Opening General Session
The Opening General Session will take place on Sunday, October 26, 2008 from 12:00 pm noon to 2:00 pm at the San Diego Convention Center (Exhibit Hall D). The Opening General Session is the official kickoff of the Annual Meeting.
 Featured speaker will be Professor Sir Michael Marmot, MBBS, MPH, PhD, FRCP, FFPHM, FMedSci
Director: International Institute for Society and Health
MRC Research Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London
Dr. Marmot will address Health in an Unequal World: Report from the Commission on Social Determinants of Health.
Michael Marmot has led a research group on health inequalities for the past 30 years. He is Principal Investigator of the Whitehall Studies of British civil servants, investigating explanations for the striking inverse social gradient in morbidity and mortality. He leads the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) and is engaged in several international research efforts on the social determinants of health. He chairs the Department of Health Scientific Reference Group on tackling health inequalities. He was a member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution for six years and is an honorary fellow of the British Academy.
In 2000 he was knighted by Her Majesty The Queen for services to Epidemiology and understanding health inequalities. Internationally acclaimed, Professor Marmot is a Vice President of the Academia Europaea, a Foreign Associate Member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), and the Chair of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health set up by the World Health Organization in 2005. He won the Balzan Prize for Epidemiology in 2004, gave the Harveian Oration in 2006 and won the William B. Graham Prize for Health Services Research in 2008.
Immediately following the Opening General Session we invite all registrants to visit the Grand Opening of the Public Health Expo (Exhibit Hall A/B/C) .
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Please Note: For security purposes, name badges must be worn to enter the Opening General Session. Program and Badge Holder Pick Up is busiest on Sunday morning, immediately prior to the start of the General Session. To avoid long lines, and to save time, pick up your registration packet on Saturday. |
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