Alliances for Global Health Education: Learning from South-South Collaboration — Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health – The Changing Landscape of Global Public Health: Welcome Address, Process and Goals of the Meeting, and Trends Transforming the Landscape

Greetings and Introductions

  • Linda P. Fried, dean and DeLamar Professor, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, USA

Welcome Address

  • Judith Rodin, president, The Rockefeller Foundation
    “How History and Globalization Inform the Future of Global Health”

Remarks by Conference Co-Sponsors

  • Peter Piot, director, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
  • Harrison Spencer, president and CEO, Association of Schools of Public Health, USA

Process and Goals of the Meeting

  • Richard Parker, chair of the Conference Organizing Committee, Professor of Sociomedical Sciences and Anthropology, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, USA

Pre-Meeting Consultation Feedback and Framing of Themes

  • Alastair Ager, executive director, Global Health Initiative, Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, USA

Propositional Questions

  • Linda P. Fried, dean and DeLamar Professor, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, USA

Trends Transforming the Landscape

Plenary Presentation 1: Changing health and prevention needs

  • Carlos Caceres (Cayetano Heredia University, Peru) and Walter Mendoza (United Nations Population Fund, Peru)

Discussant responses

  • Alex Ezeh (African Population and Health Research Center, Kenya)
  • Sania Nishtar (Heartfile, Pakistan)

Plenary Presentation 2: Innovations in science & technology

  • Peter Piot (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK)

Discussant responses

  • Hassan Mshinda (Commission for Science and Technology, Tanzania)
  • Catterina Ferreccio (Catholic University, Chile)

Event Date

Oct 25, 2010



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