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Economics to the Rescue? What does the Dismal Science offer for Global Health?
Annual Lecture 2009 - Centre for Global Health Research
DR. DEAN T. JAMISON
Professor of Global Health, University of Washington, Lead Author, Investing in Health, World Development Report 1993
Senior Editor: Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries
Monday, November 9, 2009 : 12:30 - 1:30 PM,Debates Room, Hart House, University of Toronto;
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Global Health Challenges: Neglected Policy Opportunities
Annual Lecture in Global Health - Centre for Global Health Research
DR. CHRISTOPHER MURRAY
Director, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
Professor, University of Washington
Friday, November 9, 2007 : 1200-1330
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Short Course on Evidence-Based HIV/AIDS
Programmes
August 19-23, 2006
University of Toronto, Canada
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Course Outline (pdf)
The Center for Global Health
Research (CGHR),
St. Michael' s Hospital and the
University of Toronto, in collaboration with the
International AIDS Society, offered a unique
one-week course on evidence-based HIV/AIDS control for
national and/or state/provincial government HIV/AIDS
programme managers in resource-limited settings. The
course was held at the University of Toronto immediately
following the
XVI International AIDS Conference in August 2006.
University of Toronto's Short Course was
designed specifically to enhance the knowledge
and skills of public sector HIV/AIDS programme
managers to develop and implement evidence-based
HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment.
The following topics incorporated points of view
which are relevant to enhancing policy and
programmes in developing countries:
- HIV prevention, including community-based HIV
prevention
- Applied epidemiology and modeling
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Biology of HIV and preparing for new technologies,
including vaccines and microbicides
- Clinical
management, drug access and laboratory methods
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Monitoring, evaluation and surveillance
- Drug
and commodities management and health infrastructure
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Ethics, law, human rights and political economy
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Economics and cost-effectiveness
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