Public Health & Human Rights - Dec. 5, 1-5pm

Public Health and Human Rights: The Work Ahead of Us
Dec 5, 2008 -- 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
The New York Academy of Sciences, 7 World Trade Center, 250 Greenwich St. at Barclay St., 40th fl.
1/2 day symposium; pre-registration $25, on-site $35
Sponsored by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the New York Academy of Sciences
To register and for more information, please visit www.nyas.org/publichealth

For full agenda and speaker information, please download the brochure.

On December 10, 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the first international recognition that human rights are absolute and inclusive of all, and that they should concern the entire international community. This doctrine has served as the foundation of international human rights law, and it continues to inspire international human rights treaties and declarations, regional conventions, and national constitutions.

Please join us as we examine the progress we have made in the 60 years since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights—and as we look ahead to navigating the roadblocks, contradictions, and challenges to public health and human rights at home and abroad.

Speakers include:

Joseph Amon, PhD, MSPH
Director, Health and Human Rights Division
Human Rights Watch

Chris Beyrer, MD, MPH
Director, Center for Public Health and Human Rights
Professor, Departments of Epidemiology and International Health
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Laurie Garrett
Senior Fellow for Global Health,
Council on Foreign Relations
Pulitzer Prize-winning author

Patricia Gatling, JD
Commissioner and Chair
New York City Commission on Human Rights

Michael J. Klag, MD, MPH
Dean, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Gara LaMarche
President and CEO
The Atlantic Philanthropies

Robert S. Lawrence, MD
Center for a Livable Future Professor
Director, Center for a Livable Future
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Leonard Rubenstein, JD
President
Physicians for Human Rights

Navanethem Pillay, SJD, LLM
High Commissioner for Human Rights
Office of the High Commission for Human Rights

Ellis Rubinstein
President and CEO
The New York Academy of Sciences

Ruth Wedgwood, JD
Edward B. Burling Professor of International
Law and Diplomacy Director, International Law and Organizations Program
Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University