CFR Symposium on Food and Drugs: Can Safety Be Ensured in a Time of Increased Globalization?
Directors: Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health, and Yanzhong Huang, Senior Fellow for Global Health
January 31, 2011 - January 31, 2011
Symposium Backgrounder
Symposium Sessions
Conference Panel Session
Potential Solutions
Speakers:
Caroline Smith DeWaal, Food Safety Director, Center for Science in the Public Interest, Aline Plançon, Head of INTERPOL-IMPACT Project and Head of Medical Products Counterfeiting and Pharmaceutical Crime Unit (MPCPC), INTERPOL, France, Michael Robach, Vice President, Corporate Food Safety and Regulatory Affairs, Cargill, Inc., Greg Simon, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Policy, Pfizer, Inc.Presider:
Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign RelationsThis meeting is not for attribution.
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Conference Panel Session
The Scale of the Challenge: Overview and Case Studies
Introductory Speaker:
Margaret Ann Hamburg, Commissioner, U.S. Food and Drug AdministrationSpeakers:
David Heymann, Head and Senior Fellow, Centre on Global Health Security, Chatham House, United Kingdom, Gary Jay Kushner, Partner and Leader, Food and Agriculture Practice Area, Hogan Lovells US, LLP, Paul B. Orhii, Director General, National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NigeriaPresider:
Richard E. Besser, Chief Health and Medical Editor, ABC NewsThis meeting is not for attribution.
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Conference Panel Session
Policy Challenges in a Globalized Era
Speakers:
Dirceu Barbano, Acting Director-Chairman, National Agency of Sanitary Surveillance, Brazil, Margaret Ann Hamburg, Commissioner, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Howard Zucker, Senior Adviser, Division of Global Health and Human Rights, Massachusetts General Hospital; Former Assistant Director-General, World Health OrganizationPresider:
Susan Dentzer, Editor-in-Chief, Health AffairsThis meeting is not for attribution.
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CFR Experts Guide
The Council on Foreign Relations' David Rockefeller Studies Program—CFR's "think tank"—is home to more than seventy full-time, adjunct, and visiting scholars and practitioners (called "fellows"). Their expertise covers the world's major regions as well as the critical issues shaping today's global agenda.
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