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The HIV/AIDS Interventions in Developing Countries: Using Cost Benefit and Cost Effectiveness Analysis to Help Guide Policy and Action conference (September 13-15, 2006 at the Hotel Commonwealth, Boston, MA) will provide an interdisciplinary forum for field practitioners, government officials in developing countries, and leading researchers in health economics, infectious diseases, epidemiology, and public policy to create standard approaches that recognize the important relationship between accurate health outcomes modeling and economic analysis, discuss a policy analytic framework that is consistent with the goals of government planning processes, and examine the transportability of techniques in various settings. The conference will also address crucial policy issues such as equitable access to drugs, adequate laboratory infrastructure, proper patient adherence to ARVs, sufficient supply of trained physicians and drug resistance; and discuss solutions for overcoming methodological gaps in conducting an economic evaluation in a resource-scarce setting. Dr. Peter Piot, Executive Director of UNAIDS, will be the conference keynote speaker and other confirmed participants include representatives from World Health Organization, World Bank, University of Cape Town, U.S. Agency for International Development, Clinton Foundation, Partners AIDS Research Center, National Action Committee on AIDS (Nigeria), London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, International Monetary Fund, Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica, Harvard University, Global AIDS Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Botswana Ministry of Health, and Administrative Staff College of India.
The student rapporteurs will have full access to all of the conference sessions as well as the welcome reception dinner at the Boston Harbor Hotel and Harvard Club of Boston. Student rapporteurs will be paid a stipend of $100 per day. The final report from each rappwould be turned in will be available on line at aids.harvard.edu.
Please note, there is a preference on students with studies/work on HIV/AIDS, public health policy, health economics and economics.
If interested, please send the following to Elizabeth Jackson (ekjackso@hsph.harvard.edu) by Friday, September 1st:
A two- three page summary of Dr. Jim Kim's March 3rd talk: "Rethinking Health and Human Rights in the Age of Universal Access to HIV Treatment, Care and Prevention". Dr. Kim's talk can be found at the following link: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/ddl/.
Please feel free to contact Elizabeth with any questions.
Elizabeth Jackson
Project Coordinator
Marlink Group
Harvard School of Public Health AIDS Initiative
651 Huntington Avenue, FXB 631
Boston, MA 02115
Tel: 617.432.6346
Fax: 617.432.4545
Email: ekjackso@hsph.harvard.edu |
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