See below for an invitation to an upcoming event, next Wednesday, brought to you by MFAN and the Global Health Technologies Coalition:
Innovation to Catalyze Development:
Leveraging Research in Foreign Assistance
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Capitol Visitor Center
Room SVC 210/212
12:30 – 2:30 pm
Lunch will be served
The United States is set to reform its approach to foreign aid and international development, with several major efforts currently underway. As U.S. policymakers consider how to make foreign assistance investments more effective at reducing poverty and spurring economic growth, research and innovation—as well as the fundamental role they play in achieving global development objectives—must remain at the center of discussion.
This briefing will highlight the integral role that research plays in achieving our nation’s long-term foreign assistance goals. There will be a specific focus on past successes, such as vaccines and drugs, as well as future opportunities in global health research to develop new technologies.
Confirmed Speakers
Dr. Maura O’Neill
Senior Counselor to the Administrator; Chief Innovation Officer
U.S. Agency for International Development
Thomas Kalil
Deputy Director for Policy
White House Office of Science & Technology Policy
Dr. Jeffrey L. Sturchio
President & CEO
Global Health Council
Corey Casper, MD, MPH
Director, Uganda Program on Cancer and Infectious Diseases
Assistant Member, Vaccine Infectious Disease Institute
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Associate Professor of Medicine; Adjunct Associate Professor, Global Health & Epidemiology
University of Washington
Moderator
Susan Dentzer
Editor-in-Chief
Health Affairs
Please RSVP to Jenni Rothenberg at jrothenberg@modernizingforeignassistance.org or 202-464-8191
This event is free and open to the public, and the invitation has been widely distributed in compliance with congressional ethics rules.
