Jointly sponsored by the Global Health Education Consortium and the Mount Sinai Global Health Center

the annual Global Health Conference took place on FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 29th

Program:

6 pm WELCOME

6:15 pm LECTURE: How to Live in a Broken World: the Environmental Crisis and What We Can Do About It

Dr. Michael McCally, MD, PhD, Executive director of the Nobel Prize-winning organization "Physicians for Social Responsibility", and a leading environmental health expert and advocate

7:15 pm RECEPTION

SATURDAY, MARCH 1st

9 am FREE BREAKFAST & REGISTRATION

9:45 am WELCOMING REMARKS

10:00 am LECTURE: The CDC's Response to Climate Change

Dr. Howie Frumkin, MD, MPH, DrPH, Director of the National Center for Environmental Health/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and one of the leaders of the CDC's response to climate change

11:00 am LECTURE: Global Population and Health: Trends to 2050

Dr. Joel Cohen, PhD, DrPH, Author of the book, "How Many People Can the Earth Support?", and Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor Populations at Rockefeller and Columbia Universities. Click for publications (free), his Scientific American article "Human Population grows up" (requires payment), and a NY Times Book Review (requires payment)

12:00 pm FREE LUNCH and NETWORKING

1:00 pm WORKSHOPS and SMALL GROUP TALKS

Healthcare Advocacy and Global Warming

Annenberg 5 Dining Room A & B

War and the Environment

Annenberg 5 210-A

Greening HealthcareÂ

Annenberg 5 210-C

Greening Your Lifestyle

Annenberg 5 Dining Room C & D

Coal mining and mountaintop removal: impacts on health and the environment

Annenberg 5 210-B

2:15 PM LECTURE: Environmental Excellence for Health

Robin Guenther, FAIA, LEED AP, principal of Perkins & Will Architects, founding principal of Guenther 5 Architects in NYC and winner of the Center for Health Design's Changemaker Award for her efforts to improve the healing environment, she co-authored the Green Guide for Health Care and author of Sustainable Healthcare Architecture. Through a wide range of advocacy initiatives embedded within an active practice career, she is defining the sustainable design agenda in health care. She serves on the AIA Guidelines for Healthcare Construction Revision Committee as well as the LEED for Healthcare Core Committee.

Co-sponsored by the MSSM Masters in Public Health Program

Target Audience
Physicians, Medical Students, Public Health Professionals and Students, Employees of Non-Governmental Organizations, Academics in related fields such as the Environmental Sciences, Activists, Community Leaders and Educators

Accreditation Statement
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint sponsorship of Mount Sinai School of Medicine and the Global Health Education Consortium. Mount Sinai School of Medicine is accredited by Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians..

Credit Designation Statement
The Mount Sinai School of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 5 hours AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Disclosure Policy Statement
It is the policy of Mount Sinai School of Medicine to ensure objectivity, balance, independence, transparency, and scientific rigor in all CME-sponsored educational activities. All faculty participating in the planning or implementation of a sponsored activity are expected to disclose to the audience any relevant financial relationships and to assist in resolving any conflict of interest that may arise from the relationship. Presenters must also make a meaningful disclosure to the audience of their discussions of unlabeled or unapproved drugs or devices. This information will be available as part of the course material.

We gratefully acknowledge the Rosenbluth Foundation for their generous support.