BRIEFING: Financing And Improving Global Health Care
July 9th, 2007
by
Chris Fleming
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What role should the U.S. government play in confronting global health challenges? What are Congress’s priorities for the reauthorization of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), and how much should be invested in research to help stem the AIDS pandemic? How can we protect 150 million people globally from suffering financial catastrophe each year because of medical bills?
On Monday, July 16, these questions will be addressed at a National Press Club briefing where Health Affairs will release its July-August issue, a thematic issue on global health financing. The 9:30-11:30 am briefing will feature Rep. Tom Lantos (D-CA), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and coauthor of the original PEPFAR legislation. Economist and Health Affairs deputy editor Philip Musgrove will present new findings from a survey of 89 countries examining the too-often impoverishing effect of out-of-pocket health spending on families. Brookings Institution global health expert Amanda Glassman will discuss ways to restructure international health aid. And John Stover, Futures Institute, will discuss new estimates of the effect of even a limited AIDS vaccine.
The July/August 2007 Health Affairs on global health financing will be posted online July 16. The issue will feature articles on Thailand, Morocco, Turkey, Russia, and Brazil, as well as an interview with Paul Farmer of Harvard and Partners In Health on the state of global health. The briefing and the July/August issue are supported by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Copies of the journal will be available at the briefing.
When: Monday, July 16, 2007; 9:30 am – 11:30 am
Where: National Press Club, First Amendment Lounge, Washington, D.C.
RSVP: Please RSVP for this event online.
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