Frontiers in Global Health Seminars

This series brings together dedicated experts to discuss new knowledge, powerful ideas, and practical solutions that will improve the health and transform the lives of people everywhere.

Past Events:

Protecting Communities from Disasters A Proactive Public Health Approach to Disaster Risk Reduction:  the case of Iran and the MENA region
Dr. Hani Mowafi
Dr. Mark Keim
Dr. Ali Ardalan
Dr. Qudsia Huda

 

 

 

Professor Michèle Lamont
Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies; Professor of Sociology and African and African American Studies, Harvard University
“Social resilience, responses to stigma and health: The case of middle class and working class African-Americans” (no video available)

 

 

Dr. France Donnay
Senior Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
“Taking Risks : Maternal Health and the Gates Foundation”

 

 

 

Dr. Mickey Chopra
Chief of Health, UNICEF
“Improving health coverage in child survival, health, and nutrition”

 

 

 

Dr. T. Sundararaman
Executive Director, National Health Systems Resource Center, New Delhi
“Developing India’s new community health worker — the ASHA: lessons learned”

 

 

 

Prof. Muhammad Yunus
2006 Nobel Peach Prize Laureate and Founder, Grameen Bank, Bangladesh
To discuss sustainable primary healthcare models focusing on maternal and infant health, information architecture for healthcare and high quality, low-cost hospital systems for developing countries

 

 

Dr. Daniel Hausman
Herbert A. Simon Professor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“NICE and the EQ-5D: Is Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Ready for Prime Time?” (no video available for this lecture)

 

 

Dr. Eric Buch
Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences
University of Pretoria, South Africa
“Addressing Health Workforce Issues in Africa: Challenges and Progress”

 

 

Prof. Donald Sawyer
Center for Sustainable Development, University of Brasiília and Jorge Paulo Lemann Visiting Scholar (2011-2012), David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS)
“RIO+20 AND CAIRO+20: WHAT NOW?”

Dr. José Villar
Professor of Perinatal Medicine, University of Oxford
“Understanding fetal growth across populations towards a phenotypic classification of preterm birth and intrauterine growth retardation”

 

 

Professor Shinjini Bhatnagar
Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, New Delhi, INDIA
“Interventions to Reduce Severity and Duration of Childhood
Diarrhea – from Evidence to Policy”