The inaugural two-day Summit, occurring just weeks after the midterm elections, will bring together innovators from across the country who are creatively working to tackle some of the nation’s most pressing public health challenges.
The 2018 Summit theme is “From Local Action to National Impact: Overcoming Challenges and Improving Health,” and will look ahead to the creative solutions necessary to address these challenges in a nonpartisan fashion. Speakers include:
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Michael R. Bloomberg, founder of Bloomberg Philanthropies and WHO Global Ambassador for Noncommunicable Diseases;
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Joshua M. Sharfstein, MD, director of the Bloomberg American Health Initiative;
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Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf;
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Leana Wen, MD, President of Planned Parenthood;
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Gina McCarthy, Professor of the Practice of Public Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and former EPA Administrator;
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Marion Nestle, Paulette Goddard Professor and Professor Emerita, Nutrition and Food Studies, New York University, and author;
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Michael Botticelli; executive director of the Grayken Center for Addiction at the Boston Medical Center and former Director of National Drug Control Policy
— and more to be confirmed.
The Summit is organized by the Bloomberg American Health Initiative, created in 2016 with a $300 million gift to the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The Initiative works to apply public health tools and strategies to five critical challenges facing American communities — Addiction and Overdose; Environmental Challenges; Risks to Adolescent Health; Violence; and Obesity and the Food System.
Additional details are included below:
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Bloomberg American Health Summit, hosted by the Bloomberg American Health Initiative, a program of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.
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Nov. 29-30, 2018, at the Fairmont Hotel in Washington, D.C.
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To RSVP or for questions about the Summit, please contact Dori Henry at 410-614-2564, or dhenry21@jhu.edu.