Symposium: Informing Responses to Reduce Poverty and Improve Health in Latin America

Spring Symposium Program

8:30 - 8:50 AM

Light breakfast and Networking

9:00 - 9:20 AM

Opening Remarks / Welcome
Michael A. Rodriguez, MD, MPH
Director, UCLA Blum Center

Why the UCLA Blum Center
Scott L. Waugh, PhD
Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, UCLA

9:20 - 9:50 AM

Mesoamerica Health Initiative: Innovative Financing
Mechanisms to Improve Health in Latin America

Keynote Speaker:
Jaime Sepulveda, MD, MPH, DSc
Executive Director, UCSF Global Health Sciences

9:50 - 10:50 AM

Crossing the Borders: A Dialog with UCLA Deans and Other Leaders on Interdisciplinary Efforts to Improve Health in Latin America
Facilitator:
Timothy Brewer, MD, MPH
Vice Provost, UCLA Interdisciplinary and Cross-Campus Affairs
Speakers:

Alessandro Duranti, PhD
Dean, Division of Social Sciences; UCLA College of Letters and Science
Jody Heymann, MD, PhD, MPP
Dean, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
Rachel Moran, JD
Dean, UCLA School of Law
David Schaberg, PhD
Dean, Division of Humanities, UCLA College of Letters and Science
Cindy Fan, PhD
Interim Vice Provost, UCLA International Studies

11:05 - 12:05 AM

Panel: Migration / Urbanization
Facilitator:
Roger Waldinger, PhD
Distinguished Professor of Sociology, UCLA School of Social Sciences
Speakers:
Steven Wallace, PhD
Chair, Dept. of Community Health Science, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
Leo Estrada, PhD
Professor, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs

12:10 - 1:10 PM

Luncheon

1:10 - 1:30 PM

Poster Presentations

1:35 - 2:30 PM

Panel: Policy Issues Related to Social Determinants of Health in Latin America
Facilitator:
Adeline Nyamathi, ANP, PhD, FAAN
Associate Dean, International Research and Scholarly Activities
Speakers:
Thomas Coates, PhD
Director, UCLA Center for World Health
Lara Stemple, JD
Director, Health and Human Rights Law Project, UCLA School of Law
Emma Aguila, PhD
Director, Center for Latin American Social Policy

2:30 - 3:00 PM

Closing Remarks
David E. Hayes-Bautista, PhD
Director, Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture

Michael A. Rodriguez, MD, MPH
Director, UCLA Blum Center

(Subject to change.)