Policy Makers Meet With Rogers Ambassadors
Jonathan
Stivers, senior adviser to House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (CA), met last month with Michael Cappello, MD, a Paul G. Rogers Society for Global Health
Research Ambassador from Yale University, to discuss the strong public support
for increasing U.S. efforts to improve the health of people living in
developing countries. Cappello explained ways health research can make a
lasting impact on seemingly intractable problems.
In Tennessee, state senators Rusty Crowe and Douglas Henry and state representatives Joe Armstrong and Brenda Gilmore met with Society Ambassadors James E.K. Hildreth, PhD, MD, Meharry Medical College; and Sten H. Vermund, MD, PhD, and Peter F. Wright, MD, of Vanderbilt University Medical Center. The Ambassadors emphasized the leadership their global health research efforts are garnering for Tennessee. Media meetings included The Tennessean editorial board, which resulted in two May 27 editorials and columns by the Ambassadors.
Ambassadors C. Ross Anthony, PhD, of RAND; Peter J. Hotez, MD, PhD, of The George Washington University Medical Center; and Les Roberts, PhD, MPH, of Columbia University, spoke about global health research to high school students as part of a civic education program.
During a presentation to the Baltimore City League of Woman Voters, Ambassador William B. Greenough III, MD, of The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, asked the league to include in its health care resolution a note that "in the age of 'globalization,' research across political boundaries is essential to bring better health care at lower cost."
Originally published 6/2007
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