Friday, May 2: Understanding Global Health Issues
South Campus Center, University of Washington
Schedule
| 8:15 - 8:45 a.m. | Registration |
| 9 - 10 a.m. | Keynote: Joe Cerrell, director of global health policy & advocacy, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: Understanding the Global Health Explosion: What's happening and why is it happening now? |
| 10:15 - 11:45 a.m. | 2 Panel Options |
| Noon - 1:30 p.m. | Lunch. Images & Insights, photojournalist Robert Semeniuk |
| 1:45 - 3 p.m. | 2 Panel Options |
| 3:15 - 4:30 p.m. | 2 Panel Options |
| 5 - 7 p.m. | Table Talk Reception |
Panels and Confirmed Panelists - May 2
(Subject to Change)
I. 10:15 - 11:45 a.m.
Innovations in disease prevention and treatment: What works in the field and what's on the way?
Stefan Kappe: principal investigator, Malaria Program SBRI
Marla Smith-Nilson: executive director, Water 1st
Dana M. Terry: associate program director, Malaria Control and Evaluation Partnership in Africa (MACEPA)
Moderator: Penny Duckham, executive director, Kaiser Media Fellowships Program
Politics of global health: Who's setting the agenda for health services and aid?
Steve Gloyd: associate chair, Global Health; and professor, Health Services, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington
Ruth White: assistant professor, Social Work, Seattle University
Heidi Peterson: regional director, western region, CARE USA
Moderator: Stefanie Friedhoff: special projects manager, Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard
II. 1:45 - 3 p.m.
Inequality and health: What is really making people sick?
Steve Bezruchka: senior lecturer, Health Services, School of Public Health and Community Medicine
David Fleming: director, Public Health - Seattle & King County
Loyce Mbewa-Ong´udi: founder and president, Rabuor Village Project
Moderator: Steve Scher: senior host, KUOW Weekday
Emerging diseases: What will the public need to know?
Ira Longini: professor, Department of Biostatistics, UW School of Public Health and Community Medicine, and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Guy Palmer: regents professor of pathology and infectious diseases and director of the School for Global Animal Health at Washington State University
Ann Marie Kimball: professor, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington
Moderator: Sally James: medical editor and writer; vice president, Northwest Association of Science Writers
III. 3:30 - 4:45 p.m.
Private business/public health: How are corporate-philanthropic alliances affecting access to medicines and health?
Alejandro Ceron: co-director, Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines Project, The Center for Law, Justice and Society (DeJuSticia), Bogotá, Colombia
Diana M. Lanchoney: executive director, Developing World Strategic Integration, Merck Vaccine and Infectious Diseases
Christopher J. Elias: president and chief executive officer, PATH
Moderator: Kristi Heim, Seattle Times,
philanthropy, business and technology reporter
Climate change: How could it complicate global health efforts & planning?
Jonathan Mayer: professor, Epidemiology and Geography, Global Health, Medicine
Christine Bachman: Global Health Education and Curriculum Program assistant, MPH candidate
Nancy Lewis: director, Research Program, East-West Center
Moderator: Gary Davis, KPLU health and science reporter, assistant news director
Table Talk Reception
5 - 7 p.m., Health Sciences Rotunda
Slum doctors in Kenya, ceramic water filters in Myanmar, a woman's
birthing center on the Tibetan Plateau. This dynamic forum will
connect you with Northwest-based NGOs in a series of intense,
intimate eight-minute conversations.
Generously hosted by: The Seattle Times, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, KING5 Television, and msnbc.com
Saturday, May 3 : The Craft of Global Health Coverage
South Campus Center, University of Washington
Schedule
| 9 - 9:30 a.m. | Coffee and information table, Crow's Nest |
| 9:30 - 10:45 a.m. | 2 Panel Options |
| 11 - 12:15 p.m. | 2 Panel Options |
| 12:30 - 2 p.m. | Lunch. Where do we go from here? A conversation with Stefanie Friedhoff, special projects manager, Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard |
Panels and Confirmed Panelists - May 3
(Subject to Change)
I. 9:30 - 10:45 a.m.
Bringing international stories home: How to develop, report and write overseas stories that resonate with local readers.
Hanson Hosein: digital filmmaker and director of the Master of Communication in Digital Media, University of Washington
Sandi Doughton: health and science reporter, Seattle Times
David Kohn: medicine and health reporter, Baltimore Sun
Moderator: Andrew Holtz, the HoltzReport, and board member, Association of Health Care Journalists
Global health as a local story: How to find and report global health stories in our own communities.
Amy Hagopian: faculty, University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine
Jack Saul: assistant professor, Columbia University's Mailman School
of Public Health; director, International Trauma Studies Program
Genji Terasaki: primary care physician, International Medicine Clinic, Harborview Medical Center
Moderator: Enrique Cerna, host of the New KCTS 9 Connects.
II. 11 - 12:15 p.m.
Ethical, cultural, and personal issues of reporting overseas.
Donna DeCesare: photojournalist and executive committee member, Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma.
Zied Mhirsi:
MD, Fulbright scholar, MPH
student, Global Health, University of Washington
Lisa Berglund: videographer, Gold Dog Media
Moderator: Meg Spratt, associate director, Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma
Watchdogging global health: How to find information on international health organizations and their work.
Charles Piller: investigative reporter, Los Angeles Times
Cheryl Phillips: investigative reporter, Seattle Times
Moderator: Michael McCarthy, medical writer and editor, LocalHealthGuide
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