CHANGING ENVIRONMENTS AND POPULATION HEALTH (US AND CANADA):
ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON ENVIRONMENTAL, OCCUPATIONAL AND POPULATION HEALTH
Annual Occupational, Environmental and Public Health Conference
January 5 - 7, 2012
Semiahmoo Resort
Blaine, Washington
Schedule
The focus of January 5 and 6 will be on Environmental Health and will feature Dr. Kirk Smith from the University of California at Berkeley. The Public Health portion will take place on January 6 and 7 and will feature health economist Dr. Bob Evans.
Speaker Highlights:
- David Bates Memorial Lecture (Friday 8:20 am)
Dr. Kirk Smith, University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Smith is internationally renowned for his work on indoor air quality and biomass burning. - “We Don't Need the Experts!” Public Health and Private Wealth in a Time of Rising Inequality (Friday 3:00pm)
Dr. Robert Evans, UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research
Speaker Bios
Dr. Bob Evans is a lifelong leader in academia and an internationally esteemed health economist. His groundbreaking comparative studies of health care systems and funding strategies have shaped policy in Canada and provided insight to governments and health agencies worldwide. A decorated academic, Professor Evans is the recipient of Canada’s highest honour for lifetime achievement, as an Officer of the Order of Canada. He also served as a member of the British Columbia Royal Commission on Health Care and Costs in 1990, and of the National Forum on Health, chaired by the prime minister of Canada, from 1994 to 1997. His canonical works, "Strained Mercy: The Economics of Canadian Health Care" and "Why Are Some People Healthy and Others Not? The Determinants of Health of Populations" are considered classics in the field.
In addition to serving as an Officer of the Order of Canada, he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and an Institute Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, where he was director of the Population Health Program from 1987 to 1997. He is also an honorary life member of the Canadian College of Health Services Executives and of the Canadian Health Economics Research Association, and a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance (US). In 2001, he became the first Canadian (and the second non-American) to win the Baxter International Foundation Prize for Health Services Research.
Dr. Evans received his undergraduate degree in political economy from the University of Toronto and a PhD in Economics from Harvard University. As a University Killam Professor at UBC, Dr. Evans is a prolific author and an active professor, researcher and consultant with the UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research and the Department of Economics.
