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Past Event
Seminar

Strategic Health Diplomacy: Importance of Public Health Policy as a Diplomatic and National Security Tool

Open to the Public

This panel will explore what can be achieved through strategic health diplomacy, using global health investments as both a foreign assistance and a national security tool.

PANEL:

Professor Nicholas Burns, Goodman Professor of Diplomacy and International Relations (moderator)

Admiral William Fallon, USN (ret), former Commander, PACOM and CENTCOM, U.S. Navy Ambassador (ret) James Glassman, Chairman, Conference on Strategic Health Diplomacy; Visiting Fellow, American Enterprise Institute; Founding Executive Director, George W. Bush Institute Jennifer Leaning, MD, François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights; Director, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard Chan School of Public Health Douglas Shaffer, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator, U.S. Department of State

Date: Time: - Location: Nye A, B, & C, 5th Floor

About

PANEL:

  • Professor Nicholas Burns, Goodman Professor of Diplomacy and International Relations (moderator)

  • Admiral William Fallon, USN (ret), former Commander, PACOM and CENTCOM, U.S. Navy
  • Ambassador (ret) James Glassman, Chairman, Conference on Strategic Health Diplomacy; Visiting Fellow, American Enterprise Institute; Founding Executive Director, George W. Bush Institute
  • Jennifer Leaning, MD, François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights; Director, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard Chan School of Public Health
  • Douglas Shaffer, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator, U.S. Department of State

    This panel will explore what can be achieved through strategic health diplomacy, using global health investments as both a foreign assistance and a national security tool. U.S. investments in global health have been among our country’s most effective diplomatic tools, contributing to a more stable and secure world by helping create more prosperous and healthy societies, more competent institutions, more stable governments, and greater support and goodwill for the United States. One such successful initiative is the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), launched under President George W. Bush and extended throughout the current administration.

    Download: Strategic Health Diplomacy Executive Summary