A Center of Excellence for Global Health: Why Global Health Matters to California

Sponsored by the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS), UCSF Global Health Sciences, and the Kaiser Family Foundation, the forum will feature international and local leaders in global health and will highlight the Bay Area and the state as a center of global health excellence, generating new knowledge, skills, jobs and external partnerships essential to US leadership in global health. A light lunch will be served. Among the speakers at the forum will be Susan Desmond-Hellmann, UCSF Chancellor; Christopher Elias, President and CEO of PATH; Pat Mitchell, president and CEO of the Paley Center for Media; and Joe Rospars, co-founder of Blue State Digital. Elias, Mitchell and Rospars serve as Commissioners on the CSIS Commission on Smart Global Health Policy. The forum will inform the deliberations of the CSIS Commission as it drafts its final report in the last quarter of 2009 and will also highlight the economic impact of global health in California and UC’s expanding role, including information about the new UC Global Health Institute.

The event will be live webcast, and questions will be accepted via email and Twitter. RSVP is requested at the event web page.