The Johns Hopkins Gazette: February 11, 2002
February 11, 2002
VOL. 31, NO. 21

  

Sharing of Earth's Basic Resources Is Topic of Public Health Symposium

Johns Hopkins Gazette Online Edition

Let's face it, the world isn't getting any bigger. How a burgeoning humanity shares and utilizes the Earth's finite and most basic resources will be the focus of an upcoming symposium at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. Titled "The Coming Crunch: Population, Food and Water in the 21st Century," the all-day symposium will feature researchers and policy experts in the fields of geography, environmental health and population studies, including Thoraya Obaid, executive director of the United Nations Population Fund.

The event will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 21, in the Anna Baetjer Room. It is sponsored by the Center for a Livable Future, the Department of Population and Family Health Sciences and the Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health.

The symposium will be in three parts: "Outlook for This Century," "Solutions" and "Where Do We Go From Here?" The discussions' moderators are Reds Wolman, professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering, Whiting School of Engineering; Stanley Becker, professor in Population and Family Health Sciences, Bloomberg School; and Robert Lawrence, associate dean for professional education and Edyth H. Schoenrich Professor of Preventive Medicine, Bloomberg School.

The event is free, and lunch will be provided. To register, contact Kelly Hoban at 410-502-7578 or khoban@jhsph.edu.


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