E-DRUG: 'Lives in the Balance' MSF/DNDi/Mount Sinai Conference 13-14 Dec
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Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi)
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Lives in the Balance: Delivering Medical Innovations to Neglected Patients
and Populations
December 13-14, 2012
New York City
On December 13-14, 2012, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières
(MSF), the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) and Mount Sinai
School of Medicine's Global Health Program will hold a symposium in New York
titled Lives in the Balance: Delivering Medical Innovations to Neglected
Patients and Populations.
This symposium will bring together key actors in
global public health to reflect on progress and shortcomings of the past
decade, while also charting ways to stimulate urgent research and
development (R&D) and accelerate the delivery of medical innovations.
The first day will feature a keynote address from Dr. Anthony Fauci,
Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at
NIH; panel presentations on Global Progress and Shortcomings of the Past
Decade and New Tools and the R&D Landscape; and high-level round table
debates on Setting Priorities for Global Health to Ensure Innovation and
Access and Mechanisms for Facilitating Financing and Coordination. The
second day will focus on concrete ways to accelerate the development and
delivery of new tools for drug-resistant tuberculosis, Chagas disease, and
vaccine-preventable illnesses.
View the preliminary agenda
at: http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/events/symposiums/2012-lives-in-the
-balance
Register for the conference
at: http://innovationsforneglectedpatients.eventbrite.com
If you have any questions or concerns, please e-mail MSF-USA's Emily Gann,
who is managing conference logistics in New York, at:
emily.gann@newyork.msf.org or call +1-212-763-5717.