Conference Highlights
Along with keynote speaker, Journalist Chris Hedges, the conference highlights include:

· Major plenary session on the health consequences of war, featuring Barry Levy and Victor Sidel, authors of the definitive text, War and Public Health. Both are past presidents of the American Public Health Association.

· Major plenary session on the role of health professionals in preventing war, featuring Neil Arya, author of Peace Through Health and past president of Physicians for Global Survival; Dr. Raana Zahid, of Pakistan, a lifelong advocate of human rights for women; and Paula Gutlove, founder of the Health Bridges for Peace project, which links health care with the prevention and resolution of inter-communal conflict in war-torn areas.

· Special lecture on torture by Alfred W. McCoy, a professor of Southeast Asian History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and author of A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, From the Cold War to the War on Terror, 2006.

· Speaker Norm Stamper, PhD, former Seattle Police Chief speaking on the conflict related to the drug trade.

· Screening of the film, “Pray the Devil Back to Hell,” about the women’s peace movement in Liberia, featuring journalist Janet Johnson Bryant, a radio reporter in the film, who will answer questions.

· Reception hosted by the Global Health Council.