2009 globemed global health summit program

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from idea to implementation:securing health as a human right

APRIL 2-4, 2009 // NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

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Welcome!

Dear Summit Participants,

Welcome to the 2009 GlobeMed Global Health Summit! This year’s theme, From Idea to Implementation: Securing Health as a Human Right, will explore the discourse of human rights, the status of health, and how actors are playing a part in securing the most basic of rights in communities around the world. Keynotes, panels, breakouts, and workshops led by experts in the field will provide us with the opportunity to learn and discuss amongst each other.

This summit is critical to our role as student leaders in the movement for health equity. Among the seventeen chapters represented is a diversity of viewpoints, individuals, and experiences. Through collaboration and idea-sharing over the next three days, we all have the opportunity to learn from each other and strengthen our role in this movement.

For GlobeMed, this event is a key part of unifying our growing network. Over the last three years, this summit has grown from 40 students discussing a single mission statement in one classroom to over 140 dedicated members who exude limitless passion and a strong commitment to global health. The summit, along with the programs that our chapters have been engaging in throughout the year, is an opportunity to further both the vision of GlobeMed and the dedication of the next generation of global leaders.

For us, organizing the summit has been nothing short of exciting and we have enjoyed every minute of it. We are looking forward to the discussions we will have with the speakers, the debates among our fellow GlobeMed members, and the lessons we will take away from this. Likewise, we hope that the next three days provides you all with the chance to grow as members and advocates yet also shape your individual commitment to health and social justice. Enjoy the summit!

In solidarity,

The GlobeMed Summit Team

Peter Luckow Divya Mallampati Hannah Robbins


SECURING HEALTH AS A HUMAN RIGHTThe theme of the summit, A

Generational Calling: Solidarity in

Global Health, will guide us to explore

how we can bridge organizations,

communities, and individuals to

address global health challenges

through mutual understanding and

collective action.

Solidarity is about actively respecting

the dignity of others and connecting

people across the world to work

together. Through humanity and

cooperation, solidarity enables us to

understand and address the root

causes of global health inequities.

It is through solidarity that real,

sustainable change takes place. When

we come together as brothers and

sisters to develop a mutual

understanding, exercise humility, and

fight to achieve a common cause, we

become life-long partners and

advocates to bring about a more just

and equitable world.


Schedule THURSDAY, APRIL 2

4:30-6:30 PM

REGISTRATION AND DINNER

Location: Cafeteria, Kellogg Building

7:30-9 PM

OPENING KEYNOTEWhere Does the World Stand With the AIDS Pandemic?

- Stephen Lewis, AIDS-Free World

Location: Leverone Auditorium, Kellogg Building

9-10 PM

KEYNOTE RECEPTION


Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and

medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of

livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.

- Article 25, Universal Declaration of Human Rights


Schedule FRIDAY, APRIL 3

8:15-9AM

BREAKFAST AND REGISTRATION

Location: McCormick Tribune Center Lobby

9-10:30 AM

PLENARY PANEL IThe Idea: Debating Health as a Human Right

- Evan Lyon // Partners In Health and Health and Human Rights Journal

- Nirav Shah // University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine

- Laurie Zoloth // Northwestern University Center for Bioethics, Science & Society

- Bechara Choucair (Moderator) // Heartland AllianceLocation: McCormick Tribune Center Forum

11-12PM

GLOBAL HEALTH BREAKOUTS- Addressing Pediatric AIDS in Romania

Jeff Richardson, Abbott Fund (Annenberg G32) - Liberation Theology and Paolo Freire: Insights on Global Health Equity

Cat Quinn and John Straw (Concern America), Dan Dale (Wellington Avenue United Church of Christ) (Annenberg G28)

- Rotary International’s Global Program to Eradicate Polio: The Power of Partnerships Michael Diamond (Annenberg G30)

- The Obscene Disparity: Maternal Mortality in Haiti Stan Shaffer, Maison de Naissance (Annenberg G31)

- The Right to Water in Haiti Evan Lyon, Partners In Health (Annenberg G15)

- The Role of Power & Politics in Global Health Andrea Hanson, Christopher Nichols, Christopher Schrader, Justin Meli

- Behavior Change and Public Health: HIV/AIDS in Cambodia Nirav Shah, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine (Annenberg 101)


Schedule FRIDAY, APRIL 3

12-2PM

SCRUMPTIOUS LUNCH

Location: Annenberg G02

2-5 PM

GLOBEMED DISCUSSIONS- Philosophy and Approach to Global Health- globalhealthU Topical Discussions- Position-specific Discussions

Location: Hotel Orrington, Grand Ballroom

5-7PM

CHAPTER DINNERS

Location: Various restaurants in Evanston

7:30-9 PM

KEYNOTE ADDRESSHealth and Human Rights: One Journalist’s Perspective

- Christine Gorman, TIME Magazine Contributor and Blogger at Global Health Report


People say there is no use trying to change the world. But if we don't try, will it change?

- Jonathan Mann


Schedule SATURDAY, APRIL 4

8:15-9AM

DELECTABLE BREAKFASTLocation: McCormick Tribune Center Lobby

9-10:30 AM

PLENARY PANEL IIThe Implementation: Perspectives on Global Health Delivery

- Brook Baker // Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy, Northeastern University School of Law and Health GAP

- Arlan Fuller // The François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health

- Neeraj Mistry // APCO Worldwide

- Brian Hanson (Moderator) // Buffett Center, Northwestern UniversityLocation: McCormick Tribune Center Forum

11-12PM

GLOBAL HEALTH BREAKOUTS- Fighting for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria: Its Impact, Creation, and Future

Brook Baker, Northeastern School of Law and Health GAP (Jacobs G03)

- An Evidence- and Community-Based Intervention to Promote Health Equity in Detroit Dave Law, Joy-Southfield Community Development Corporation (Jacobs G05)

- The U.S. War in Iraq: Breaches of Medical Neutrality and Civilian Casualties Evan Lyon, Partners In Health and Health & Human Rights Journal (Jacobs G27)

- Radios Populares: Using Radio to Advance Social Justice in Latin America Erin Raether, Radios Populares (Jacobs G36)

- Engaging the Private Sector: The Development of the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, TB, and Malaria Neeraj Mistry, APCO Worldwide (Jacobs G42)

- Trauma, Depression, and HIV in Rwanda Mary Fabri, Marjorie Kovler Center (Jacobs G43)

- Global Health and Congress: A Road Map for Washington Advocacy Arlan Fuller, Harvard School of Public Health (Jacobs G44)

- FrontlineSMS:Medic - Our Mission To Advance Global Health Equity by Delivering Cutting Edge ICT for Pennies Lucky Gunasekara and Nadim Mahmud

- Grassroot Soccer: Using the Power of Soccer to Fight HIV/AIDS - Nick Colacchio, Grassroot Soccer


Schedule SATURDAY, APRIL 4

12-2PM

YUMMY LUNCH

Location: Annenberg G02

2-5 PM

SKILLS WORKSHOPS- Narratives in Global Health

Emily Mendenhall, author of Global Health Leaders: A Reader for Youth (Jacobs G03)

- The Awakening of Compassion and Indignation: Vocational Discernment and Social Conscience John Neafsey, author of A Sacred Voice is Calling: Personal Vocation and Social Conscience (Jacobs G05)

- Leveraging Blogs and Social Networks to Advance Global Health Nathaniel Whittemore, Change.org Social Entrepreneurship Blogger (Jacobs G27)

- Thinking Outside the Box: Career Paths in Global Health Panel of Global Health Professionals

- Creating and using social-issue-based media Inspire Films (Jacobs G42)

5-7PM

CLOSING SUMMIT DINNER

Location: Parkes Hall Rm. 101

Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.


Biographies KEYNOTES & PANELISTS

BROOK BAKER

Professor Baker is co-chair and policy analyst for Health GAP (Global Access Project) and is actively engaged in campaigns for Universal Access to treatment, prevention, and care for people living with HIV/AIDS, especially expanded and improved medical treatment. He has written and consulted extensively on intellectual property rights, trade, health financing and access to medicines, including with the African Union, ASEAN, Venezuela, CARICOM, Thailand, DfID, the World Health Organization, the Millennium Development Goals Project and others. He works on policy issues concerning the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and the US PEPFAR Program, and how those priority disease initiatives might contribute more broadly to improving health care delivery in developing countries. Professor Baker works on issues involving human resources for health and health system strengthening and is a member of the executive board of the Health Workforce Advocacy Initiative of the Global Health Workforce Alliance. Finally he is active in a working group challenging IMF macroeconomic policies that restrict increased government and donor spending on health and education in developing countries.

ARLAN FULLER

Policy Director Arlan Fuller has experience in international policy, federal government operations, and legislative strategy. He has served as a public affairs consultant to the Formosan Association for Public Relations, where he worked with that Taiwanese-American organization and the Taiwanese government in coordinating their legislative efforts in the U.S. Congress. He has also been a consultant to the Citizens Trade Campaign, where he advised grassroots labor and trade organizations on strategy for legislative campaigns regarding the Chile and Singapore Free Trade Agreements. He was the Legislative Assistant for international relations and trade policy to Congressman Sherrod Brown, a senior member of the House International Relations Committee. In this role, he was responsible for the Congressman’s policy campaign to increase USAID funding for anti-tuberculosis efforts as well as organizing a legislative and whipping strategy with the House Democratic Caucus on trade policy issues. Mr. Fuller also worked for Senator Edward Kennedy, serving on the Senator’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee staff, and focused on National Institutes of Health grants. Mr. Fuller received his BA in economics from the College of the Holy Cross. He holds a Master’s Degree in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, and a JD from Boston College Law School.

CHRISTINE GORMAN

Christine Gorman is a nationally known journalist who covered health issues, including global health matters, for more than 20 years on staff at TIME Magazine. In 2008 she received a prestigious Nieman Fellowship to study global health at Harvard University, followed by a three-month reporting trip to investigate the nursing crisis in Malawi.

Ms. Gorman was one of the first mainstream journalists in the U.S. to report in depth on the AIDS epidemic in the early-to-mid 1980s and used her fluency in both French and English to bring the international scope of the problem to the fore.

She is now a freelance writer, contributor to TIME Magazine and blogs about global health at www.globalhealthreport.com.



STEPHEN LEWIS

Mr. Stephen Lewis is Co-Director of AIDS-Free World, a new international advocacy organization that works to promote more urgent and more effective global responses to HIV/AIDS (www.aids-freeworld.org).

Among several senior UN roles that spanned over two decades, Mr. Lewis was the UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa from June 2001 until the end of 2006. From 1995 to 1999, Mr. Lewis was Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF at the organization's global headquarters in New York. From 1984 through 1988, Stephen Lewis was Canada's Ambassador to the United Nations.

In addition to his work with AIDS-Free World, Mr. Lewis is a Professor in Global Health, Faculty of Social Sciences at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. He serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative and is the chair of the board of the Stephen Lewis Foundation in Canada.

Mr. Lewis is the author of the best-selling book, Race Against Time. He holds 28 honorary degrees from Canadian universities and is a Companion of the Order of Canada, Canada's highest honour for lifetime achievement. In April 2005, TIME magazine listed Stephen Lewis as one of the ‘100 most influential people in the world’. In 2007, the Kingdom of Lesotho invested Mr. Lewis as Knight Commander of the Most Dignified Order of Moshoeshoe. The order, named for the founder of Lesotho, is the country's highest honour.

Mr. Lewis has received a number of prestigious awards, amongst them: The Dean’s Distinguished Service Award conferred by Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health in recognition of outstanding contributions to public health (2003). Jonathan Mann Health and Human Rights Award from the International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care (2003); the International Council of Nurses’ Health and Human Rights Award, awarded quadrennially for outstanding contributions to international health and human rights (2005); the Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Leadership Award, from the Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas (2006); and the Health and Human Rights Award from Doctors of the World, USA (2007).

EVAN LYON

Evan Lyon, MD focuses on community-based approaches to HIV and TB treatment, providing primary care in resource-poor settings, and management of chronic disease using community health workers. He has worked in Haiti since 1996.

Dr. Lyon received his MD from Harvard Medical School in 2003 and completed residency training in Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in 2007. He is currently a hospitalist on the faculty of Brigham and Women's Hospital, an Associate Physician at the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities and an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Lyon is also an editor of the journal of Health and Human Rights.

Beyond working to provide care in poor communities, Dr. Lyon's research and advocacy work has focused on economic, social and political inequality, the health consequences of war and political violence - with particular emphasis on the Iraq war, the right to health, and popular, community-based responses to global health problems.



NEERAJ MISTRY

Dr. Neeraj Mistry is a South African-born public health physician, based at the New York headquarters of the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria. He leads the technical assistance to GBC member companies, focusing on policy, program design, and implementation in the workplace and community.

Following the completion of his medical training (MBBCh/MD) at the University of the Witwatersrand Medical School in Johannesburg, South Africa, Dr. Mistry's clinical experience focused on HIV/AIDS, occupational health, family practice, medical administration, and sexual and reproductive health in both the public and private health sectors.

During his time in London he worked in the NHS (National Health Service) and private health sector in internal medicine, surgery and psychiatry, and has a Masters in International Health Policy and Health Economics (MPH) from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Upon graduating he completed an internship at Merck & Co., Inc. New Jersey, USA, in the department of Public Affairs for Europe, Middle East, and Africa.

NIRAV SHAH

Dr. Nirav Shah holds an M. Phil in Economics from Oxford University and both medical and law degrees from The University of Chicago. From 2001-2003, he served as the Chief Economist of the Ministry of Health of Cambodia. In that position, he instituted a program that stemmed corruption in the public health system by reducing the number of administrative steps in the supply chain. He is currently a Lecturer at The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine.

LAURIE ZOLOTH

Laurie Zoloth is a Professor of Medical Humanities, Bioethics, Jewish Studies and Religion. She is also the Director of the Northwestern University Center for Bioethics, Science and Society, and Director of the Brady Program for Ethics and Civic Life, in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences.

Professor Zoloth is the former President of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities as well as serving on its founding board for two terms and receiving the Society's award for Distinguished Service to the Field in 2007. She is the chair of the Howard Hughes Bioethics Advisory Board and has served on the NASA National Advisory Council, receiving NASA’s National Public Service award. Professor Zoloth received an M.A. from San Francisco State University and a second M.A. and Ph.D. from the Graduate Theological Union.

FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITYMichelle ClarkLindsay Pingel

LOYOLA UNIVERSITYEvelyn AnguloSean AroraCatherine CheciekTana ChongsuwatChristian HyunMarko MamicAllen RamirezNick ReynoldsScott SandilandsSharika SankuJeni ServossAnna Wilewska

NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY

Tina DardenoNicolas MorettiSagar PathakIsabelle Wiles

NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITYVanessa DopkerGabriela EscobarFizza HussainJacob KneemanNikita KohliVanessa LeeSarah MihalovCarol ParkLalith PolepeddiSana RahimLaura RuchLily RyzhkovaJon ShafferKathryn SmileyTiffany Wong

PENN STATE UNIVERSITY

Brian BeachlerMelinda BotheHillary DarvilleRachel DarvilleChristine FagiolettiEmily FetterhoffJonathan LichkusMegan MetzgerSylvia Ranjeva

BUCKNELL UNIVERSITYAlyson CobbSean CollinsDan RyanJordan Sukys

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

Stacy ChuMaya Cohen

DEPAUL UNIVERSITY

Samantha BrantDevin MeyerTom MullenixAshley SnoufferRachelle Snyder

THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITYBlair BainbridgeRegina GrossmanJacob JonesAmanda PaternostroCaleb Reinhold

Summit Participants


RHODES COLLEGEBrent ButgereitMaria CartagenaSarah EndresShannon FullerDev Varma

TRUMAN STATE

Ann-Elise BaiottoAnn BrunoPatrick CaseyEmily DenightRachel FlinnNatalie GrafHazar KhidirJonathan LeisingerChristine LinErin MedinMichelle RiefeJustine Leo TorregosaSyed Mehdi Zaidi

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - LOS ANGELESRachel AlbertCourtney ArmstrongAllison BambergSagar DesaiTurquoise GriffithMandip KaurJason LuAmanda SalazarTatianaYanuaria

UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - KANSAS CITY

Dierdre HartShaun Mohan

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA - CHAPEL HILLHanna AliMeagan CannadyJulie GoldingKristin KennedyElliot MontpellierBianca NguyenYelena PechenyMadelynn SimmonsAurelien Vetil

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGOAlexandra MidgleyJuliana Shulman

UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER

Evan BlankChris Wichterman

UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDAWill Narracci

GLOBEMED ALUMNI

Maggie CarlinPaul RotertKristina Redgrave

Visiting Students & Alumni


UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAShridevi BajajPhilicia CastilloSaw HtunBarbara JenkinsKristie WangChris Yang

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS

Aleena AgrawalMolly AlawodeMicaela AtkinsDevika BagchiEvan BlankPreethi KambaiyaAnupam KumarMichaela KupferAkhila NarlaElizabeth Riley

GLOBEMED NATIONAL OFFICEAnkur AsthanaRachel BerkowitzGreg FreedmanAshley HagamanJennifer LienPeter LuckowDivya MallampatiHannah RobbinsVictor Roy

Buffett CenterWeinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Office of International Program Development

International Studies ProgramMedill School of Journalism

Masters in Public Health ProgramDepartment of Anthropology

Program of African Studies

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