Save the Date: June 14, 2013

David Canning, Pop Center Associate Director, Richard Saltonstall Professor of Population Sciences and Professor of Economics and International Health, will be a panelist at the HSPH Forum on Girls’ Health and Education: Igniting Change Worldwide presented in partnership with Vulcan Productions.

When: Friday, June 14, 2013 at 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
Where: The Leadership Studio, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave., Boston
RSVP to: theforum@hsph.harvard.edu
Watch at: www.ForumHSPH.org

Research suggests that educating girls and women safeguards their well-being, ensures healthy future generations, alleviates poverty, and boosts GDP. Yet alarming discrepancies persist between genders and within and among nations on who receives quality, sustained education and, consequently, who experiences the most opportunities to thrive. This Forum event will examine the sources of these discrepancies, including entrenched biases and predatory acts such as trafficking, and will review efforts to raise up the world’s girls through health and education. This event is presented in partnership with Vulcan Productions, a founding partner of the 10×10 global action campaign centered on the new film Girl Rising. The broadcast version of the film will air on CNN Films on June 16.

EXPERT PARTICIPANTS

  • Richard Robbins, Director of Girl Rising and Academy Award Nominee
  • Jacqueline Bhabha, Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH); Jeremiah Smith Jr Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School; and University Advisor on Human Rights to the Provost at Harvard University
  • Alicia Yamin, Director, Program on Health Rights of Women and Children,
    Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, HSPH; Former Director of Research and Investigations at Physicians for Human Rights
  • David Canning, Associate Director Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies; Professor of Population Science and Professor of Economics and International Health, HSPH

ASK THE EXPERT PARTICIPANTS

Email questions for the expert participants any time before or during the live webcast to: the forum@hsph.harvard.edu.  The Forum will accommodate as many questions as we can from the online and in-person audiences.

Submit your questions to the Community Discussion page.

PARTICIPATE DURING THE LIVE WEBCAST

Join the live comments, which will be featured on The Forum’s Girls’ Health and Education: Igniting Change Worldwide web page.

We will also be live-tweeting from @ForumHSPH
Tweet your questions and comments using the hash tag #girlshealtheducation.