Title: IV APHA 2006 Annual Meeting, Boston, Nov. 5-8, 2006 (2)

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APHA 2006 Update: Opening and Closing Session Speakers Announced

Appropriate for this year's theme “Public Health and Human Rights,” Paul E. Farmer, MD, PhD, a founding director of Partners In Health and a world-renowned authority on AIDS and tuberculosis, and Helene D. Gayle, MD, MPH, president and CEO of CARE USA, will speak in the Opening General Session, Sunday, Nov. 5, 2006.

The Closing General Session on Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2006, will focus on increasing access to health care and examine initiatives at the state and federal level that incorporate individual and employer mandates. Vincent DeMarco, president of the Maryland Citizen’s Health Initiative, a coalition of organizations seeking to insure quality affordable health care, and John E. McDonough, executive director of Health Care for All, Massachusetts’ leading consumer health advocacy organization, will be the speakers. APHA Headquarters, via Editors derek.g.shendell.96@alum.dartmouth.org