3353.0 Act Global, Think Local: Domestic applications of international health lessons

Monday, October 31, 2011: 2:30 PM
Oral
Act Global, Think Local: Domestic applications of international health lessons seeks to apply lessons learned form international health experience to problems in the US. The presentations address issues such as the application of structural interventions against HIV in Africa and how they can be applied in Detroit, tobacco control in Taiwan and the differences in US and French management of CVD risk.
Moderator:
Jirair Ratevosian, MPH

2:30 PM
"Key Differences in American and French CVD Risk Factor Management: Implications for promoting healthy U.S. communities"
Colleen O'Brien, PhD and Anjali Mathew, MPH
     
2:48 PM
Public- Private Mix: Increasing Access and Quality of TB- Care in Ethiopia
Yonas Yilma Hailu, MPH, Tesfai Gebre-Kidan, MD and Asfawesen G-Yohannes, MD
     
3:06 PM
Comparing health system performance in India and Kenya: A cross-national analysis to understand the achievement of Millennium Development Goals
Yohannes Kinfu, PhD, Monika Sawhney, PhD and Collins Opiyo, PhD
     
3:24 PM
Reading Sexuality in Detroit from the Global South: Structural Lessons from HIV/AIDS in the developing world
Rachel Snow, DSc and Mark B. Padilla, PhD, MPH
     
3:42 PM
Tobacco Control at Workplaces- the Taiwan Experiences
Ruey-Yu Chen, MS, PhD, Shu-Ti Chiou, MD, PhD, Ching-Ying Yeh, MS, PhD, Mei-Lien Chen, I.-Fang Mao, Shu-Yu Lyu, MPH, PhD, Hung-Yi Chuang, MD, ScD and Fong-Cheng Tang, MD, PhD

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: International Health
Endorsed by: Asian Pacific Islander Caucus for Public Health, Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs

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