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Fall 2009 Events

Addicted to Profit: Tobacco, Opium and Society in South Asia        (1 sh)


Date: Friday, December 4 - Sunday, December 6
See attached tentative schedule

Spring 2010 Events

GH/Innovate 2010 Global Health and Innovation Conference

Presented by Unite For Sight, 7th Annual Conference; Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA


Date: Saturday, April 17 - Sunday, April 18
Keynote Speakers: Seth Godin, Agent of Change; Jacqueline Novogratz, Acumen Fund; Jeffrey Sachs, Professor and Director of Earth Institute at Columbia University; Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, Health Coordinator, Millennium Village Project

See attached list of leaders in social entrepreneurship speakers, and more information on the 2010 Global Health and Innovation Conference.

2010 Health Care & Promotion Practices Study Tour to Great Britain


Date: Thursday, March 11 - Sunday, March 20, 2010
The overall purpose of this popular study tour to Great Britain (offered since 1989) is to foster more health-related linkages and partnerships between the United States and England and Wales. A major focus of this study tour is having the participants become engaged in an in-depth professional and cultural experience to include planned, individualized work shadowing (practical experience) opportunities. Check out the program brochure to learn more!

Past Fall 2009 Events

Ida Beam Distinguished Visiting Professors Program


Date: Thursday, October 1
Time: 7:00 pm

Film producers Steven Engel and Heidi Reavis will discuss their film A Walk to Beautiful (http://www.walktobeautiful.com), which tells the stories of five Ethiopian women who suffered injury during childbirth and were ostracized by their communities.

Global Health and Global Food Conference


Date: Wednesday, October 14

The Heartland Global Health Consortium will host a Global Health and Global Food Conference on Wednesday, October 14, 2009, 11:30 am - 4:30 pm. The event will be held at the Medical Education Center, 3200 Grand Avenue, Des Moines University, Des Moines, IA.

More information is available at: http://www.heartlandconsortium.org/index.php/2009/07/24/global-health-conference/

To register through the University of Iowa Global Health Program please complete the registration form and bring, with payment, to International Programs, 1111 UCC.
Attached registration form

World Food Prize Symposium


Date: Wednesday, October 14 - Friday, October 16

The 2009 World Food Prize (Borlaug Dialogue) symposium will "ask experts and decision-makers from around the world how their fields – in policy, industry, science and academia, and development – can ensure adequate access to food and nutrition for, and thus contribute to the security of, all people." Learn more at http://www.worldfoodprize.org/symposium/2009.htm.

Global Health Studies 2009 Annual Conference

                        "Globalization of Drug Therapy"
                                      Iowa City, IA
                                Conference Sessions:


Friday, October 16, 2009

  1. Appropriate, Safe Medication Therapy: A Human Right
  2. Affordability: Why Drugs Cost What They Do
  3. First Do No Harm: Global Drug Development, Part One
  4. Global Drug Access in the Media

Saturday, October 17, 2009

  1. First Do No Harm: Global Drug Development, Part Two
  2. Availability: Part I. Global Response to AIDS, Malaria, TB
  3. Availability: Part II. Big Pharma's Response to AIDS, Malaria, TB
  4. Drug Safety: Counterfeit Drugs, Everybody's Problem
  5. Inter-relationships of Local and Global Drug Use

Sunday, October 18, 2009

  1. Accessibility: Getting Drugs to People Who Need Them, Part One
  2. Accessibility: Getting Drugs to People Who Need Them, Part Two
  3. From Iowa with Love: Serving the Global Underserved

See attached full schedule including speakers, times, and locations

Registration form