|
WACC
Speaker
Series:
February
9
Dr.
Katherine
Bliss
Deputy
Director
and
Senior
Fellow,
Global
Health
Policy
Center;
Director,
Project
on
Global
Water
Policy;
and
Senior
Fellow,
Americas
Program
Global
Health
Challenges:
Emerging
Trends
in
Policy,
Governance
and
Diplomacy
Sponsored
By:
 |
Global health is changing how countries work with each other, how regions cooperate on specific health issues and how the international community responds to health threats. In parts of the developing world, global health is slowly evolving from issues of infectious diseases to concerns about the intersection of foreign health assistance, economic inequities and national security.
Join us for this thought-provoking discussion about the future of global health and emerging trends in policy, governance and diplomacy.
Date: Thursday, February 9
Venue: Hilton Center City (222 E. Third St.)
General Networking & Check-In: 11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Lunch & Presentation: 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Cost: $40 (WACC members) / $55 (Non-members) Lunch included
|
RSVP online via PayPal or you may call 704-687-7762 for credit card payments over the phone. If you prefer sending a check, please make it payable to "World Affairs Council of Charlotte" and mail it to our office.
If you are using your WACC complimentary program passes, please call 704-687-7757 (Lauren Branson, Program & Membership Manager) or e-mail info@worldaffairscharlotte.org
to confirm your registration.
All reservation cancellations must be completed at least 3 business days prior to an event in order to receive a full refund.
|
Biography:
Katherine E. Bliss is deputy director and senior fellow with the CSIS Global Health Policy Center and director of the CSIS Project on Global Water Policy. She is also senior fellow with the CSIS Americas Program. Before joining CSIS, she was a foreign affairs officer at the U.S. Department of State, where she led work on environmental health for the Bureau of Oceans, Environment, and Science, focusing on water, sanitation, and hygiene; indoor air pollution; and climate change adaptation challenges in developing countries.
Bliss is the author or coeditor of books, reviews, and articles on global water challenges, public health, gender, and development politics. Her CSIS reports include Paths Forward for the Global Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Sectors; Enhancing U.S. Leadership on Drinking Water and Sanitation: Opportunities within Global Health Programs; The Challenge of Chronic Diseases on the U.S.-Mexico Border;Health in Latin America and the Caribbean: Challenge and Opportunities for U.S. Engagement; and Trafficking in the Mesoamerican Corridor: A Threat to Regional and Human Security.
Bliss received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago's Division of Social Sciences and was a David E. Bell fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health's Center for Population and Development Studies. She received her A.B. magna cum laude and her A.M. from Harvard University and studied at the Colegio de México in Mexico City.
|
