ECONOMIC FORUMS AND INTERNATIONAL SEMINARS
Health, Wealth, and Welfare

Thursday, April 15, 2004, 2:30 p.m.–4:00 p.m.
IMF Multi-Purpose Room (Enter via the IMF Center)
720 19th St. N.W., Washington, DC 

Economic Forums are free of charge and open to the public; no registration is needed. For further information, please contact Public Affairs Division at: PublicAffairs@imf.org.

The last 150 years has witnessed a global transformation in human health that has led to people living longer, healthier, more productive lives and has boosted rates of economic growth worldwide. Although this trend is likely to continue, hopes are fading in some regions where progress slowed or stopped in the 1990s, primarily as a result of the AIDS epidemic. A key challenge facing the international community is to devise an appropriate policy mix that contributes to a healthier and more productive world going forward. The following panelists will address this issue:

Abdoulaye Bio-Tchané (Moderator)
Director
African Department
IMF

David Canning
Professor of Economics and International Health
Harvard University

Markus Haacker
Senior Economist
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa

Dean Jamison
Fellow
U.S. National Institutes of Health