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Save The Date, July 14: Health Affairs Briefing - Delivering on Global Health
July 7, 2009
Save The Date: Health Affairs Briefing
Delivering On Global Health
Leading Experts Examine Challenges of Combating Malaria,
Eradicating Polio, Providing Hospital Care in Low-Income Countries,
And Reducing Deaths in Pregnancy and Childbirth
When: Tues., July 14, 2009, 9:30-11:30 am
Where: Capital Hilton
1001 16th St., NW (northeast corner of 16th and K), Washington D.C.
Metro: Farragut North (Red Line); Farragut West (Blue & Orange Lines)
Getting "the right care to the right patient at the right time" is hard enough in highly developed countries like the United States. In low- and middle-income countries, the challenges are only magnified. Delivering on global health means dealing with a broad array of details that differ depending on the intervention and the location involved. Whether it's saving the lives of women giving birth in rural Peru, or influencing the spread of effective antimalarial medications in Africa, enormous difficulties must be overcome to combat disease and death.
The July-August issue of Health Affairs, supported by a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, is a thematic volume that addresses the challenges of global health care delivery. The issue will be released at a briefing on July 14, at the Capital Hilton in Washington, D.C. At the briefing:- Ramanan Laxminarayan of Resources for the Future will discuss an innovative international approach to delivering affordable antimalarial treatments in a way that will avoid the development of treatment-resistant strains of malaria.
- Judith Kaufmann, a visiting scholar at the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, will discuss diplomatic efforts undertaken during an official boycott of polio immunization in Northern Nigeria and the lessons that can be learned from those efforts.
- Scott Barrett, the Lenfest-Earth Institute Professor of Natural Resource Economics at Columbia University, will discuss the challenges involved in eradicating polio.
- David Gaus of Andean Health and Development in Ecuador will describe how rural Ecuadoreans convinced him of the critical need for a high-quality and affordable secondary care hospital in their community, and how such a hospital achieved financial sustainability.
- And veteran health policy reporter Nellie Bristol will discuss the challenges involved in reducing the number of women in poor countries who die during pregnancy and childbirth.
RSVP for this event online:
http://www.burnesscommunications.com/new/new_rsvp.htm?doc_id=944311
category: Member Organization News : Announcements
contributed by Liza Nanni on 7 July 2009
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