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| Director: | Laurie A. Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health |
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March 8, 2004 - July 16, 2006
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July 1, 2005—Present
Meetings
Doc-in-a-Box/Rx Box Viewing at CFR
Related Projects: Doc-in-a-Box Project, Roundtable on Global Health
| Host: | Laurie A. Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations |
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Two years ago, Laurie Garrett came up with a conceptual framework for a project (Doc-in-a-Box) that endeavored to retrofit shipping containers into health clinics that could be delivered to under-served communities around the world. Students and faculty from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute recently created a prototype (Rx Box), which will be on display in front of the Council.
This meeting is on the record.
AIDS, Orphans, and National Security
Related Project: Roundtable on Global Health
| Presider: | Laurie A. Garrett |
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| Speakers: | Tony Barnett, London School of Economics |
| Gabriel Rugalema, Food and Agriculture Organization |
How Will HIV/AIDS Transform African Governance?
Related Project: Roundtable on Global Health
| Presider: | Laurie A. Garrett |
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| Speaker: | Alan Whiteside, Director of Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division, University of Natal, South Africa |
World Health Organization Report on Global Tuberculosis Pandemic
Related Project: Roundtable on Global Health
| Presider: | Laurie A. Garrett |
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| Speakers: | Anne Peterson, World Health Organization |
| Jack Chow, World Health Organization |
This meeting was cosponsored with the World Health Organization.
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For more information on the David Rockefeller Studies Program, contact:
Gary Samore
Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair
+1.212.434.9627
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