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China's Earthquake and Natural Disasters: Meeting the Needs
China's Sichuan Province incurred many casualties following the massive earthquake in June. The disaster also shed light on environmental and infrastructure problems in China. Several recent meetings were held on these issues, one on public health flaws after natural disasters and the other on China's cement industry.

Dialogue Interview With Dr. Samia Altaf
March 2008 - Dr. Samia Altaf, Woodrow Wilson Center fellow and public health physician, discusses the failure of international development aid in Pakistan.

Pakistan’s Health System Troubled, Says Wilson Center Pakistan Scholar Samia Altaf
JANUARY 2008—Wilson Quarterly Piece Diagnoses Challenges to Foreign Aid’s Effectiveness




Events
Aid Effectiveness in Pakistan: Case Study of the Health and Population Sector
Wednesday, July 09 2008, 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Speaker: Samia Altaf, Wilson Center Pakistan Scholar
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Coal City
Thursday, May 22 2008, 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Mingxu Zhang, Deputy Mayor, Huainan Municipal Government; Wei-Ping Pan, Western Kentucky University; Derek Vollmer, National Academy of Sciences
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Reducing Maternal Mortality in Developing Countries
Wednesday, March 12 2008, 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Wendy Graham, Immpact Principal Investigator, and Professor of Obstetric Epidemiology, University of Aberdeen; Dr. Julia Hussein, Ipact Scientific Director, and Immpact Senior Research Fellow; Cynthia Stanton, Immpact Researcher, and Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Sophie Witter, Immpact/Ipact Health Economist
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Leprosy and Human Rights
Thursday, March 06 2008, 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Yohei Sasakawa, Chairman of Nippon Foundation, World Health Organization (WHO) Goodwill Ambassador for Leprosy Elimination, and Japanese Ambassador for the Human Rights of People Affected by Leprosy
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Health, Population, and Nutrition in India: Key Findings from the 2005-06 National Family Health Survey (NFHS-3)
Monday, November 05 2007, 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Kamla Gupta, Professor and Head, Department of Migration and Urban Studies, International Institute for Population Sciences; Fred Arnold, Vice President, Macro International; and Sunita Kishor, Senior Gender Specialist, Macro International
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