The "Children and Armed Conflict: Risk, Resilience and Mental Health" conference will be held at the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine in Washington, DC on December 7-9, 2009. More information is available here.
The nomination deadline for the Global Health Council's Jonathan Mann Award for Global Health & Human Rights is Friday, January 15, 2010. The Global Health Council welcomes nominations of people whose work epitomizes Jonathan Mann's life.
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
