Power & Prosperity: New Dynamics, New Dilemmas
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FSI's annual International Conference and Dinner
Join us for an invigorating day of addresses, debates and discussions of changing patterns of power and prosperity in the international system.
Plenary I - Asia's Triple Rise: How China, India, and Japan Will Shape Our Future
- China's Historic Rise
- India's Ascent
- Japan's Resurgence
Plenary II - Critical Connections: Faces of Security in the 21st Century
- Stabilizing Iraq: the Regional and International Stakes
- Assessing and Addressing Nuclear Risks
- Innovative Solutions: Food Security and the Environment
Interactive Panel Discussions
- Autocratic Hegemons and the National Interests: Dealing with China, Iran, and Russia
- Global Health Care: New Initiatives, New Imperatives
- Nuclear Power Without Nuclear Proliferation?
- Growing Pains: Growth and Tension in China
- A Changing Continent? Opportunities and Challenges for European Expansion
- Food Security, Climate Change, and Civil Conflict
- Faces of Energy Security
- Overcoming Barriers to Conflict Resolution
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Vincenzo Atella
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Associate Professor, Department of Economics and Finance - University of Roma
Vincenzo Atella is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata" where he teaches Macroeconomics and courses in Applied Health Economics at graduate and post graduate level. He is also adjunct associate of the Center for Health Policy at Stanford where he has been visiting professor in different occasions.
Currently, he is CEIS Tor Vergata Director and Scientific Director of the Farmafactoring Foundation, member of SIVEAS (Health Care Services National Evaluation System) of the Ministry of Health, chief economist of the Italian Association of General Practitionners (Società Italiana di Medicina Generale – SIMG) and member and co-founder of the Italian Public Affair Association.
In the recent past he has been member of the International Committee of Experts advising IQWiG (the German Agency for Health Care) for setting national guidelines for Economic Evaluation and member of the Italian Committee for Drug Price appointed by the Ministry of Treasury. He also served as member of the “Strategic Evaluation Committee” of the Italian Drug Agency (AIFA), and has been consultant for the Italian Regional Agency for Health Care Services (http://www.assr.it/), the National Institute of Health (http://www.iss.it/), the WHO and the World Bank. Prof. Atella has been coordinator of a large European Research Network called TECH Europe (http://healthpolicy.fsi.stanford.edu/tech/) which has received financial support by the European Science Foundation. His most recent research activity has focused on poverty, income distribution and health economics. In this last field his research deals with the introduction of new technologies in the health sector, the impact of different co-payment systems on pharmaceutical decision making by physicians and on drug consumption by patients, forecasting health expenditure and with health related income inequalities. The results of this research activity have been published on several international refereed journals as well books.
Director of the Centre for Economic and International Studies (CEIS) at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”
Adjunct Affiliate at the Center for Health Policy and the Department of Medicine
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Dr. Karen Eggleston to lead Shorenstein APARC's comparative healthcare in East asia program
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Dr. Karen Eggleston will join the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center as a center fellow on July 1, 2007. Dr. Eggleston will lead the center's program on comparative health care in East Asia.
Dr. Eggleston's research focuses on comparative healthcare systems and their link to broader social protection policies during economic development and transition from central planning to market-based economies; payment incentives and their impact on healthcare insurer and provider behavior; the market structure of healthcare, including competition, integration, ownership, and healthcare productivity; and incentives surrounding health behaviors such as the spread of HIV/AIDS, overuse of antibiotics, and smoking. She studied in China for two years and was a Fulbright scholar in Korea.
Eggleston earned her Ph.D. in public policy from Harvard University in 1999. She has an M.A. in economics and another in Asian studies from the University of Hawaii, Economics (August 1995 and May 1992, respectively.) She is currently an assistant professor of economics at Tufts University in Boston. Dr. Eggleston joined the faculty at Tufts in 1999.
Currently, Dr. Eggleston is a research associate at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and an academic program coordinator at the Kennedy School Health Care Delivery Policy Program also at Harvard. Dr. Eggleson has been a research associate at the China Academy of Health Policy (CAHP) at Peking University, Beijing, China since 2003 and in the summer of 2004 she was a consultant to the World Bank on their project on health service delivery and the rural health sector.
"Karen will be a great addition to the center," says director of the center, Gi-Wook Shin.
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