Hopkins Population Center

Medical Campus:
615 N. Wolfe Street, Suite E4644
Baltimore, MD 21205

Arts and Science Campus:
3003 N. Charles St., Annex Suite 300
Baltimore, MD 21218

Hopkins Population Center and the Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health

2009 Mini-Symposium & Maternal Mortality Panel Discussion:

The Rapid Decline of Maternal Mortality:  Actualities and Prospects

A Special Panel Discussion:

Dr. Caroline Bledsoe
Professor, Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University

Dr. Donna Strobino
Professor, Population, Family & Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Dr. Cynthia Stanton
Assistant Professor, Population, Family & Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Dr. Saifuddin Ahmed
Assistant Professor, Population, Family & Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Preceded by Film, "Fight for Life"

Hopkins Population Center and the Population Reference Bureau

2009 Annual Symposium on Policy and Health:

Climate Change and Urban Adaptation:  Managing Unavoidable Health Risks in Developing Countries

Link to Conference Website

Speakers:

Dr. Mark Montgomery
Professor, Stony Brook University and Senior Associate, Population Council

Dr. Patricia Romero Lankao
Scientist and Deputy Director, Institute for the Study of Society and Environment, National Center for Atmospheric Research

Johns Hopkins Center on Aging and Health, the Baltimore City Health Department, and the Baltimore City Commission on Aging and Retirement Education

Speakers:

Dr. M.E. Hughes
Assistant Professor, Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Dr. Linda Fried
Dean, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health

Mr. Stuart Sirota
TND Planning Group, Baltimore

Ms. Katherine Freund
President and Executive Director, ITNAmerica

Dr. Bruce Leff
Associate Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Dr. Peter Rabins
Co-Director, Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neuropsychiatry, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Dr. Mary Naylor
Marian S. Ware Professor in Gerontology; Director of NewCourtland Center for Transitions and Health, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing

Dr. Paul Willging
Associate, Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Dr. Jeremy Barron
Associate, Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Presiders:

Dr. Karen Bandeen-Roche
Professor, Biostatistics, Medicine and Nursing; Interim Director, Center on Aging and Health; Acting Chair, Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Dr. Joshua Sharfstein
Baltimore City Health Commissioner, Baltimore City Health Department

Mr. John Stewart
Executive Director, Baltimore City Commission on Aging Retirement and Education

Next Steps in Controlling HIV in Africa: Behavior, Biology, or Both?

Speakers:

Dr. Thomas Coates
Michael and Sue Steinberg Endowed Professor of Global AIDS, Research Division of Infectiouis Diseases, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles

Dr. Ronald Gray
William G. Robertson Jr. Professor in Population and Family Planning, Department of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Discussant:

Dr. Carl W. Dieffenbach
Acting Director, Division of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Presider:

Dr. Maria Wawer
Professor of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

How Important Are the Long-term Consequences of Low Birth Weight?

Link to PRB Symposia Website
Link to Webcast

The Hopkins Population Center in cooperation with the Women's and Children's Health Policy Center 
and the Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health

The Consequences of Birth Weight for Socioeconomic Outcomes

Link to Conference Website