A Tour of the Office
Posted on March 6th, 2010 by admin
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Devra L. Davis, PhD, MPH
Designated a National Book Award Finalist for When Smoke Ran Like Water (2002, Basic Books), Devra Davis is Director of the world’s first Center for Environmental Oncology at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute and Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public Health. Her recent book, The Secret History of the War on Cancer, was a top pick by Newsweek and is being used at major schools of public health, including Harvard, Emory, and Tulane University. The multidisciplinary Center for Environmental Oncology includes experts in medicine, basic research, engineering and public policy, who will develop cutting-edge studies to identify the causes of cancer and propose policies to reduce the risks of the disease.Dr. Davis’s career has spanned all areas of academia, public policy, and scientific research. President Clinton appointed the Honorable Dr. Davis to the newly established Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, (1994-99) an independent executive branch agency that investigates, prevents, and mitigates chemical accidents. As the former Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Health in the Department of Health and Human Services, she has counseled leading officials in the United States, United Nations, World Health Organization, and World Bank. She also served as a Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change—the group awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.Dr. Davis holds a B.S. in physiological psychology and a M.A. in Sociology from the University of Pittsburgh. She completed a Ph.D. in science studies at the University of Chicago as a Danforth Foundation Graduate Fellow and a M.P.H. in epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins University as a Senior National Cancer Institute Post-Doctoral Fellow. She has also authored more than 170 publications in books and journals ranging from the Lancet and Journal of the American Medical Association to Scientific American and the New York Times.Honored for her research and public policy work by various national and international groups, she is member of both the American Colleges of Toxicology and of Epidemiology. She was honored by the Betty Ford Comprehensive Cancer Center and the American Cancer Society with the Breast Cancer Awareness Award, commended by the Director of the National Cancer Institute for Outstanding Service, and has recently been appointed a Global Environmental advisor to Newsweek Magazine.She recently was the recipient of a Women’s Leadership Exchange Compass Award, presented by OPEN: The Small Business Network from American Express, for breaking the paradigms of how women are perceived over the last ten years.
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Where does the standard for Universal American Healthcare come from? Franklin Roosevelt’s Hill-Burton standard. The current “health reform” proposal of President Barack Obama comes no where close to the breakthrough healthcare policy that Roosevelt established in the 1940’s, and furthermore, Obama’s policy if not defeated will kill more people than the Nazi’s did with their “health reform”. There are much deeper issues that must be considered in crafting a successful Health Care policy today, issues of mortality, immortality, making decisions based on the future, what is real value versus monetary value and so on. These were the kinds of issues Roosevelt had to confront PERSONALLY, in his near death experience with polio. The discoveries made by Roosevelt in personally overcoming the limitations of his mortality gave him the proper lens through which to situate his identity in the long span of history, and think of policies like healthcare as security for the posterity of the nation and a defence of the gereral welfare as our constitution dictates, rather than today’s cost cutting fiscally frenzied President. So, the time has come to learn the lessons of Franklin Roosevelt’s approach to public health. Repeal HMO’s and Revive the Hill-Burton standard!
Highlighting the vital role small businesses play in our nations economic recovery, U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk unveiled the Small Business Bill of Rights 10 policies to support the nations largest employer small business.
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Full interview here: http://www.hks.harvard.edu/news-events/news/articles/robert-blendon
The “health care reform” of President Barack Obama is an exact copy of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi T-4 board, set up to deny care and kill off undesired sections of the population. This policy must be stopped… even if that requires Obama’s impeachment for crimes against humanity.
In which John offers a summary of the health care reform bill that just passed the U.S. senate, discussing the insurance exchange market, pre-existing condition clauses, medicare taxes, and other fine points of the still-under-debate bill. Here’s a good explanation of how the insurance exchanges will look like: http://bit.ly/eIwNE
Presidential candidate Ron Paul proposes major changes to U.S. foreign policy. We caught up with him in Iowa.
HR 3200 “America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009″ proposes the following new legislation
Abstinence may be a lovely ideal but it’s a lousy public health policy. In the U.S. the whole of our popular culture promotes sex but we don’t talk about it in realistic ways with our young people, HIV is spreading rapidly among married women in low-income countries because their older or promiscuous husbands bring it to the marriage, and rape is increasingly used as a weapon of war. So why the U.S. reliance on abstinence for HIV prevention and is there hope in terms of legislation in the new Congress?