The Norris and Margery Bendetson EPIIC International Symposium

February 21-24, 2013

The international symposium is an annual public forum designed and enacted by the EPIIC students. It features scores of international practitioners, academics, public intellectuals, activists and journalists in panel discussions and workshops.

Advisers and Panelists include:

• Paul Farmer, Founding Director, Partners In Health; Chief, Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; United Nations Deputy Special Envoy for Haiti

• Sanjoy Hazarika, Director, Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research, Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi

• Ira M. Herman, Professor and Director, Tufts Center for Innovations in Wound Healing Research and Director, Tufts University School of Medicine

• Jennifer Leaning, Director, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health; Co-Founder, Physicians for Human Rights

• Jonathan D. Moreno, Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor and Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, UPENN

• Gwyn Prins, Director of London School of Economics Mackinder Programme for the Study of Long Wave Events

• Joyce A. Sackey, Associate Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine; former Director, AIDS Collaborative Project, Beth Israel Medical Center

• Richard Sollom (EPIIC’94), Deputy Director, Physicians for Human Rights; he oversees programs on emergency response, armed conflict, and asylum

• Michael VanRooyen, Director, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative; Director, Division of International Health and Humanitarian Programs, Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

This year’s Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award recipients include:

• Uche Amazigo, Biologist; Retired Director, African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control (2005-2011); shed greater light on the causes and effect of river blindness

• Svetlana Broz, Cardiologist; Founder and Executive Director, NGO Gardens of the Righteous Worldwide (GARIWO), Bosnia and Herzegovina

• Jason Clay, Senior Vice President of Market Transformation, World Wildlife Fund

• Nancy Dorsinville, Anthropologist; Senior Policy Advisor, United Nations Office of the Special Envoy to Haiti

• Jack Duvall, President and Founding Director, International Center on Nonviolent Conflict

• Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for global health, Council on Foreign Relations; Author, Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health

• Anne Goldfeld, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; she started the first AIDS-TB care program in rural Cambodia, a program that has expanded to Ethiopia

• Mary Kaldor, Professor of Global Governance and Director of the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit, London School of Economics

• Bernard Lown, Co-founder, Physicians for Social Responsibility and International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.

• Médecins Sans Frontières, an international, independent, medical humanitarian organization that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural disasters and exclusions from healthcare

• Irwin Rosenberg, University Professor and the Jean Mayer Professor of Nutrition, Friedman School of Nutrition, Tufts University; 2006 Recipient, Conrad Elvehjem Award for Public Service in Nutrition