News
April 8, 2003
Contact:
Jennifer Freeman
917-496-8131
Earth Institute Presents Symposium On The United Nations Millennium Development Goals To Cut Poverty In Half By 2015
Task Force
Leaders to Discuss UN Millennium Project
To fight global
poverty, one must fight malnutrition, disease, trade barriers,
and a host of other problems. On Tuesday, April 29th, the
Earth Institute at Columbia University will present a symposium
to introduce the poverty-fighting United Nations Millennium
Project and leaders from its ten task forces.
The UN Millennium Project is an advisory body
to the United Nations charged with recommending a plan to
achieve the Millennium Development Goals, the internationally
agreed targets to cut global poverty in half by the year
2015.
For the first six months of this three-year project, ten
task forces have been assessing components of this ambitious
anti-poverty
challenge.
| What: |
UN Millennium
Development Goals Symposium |
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| When: |
Tuesday,
April 29, 2003
2:00 - 5:30pm |
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| Where: |
Columbia
University,
Lecture Hall, School of Journalism
2950
Broadway at 115th Street
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Earth Institute Director, and Special Advisor to UN Secretary
General Kofi Annan on the Millennium Development Goals,
Jeffrey Sachs, and United Nations Development Program Administrator,
Mark Malloch Brown, will participate in the symposium. During
the symposium, representatives of all ten UN Millennium
Project task forces will discuss the goals and methods their
task forces are undertaking.
The UN Millennium
Development Goals Symposium Schedule:
| Moderator
and Host: Lisa Anderson, Dean, School of International
and Public Affairs, Columbia University |
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| 2:15
- 3:15 |
Panel
Discussion on Eliminating Poverty:
Poverty
and Economic Development, Task Force Coordinator
Jeffrey Sachs, Director, The Earth Institute
Primary
Education and Gender Equality, Task Force
Coordinator Geeta Rao Gupta, President, International
Center for Research on Women
Science,
Technology and Innovation, Task Force
Coordinator Yee Cheong Lee, President-elect,
World Federation of Engineering Organizations
(WFEO)
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| 3:15
- 4:15 |
Panel
Discussion on Improving Health and Nutrition:
HIV/AIDS,
Malaria, TB, Other Major Diseases, and Access
to Essential Medicines, Task Force Coordinator
Josh Ruxin, Assistant Clinical Professor
of Public Health, Center for Global Health and
Economic Development, Mailman
School of Public Health, Columbia University
Maternal
Health and Child Health, Task Force Coordinators
Allan Rosenfield, Dean, Mailman School of Public
Health, Columbia University and Mushtaque Chowdhury,
Deputy Executive Director, Bangladesh Rural Advancement
Committee (BRAC); Visiting Professor, Heilbrunn
Department of Population and Family Health, Columbia
University
Hunger, Task
Force Coordinator Pedro Sanchez, Director,
Tropical Agriculture, The Earth Institute
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| 4:15
- 5:15 |
Panel
Discussion on Improving Living Conditions:
Water
and Sanitation, Task Force Coordinator
Roberto Lenton, Executive Director, Secretariat
for International Affairs and Development, International
Research Institute for Climate Prediction (IRI),
The Earth Institute
Environmental
Sustainability, Task Force Member Charles
McNeill, Environment Program Team Manager and
Biodiversity Conservation & Poverty Reduction
Advisor, United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
Improving
the Lives of Slum Dwellers, Task Force
Coordinator Elliott Sclar, Professor of Urban
Planning and Public Affairs, Graduate School
of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia
University
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at Columbia University is the world’s leading academic center
for the integrated study of Earth, its environment, and society.
The Earth Institute builds upon excellence in the core disciplines-earth
sciences, biological sciences, engineering sciences, social
sciences and health sciences-and stresses cross-disciplinary
approaches to complex problems. Through its research, training and global
partnerships, it mobilizes science and technology
to advance sustainable development, while placing special
emphasis on the needs of the world’s poor. For more information,
visit http://www.earth.columbia.edu.
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