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Invitation:
From the Area of Health Surveillance and Disease Prevention & Control - HSD/PAHO/WHO
To the Guest Speaker Lecture on:
Global Burden of Diseases, injuries and risk factors 1990-2010:
trends and challenges
By Prof. Christopher J. L. Murray, the Director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) and Professor of Global Health at the
University of
Washington.
January 19, 2012
Time: 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm - ET Time (
Washington
DC
USA)
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Language: English
To participate in person:
Pan American Health Organization, PAHO/WHO
525 23rd St NW
Washington
DC
20037 - PAHO HQ Room 1017
To participate online:
To login to the Elluminate session, use the link below and type your name on the sign in page:
http:/www.paho.org/Virtual/HSD-HA
Agenda:
2:00 - 2:15 Welcome and introduction: Dr. Socorro Gross, Assistant Director PAHO/WHO
2:15 - 3:30 Presentation:
Global Burden of Diseases injuries-risk factors 1990-2010 trends and challenges
Prof. Christopher J. L. Murray, Director of the Institute for Health metrics and Evaluation (IHME),
University of
Washington
3:30 - 3:45 Coffee break
3:45 - 5:00 Q&A session - Moderator - Dr Fatima Marinho, Health Information and Analysis HSD
5:00 Closing remarks - Dr Marco Espinal, Manager Area of Health Surveillance and Disease Prevention & Control
Presentation Content & discussion
“……The presentation will highlight the preliminary results of the Global Burden of Disease 2010 Study, emphasizing innovations in the collection of data, novel methods of analysis, and visualization tools for data quality assessment.
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