The UGA College of Public Health and Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute would like to thank everyone who participated in this year’s Global Health Symposium, "Social Determinants of Inequalities in Health II: Continuing the Global Conversation." In particular we’d like to thank the Kellogg Health Scholars Program for helping us facilitate this wonderful meeting, which brought together health experts from the United States and France to discuss and better understand how socio-economic status, socio-political environment, and race and ethnicity contribute to inequalities in health.

2009 Global Health Symposium Program and Abstract Book: Download (.pdf)

 

In our world today, no region or country can ignore the rapidly changing and increasingly interrelated global community and health. Modern transportation allows infections to cross borders quickly; the emergence of infectious agents resistant to current antibiotics and treatments increases the threat of a pandemic worldwide; disparities in health between the developed and developing nations are growing wider and ever increasing. Read More

 

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