[EQ] REMINDER: Presentation: Why more equal societies almost always do better - Tuesday, 19th January 2010, at 3:00- 5:00 pm Washington DC time

 

 

Presentation   Why more equal societies almost always do better Richard Wilkinson, Professor Emeritus at the University of Nottingham Medical School  and Honorary Professor at University College London. Kate Pickett, Professor of Epidemiology at the University of York and a National Institute for Health Research Career Scientist.
When: Tuesday, 19th January 2010, at 3:00– 5:00 pm Washington DC time Please check the local time in your own town: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meeting.html Where: in front of your personal or work computer anywhere in the world or at: PAHO HQ Room C 525 23Rd  St. NW Washington DC 20037 Link to participants – Via Internet https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=1110&password=M.A4FA308B5F1FA6CD60DB62C0137303                 We will broadcast this session in English via the Elluminate Live!® software using integrated                 VoIP for the audio component Please connect a few minutes before 3 pm Washington DC time. You must have a headset or speaker and microphone The event is free and open to interested people. You may attend virtually from your personal or work computer anywhere in the world. In addition to watching live presentations, you will have the option to ask questions and provide comments. This conference will enable the sharing of good practices and lessons learned.
Welcome 3:00 – 3:20pm                       Juan Manuel Sotelo, Manager, External Relations, Resource Mobilization, and Partnerships PAHO/WHO                     Jarbas Barbosa, Manager, Health Surveillance and Disease Prevention and Control (HSD) PAHO/WHO                     Theresa Bernardo, Manager, Knowledge Management and Communications (KMC) PAHO/WHO
Presenters
3:20 – 4:00pm	Why more equal societies almost always do better   Where in the developed world do people live the longest? Where do people born at the bottom of the economic ladder have the best shot at climbing up? In which nations do children do best in school? Which countries send the most people to prison?  Have the teenage pregnancies?  Suffer the most homicides? The answers matter and are indicative of a society’s overall health and the quality of life for its citizens.  That is the contention of eminent British epidemiologists Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, authors of The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger. Presenters Richard Wilkinson has played a formative role in international research and his work has been published in 10 languages. He studied economic history at the London School of Economics before training in epidemiology and is Professor Emeritus at the University of Nottingham Medical School and Honorary Professor at University College London. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wilkinson_(public_health) Kate Pickett, Professor of Epidemiology at the University of York and a National Institute for Health Research Career Scientist. She studied physical anthropology at Cambridge, nutritional sciences at Cornell and epidemiology at Berkeley before spending four years as an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago. .
4:00 – 5:00pm	Q&A from Participants
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