invites you to a book launch of a recent World Bank publication
Legal Aspects of HIV/AIDS: A Guide for Policy and Law Reform
Written by a team of eminent legal scholars and practitioners, this book
summarizes key legal and policy issues for 65 wide-ranging topics related to
HIV/AIDS. The concise format will be useful for policy makers, HIV/AIDS
practitioners, lawyers, the media and others seeking clear, precise information.
The Guide shows how laws and regulations can either underpin or undermine good
public health programs and responsible personal behaviors. It provides relevant
?practice examples? (citing from actual laws and regulations) and offers
selective lists of references.
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Wednesday, September 12, 2007
12:00pm
World Bank J Building, J1- 050
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.
A light lunch will be served
For non bank staff, please rsvp to infoShopevents@worldbank.org
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Introduced by
JOY PHUMAPHI
Vice President, Human Development Network, World Bank
Prior to joining the Bank, Ms. Phumaphi worked at the World Health Organization
as the Assistant Director General for the Family and Community Health
Department. Before that, she served in the Parliament and as Minister for
Health of Botswana.
Presented by Authors
LANCE GABLE
Assistant Professor of Law , Wayne State University.
Mr. Gable is co-editor (with David Buchanan and Celia Fisher) of Ethical and
Legal Issues in Research with High Risk Populations: Addressing Threats of
Suicide, Child Abuse, and Violence (forthcoming 2007), author of numerous
professional journal articles, reports, and other publications, and was guest
editor (with Lawrence O. Gostin and Colleen Flood) of the symposium issue
Legislating and Litigating Health Care Rights Around the World.
KATHARINA GAMHARTER
Counsel
Ms. Gamharter has served as Counsel/Legal Associate in the Environment &
International Law Practice Group as well as the Latin America Operational
Practice Group, World Bank Legal Vice Presidency. She is the author of Access
to Affordable Medicines: Developing Responses under the TRIPS Agreement and EC
Law (2004), and other publications and professional journal articles related to
trade law and intellectual property. Previously she was Assistant Professor at
the Europainstitut, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration.
LAWRENCE GOSTIN
Associate Dean and O?Neill Professor of Global Health Law, Georgetown University
Mr. Gostin is Member of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences
(lifetime), Editor (Health Law and Ethics), Journal of the American Medical
Association, Co-Editor, Georgetown University Press book series, Ethics, Health,
and Public Policy, and a member of the Editorial Board or Editorial Advisory
Board of 20 professional journals. He is the author of The AIDS Pandemic:
Complacency, Injustice, and Unfulfilled Expectations, and the author, co-author,
or co-editor of over 30 other books or monographs as well as author or co-author
of well over 100 professional journal articles in the health field.
JAMES HODGE, JR.
Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Executive
Director, Centers for Law and the Public's Health at Georgetown and Johns
Hopkins Universities; and Adjunct Faculty, Georgetown University Law Center
Mr. Hodge teaches and lectures extensively in public health law,bioethics, and
health information privacy, has authored (or co-authored)over 75 articles in
professional journals and over 50 reports and other publications on public
health law, bioethics, and human rights.
RUDOLF VAN PUYMBROECK
Independent adviser on health law and international development and Adjunct
Faculty,Georgetown University
Mr. Van Puymbroeck was formerly Lead Counsel, Public Health and HIV/AIDS, Legal
Advisory Services, World Bank Legal Vice Presidency. He is a member of the
World Bank?s Editorial Committee, former member of the World Bank?s Research
Committee (2000-2003), and co-author (with Frederick M. Abbott) of Compulsory
Licensing for Public Health: A Guide and Model Documents for Implementation of
the Doha Declaration Paragraph 6 Decision. He is former Editor of Comprehensive
Legal and Judicial Development: Toward an Agenda for a Just and Equitable
Society in the 21st Century, The World Bank Legal Review: Law and Justice for
Development, and the Law, Justice and Development series.
Comments by
DEBREWORK ZEWDIE
Director, Global HIV/AIDS Program, World Bank
Ms. Zewdie is the Director of the Global HIV/AIDS Program for the World Bank.
She was recruited to this position from the Africa Region of the Bank where she
managed the AIDS Campaign Team for Africa (ACTafrica), which is responsible for
the US$1 billion Multi-Country HIV/AIDS Program (MAP I and II) for Africa.
Before joining the Bank in 1994, Ms. Zewdie was Deputy Regional Director of the
Africa Region for the AIDS Control and Prevention project (AIDSCAP) of Family
Health International in Nairobi, Kenya and worked in sixteen African countries.
For more information or to order the book, please click on the link below:
http://www.worldbankinfoshop.org/ecommerce/catalog/product?item_id=6552486
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forum for substantial debate on international development. Our extensive events
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many internationally recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama,
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(See attached file: The Global HIV_AIDS invite.pdf)
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