Events
New U.S. National Security Strategy Includes Environment, Health Issues
JUNE 2006--Relevant Passages Focus on Clean Energy, Natural Disasters, and Pandemic Diseases
The WHO Projects One Billion Tobacco-Related Deaths in the 21st Century
February 2008 – WHO releases new report on the global tobacco epidemic. Data shows an increasing health burden within the developing world and poor anti-tobacco legislation worldwide.
AIDS and the Next Quarter Century
Dialogue Television: Week of October 17-21, 2007featuringDr. Peter Piot, Executive Director of the United Nations Aids Program and Under Secretary General of the United Nations Link to video
Maternal Mortality: Childbirth Carries Deadly Odds
October 2008 – The Washington Post highlights growing maternal health trend and the issues of maternal mortality worldwide
Getting Ahead of AIDS: The Long-Term Agenda
Webcast: March 9, 2006featuringDr. Peter Piot, Executive Director of UNAIDS and United States Representative Jim Leach
Health, Population, and Nutrition in India: Key Findings from the 2005-06 NFHS-3
Webcast: November 5, 2007featuringKamla 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
Nanotechnology and Public Attitudes
A new study released by the Wilson Center's Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, a project created in partnership with The Pew Charitable Trusts, reveals that while Americans welcome new potential life-saving and -enhancing applications promised by nanotechnology, they voice concern over its potential long-term human health and environmental effects and the ability of government and the private sectors to manage such risks.
Public and Private Provision of Health Care in Sub-Saharan Africa
On November 2, 2006, the Global Health Initiative and the Africa Program hosted a vibrant roundtable workshop on the health imperatives for Africa and the need for the public and private sectors to cooperate in the provision of health care. This publication includes a list of conclusions and next steps reached by the participants as well as summaries of the three papers commissioned for the meeting on: Africa health trends; improving health efficiencies; and, expanding public-private sector partnerships.