DATE: 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, Nov. 13: Symposium 9:30 a.m.-noon. And Student Global Health day 1:30-3:30 p.m.

EVENT: Strengthening Health Systems to Improve Global Population Health and Student Global Health. The symposium features case studies from India, South Africa and Ghana, where substantial health system reform efforts have taken place over the past decade. Three speakers who have played a key role in these efforts, and who are members of the CGH External Advisory Committee, will present.

A moderator will help anchor the symposium. Speakers include: K. Srinath Reddy, president, Public Health Foundation of India; Marian Jacobs, dean, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa; and Peter Donkor, provost, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.

The Student Global Health Day will feature two speakers addressing global health in the 21st century and what it means to go into the global health field. The speakers will be followed by two student poster presentations. Student posters will be featured on display all day.

LOCATION: Palmer Commons, 4th floor Forum Hall and Palmer Commons, Great Lakes Room Central. Central Campus map: http://www.umich.edu/~info/mapsAndDirections.html#anchor_centralCampus

SPONSOR: University of Michigan Center for Global Health.

AGENDA/WEB: http://www.globalhealth.umich.edu/symposia.html

CONTACT: E-mail [email protected] to RSVP or Heather Lutz, [email protected] with questions.