Global Health Matters for Massachusetts
Jointly sponsored by the Massachusetts Medical Society and the
Harvard School of Public Health Center for Public Health
Leadership
MMS Headquarters, Waltham
(All presentations are in .pdf format)
Preliminary Agenda with Topics:
| 8:00 a.m. | Welcome
Alice T. Coombs, MD
President, Massachusetts Medical Society John E. McDonough, DPH, MPA
Professor of Public Health Practice & Director of the
Center for Public Health Leadership, Harvard School of Public
Health Moderator
Martha Bebinger
Reporter, WBUR
Niemen Fellow, Harvard University |
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| 8:30 a.m. | Impact of Global Policies on Health Service Delivery -
Examples from the Field
Ken Olivola
Director, International Division, John Snow, Inc. |
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| 8:50 a.m. | All Health Care is Local: Global Health Lessons for
Massachusetts (7 pages)
Marc Roberts, PhD
Professor of Political Economy and Health Policy, Harvard
School of Public Health |
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| 9:20 a.m. | Information Technology and Global
Health (23 pages)
Martin Anderson, MBA
Managing Director, Babson Social Innovation Lab, Babson
College |
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| 9:50 a.m. | Immigrant and Refugee Health (19
pages)
Sondra S. Crosby, MD
Director of Medical Services, and Co-Director, Boston
Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights |
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| 10:20 a.m. | Panel Discussion |
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| 10:45 a.m. | Break |
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| 11:15 a.m. | Henry Ingersoll Bowditch Award for Excellence in Public
Health
Presented to Joseph R. DiFranza, MD |
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| 11:30 a.m. | Case Presentations and Discussion
Strengthening Health Systems in Resource-Poor
Settings through the Application of Sana Wireless
Technology (15 pages)
Leo Anthony Celi, MD, MPH
Project Lead, Sana, Computer Science and Artificial
Intelligence Laboratory, MIT Providing Care to Dominican Transnational
Families (12 pages)
Kim Wilson, MD MPH
Assistant Professor, Center for Global Pediatrics and Martha
Eliot Health Center Children's Hospital Boston |
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| 12:15 a.m. | Closing Remarks
Lynn Black, MD, MPH
Chair, MMS Committee on Public Health |
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| 12:30 p.m. | Adjourn |
This program was planned by members of the Massachusetts Medical
Society Committee on Global Health and Committee on Public Health.
View Presentations from Previous Years:
2010 -- Clearing the Air: Energy Practices &
Human Health
2009 -- Violence: Implications for Health
