Event Summary: Rebeca Grynspan

See video coverage here: http://webapps.sph.harvard.edu/accordentG1/IWD-20140312/index.htm

IN CELEBRATION OF INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY!!!!

WOMEN AND HEALTH: A CAUSE FOR OPTIMISM

Over 100 people joined us for presentation by Rebeca Grynspan, Associate Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The over-arching theme of the talk concerned the Sustainable Development Goals after 2015, with attention to new movements within reproductive health, the gender dimensions of universal health coverage, experiences from HIV and emerging pandemics such as noncommunicable diseases (NCDs).

The event took place on Wednesday, March 12, 2014 from 12:30-1:20 pm at  Harvard School of Public Health, Kresge G1. It was open to the public so all were welcome and a free light lunch was provided!  

Sponsored by HSPH’s

Women, Gender & Health Interdisciplinary Concentration

Co-sponsored by: Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies; Harvard Global Health Institute; Harvard Center for Health and the Global Environment; François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Right; Harvard School of Public Health Women & Health Initiative; Mary Horrigan Connors Center for Women’s Health and Gender Biology; Harvard FAS Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality; Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Harvard University Native American Program; Harvard University David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies; Women and Public Policy Program, Harvard Kennedy School; Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School