Policies and Regulations

Access Denied details the impact of the Global Gag Rule on reproductive health programs in Zambia, one of the poorest countries in Africa. At a time when one in five adults is infected with HIV and nearly 70 percent of the population is under the age of 24, the gag rule has deprived Zambia’s primary family planning agency of critical U.S. assistance.

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http://www.smartglobalhealth.org//blog — Stay updated with the contest!

CSIS offers $3,000 for global health stories & ideas

The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) invites you to share your story at http://www.smartglobalhealth.org/stories. This contest offers scholarships and prizes to the very best global health stories and ideas.

Nancy Scott, PhD student in public health at Boston University, shares her story on Capital Hill in Washington, D.C. She shares her experience working in Zambia with the Zambian government on health issues. Along the way, she discovers that her passions lie in translating the great breadth and scope of global health policies into action.

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About this Event
24 Sep 2009 @ 12:45

Climate Change Policies: The Road to Copenhagen

About the speech:

Dr Dixon will address a roundtable meeting of the IIEA Climate Change group on the upcoming meeting in Copenhagen this December. He will outline his expectations for the negotiations with a special insight into the approach of the new US administration.

Please note that this event is by invitation only.

About the speaker:

Dr Robert K. Dixon is currently Leader of the Climate Change and Chemicals Team of the World Bank’s Global Environment Facility (GEF). He served as Senior Coordinator on the White House Task Force on Energy Security and Climate Change, National Security Council, Executive Office of the US President 2007-2008. Dr Dixon was responsible for the Major Economies Climate Change Negotiation Process and was a co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Price as a member of the UNIPCC.

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Dr. Schneiders presentation, Climate Change Policy: Expecting the Unimaginable Surprises and Actions to Consider Part 1 of 5, was presented in San Francisco on January 30, 2009 at the Climate Change, Natural Resources and Coastal Management Workshop co-sponsored by the U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.
Stephen H. Schneider is the Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies, Professor of Biological Sciences, and a Senior Fellow in the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University. He served as an NCAR scientist from 1973-1996, where he co-founded the Climate Project. He focuses on climate change science, integrated assessment of ecological and economic impacts of human-induced climate change, and identifying viable climate policies and technological solutions. He has consulted for federal agencies and White House staff in six administrations. Involved with the IPCC since 1988, he was Coordinating Lead Author, WG II, Chapter 19, “Assessing Key Vulnerabilities and the Risk from Climate Change” and a core writer for the Fourth Assessment Synthesis Report. He along with four generations of IPCC authors received a collective Nobel Peace Prize for their joint efforts in 2007. Elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2002, Dr. Schneider received the American Association for the Advancement of Science/ Westinghouse Award for Public Understanding of Science and Technology and a MacArthur Fellowship for integrating and interpreting the results of global climate research. Founder/ editor of Climatic Change, he has authored or co-authored over 500 books, scientific papers, proceedings, legislative testimonies, edited books and chapters, reviews and editorials and has been featured in numerous televisions and film productions. Dr. Schneider counsels policy makers, corporate executives, and non-profit stakeholders about using risk management strategies in climate-policy decision-making, given the uncertainties in future projections of global climate change and related impacts. He is actively engaged in improving public understanding of science and the environment through extensive media communication and public outreach.

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VALUES-DRIVEN BUSINESS
How to Change the World, Make Money, and Have Fun
by Mal Warwick and Ben Cohen

Buy Book at Berrett-Koehler Publishers – http://tinyurl.com/3cdy8t

Visit Author’s Website – http://www.malwarwick.com/

In Values-Driven Business, Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen and Social Venture Network chair Mal Warwick team up to provide you with a way to run your business for profit and personal satisfaction. This practical, down-to-earth book details every step in the process of creating and managing a business that will reflect your personal values, not force you to hide them. It includes a self-assessment tool to determine what it will take for you to start a values-based business or transform your company into one; hundreds of examples of business policies and practices that are both ethical and business-savvy; and checklists crammed with practical suggestions you can put to work today in your own business.

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Dr. Schneiders presentation, Climate Change Policy: Expecting the Unimaginable Surprises and Actions to Consider Part 1 of 5, was presented in San Francisco on January 30, 2009 at the Climate Change, Natural Resources and Coastal Management Workshop co-sponsored by the U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.
Stephen H. Schneider is the Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies, Professor of Biological Sciences, and a Senior Fellow in the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University. He served as an NCAR scientist from 1973-1996, where he co-founded the Climate Project. He focuses on climate change science, integrated assessment of ecological and economic impacts of human-induced climate change, and identifying viable climate policies and technological solutions. He has consulted for federal agencies and White House staff in six administrations. Involved with the IPCC since 1988, he was Coordinating Lead Author, WG II, Chapter 19, “Assessing Key Vulnerabilities and the Risk from Climate Change” and a core writer for the Fourth Assessment Synthesis Report. He along with four generations of IPCC authors received a collective Nobel Peace Prize for their joint efforts in 2007. Elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2002, Dr. Schneider received the American Association for the Advancement of Science/ Westinghouse Award for Public Understanding of Science and Technology and a MacArthur Fellowship for integrating and interpreting the results of global climate research. Founder/ editor of Climatic Change, he has authored or co-authored over 500 books, scientific papers, proceedings, legislative testimonies, edited books and chapters, reviews and editorials and has been featured in numerous televisions and film productions. Dr. Schneider counsels policy makers, corporate executives, and non-profit stakeholders about using risk management strategies in climate-policy decision-making, given the uncertainties in future projections of global climate change and related impacts. He is actively engaged in improving public understanding of science and the environment through extensive media communication and public outreach.

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Dr. Schneiders presentation, Climate Change Policy: Expecting the Unimaginable Surprises and Actions to Consider Part 1 of 5, was presented in San Francisco on January 30, 2009 at the Climate Change, Natural Resources and Coastal Management Workshop co-sponsored by the U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.
Stephen H. Schneider is the Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies, Professor of Biological Sciences, and a Senior Fellow in the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University. He served as an NCAR scientist from 1973-1996, where he co-founded the Climate Project. He focuses on climate change science, integrated assessment of ecological and economic impacts of human-induced climate change, and identifying viable climate policies and technological solutions. He has consulted for federal agencies and White House staff in six administrations. Involved with the IPCC since 1988, he was Coordinating Lead Author, WG II, Chapter 19, “Assessing Key Vulnerabilities and the Risk from Climate Change” and a core writer for the Fourth Assessment Synthesis Report. He along with four generations of IPCC authors received a collective Nobel Peace Prize for their joint efforts in 2007. Elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2002, Dr. Schneider received the American Association for the Advancement of Science/ Westinghouse Award for Public Understanding of Science and Technology and a MacArthur Fellowship for integrating and interpreting the results of global climate research. Founder/ editor of Climatic Change, he has authored or co-authored over 500 books, scientific papers, proceedings, legislative testimonies, edited books and chapters, reviews and editorials and has been featured in numerous televisions and film productions. Dr. Schneider counsels policy makers, corporate executives, and non-profit stakeholders about using risk management strategies in climate-policy decision-making, given the uncertainties in future projections of global climate change and related impacts. He is actively engaged in improving public understanding of science and the environment through extensive media communication and public outreach.

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Mission Statement

New York University’s Master’s Program in Global Public Health will prepare professionals with advanced degrees from multiple disciplines to play leadership roles in promoting global health through improved research, practice, and policy-making.

The field of global public health addresses the broad array of issues in physical and mental health, encompassing both the long-term existent and the newly emergent. The growth of global demographic shifts and global economic relationships makes the health of all the world’s people increasingly interdependent. Thus an increasing number of well-trained public health professionals with cross-national expertise are needed to improve disease surveillance, monitor health status, prevent disease, promote health, manage health care resources and devise policies to foster health system development and reform worldwide.

In response, five of the University’s professional schools have collaborated in developing a program in Global Public Health that is committed to advance health knowledge and practice through research, education, and outreach. The graduates of this program will be uniquely qualified to lead multi

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The biggest financial crime in the history of the World? The credit crunch is here, What has gone wrong in the current market environment? Some observers believe that an Economic crash, far worse than the world has ever seen is about to take place.

What happens to all the worlds wealth?

Does it get lost?? The answer is no! It gets redistributed. This video explains how the global banking system works, how people have been duped for centuries about monetary policy.

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Alex welcomes back to the show British business consultant, policy adviser, writer, columnist, puzzle inventor, hereditary peer and vocal critic of the anthropogenic global warming hoax, Lord Christopher Monckton.
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