The Internet and the Public's Health
With more than 60 million Americans having access to the Internet and a boom in health-related websites such as WebMD, never before has so much health information been available to so many people. HSPH and HMS are offering The Internet and the Public's Health on May 30 and 31 in the Lowell Lecture Hall, Oxford and Cambridge Streets, in Cambridge. Dean Barry Bloom will co-chair and HSPH professors Arnold Epstein and Katherine Swartz will serve as panelists.
George Lundberg, adjunct professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management and editor-in-chief of Medscape, will be a keynote speaker, along with Frederick Bukachi, director of HealthNet Kenya; Esther Dyson, chair of EDventure Holdings; Tom Ferguson, editor and publisher of The Ferguson Report; and Phillip Nudelman, chair and president of Kaiser/Group Health.
To get more information and register, go to www.hsph.harvard.edu/health-internetconference. The fee is $425. There will be limited, free admission on a space-available basis to individual sessions for those with Harvard IDs.
The conference will be held in conjunction with the Harvard biannual conference Internet & Society, May 31 to June 2. See www.is2k.harvard.edu.
