[Brownbag] Global Change and Health Symposium update (fwd)

[Liz Ozselcuk]

not us, but worthy of note:

*Global Change and Health*
*A Symposium on Urban Health in the 21^st Century*

Friday, May 8, 2009
9 am -- 3 pm
Alumni House
UC Berkeley


This special symposium highlights three drivers of global change defining the 
urban health challenges of tomorrow:

*? Climate change*
*? Demographic shifts*
*? Economic trends*

Participants will engage in faculty-led panel discussions inviting responses to 
the identified challenges.

_Keynote speakers_:
* *
*Stephen H. Schneider, PhD*
Melvin and Joan Lane Professor
Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies
Professor, Department of Biology and Senior Fellow
Woods Institute for the Environment
Stanford University

*Alex Ezeh, PhD*
Executive Director, and Demographer
African Population and Health Research Center
Nairobi, Kenya

*Trevor Hancock, MB, BS, MHSc*
Public Health Physician
Healthy Cities and Communities
British Columbia, Canada


Registration is free. /Please RSVP to/ cgph at berkeley.edu /by _May 1._/
Lunch will be provided. For more information please see 
http://cgph.berkeley.edu or contact Mirriam Rafiq at <mrafiq at berkeley.edu>.


*Hosted by:*
Berkeley Alliance for Global Health (BAGH)

*Co-Sponsors:*
Center for Global Public Health (CGPH)
The Henry Wheeler Center for Emerging and Neglected Diseases (CEND)
Bixby Center for Population, Health and Sustainability
Center for Global Metropolitan Studies



Claire Norris, MPA
Administrator, Bixby Center for Population,
Health and Sustainability
Global Health Office
227 University Hall, School of Public Health
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA  94720-7360
Tel. 510 642-6915
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