Bay Area Global Health Seminar Series Event

By 2015, it is projected that we will be sharing the planet with 7.3 billion people. While the human population swells—especially in parts of the world where there is more poverty, disease, famine, and political instability—we must continue finding innovative ways to achieve global health goals. Population health coheres infectious disease, NCD’s, and nutrition with behavioral economics, climate change, agriculture, resource scarcity, and the entire living ecosystem. To improve health, from rural villages to booming metropolises, there is a need for transdisciplinary and collaborative global health action.

This panel convenes experts from around the Bay Area to explore cutting-edge research tackling complex global health challenges, and to debate the priorities for a growing, interconnected, and crowded Earth.

Panelists
• Jenna Davis, Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Higgons-Magid Senior Fellow, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
• David Vlahov, Dean, School of Nursing, UCSF
• Ted Miguel, Oxfam Professor in Environmental and Resource Economics, Department of Economics; Faculty Director of the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA), UC Berkeley
• Howard-Yana Shapiro, Senior Fellow, Department of Plant Sciences, UC Davis

Moderator: Stefano Bertozzi, Dean, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley

Opening and closing remarks: Ndola Prata, Director, Bixby Center for Population, Health & Sustainability, UC Berkeley and Malcom Potts, Professor of Public Health, UC Berkeley

For free registration + information about this event, please visit: http://globalhealthsciences.ucsf.edu/news-events/bay-area-global-health-seminar-series