Centre Events: Events from the Centre for Public policy, The University of Melbourne. (For information on how to unsubscribe, please see the bottom of this email) Good morning,
Just a reminder that the Centre for Public Policy 'The State of Health' evening forum series, starts on Tuesday the 1st of April at 5:30pm. Katherine Dinh, Director, Access to Essential Medicines Campaign, Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), Sydney, will be addressing the topic 'Linking the Local with the Global in Promoting Access to Medicines'. Beverley Snell from the Centre for International Health, Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health, will be addressing 'Access to Essential Medicines in Developing Countries and New Challenges'. This event will be chaired by Associate Professor David Legge, School of Public Health, Latrobe University. Biographies for all participants are pasted at the bottom of this email. Please note also that our 'Frontiers in Social Policy - Where to From Here?' series begins on Thursday the 3rd of April with the OECD's Dr Peter Scherer discussing 'Ability and Disability: Disabled People and the Labour Market'. This event will be chaired by Professor Stephen Duckett, Professor of Health Policy, Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences, and Pro Vice-Chancellor (Health Developments) at La Trobe University. There is no cost involved in any of our events and no need to RSVP. Each event is held in the Centre for Public Policy Lecture Theatre, 2nd Floor, 234 Queensberry Street, Carlton. Street parking is available. Please don't hesitate to email me if you have further questions <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, and of course, please feel free to circulate this email amongst friends and colleagues. I look forward to seeing you on Tuesday the 1st. Warmest regards, Lauren Rosewarne Lauren Rosewarne BA, BPPM (Hons), PhD Candidate Centre Mangaer Centre for Public Policy, University of Melbourne 3010 Phone : 8344 9482 / Fax : 9349 4442 Please Visit our website < http://www.public-policy.unimelb.edu.au/ <http://www.public-policy.unimelb.edu.au/> > Participant Biographies Katherine Dinh Director, Access to Essential Medicines Campaign Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), Sydney Kathryn Dinh is Director of the Access to Essential Medicines Campaign for Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), an international campaign which aims to promote increased research into neglected diseases and ensure essential medicines are accessible and affordable in developing countries. Ms Dinh's past experience includes working in health project management in the Pacific as well as social impact consultancy work for AusAID in Vietnam. Ms Dinh has coordinated communications across the former Soviet Union for MSF, including advising field teams in Russia, Central Asia and the Caucasus. She has worked as an advisor in Pakistan, in conjunction with WHO and the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. For several years Ms Dinh has also worked as a journalist and radio documentary maker. Ms Dinh's main areas of expertise include international and national advocacy, behavioural change communications and project management. Kathryn has a BA (Communication) degree from the University of Technology, Sydney, and is currently a candidate for the Masters of International Public Health at the University of Sydney. Beverley Snell Centre for International Health Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health Beverley Snell's first qualification was in Pharmacy from where she moved towards public health with special interest in refugees and humanitarian emergencies, Primary Health Care and HIV/AIDS prevention and care. She also teaches in the International Health stream of Monash University's Master of Public Health program. During the 1980s, she worked in public health programs in refugee and stable communities in Somalia and since 1990, with the essential drugs sector in Eritrea. She has also worked on PHC program design and development, and manuals and texts in the Philippines, Tibet, East Timor, and India. She has undertaken consultancies for NGOs and international agencies, including WHO and UNICEF. Chair: Associate Professor David Legge School of Public Health, Latrobe University David Legge is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Health at LaTrobe University, academic coordinator for the Victorian Public Health Training Scheme and Director of the La Trobe China Health Program. He has had a number of involvements in health policy analysis, development and implementation in Victoria and nationally over the last 25 years and has been teaching health policy for the last 12 years. He has had a particular interest in the political economy of health at the local, national and international levels for many years. -- -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Sub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
