Program Information

Global Health Histories
Thursday, November 3, and Friday, November 4, 2005

William H. Natcher Conference Center
National Institutes of Health
45 Center Drive
Bethesda, Maryland 20892

• Thursday, November 3
• Friday, November 4
• Confirmed Symposium Panels
• Confirmed Symposium Participants
• Contact Information

Thursday, November 3

8:00 - 8:45 am	Registration Coffee and pastries
8:45 - 9:00 am	Introductions Donald A.B. Lindberg, Director, National Library of Medicine Elizabeth Fee, Chief, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine Randall M. Packard, Director, Institute of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University Sharon H. Hrynkow, Acting Director, Fogarty International Center
9:00 - 10:30 am	Shifting the Borders: Conceptualizing Global Health Histories Moderator: Elizabeth Fee, National Library of Medicine Peter Brown, Emory University: Towards a Cultural History of International/Global Health Policy and Practice Anne-Emanuelle Birn, University of Toronto, Canada: Mete-ing Needs? Gauging Success in International Health, 1850-2005 Liping Bu, Alma College: Public Health and Modernization in Early Twentieth-Century China
10:30 - 11:00 am	Coffee break
11:00am - 12:30pm	Economies of Illness: The Global Politics of Malaria Moderator: Ariel Pablos Méndez, World Health Organization Randall Packard, Johns Hopkins University: Roll Back Malaria, Roll in Development: A Century of Economic Promises Revisited Bernardino Fantini, University of Geneva, Switzerland: Models, Metaphors, and Discourses: Malaria Laboratories and Field Experiments Marcos Cueto, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Peru: The Cold War, Malaria, and Mexico
12:30 - 2:00 pm	Lunch
2:00 - 3:30 pm	Globalizing Women's Health Histories Moderator: David Serlin, University of California at San Diego John Farley, Dalhousie University, Canada: Nearly Torn Apart: Birth Control at WHO Michelle Murphy, University of Toronto, Canada: Traveling Technology, Transnational Biopower, and a Device for Not Performing Abortions Carole Vance, Columbia University: New Versions of Old Stories: Transnational Conversations About "Trafficking" and Health
3:30 - 4:00 pm	Coffee break
4:00 - 5:30 pm	Treaties and Conventions as Tools of Global Public Health Moderator: Thomson Prentice, World Health Organization P. Preston Reynolds, Health Resources and Services Administration, Department of Health and Human Services: The "Peoples' Campaign": The International Movement Toward a Mine-Free World, 1991-2005 Allan Brandt, Harvard University: Tobacco Control: Historical and Ethical Perspectives on the WHO Framework Convention Derek Yach, Yale University: The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco: People, Processes, and Politics
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Friday, November 4

8:30 - 9:00 am	Registration Coffee and pastries
9:00 - 10:30 am	Exploring Alternative Medicine in Global Perspective Moderator: Robert M. Duggan, Tai Sophia Institute Sita Reddy, Rockefeller Fellow, Smithsonian Institution: Who Owns Traditional Medical Knowledge? Global Heritage Disputes over Ayurveda Adebayo Lawal, University of Lagos, Nigeria: Alternative Medicine In the West African Sub-Region: A Pan-Africanist Perspective Angela Beattie, Mount Royal College, Canada: Globalization, Commodification, and the Transformation of "Traditional" Indian Infant Massage
10:30 - 11:00 am	Coffee break
11:00am - 12:30pm	Between Worlds: Local Histories, Global Consequences Moderator: Paul Theerman, National Library of Medicine Steven Palmer, University of Windsor, Canada: "The American Method": The Rockefeller Foundation and the Caribbean Birth of International Health Andrei Kozlov, St. Petersburg University, Russia: The History of the HIV Epidemic in Russia Barbara Brush, University of Michigan, and Julie Sochalski, University of Pennsylvania: International Migration of Nurses: Global Health, Social Policy, and Political Implications
12:30 - 2:00 pm	Lunch
2:00 - 3:30 pm	Global Public Health and the NIH Moderator: Michael Gottlieb, Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Salim Abdool Karim, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: Human Resources to Combat HIV/AIDS: Fogarty International Center's AIDS International Training and Research Program Martin Alilio, Academy for Educational Development, and Julia Royall, National Library of Medicine: Crossing the Digital Divide: Contributions of Information Technology to Malaria Research in Africa
3:30 - 4:00 pm	Closing Remarks Elizabeth Fee, Chief, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine
4:00 - 6:00 pm	CLOSING RECEPTION

Contact Information

Global Health Histories
Meghan Attalla, Registrar
History of Medicine Division
National Library of Medicine
8600 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, MD 20894 

E-mail: hmdref@nlm.nih.gov
Phone: (301) 496-8949
Fax: (301) 402-7034

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