Global Health Symposium: Lessons From Abroad on American Health
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The 2021 Global Health Symposium on Lessons From Abroad on American Health discussed how practices from other countries can be applied to current critical health crises in the United States and provide a framework for analysis to help strengthen health systems and guide public health investment strategies.
The Global Health Symposium, in partnership with Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, is made possible through the generous support of Bloomberg Philanthropies.
Session I: Lessons From Abroad on Mental Health and Addiction
Speakers
- Angus S. DeatonSenior Scholar and Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs Emeritus, School of Public and International Affairs and Economics Department, Princeton University; Presidential Professor of Economics, University of Southern California; Author, Deaths of Despair: And The Future of Capitalism
- Vikram PatelPershing Square Professor of Global Health and Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Professor, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Cofounder and Member of Managing Committee, Sangath
- Sema K SgaierCofounder and CEO, Surgo Venture; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
- Joshua SharfsteinVice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, Professor of the Practice, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Presider
- Susan DentzerSenior Policy Fellow, Robert J. Margolis Center for Health Policy, Duke University
Introductory Remarks
- Thomas J. BollykySenior Fellow for Global Health, Economics, and Development and Director of the Global Health Program, Council on Foreign Relations
Transcript
BOLLYKY: Good morning, everyone. Thanks so much for coming. I’m Tom Bollyky. I’m the director of the Global Health Program at the Council on Foreign Relations. It is my great pleasure to welcome you to our second annual symposium on health and international economics, this year entitled “Lessons from Abroad on American Health.” The standard pathway for decades in global health has been to adapt treatments and prevention programs from the United States and other wealthy nations to address the unmet health care needs of poorer nations. This symposium will explore the reverse situation, how practices from abroad can be applied to current health crises in the United States and provide a potential framework for analysis to help strengthen health systems and guide our public health investments.
Because if the last fifteen months has taught us anything on public health in the United States, it is humility. The United States has as much to learn on public health practices from our foreign counterparts as they have to learn from us. I will leave it to the moderators of each panel to make the necessary introductions of the speakers. But the first session this morning, Susan Dentzer will moderate, will be...
Session II: Global to Local–A Potential Pathway to Improve American Health in Future Pandemics
Speakers
- Emily GurleyAssociate Scientist, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- Joneigh KhaldunChief Medical Executive and Chief Deputy Director for Health, Department of Health and Human Services, State of Michigan
- Tolbert NyenswahSenior Research Associate, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Former Incident Commander of Liberia Ebola Response; Former Assistant Minister of Health and Deputy Minister of Health for Disease Surveillance and Epidemic Control, Liberia
Presider
- Sheri L. FinkCorrespondent, New York Times
Transcript
FINK: Thank you very much and it’s such a pleasure to welcome everybody today to our global health—Part II of the Global Health Symposium. I’m Sheri Fink. I’m a journalist and a physician by training who’s been focusing on the COVID pandemic for the last year and a half. And I’m going to follow Susan Dentzer’s lead from the last—our last session by introducing our incredible panelists today one by one as they make their introductory remark. And just as a sort of introduction, CFR is hoping for us in this session to engage in a very lively discussion of lessons learned from past pandemics, both at home and abroad, and how we can use these lessons to improve health here and in the U.S. in the future. And we have a glorious assembled brain trust to help us today.
So let us begin with Dr. Joneigh Khaldun, who is the chief medical executive and chief deputy director for health currently at the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. And I should just say that prior to this role Dr. Khaldun has had an amazing career that will bring a lot to this conversation. She spent time as the...
