March 29, 2007
Registration remains open for UNC’s “Navigating the Global American South: Global Health and Regional Solutions,” a conference to be held in Research Triangle Park, April 19-20.

The registration rate of $25 for students and $95 for professionals includes a reception, breakfast, lunch and refreshments. For information about registering or details about the conference schedule, visit www.globalsouth.unc.edu or contact Catherine Lavenburg at (919) 962-3094 or globalsouth@unc.edu .

Public health experts from across the United States will explore regional approaches to public health and ask what experiences translate between the American South and other world regions. Recovery from Hurricane Katrina, nutrition and obesity, HIV/AIDS, and Hispanic access to health care will be among the topics discussed. Speakers will include:

  • John Briscoe, country director for Brazil, the World Bank;
  • Pierre Buekens, dean, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine;
  • Leah Devlin, director, N.C. Division of Public Health;
  • Judith Rodin, president, Rockefeller Foundation;
  • William L. Roper, dean, UNC School of Medicine; chief executive officer, UNC Health Care;
  • Jaime Sepulveda Amor, visiting professor, University of California, San Francisco; former director, National Institutes of Health, Mexico; and
  • Louis W. Sullivan, former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Our School’s Office of Global Health, UNC’s Center for Global Initiatives, and the Center for the Study of the American South are sponsoring the conference, to be held at the Hilton Raleigh-Durham Airport Conference Center. Quintiles Transnational Corp., the corporate sponsor, has offices in more than 50 countries.

 

Conference contact: Catherine Lavenburg, (919) 962-3094 or globalsouth@unc.edu.

School of Public Health media contact: Ramona DuBose, (919) 966-7467 or ramona_dubose@unc.edu .

 

 

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