The nomination deadline for the Jonathan Mann Award for Global Health & Human Rights is Friday, January 15, 2010. The award will be presented in Washington, D.C., at a special Awards Ceremony during the Global Health Council's Annual International Conference.
Upcoming Lecture 11/12/09: Poverty Trap Formed by Feedback Between Economics and the Ecology of Infectious Diseases: Theory and Evidence by Matthew Bonds, PhD. Read more here.
Launched at the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center in June 2008, this landmark initiative will explore the “cost of inaction” for the well-being of children. With professors Amartya Sen and Sudhir Anand overseeing the project, researchers and economists will address the complex challenges of enumerating the multiple social and economic costs that follow when societies fail to address the pressing needs of their most vulnerable members: children. The three-year project will respond to recurrent questions common in ethical debates in public health: Is inaction more costly than intervention? Can poor countries afford to implement effective intervention? Can they afford not to? And how does one use economics to discuss the value of health and human life in such a discussion?
Division of Global Health Equity
Brigham & Women's Hospital
Department of Global Health and Social Medicine
Harvard Medical School
