Past Conferences and Themes

April 2010: Hosted by the University of Washington and Physicians for Social Responsibility
Theme: “War and Global Health”
Keynote: Journalist and author Christopher Hedges, former foreign correspondent for the New York Times

 

April 2009: Joint conference with the Global Health Education Consortium (GHEC), University of Washington
Theme: “Transcending Global Health Barriers: Education and Action”
Keynote: Harriet Fulbright, Director of the Fulbright Center

February 2008: Simon Fraser University/University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
Theme: “Meeting the Challenge: the Millennium Development Goals and Beyond”
Keynotes: Dr. Samantha Nutt, FRCPC, Executive Director & Founder, War Child Canada and Dr. Julio Montaner, FRCPC, FCCP, Clinical Director, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS and Professor of Medicine, UBC

February 2007: University of Washington
Theme: “Global Health Through Different Lenses: Reflections, Perspectives, and Visions for the Future”
Keynote: Dr. Jim Yong Kim, Professor of Medicine and Social Medicine and Chair of the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Co-founder of Partners in Health
Video: “The Golden Age of Global Health: An Ethnology in Progress”

February 2006: Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR
Theme: “Health, Human Rights and Economics: The Value of Human Life”
Keynote: Jeffrey Sachs, PhD., an economist and Director of the United Nations Millennium Project (live video address)

February 2005: University of Washington
Theme: “Politics, Social Justice, and Global Health”
Keynote: Dr. Mirta Roses Periago, Regional Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)

February 2004: University of Arizona, Tucson
Theme: “Bringing International Health Home”
Keynote: Dr. Victor W. Sidel, Distinguished University Professor of Social Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York

November 2002: University of Washington
Theme: “1st Western Regional International Health Conference”
Keynote: Dr. William Foege, Fellow at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Former Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Former Executive Director of the Carter Center