sharon sanders
Editor-in-Chief & President
Global Health: Current Issues, Future Trends and Foreign Policy
Tuesday 29 April 2008
Venue: Royal College of Physicians
Location: London
Description
This conference will explore the growing UK debate on global health, with updates on communicable and chronic disease. Coming after the publication in 2007 of Lord Crisp?s ?Global health partnerships? and Sir Liam Donaldson?s ?Health is global: proposals for a government-wide strategy? this conference will discuss their impact and the latest Government initiatives. Drawing together experts from the clinical and policy worlds, the conference will examine the role the UK has to play through the prism of its foreign policy. It will afford an opportunity for people from different fields to interact in lively and informative debate.
Organising committee:
- Professor Rifat Atun, Director, Centre for Health Management,
Imperial College London
- Dr Nick Banatvala, Head of Global Health, Department of Health
- Dr Mary Black, International Adviser, Royal College of Physicians
- Dr Michael Borowitz, Senior Health Advisor and Senior Governance Advisor, Department for International Development
- Dr Richard Horton, Editor, The Lancet
- Caroline Hyde-Price, Head of International Office, Health Protection Agency
- Dr Michael Pelly, Associate International Director, Royal College of Physicians (Conference organiser)
Audience: Physicians, public health specialists, healthcare personnel, policy makers, political lobbyists, journalists, supranational organisations, NGOs.
Conference Organiser: Dr Michael Pelly, Royal College of Physicians
http://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/event/details.aspx?e=1012
Tuesday 29 April 2008
Venue: Royal College of Physicians
Location: London
Description
This conference will explore the growing UK debate on global health, with updates on communicable and chronic disease. Coming after the publication in 2007 of Lord Crisp?s ?Global health partnerships? and Sir Liam Donaldson?s ?Health is global: proposals for a government-wide strategy? this conference will discuss their impact and the latest Government initiatives. Drawing together experts from the clinical and policy worlds, the conference will examine the role the UK has to play through the prism of its foreign policy. It will afford an opportunity for people from different fields to interact in lively and informative debate.
Organising committee:
- Professor Rifat Atun, Director, Centre for Health Management,
Imperial College London
- Dr Nick Banatvala, Head of Global Health, Department of Health
- Dr Mary Black, International Adviser, Royal College of Physicians
- Dr Michael Borowitz, Senior Health Advisor and Senior Governance Advisor, Department for International Development
- Dr Richard Horton, Editor, The Lancet
- Caroline Hyde-Price, Head of International Office, Health Protection Agency
- Dr Michael Pelly, Associate International Director, Royal College of Physicians (Conference organiser)
Audience: Physicians, public health specialists, healthcare personnel, policy makers, political lobbyists, journalists, supranational organisations, NGOs.
Conference Organiser: Dr Michael Pelly, Royal College of Physicians
http://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/event/details.aspx?e=1012