Speakers to discuss approaches to public health, here and abroad

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  Photograph of Leah Devlin

  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.

Participants may register through March 16 for $80 each, and from then until April 13 at $95. For more information, visit www.globalsouth.unc.edu or contact Catherine Lavenburg at (919) 962-3094 or globalsouth@unc.edu.

The conference, to be held at the Hilton Raleigh-Durham Airport Conference Center, will be sponsored by UNC’s Center for Global Initiatives, Center for the Study of the American South and Office of Global Health. The corporate sponsor, Quintiles Transnational Corp., is a pharmaceutical research and development firm headquartered near Research Triangle Park that has offices in more than 50 countries.

News Services contact: L.J. Toler, (919) 962-8589.

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