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The highly-connected, wired world of the 21st century is challenging our established public health organizations and boundaries. Farming practices in Guatemala cause disease outbreaks in New England. Individuals working in call centers in India answer consumer questions from North America. Transmission of a then unknown respiratory virus in a hotel in Hong Kong leads to a worldwide epidemic. Accurate up-to-date information on pandemic influenza is available to anyone with an internet connection, and so are unsubstantiated claims for diets, devices, and drugs. Obesity and under nutrition live side-by-side in many countries.
But a flat world also offers unprecedented opportunities to improve health. A person can maintain his or her personal medical record on the internet and have it available around the world. Access to expertise, information, and evidence need not be restricted by long distances or political boundaries. Just as health threats, such as global climate change and spread of contaminated products, can no longer be treated as local problems, a flat world gives opportunities for worldwide collaborations to solve those problems. The health system needs to be ready to take advantage of those opportunities, however.
This meeting will be a forum for building partnerships that take advantage of the opportunities and address the challenges of the new flat world. We believe the flat world may hold promise to improve health around the globe. Through exciting plenary speakers, panels, breakout sessions, and an inspiring evening at the Atlanta History Center, the 2007 Leaders to Leaders Conference represents a unique opportunity to learn, interact, and engage.
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Objectives
- Define key opportunities and challenges facing public health in the new flat world
- Share knowledge of successful innovations and partnerships
- Encourage new and innovative collaborations that dramatically change the world of public health
- Develop knowledge and skills to overcome barriers to collaboration
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Webcast Information
These webcasts will have a live webcast, and an archived webcast for viewing
after March 27 and March 28, 2007.
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Visit the PHTN website at http://www2a.cdc.gov/phtn
for further information about this program and other distance learning
events.
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PHTN Home Page
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This page last reviewed: March 19, 2007
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