator: David Stern MD, PhD