Spring 2002 Policy
Roundtable Series
Healthier or Wealthier...
Which comes first in the new global era?
Panel Description
Traditional economic theory holds that increases in economic productivity and gross national product lead directly to improved health and health outcomes. World Bank, United Nations, and United States development policy since World War II has been driven by this essential point of view. Alternative approaches over the last several years have begun to stress that improvements in the quality of health in developing nations actually contributes to increased productivity and economic development - that health is a limiting factor in economic development. Given the realities of globalization - free movement of goods and services, free flow of capital across borders, increased communication and information via the Internet - what makes more sense: should we be investing in development to improve health or investing in health to improve development? Decisions about development strategy, policy, and the use of billions of dollars depend on a good answer to this question.
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Co-sponsored by
Center for International Development, Harvard University
The Harvard Interfaculty Program for the Improvement of Health Policy and Systems
Hosted by:
The
Forum, Institute of Politics, John F. Kennedy School of Government,
Harvard University
Speakers
Roberta Baskin, Senior Producer, ABC News "20/20", Nieman Fellow, Harvard University
Tim Evans, Director, Health Equity, The Rockefeller Foundation
Philip Musgrove, Lead Economist, The World Bank
Jeffrey Sachs, Director, Center for International Development, Harvard University
Awash Teklehaimanot, Malaria Program Director, Center for International Development, Harvard University
Lawrence Summers, President, Harvard University, MODERATOR
Background materials on topic
What
is the minimum a doctor should know
The Economic Burden of Malaria (John Gallup and Jeffrey Sachs)
Tropical Underdevelopment (Jeffrey Sachs)
Economic Consequences of Health Status: A Review of the Evidence (Jeffrey Sachs)
Changing Global Distribution of Malaria (PDF Document)
Healthcare in India: Learning From Experience (Philip Musgrove)
Cost Effectiveness and Health Sector Reform (Philip Musgrove)
Challenging Inequalities in Health (Tim Evans)
Date and Location of Panel
25 February 2002, 5pm, The Forum, John F. Kennedy School of Government. Reception following. RSVP HERE. (Note: RSVP does not guarantee a seat. This event is free and open to the public.)
Directions to event.
Panel Members
Links
to Other Policy Roundtable 2002
Series
Discussions:
Keynote
Address: Jeffrey P. Koplan, Director of the Centers for Disease Control
13 February 2002
Healthier
or Wealthier:
Which comes first in the new global era?
25 February 2002
The
Crisis of Neglected Diseases: Creating R&D Incentives for Diseases
of Developing Countries
28
February 2002
Health
Care Education in the Developing World:
Bridging Global and Local Health Care Practices
07
March 2002
Building
a Legal Framework for Global Health: How can the US and UN work to reduce
global disparities?
20
Marchl 2002
Riding
East: The Global Tobacco Control Movement and the Role of the Mass Media
25 April 2002
PRS
Meeting Materials
Introductory
Meeting Materials (19 September 2001)
PRS Planning Materials
(from the Operations Manual)
Note that these are all PDF
files.
Resources
for panel organizers.
Includes links to websites, papers, articles
that may be of use.
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