The Harvard University Brazil Studies Program at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies presents

 
An International and Interdisciplinary Conference on

AIDS in Brazil

 Thursday, March 22, 2007

Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS)
1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA 02138

12:15 – 1:45 pm Conversa
CGIS S-020
Harvard's Impact on AIDS Prevention and Treatment in Brazil
Conversa with John David, Richard Pearson Strong Professor of Tropical Public Health, Emeritus, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, and Sofia Gruskin, Director, Program on International Health and Human Rights, and Associate Professor in Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health.
Moderated by Ana Cristina Lindsay, Research Scientist and Co-Director of Public Health Nutrition, Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health.
A light lunch will be available.

2-3:15 pm Panel I: Undergraduate and Graduate Student Research on HIV/AIDS in Brazil
CGIS S-020
Panelists:
David Martin, Harvard College ’07, History and Science
Amy Nunn, ScD, Harvard School of Public Health, dissertation: “The Politics of Life and Death: A Historical Institutional Analysis of Antiretroviral Drug Policy in Brazil”; Corporate Relations Manager, Global Business Coalition on AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Sophia Zamudio-Haas, M.S. Candidate in Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health
Moderator: Lorena Barberia, Program Associate, Brazil Office, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies

3:30-4:45 pm Panel II: A Comparative Look at the Brazilian Response to AIDS
CGIS S-020
Panelists:
Varun Gauri, Senior Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank
João Biehl, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Princeton University; author of Will to Live: AIDS Therapies and the Politics of Survival (Princeton Univ. Press, forthcoming).
Cristina d'Almeida, National Agency for Research on AIDS, France
Moderator: Eduardo Gómez, Politics and Governance Group, Harvard School of Public Health; dissertation: “Epidemics and Institution Building: The United States and Brazil in Comparative Perspective”

 
5:00 pm Keynote Address: Assessing the Sustainability and Future of the Brazilian AIDS Program
CGIS S-010
Paulo Teixeira, Former Director of the National STD/AIDS Program, Ministry of Health of Brazil (2000-2003)
Introduction by Joia Mukherjee, Clinical Director, Department of Social Medicine Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change, and Assistant Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School; Medical Director, Partners in Health.
Chaired by Kenneth Maxwell, Director, Brazil Studies Program.
Reception to follow.

                                                                     
This conference is made possible by the generous support of the Jorge Paulo Lemann fund, and is co-sponsored by the Harvard Medical School Division of AIDS, the Harvard University Center for AIDS Research, the Harvard School of Public Health AIDS Initiative and the Harvard University Program on AIDS. All events are free and open to the public; no registration is necessary. For more information, please contact Erin Goodman, at egoodman@fas.harvard.edu, or David Martin, at dmartin@fas.harvard.edu.