Family and Child Health in the Americas - Global Health Summit Afternoon Session
April 29, 2011
The 2011 Global Health Summit was entitled "Family and Child Health in the Americas: Efforts to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals." This video is of speakers during the afternoon session.
Topics were covered during the afternoon session
12:30‐1:30 Sustaining Immunization Programs in Developing Countries
Jon Andrus, MD, Deputy Director of the Pan American Health Organization
Vaccines: A Way to Achieve Better Health and Wealth in the Americas
Edwin Asturias, MD, Associate Scientist, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Center for Health Studies University del Valle in Guatemala and Walter A Orenstein, MD, Deputy Director For Immunization Programs, Vaccine Delivery, Global Health Program, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Question the International Health Policy Experts
Moderator: Jon Andrus, MD, Deputy Director of the Pan American Health Organization
Panelists:
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PAHO: Yehuda Benguigui, MD
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AAP: Jonathan D Klein, MD, MPH
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IPA: William Keenan, MD, Executive Director
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Gates Foundation: Walter Orenstein, MD
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APA: Danielle Laraque, MD, Immediate‐Past‐President, Academic Pediatric
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Association (APA) and APA Global Health Task Force
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US Dept of State: Daniel Kurtz‐Phelan, Policy Planning Staff Member
HIV and AIDS: Success and Problems with International Research Networks
Myron Levin, MD, Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine
Efforts to Reduce Maternal Mortality: Current research and new directions
Gretchen Heinrichs, MD, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Colorado School of Medicine and Denver Health
Right Care, Right Now! Advances in morbidity and mortality with simple strategies
Fernando Stein, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine; Chief, Critical Care Clinic at Texas Children’s Hospital and Medical Director, Progressive Care, Texas Children’s International
