Co-sponsored by the Harvard School of Public Health Leadership Council
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Agenda
1:30-3:30 p.m. Open House
9 Bow Street, Cambridge, MA
Tour the Center’s remodeled facility and meet informally with faculty at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
3:30-4:00 p.m. Registration
Ballroom, The Charles Hotel, Cambridge, MA
4:00-6:00 p.m. Welcome and Featured Presentations
Ballroom, The Charles Hotel, Cambridge, MA
Welcome
Barry R. Bloom
Dean of the Faculty
Joan L. and Julius I. Jacobson II Professor of Public Health
Harvard School of Public Health
Introducing the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
Lisa Berkman
Director, Center for Population and Development Studies,
Harvard University;
Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy, Epidemiology, and Global Health
and Population, Harvard School of Public Health
Keynote Address
Recent Portraits of American Mortality
Samuel H. Preston
Fredrick J. Warren Professor of Demography, University of Pennsylvania
Faculty Presentations
Social and Labor Force Interventions Needed To Improve Population Health
Lisa Berkman
Director, Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard University
Global Demographic Change and Its Economic Consequences
David E. Bloom
Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography and
Chair, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health
RSVP
Seating is limited. RSVP required.
RSVP to Kellie LeRoux at 617-384-8985, or via e-mail to events@hsph.harvard.edu.
Parking
Parking is available at The Charles Hotel (One Bennett Street).
Standard rates apply.
A shuttle will be available between The Charles Hotel and 9 Bow Street
between 1:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m.
About our Speakers
Lisa Berkman, Ph.D., is Director of the Center for Population and Development Studies at Harvard University and the Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy, of Epidemiology, and of Global Health and Population at the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Berkman is an epidemiologist whose work focuses on understanding social determinants of health and aging. Her research concentrates on identifying the role of social networks, and social and economic policies that increase the risk of the early onset of disability, mortality, and disease, with emphasis on cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease. In her most recent work she is studying the impact of work, especially flexible work policies, and the health of older workers and their families. She edited several volumes including Social Epidemiology, the first textbook on the topic, and is a contributor to numerous journals. Dr. Berkman is a member of the National Institute on Aging Board of Scientific Counselors and Chair from 2005 to 2008. She is a co-investigator with the Program for Global Demography of Aging, providing support for research on demographic change and aging throughout the world. She is the past president of the Society for Epidemiologic Research, and a member of the Institute of Medicine.
Barry R. Bloom, Ph.D., is Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health. He is a leading scientist in the areas of infectious diseases, vaccines, and global health, and a former consultant to the White House. Dr. Bloom pursues an active interest in bench science, leading a laboratory researching the immune response to tuberculosis. He has been extensively involved with the World Health Organization (WHO) for more than 40 years. He is currently Chair of the Technical and Research Advisory Committee to the Global Programme on Malaria at WHO and has been a member of the WHO Advisory Committee on Health Research and chaired the WHO Committees on Leprosy Research and Tuberculosis Research, and the Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee of the UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases. Dr. Bloom serves on the editorial board of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, on the Ellison Medical Foundation Scientific Advisory Board, and the Wellcome Trust Pathogens, Immunology and Population Health Strategy Committee. Dr. Bloom came to HSPH as Dean in 1998. Previously he served as chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine from 1978 to 1990, the year in which he became an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, where he also served on the National Advisory Board. Dr. Bloom was the founding chair of the board of trustees for the International Vaccine Institute in South Korea. He has chaired the Vaccine Advisory Committee of UNAIDS, where he played a critical role in the debate surrounding the ethics of AIDS vaccine trials. He was also a member of the US AIDS Research Committee. He is a past president of the American Association of Immunologists and the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. He received the first Bristol Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Research in Infectious Diseases, shared the Novartis Award in Immunology, and was the recipient of the Robert Koch Gold Medal. Dr. Bloom is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Philosophical Society.
David E. Bloom, Ph.D., is Chair of the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography. Dr. Bloom is an economist whose work focuses on health, demography, education, and labor. In recent years, he has written extensively on primary, secondary, and tertiary education in developing countries and on the links between health status, population dynamics, and economic growth. As Director of Harvard University’s Program on the Global Demography of Aging, Dr. Bloom leads research on the measurement and consequences of population aging. Dr. Bloom has published over 250 articles, book chapters, and books in the fields of economics and demography. Dr. Bloom is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Faculty Research Associate of the Labor Studies, Aging, and Health Economics programs of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a member of the Book Review Board of Science Magazine, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR).
Samuel H. Preston, Ph.D., is Frederick J. Warren Professor of Demography and Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. He received a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton in 1968, where he developed an interest in demography under the tutelage of Ansley Coale. The major area of interest throughout his career has been the health of populations, including methods for measuring and analyzing health. He has devoted special attention to cause-of-death patterns across space and time, to the impact of cigarette smoking on aggregate mortality levels, and to the factors that have driven the massive mortality improvements of the past century. From 1998 to 2004 he was Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Penn. He has also served as Director of the Population Studies Center and Chair of the Department of Sociology and of the Graduate Group in Demography. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, and the American Philosophical Society; he is a fellow of the American Statistical Association, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has won the Taeuber and Sheps Awards from the Population Association of America (PAA) and was designated Laureate of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population. He has been president of the PAA and of the Sociological Research Association. He has just completed chairing a committee of the National Academy of Sciences on the National Children’s Study and has begun co-chairing an NAS panel addressing the question of why American longevity lags behind that of many other developed countries.
About The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
Founded in 1964 by the late Roger Revelle, the Center for Population and Development Studies has continued to spearhead interdisciplinary research focused primarily on population change, socioeconomic development, and public health. Over the past six months, the Center has undergone a significant transformation. In addition to the remodeling of its facilities, the Center's new director, Lisa Berkman, has introduced a bold vision and, along with the field's leading researchers, will be tackling some of the most pressing questions of our times:
- How do economic and social factors shape the health of populations?
- How does immigration and migration impact health, identity, mobility, and social integration?
- What will be the consequences of aging societies, a phenomenon happening not just in the U.S., but in places like India and China, where there are few resources to address diminished labor force, pension, and health care needs?
- How do labor policies impact the health and well-being of workers, especially women, low-wage earners, immigrants, and older employees?
About The Harvard School of Public Health’s Leadership Council
Founded in 2003, the Harvard School of Public Health’s (HSPH) Leadership Council brings together individuals with significant expertise and influence who share a passion to improve health for all. Members of the HSPH Leadership Council include community and business leaders, philanthropists, high-ranking public health officials and practitioners, alumni, media figures, and others—some of whom are long-time friends of the School, while others are new to its activities. All are called upon to: serve as ambassadors to promote the School’s mission; financially support the School; and strengthen collaborations and develop new resources for the School’s broad-ranging activities.
In exchange, Council members are invited regularly to hear from and speak with School faculty and fellow Council members. They receive regular communication about what Harvard School of Public Health is doing to improve the world’s health. And most importantly, Council members have the opportunity to influence the health and well-being of millions worldwide by actively helping the School shape the future of public health research, education, and communication.
To learn more about being a member, contact Margaret Laurence, director of leadership development, at (617)384-8644 or mlaurenc@hsph.harvard.edu.