Photos: Suzanne Camarata
Reimagining Societies in the Face of Demographic Change
Tuesday, April 29, 2014, 9:00 am – 1:30 pm
Joseph B. Martin Conference Center (map)
Harvard Medical School
77 Avenue Louis Pasteur
Boston, MA 02115
Learn about the issues, experts and outlooks that were a part of the Harvard Pop Center’s 50th Anniversary Symposium in this article by the Harvard Gazette.
This symposium is open to all and will shed light on the current demographic challenges facing societies and communities, and the exciting, interdisciplinary initiatives and activities taking place at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies in response to these challenges.
8:30 – 9:00 am: Continental Breakfast
9:00 – 9:15 am: Welcome
Julio Frenk, MD, PhD, Dean of the Faculty, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; T & G Angelopoulos Professor of Public Health and International Development, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Kennedy School (bio)
9:15 – 9:45 am: “Status of Current Worldwide Demographic Challenges”
Lisa Berkman, PhD, Director, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies; Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy, Epidemiology, and Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (bio)
9:45 – 10:30 am: “Cairo*@20: The Promise of the Youth Dividend”
Babatunde Osotimehin, MD, Executive Director, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA); Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations (bio)
* International Conference on Population and Development
10:30 – 11:00 am: “Myths and Realities of an Aging Society”
Jack Rowe, MD, Professor of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health; chair, MacArthur Foundation Research Network on An Aging Society (bio)
11:00 – 11:30 am: Break – a light lunch to be served
11:30 – 12:15 pm: “Fair Society: Healthy Lives”
Sir Michael Marmot, MBBS, MPH, PhD, FRCP, FFPHM, FMedSci
Director, Institute of Health Equity, University College London (bio)
12:15 – 1:15 pm: Closing Panel – The Pop Center’s Solutions to Today’s Demographic Challenges
David Canning, PhD, Associate Director, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies; Richard Saltonstall Professor of Population Sciences, and Professor of Economics and International Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Amitabh Chandra, PhD, Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
S V Subramanian, PhD, Professor of Population Health and Geography, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Mary C. Waters, PhD, M.E. Zukerman Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard University
