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"The Barnard Summit: Women and Health"  4/5/2003
Barnard College, New York, NY

Day-long discussion of women’s health trends worldwide with health specialists, researchers, authors, activists and government leaders.

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Panel One: Women’s Health: A Current Assessment Play Video ( video ) Read Transcript ( transcript )

Moderator: Judith Shapiro, president, Barnard College

Panelists:
Faye Wattleton, President, The Center for the Advancement of Women
Dr. Judith Reichman, MD, author and clinical professor, University of California at Los Angeles
Joan Jacobs Brumberg, Cornell University historian and author of Fasting Girls
Dr. Marianne Legato , MD, professor, Columbia University, founder, Partnership for Gender Specific Medicine
Gina Kolata, New York Times science and medicine correspondent
Cindi Leive editor-in-chief, Glamour
Christina Beato, Assistant Deputy Secretary for Health, Health and Human Services Administration

Panel Two: Women and Healthcare: A Critical Analysis Play Video ( video ) Read Transcript ( transcript )

Moderator: Lynn Sherr, ABC News 20/20 Correspondent

Panelists:
Byllye Avery, founder, National Black Women's Health Project
Ellen S. More, professor, Institute for the Medical Humanities, University of Texas
Judy Norsigian, author, Our Bodies, Ourselves; co-founder, Boston Women's Health Book Collective
Vivian Pinn, director, Office of Research on Women's Health, National Institutes of Health
Isaac Schiff, Chief of the Vincent Obstetrics and Gynecology Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Professor of Gynecology, Harvard Medical School
Susan Wood, director, Office of Women's Health, Food and Drug Administration
Elizabeth Wurtzel, author, Prozac Nation

Panel 3: Women and World Health: A Matter of Survival Play Video ( video ) Read Transcript ( transcript )

Moderator: Soledad O'Brien, anchor, NBC Weekend Today

Panelists:
Helene Gayle, Director of HIV, TB & Reproductive Health, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Afaf Meleis, Dean of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
Jeffrey Sachs, director, The Earth Institute at Columbia University
Nafis Sadik, Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General, Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Asia
Ping-Chen Hsuing, director, Institute for Modern History at Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Carolyn Hannan, director, United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women


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