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Past Seminars

Seminars 2009

Wednesday 24th June 2009
Smoking in Movies: Spreading the Global Tobacco Epidemic and How to Stop It
Speaker: Professor Stanton A. Glantz, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Venue: John Snow A Lecture Theatre, Keppel Street, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Time: 12:45 - 2 pm
poster

Friday 5th June 2009
The Inverse Law of Significance: Human Health, a Late Entrant to the Climate Change Impact Discourse
Speaker: Professor Tony McMichael, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University
Venue: Room 364, Keppel Street, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Time: 12:45 - 2 pm
abstract, poster

Friday 13th March 2009
Climate change and future global food security: even worse news for the poor?
Speaker: Dr Colin Butler, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University
Venue: Room G3, 50 Bedford Square, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Time: 12:45 - 2 pm
abstract, poster and location

Wednesday 11th February 2009
Global health governance - A search for meaning
Speaker: Dr Tikki Pang, Director, Research Policy & Cooperation, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
Venue: Room G3, 50 Bedford Square, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Time: 12:45 - 2 pm
poster and location

CONTROVERSIES IN GLOBAL HEALTH SERIES

Monday 26th January 2009
"What role should the corporate sector play in tackling the global obesity pandemic?"
Speakers: Dr. Derek Yach (Director of Global Health Policy, PepsiCo), Professor Philip James (Chair, International Task Force on Obesity); Chair: Professor Sir Andrew Haines (Director, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)
Venue: The Wilkins Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT; http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucesswo/gustave_map.pdf

Time: 6.00 - 7.30 pm
Poster
Voice file of the debate is now available (1 hour, 36 minutes).

Seminars 2008

Wednesday 4th of June 2008
Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity
Speaker: Eric Chivian, Founder & Director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard Medical School
Venue: Room LG80-Bennet Room, Keppel Street, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Time: 12:45 - 2 pm
Leaflet and book information

Wednesday 16th of April 2008
Tobacco industry corporate social responsibility initiatives and implications for public health: The case of Philip Morris's 'extreme makeover'.
Speaker: Ruth Malone, Fulbright Scholar from University of California, San Francisco
Venue: Room 406, Birkbeck, Malet Street, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Time: 12:45 - 2 pm
Leaflet

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Seminars 2007

Centre on Global Change and Health held invitational workshop on 6th & 7th October 2007. It was led by Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies. This was a follow-up retreat of the workshop, which took place on 25-28th June, in Vancouver. The purpose of the workshop at the LSHTM was to bring together scholars from the global health governance fields in order to exchange ideas and build networks.

Seminars 2006

Tuesday 10th of October 2006
Limiting climate change: the implications for personal, community and planetary health.
Speaker: Dr. Mayer Hillman, Senior Fellow Emeritus, Policy Studies Institute
Venue: Room 405, Birkbeck, Malet Street, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Time: 12:45pm
Leaflet

Thursday4th of May 2006
Strategies and Institutions of Global Governance: the transformation and roots of global collaboration
Speaker: Professor Mark Zacher, University of British Columbia
Venue: 49/101 Bedford Square, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Time: 12:45pm

Tuesday 21st of February 2006
Of maps and models: how climate and cotton affected historical malaria transmission in the USA
Speaker: Annemarie ter Veen
Venue: Lucas Room, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street
Time: 12:45pm

Seminars 2005

Globalization, Geopolitics and European Security
UCL Seminar Series
16 Taviton Street, Room 433, School of Slavonic and East European Studies
17th October - 12th December 2005

Seminars 2004
Friday 4th of June.
An Adaptive Ecosystem Approach to Monitoring Infectious Diseases
Speaker David Waltner-Toews, Department of Population Medicine, Univeristy of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada. For a biography of the speaker and an abstract of the seminar please see the leaflet.
Venue: Lucas Room, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street
Time: 12:45pm
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Seminars 2003
Tuesday, 14 October 2003
Biodiversity, Biotechnology and Intellectual Property: Globalisation and the Changing Determinance of Health
Dr Vanda Shiva, Director, Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, New Delhi, Reith Lecturer, BBC 2000
Chair: Dr Richard Horton, Editor, The Lancet
The Darwin Lecture Theatre, Darwin Building, UCL, Gower Street


Seminars 2002
Wednesday, 4 December 2002
Professor Devra Davis, University of Pittsburgh & member of the Intergovernmental panel on Climate Change
Sir Crispin Tickell, former Ambassador to Mexico and delegate for UK at treaty negotiations on climate, including Kyoto Protocol
Hon. Tom Roper, a former Victoria/Australian Minister for the Environment
Room G3, 50 Bedford Square

Tuesday, 15 October 2002
Will the World Scale up the Investments in Global Health
Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director, Earth Institute at Columbia University
Room B01, Clore Management Centre, Birkbeck College, London WC1
Thursday, 1 August 2002

Global Trade and Microbial Traffic
Professor Ann Marie Kimball, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington
Rooms G3 & G4, 50 Bedford Square
Seminar Presentation

Thursday, 30 May 2002
Public Health and National Security in the Global Age: Infectious Diseases, Bioterrorism, and Realpolitik
Professor David P. Fidler, Professor of Law, Indiana University
Rooms G3 & G4, 50 Bedford Square
Seminar Presentation


Seminars 2001
Inaugural Symposium of the Centre on Global Change and Health, 28 March 2001


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