Schedule
4 May 2010
The Public Gathering Room – CGIS Building, 1730 Cambridge Street
9.00-9.45:
Session 1: Brazil and Public Health
Gilberto Hochman, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz/ Fundação Oswaldo Cruz: “Crises and health reforms in early twentieth century Brazil”
Commentator: Emma Rothschild, Harvard University and Joint Center for History and Economics
9.45-10.00: Coffee Break
10.00-10.50 am.
Session 2: Past Global Economic Crises: Exploring the Role of International Health Organizations
Panelists:
Monica Garcia, Harvard Global Equity Initiative/Universidad del Rosario: “Knowledge and evidence about the effects of the Great Depression on Health: the role of the League of Nations Health Organization”
Paul Cruickshank, PhD. Candidate, Harvard University: "Global Shocks and Health of the People: Reimagining International Health in the 1970s"
Commentator: Sunil Amrith, Birkbeck, University of London and Joint Centre for History and Economics
10.50-12.15 pm.
Session 3: Latin America and Crises: Managing Health
Panelists:
Christina Ewig, University of Wisconsin-Madison: "Post-retrenchment Politics: Policy Feedbacks in Health and Pension reform in Chile"
Arachu Castro, Harvard Department of Global Health and Social Medicine: “Fractured Health Systems: Inequality in Access to Health Care during Economic Crisis and Hardships in Latin America”
Iris Borowy, University of Rostock (Germany): “Special Periods in Cuba and Russia: the Impact of Health of the 1990s Economic Crisis”
Commentator: Mary Wilson, Harvard School of Public Health
12.15-1.00 pm: Lunch
1.00-2.30 pm.
Session 4: Health Rights and the Welfare State: A Lusophone Perspective
Panelists:
Pedro Ramos Pinto, University of Manchester and Centre for History and Economics: "Crisis, Anxiety, and the Colonial Origins of the Portuguese Welfare State, 1928-1944"
Melissa Teixeira, Center for History and Economics
Miguel Glatzer, UMASS Dartmouth: "Democratization, Economic Openness and Welfare State Development: The Case of Portugal"
Jeremy Ball, Dickinson College
Commentator: Amartya Sen, Harvard University, Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy
2.30-3.00pm
Session 5: Conclusions: Inequality and Health
Panelists:
Emma Rothschild, Harvard University and Joint Center for History and Economics
Amartya Sen, Harvard University, Professor of Economics and Philosophy
Felicia Knaul, Director, Harvard Global Equity Initiative
