Events
Film Screening and Reception: A Walk to Beautiful
May 15, 2008 // 3:00pm — 6:00pm
The Wilson Center hosts a screening of A Walk to Beautiful, an award-winning documentary about five Ethiopian women who suffer from obstetric fistula and seek treatment at the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital.
Public Health Democracy: U.S. and Global Health Disparities in Breast Cancer
April 02, 2008 // 2:00pm — 4:00pm
Dr. Doris Browne, Program Director of the Breast and Gynecologic Cancer Research Group, Division of Cancer Prevention, National Cancer Institute; Dr. Peter Greenwald, Director of the Division of Cancer Prevention, National Cancer Institute; Dr. Lucile Adams-Campbell, Director of the Howard University Cancer Center, and Professor of Medicine
Reducing Maternal Mortality in Developing Countries
March 12, 2008 // 3:00pm — 5:00pm
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
Global Epidemics: The Contribution of Work
March 05, 2008 // 2:00pm — 4:00pm
Peter Schnall, Professor of Medicine, University of California at Irvine, and Director, Center for Social Epidemiology; Paul Landsbergis, Associate Professor of Community and Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine; Marnie Dobson, Associate Director, Center for Social Epidemiology, and Research Associate, Center for Occupational and Environmental Health at University of California, Irvine; Ellen Rosskam, Southeast Europe Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center; Josh Bivens, Economist, Economic Policy Institute
U.S. Launch: Lancet Series on Maternal and Child Undernutrition
January 16, 2008 // 9:00am — 10:30am
The health effects of undernutrition are responsible for more than one-third of childhood deaths and 11 percent of the world's disease burden. The findings of The Lancet's new series on maternal and child undernutrition are presented.
Public-Private Partnerships for Health in Sub-Saharan Africa
December 06, 2007 // 8:00am — 12:00pm
Victor K. Barbiero, Visiting Professor, Department of Global Health, School of Public Health and Health Services, The George Washington University; Malcolm Barry Kistnasamy, Dean of Medicine, Nelson Mandela School of Medicine; Andrew Harmer, Research Fellow, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Akudo Anyanwu Ikemba, CEO, Friends of the Global Fund Africa
Health, Population, and Nutrition in India: Key Findings from the 2005-06 National Family Health Survey (NFHS-3)
November 05, 2007 // 2:00pm — 4:00pm
The Wilson Center hosts the U.S. launch of India's much-anticipated third National Family Household Survey, which provides vital health and welfare indicators.
Working Together to Counter Global Health Threats
October 31, 2007 // 11:00am — 12:00pm
A Director's Forum with Michael O. Leavitt, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; and Member of the Wilson Center's Board of Trustees
Strengthening Relationships To Defeat Hidden Hunger: The Importance of Government and Private Sector Cooperation
October 16, 2007 // 12:00pm — 2:00pm
Tamara Bekefi, Independent Consultant, and Michael D. Jarvis, Private Sector Development Specialist, World Bank Institute
Universal Health Care Coverage in the United States
October 03, 2007 // 10:00am — 11:30am
A Director's Forum with Robin Cook, physician, bestselling author, and Member of the Wilson Center's Board of Trustees; James Morone, Professor of Political Science and Urban Studies, Brown University; Michael Cannon, Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute; and Paul Seltman, Counsel, Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP