"Public Policy and the Challenge of Chronic Noncommunicable Diseases" discussed at the InfoShop on June 27, 2007, from 2:00 to 4:00pm in J1-050

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and
Health, Nutrition and Population, Human Development Network
cordially invite you to a panel discussion featuring a recent
publication

Public Policy and the Challenge of Chronic Noncommunicable Diseases
By Olusoji Adeyi , Owen Smith , Sylvia Robles

Within a decade, chronic noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) will
dominate health care needs in most low-and middle-income countries.
Increasingly, policymakers and program managers are being challenged
to formulate effective strategies for preventing NCDs, to address
cost-pressures arising from new technologies, and to mitigate the
effects of disabilities on those affected by NCDs. But how can
policymakers control health costs even as new technologies become
available? How might program managers deliver services as
efficiently and equitably as possible? What are some broad
guidelines for determining the roles of public policy in relation to
preventing and controlling NCDs? The authors point out that the
effective policy response will be twofold: to develop programs to
avoid the looming NCD burden of disease to the extent possible-for
example, through public health interventions and improved health
care- and simultaneously to prepare to address the health system and
economic pressures that will arise from the increase in NCDs.

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Wednesday, June 27, 2007
2:00 - 4:00 pm
World Bank J Building - J1-050
(701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.)

Coffee and Cookies will be served.

Chaired by:
Joy Phumaphi
Vice President & Head of Network, HDNVP
Joy Phumaphi is the Vice President of the Human Development Network
at the World Bank. Prior to joining the Bank, Ms. Phumaphi worked at
the World Health Organization as the Assistant Director General for
Family and Community Health Department. Before that, she served in
the Parliament and as Minister for Health of Botswana.

Moderated by:
Phillip Jeremy Hay
Communications Adviser, HDNOP
Phillip Hay is Communications Adviser for the Human Development
Network, helping to raise the profile and proven impact of human
development issues such as health, nutrition and population,
HIV/AIDS, education, etc, in the global and national media, and
within the Bank's own development community. He also works closely
with key partners such as civil society, the specialist UN agencies,
parliamentarians, the private sector, and others to advance the
human development agenda. Mr Hay is a former BBC Special
Correspondent and veteran commentator on international affairs.

Discussion by authors:
Olusoji Adeyi
Coordinator of Public Health Programs, HDNHE
Olusoji Adeyi is the Coordinator of Public Health Programs in the
Human Development Network. He has extensive experience in strategies
and programs for health systems and disease control. He was
previously Lead Health Specialist in the Europe and Central Asia
Region. He has worked for WHO, the Government of Nigeria, UNAIDS and
the Harvard School of Public Health.

Sylvia C. Robles
Senior Public Health Specialist, HDNHE
Sylvia C. Robles is a Senior Public Health Specialist at the World
Bank. Dr. Robles has worked on program evaluation and research on
prevention for tobacco, cancer, diabetes and other non-communicable
diseases. She has worked on training local public health
professionals and developing surveillance systems in underserved
areas. Before being seconded to the World Bank in 2005, she was the
head of the WHO/PAHO Program for Non-communicable Diseases for the
Region of the Americas.

Owen Smith
Economist, SASPR
Owen Smith is currently working as an Economist in the South Asia
poverty reduction and economic management (PREM) unit of the World
Bank, having previously worked in the Health, Nutrition, and
Population (HNP) anchor on non-communicable diseases. Prior to
joining the World Bank in 2005, he worked as a health economist with
Abt Associates, Inc., and as an economist in the Canadian Ministry
of Finance.

Closing Remarks by:
Cristian Baeza
Acting Director, Health, Nutrition and Population, HDNHE
Cristian Baeza is the Acting Director, Health, Nutrition &
Population in the Human Development at the World Bank in Washington
DC. His main area of work and research is on Health Financing and
Health Systems and their contribution to social protection and
poverty alleviation. Previously, Dr. Baeza was the Lead Health
Policy Specialist in the Latin America and Caribbean Region of the
World Bank and prior to that, Senior Health Systems Specialist for
Social Security Policy and Development at the International Labor
Organization (ILO).
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________

About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly
Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible
space at headquarters and provides internal and external audiences
with over 15,000 titles published by the World Bank, international
organizations, and other publishers on development issues.

For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop

Comments about the events program:

http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

Film Screening and Discussion with filmmaker Julia Kwan: "Eve and the Fire Horse" on Thursday June 21, 2007 at 5:30pm in JB1-080

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| |Eve, a precocious nine year old with an|
| |overactive imagination, was born in the year of|
| |the Fire Horse, notorious among Chinese families|
| |for producing the most troublesome children.|
| |Caught between her 11-year-old authoritative|
| |sister's fantasies of sainthood and cultural|
| |confusion and her own sense of right and wrong,|
| |Eve faces the challenges of childhood with|
| |fanciful humour and wide-eyed wonder. Sometimes|
| |the most troublesome children are the ones that|
| |touch our hearts most deeply. |
| | |
| | Thursday, June 21, 2007 |
| | 5:30 - 7:30 pm |
| | |
| | World Bank J Building - Lower Level Auditorium |
| | JB1-080 |
| | (701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and |
| | Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| | |
| | For non bank staff, please RSVP to |
| | InfoShopevents@worldbank.org |
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"Luminous! One of the most beloved films at Sundance this year ?
Intelligent, delicate and touching..." Roger Ebert, Chicago
Sun-Times

"An exceptionally talented cast ? including actors from Canada, the
U.S. and Hong Kong ? beautiful cinematography and art direction,
attention to detail, and Kwan's flawless screenplay, make Eve & The
Fire Horse one of the most enchanting and memorable films made in
this country." Globe and Mail

"An inspired generational document . Eve & the Fire Horse is such a
quiet, clear-eyed meditation on childhood that you barely notice as
it burns its way into your mind. And when it?s over, you?re left
with this magnificent maze of memory, a latticework of images lifted
from the sweet and sombre playground world of two young sisters."
CBC

"Both a finely wrought period piece and a slice of delicately
captured childhood, "Eve & the Fire Horse" reps an exceptional
feature debut for young helmer-scripter Julia Kwan, who loosely
based this film on her own experiences growing up Chinese in the
pre-multicultural Vancouver of the 1970s." Variety
________________________________________________________________________________

Discussion with Filmmaker and Director
Julia Kwan
Julia Kwan is a filmmaker living in Vancouver, B.C. A second (or
one and half) generation Chinese-Canadian of immigrant parents. Ms.
Kwan was a director resident at Norman Jewison?s Canadian Film
Centre, where she madeher award winning short, Three Sisters on Moon
Lake. In 2005, Ms. Kwan made her feature film debut with Eve & the
Fire Horse, based on her Writer?s Guild of Canada award-winning
script. The film had its world premiere at the Toronto
International Film Festival and its international premiere at the
Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Special Jury Prize. Eve &
The Fire Horse also picked up awards at the New York AsianAmerican
Film Festival, Bendfilm Festival, Calgary Film Festival and San
Diego Asian Film Festival. Mostrecently, Kwan won the prestigious
Claude Jutra Award for best first feature director and received
fivenominations, including best supporting actor and actress, at the
Genie Awards (Canadian Oscars).

Welcoming remarks by
Jeff Chelsky
Canada Club Representative
Jeff Chelsky is a Senior Economist in the European Department of the
IMF. Mr. Chelsky was formerly in the IMF's Independent Evaluation
Office and spent 5 years as the Senior Advisor to Canada's Executive
Director on the IMF's Executive Board. Prior to that, Mr. Chelsky
worked for the Canada's Department of Finance and Industry
Department in Ottawa.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the World Bank Group/IMFCanada Club
The mandate of the Canada Club is to organize activities and share
information related to Canada among World Bank Group and IMF current
and former staff and relatives, Canadians and people interested in
Canada.
About the Office of Diversity Programs
The Office of Diversity Programs is an in-house source of expert
advice on diversity and inclusion. Its goal is to create an
inclusive and respectful work environment that values all human
differences and mobilizes them as strategic business assets in
service of poverty reduction. The Office of Diversity Programs
provides guidance on institutional and unit-level strategies to
promote diversity and inclusion, advises on the diversity dimensions
of recruitment, strategic staffing, succession planning, and career
development, conducts research on systemic barriers to inclusion,
and shares information on best practices in diversity management
worldwide.
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly
Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible
space at headquarters and provides internal and external audiences
with over 15,000 titles published by the World Bank, international
organizations, and other publishers on development issues.

For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop

Comments about the events program:

http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

"Inexcusable Absence" discussed at the InfoShop on June 21, 2007, at 12:00pm in J1-050

InfoShop and the Human Development Network Vice Presidency, World Bank
Invite you to a discussion featuring a recent publication from the Center for
Global Development
Inexcusable Absence
Why 60 Million Girls Still Aren't in School and What to Do about It

by Maureen A. Lewis and Marlaine E. Lockheed

Girls' education, indisputably crucial to development, has received a lot of
attention-but surprisingly little hardheaded analysis to inform practical policy
solutions. In Inexcusable Absence, Maureen Lewis and Marlaine Lockheed propose
new strategies for reaching the 70 percent of out-of-school girls who are
"doubly disadvantaged" by their ethnicity, language, or other factors. The book
will be an important tool for policymakers, informing interventions that can
make a profound impact on the lives of the 60 million out-of-school girls.

Thursday, June 21, 2007 from 12:00pm - 2:00pm
World Bank J Building - J1-050
701 18th Street, NW

Chair:
Joy Phumaphi
Vice President and Head of Human Development Network, The World Bank
Prior to this, Joy Phumaphi was Assistant Director General for Family and
Community Health at the World Health Organization and was the Director General's
Representative on Gender Equality. She was also Health Minister of Botswana.

Presenters:
Maureen A. Lewis
Acting Chief Economist, Human Development Network, The World Bank
Maureen Lewis is Acting Chief Economist for Human Development at the World Bank.
She was formerly a Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development for two
years and prior to that managed a unit in the World Bank dedicated to economic
policy and human development research and programs in Eastern Europe and Central
Asia. Before joining the World Bank, she established and directed the
International Health and Demographic Policy Unit at the Urban Institute.

Marlaine E. Lockheed
Visiting Fellow, Center for Global Development
Prior to this Marlaine Lockheed was Education Sector Manager and Acting Director
for Education at the World Bank and head of WBI's Evaluation Group. She
currently teaches education policy at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of
International and Public Policy.

Discussants:
Mayra Buvinic
Gender Director, The World Bank
Mayra Buvinic is Sector Director for Gender and Development, PREM Network at the
World Bank. Before joining the Bank in 2005, she worked at the Inter American
Development Bank and is founding member and past President of the International
Center for Research on Women.
Cynthia B. Lloyd
Senior Associate, The Population Council
Cynthia B. Lloyd is a senior associate with the Poverty, Gender, and Youth
program at the Population Council. Her fields of expertise include transitions
to adulthood, children's schooling, gender and population issues, and household
and family demography in developing countries. Lloyd has worked on these issues
extensively in Ghana, Egypt, Kenya, Pakistan, and other developing countries as
well as comparatively. Her recent research has concentrated on school quality in
developing countries and the relationship between school quality, school
attendance, and transitions to adulthood.

Harry Patrinos
Lead Education Economist, The World Bank
Harry Anthony Patrinos is Lead Education Economist at the World Bank. He
specializes in all areas of education, especially school-based management,
demand-side financing and public-private partnerships. He managed education
lending operations and analytical work programs in Argentina, Colombia and
Mexico, as well as a regional research project on the socioeconomic status of
Latin America?s Indigenous Peoples.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and serves as a
forum for substantial debate on international development. Our extensive events
program consists of more than 250 events over the past two years and has hosted
many internationally recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama,
Jeffrey Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly Fiorina.
The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible space at headquarters and
provides internal and external audiences with over 15,000 titles published by
the World Bank, international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.

"Inexcusable Absence" discussed at the InfoShop on June 21, 2007, at 12:00pm in J1-050

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Human Development Network Vice Presidency, World Bank
Invite you to a discussion featuring a recent publication from the
Center for Global Development
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| | Inexcusable Absence |
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| | by Maureen A. Lewis and Marlaine E. |
| | Lockheed |
| | |
| | Girls' education, indisputably crucial to |
| | development, has received a lot of |
| | attention-but surprisingly little |
| | hardheaded analysis to inform practical |
| | policy solutions. In Inexcusable Absence, |
| | Maureen Lewis and Marlaine Lockheed |
| | propose new strategies for reaching the |
| | 70 percent of out-of-school girls who are |
| | "doubly disadvantaged" by their |
| | ethnicity, language, or other factors. |
| | The book will be an important tool for |
| | policymakers, informing interventions |
| | that can make a profound impact on the |
| | lives of the 60 million out-of-school |
| | girls. |
| | |
| | Thursday, June 21, 2007 from 12:00pm - |
| | 2:00pm |
| | World Bank J Building - J1-050 |
| | 701 18th Street, NW |
| | |
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Chair:
Joy Phumaphi
Vice President and Head of Human Development Network, The World Bank
Prior to this, Joy Phumaphi was Assistant Director General for
Family and Community Health at the World Health Organization and was
the Director General's Representative on Gender Equality. She was
also Health Minister of Botswana.

Presenters:
Maureen A. Lewis
Acting Chief Economist, Human Development Network, The World Bank
Maureen Lewis is Acting Chief Economist for Human Development at the
World Bank. She was formerly a Senior Fellow at the Center for
Global Development for two years and prior to that managed a unit in
the World Bank dedicated to economic policy and human development
research and programs in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Before
joining the World Bank, she established and directed the
International Health and Demographic Policy Unit at the Urban
Institute.

Marlaine E. Lockheed
Visiting Fellow, Center for Global Development
Prior to this Marlaine Lockheed was Education Sector Manager and
Acting Director for Education at the World Bank and head of WBI's
Evaluation Group. She currently teaches education policy at
Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of International and Public
Policy.

Discussants:
Mayra Buvinic
Gender Director, The World Bank
Mayra Buvinic is Sector Director for Gender and Development, PREM
Network at the World Bank. Before joining the Bank in 2005, she
worked at the Inter American Development Bank and is founding member
and past President of the International Center for Research on
Women.
Cynthia B. Lloyd
Senior Associate, The Population Council
Cynthia B. Lloyd is a senior associate with the Poverty, Gender, and
Youth program at the Population Council. Her fields of expertise
include transitions to adulthood, children's schooling, gender and
population issues, and household and family demography in developing
countries. Lloyd has worked on these issues extensively in Ghana,
Egypt, Kenya, Pakistan, and other developing countries as well as
comparatively. Her recent research has concentrated on school
quality in developing countries and the relationship between school
quality, school attendance, and transitions to adulthood.

Harry Patrinos
Lead Education Economist, The World Bank
Harry Anthony Patrinos is Lead Education Economist at the World
Bank. He specializes in all areas of education, especially
school-based management, demand-side financing and public-private
partnerships. He managed education lending operations and
analytical work programs in Argentina, Colombia and Mexico, as well
as a regional research project on the socioeconomic status of Latin
America?s Indigenous Peoples.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly
Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible
space at headquarters and provides internal and external audiences
with over 15,000 titles published by the World Bank, international
organizations, and other publishers on development issues.

Reminder: Film Screening and Discussion with filmmaker Julia Kwan: "Eve and the Fire Horse" on Thursday, June 21, 2007 at 5:30pm in JB1-080

InfoShop, The World Bank Group/IMF Canada Club & The World Bank Group Office
of Diversity Programs Invite you to a film screening
Eve & The Fire Horse
Eve, a precocious nine year old with an overactive imagination, was born in the
year of the Fire Horse, notorious among Chinese families for producing the most
troublesome children. Caught between her 11-year-old authoritative sister's
fantasies of sainthood and cultural confusion and her own sense of right and
wrong, Eve faces the challenges of childhood with fanciful humour and wide-eyed
wonder. Sometimes the most troublesome children are the ones that touch our
hearts most deeply.

Thursday, June 21, 2007
5:30 - 7:30 pm
World Bank J Building - Lower Level Auditorium JB1-080
(701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.)

For non bank staff, please RSVP to InfoShopevents@worldbank.org
________________________________________________________________________________________
"Luminous! One of the most beloved films at Sundance this year ? Intelligent,
delicate and touching..." Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

"An exceptionally talented cast ? including actors from Canada, the U.S. and
Hong Kong ? beautiful cinematography and art direction, attention to detail, and
Kwan's flawless screenplay, make Eve & The Fire Horse one of the most enchanting
and memorable films made in this country." Globe and Mail

"An inspired generational document . Eve & the Fire Horse is such a quiet,
clear-eyed meditation on childhood that you barely notice as it burns its way
into your mind. And when it?s over, you?re left with this magnificent maze of
memory, a latticework of images lifted from the sweet and sombre playground
world of two young sisters." CBC

"Both a finely wrought period piece and a slice of delicately captured
childhood, "Eve & the Fire Horse" reps an exceptional feature debut for young
helmer-scripter Julia Kwan, who loosely based this film on her own experiences
growing up Chinese in the pre-multicultural Vancouver of the 1970s." Variety
________________________________________________________________________________

Discussion with Filmmaker and Director
Julia Kwan
Julia Kwan is a filmmaker living in Vancouver, B.C. A second (or one and half)
generation Chinese-Canadian of immigrant parents. Ms. Kwan was a director
resident at Norman Jewison?s Canadian Film Centre, where she madeher award
winning short, Three Sisters on Moon Lake. In 2005, Ms. Kwan made her feature
film debut with Eve & the Fire Horse, based on her Writer?s Guild of Canada
award-winning script. The film had its world premiere at the Toronto
International Film Festival and its international premiere at the Sundance Film
Festival, where it won the Special Jury Prize. Eve & The Fire Horse also picked
up awards at the New York AsianAmerican Film Festival, Bendfilm Festival,
Calgary Film Festival and San Diego Asian Film Festival. Mostrecently, Kwan won
the prestigious Claude Jutra Award for best first feature director and received
fivenominations, including best supporting actor and actress, at the Genie
Awards (Canadian Oscars).

Welcoming remarks by
Jeff Chelsky
Senior Economist, IMF
Jeff Chelsky is a Senior Economist in the European Department of the IMF. Mr.
Chelsky was formerly in the IMF's Independent Evaluation Office and spent 5
years as the Senior Advisor to Canada's Executive Director on the IMF's
Executive Board. Prior to that, Mr. Chelsky worked for the Canada's Department
of Finance and Industry Department in Ottawa.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the World Bank Group/IMFCanada Club
The mandate of the Canada Club is to organize activities and share information
related to Canada among World Bank Group and IMF current and former staff and
relatives, Canadians and people interested in Canada.
About the Office of Diversity Programs
The Office of Diversity Programs is an in-house source of expert advice on
diversity and inclusion. Its goal is to create an inclusive and respectful work
environment that values all human differences and mobilizes them as strategic
business assets in service of poverty reduction. The Office of Diversity
Programs provides guidance on institutional and unit-level strategies to promote
diversity and inclusion, advises on the diversity dimensions of recruitment,
strategic staffing, succession planning, and career development, conducts
research on systemic barriers to inclusion, and shares information on best
practices in diversity management worldwide.
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and serves as a
forum for substantial debate on international development. Our extensive events
program consists of more than 250 events over the past two years and has hosted
many internationally recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama,
Jeffrey Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly Fiorina.
The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible space at headquarters and
provides internal and external audiences with over 15,000 titles published by
the World Bank, international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.

For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop
Comments about the events program: http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

Film Screening and Discussion with filmmaker Julia Kwan: "Eve and the Fire Horse" on June 21, 2007 at 5:30pm in JB1-080

InfoShop, The World Bank Group/IMF Canada Club & The World Bank Group Office
of Diversity Programs Invite you to a film screening
Eve & The Fire Horse
Eve, a precocious nine year old with an overactive imagination, was born in the
year of the Fire Horse, notorious among Chinese families for producing the most
troublesome children. Caught between her 11-year-old authoritative sister's
fantasies of sainthood and cultural confusion and her own sense of right and
wrong, Eve faces the challenges of childhood with fanciful humour and wide-eyed
wonder. Sometimes the most troublesome children are the ones that touch our
hearts most deeply.

Wednesday, June 21, 2007
5:30 - 7:30 pm
World Bank J Building - Lower Level Auditorium JB1-080
(701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.)

For non bank staff, please RSVP to InfoShopevents@worldbank.org
________________________________________________________________________________________
"Luminous! One of the most beloved films at Sundance this year ? Intelligent,
delicate and touching..." Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

"An exceptionally talented cast ? including actors from Canada, the U.S. and
Hong Kong ? beautiful cinematography and art direction, attention to detail, and
Kwan's flawless screenplay, make Eve & The Fire Horse one of the most enchanting
and memorable films made in this country." Globe and Mail

"An inspired generational document . Eve & the Fire Horse is such a quiet,
clear-eyed meditation on childhood that you barely notice as it burns its way
into your mind. And when it?s over, you?re left with this magnificent maze of
memory, a latticework of images lifted from the sweet and sombre playground
world of two young sisters." CBC

"Both a finely wrought period piece and a slice of delicately captured
childhood, "Eve & the Fire Horse" reps an exceptional feature debut for young
helmer-scripter Julia Kwan, who loosely based this film on her own experiences
growing up Chinese in the pre-multicultural Vancouver of the 1970s." Variety
________________________________________________________________________________

Discussion with Filmmaker and Director
Julia Kwan
Julia Kwan is a filmmaker living in Vancouver, B.C. A second (or one and half)
generation Chinese-Canadian of immigrant parents. Ms. Kwan was a director
resident at Norman Jewison?s Canadian Film Centre, where she madeher award
winning short, Three Sisters on Moon Lake. In 2005, Ms. Kwan made her feature
film debut with Eve & the Fire Horse, based on her Writer?s Guild of Canada
award-winning script. The film had its world premiere at the Toronto
International Film Festival and its international premiere at the Sundance Film
Festival, where it won the Special Jury Prize. Eve & The Fire Horse also picked
up awards at the New York AsianAmerican Film Festival, Bendfilm Festival,
Calgary Film Festival and San Diego Asian Film Festival. Mostrecently, Kwan won
the prestigious Claude Jutra Award for best first feature director and received
fivenominations, including best supporting actor and actress, at the Genie
Awards (Canadian Oscars).

Welcoming remarks by
Jeff Chelsky
Senior Economist, IMF
Jeff Chelsky is a Senior Economist in the European Department of the IMF. Mr.
Chelsky was formerly in the IMF's Independent Evaluation Office and spent 5
years as the Senior Advisor to Canada's Executive Director on the IMF's
Executive Board. Prior to that, Mr. Chelsky worked for the Canada's Department
of Finance and Industry Department in Ottawa.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the World Bank Group/IMFCanada Club
The mandate of the Canada Club is to organize activities and share information
related to Canada among World Bank Group and IMF current and former staff and
relatives, Canadians and people interested in Canada.
About the Office of Diversity Programs
The Office of Diversity Programs is an in-house source of expert advice on
diversity and inclusion. Its goal is to create an inclusive and respectful work
environment that values all human differences and mobilizes them as strategic
business assets in service of poverty reduction. The Office of Diversity
Programs provides guidance on institutional and unit-level strategies to promote
diversity and inclusion, advises on the diversity dimensions of recruitment,
strategic staffing, succession planning, and career development, conducts
research on systemic barriers to inclusion, and shares information on best
practices in diversity management worldwide.
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and serves as a
forum for substantial debate on international development. Our extensive events
program consists of more than 250 events over the past two years and has hosted
many internationally recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama,
Jeffrey Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly Fiorina.
The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible space at headquarters and
provides internal and external audiences with over 15,000 titles published by
the World Bank, international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.

For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop
Comments about the events program: http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

Film Screening and Discussion with filmmaker Julia Kwan: "Eve and the Fire Horse" on June 21, 2007 at 5:30pm in JB1-080

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| |Eve, a precocious nine year old with an|
| |overactive imagination, was born in the year of|
| |the Fire Horse, notorious among Chinese families|
| |for producing the most troublesome children.|
| |Caught between her 11-year-old authoritative|
| |sister's fantasies of sainthood and cultural|
| |confusion and her own sense of right and wrong,|
| |Eve faces the challenges of childhood with|
| |fanciful humour and wide-eyed wonder. Sometimes|
| |the most troublesome children are the ones that|
| |touch our hearts most deeply. |
| | |
| | Wednesday, June 21, 2007 |
| | 5:30 - 7:30 pm |
| | |
| | World Bank J Building - Lower Level Auditorium |
| | JB1-080 |
| | (701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and |
| | Pennsylvania Ave.) |
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"Luminous! One of the most beloved films at Sundance this year ?
Intelligent, delicate and touching..." Roger Ebert, Chicago
Sun-Times

"An exceptionally talented cast ? including actors from Canada, the
U.S. and Hong Kong ? beautiful cinematography and art direction,
attention to detail, and Kwan's flawless screenplay, make Eve & The
Fire Horse one of the most enchanting and memorable films made in
this country." Globe and Mail

"An inspired generational document . Eve & the Fire Horse is such a
quiet, clear-eyed meditation on childhood that you barely notice as
it burns its way into your mind. And when it?s over, you?re left
with this magnificent maze of memory, a latticework of images lifted
from the sweet and sombre playground world of two young sisters."
CBC

"Both a finely wrought period piece and a slice of delicately
captured childhood, "Eve & the Fire Horse" reps an exceptional
feature debut for young helmer-scripter Julia Kwan, who loosely
based this film on her own experiences growing up Chinese in the
pre-multicultural Vancouver of the 1970s." Variety
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Discussion with Filmmaker and Director
Julia Kwan
Julia Kwan is a filmmaker living in Vancouver, B.C. A second (or
one and half) generation Chinese-Canadian of immigrant parents. Ms.
Kwan was a director resident at Norman Jewison?s Canadian Film
Centre, where she madeher award winning short, Three Sisters on Moon
Lake. In 2005, Ms. Kwan made her feature film debut with Eve & the
Fire Horse, based on her Writer?s Guild of Canada award-winning
script. The film had its world premiere at the Toronto
International Film Festival and its international premiere at the
Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Special Jury Prize. Eve &
The Fire Horse also picked up awards at the New York AsianAmerican
Film Festival, Bendfilm Festival, Calgary Film Festival and San
Diego Asian Film Festival. Mostrecently, Kwan won the prestigious
Claude Jutra Award for best first feature director and received
fivenominations, including best supporting actor and actress, at the
Genie Awards (Canadian Oscars).

Welcoming remarks by
Jeff Chelsky
Senior Economist, IMF
Jeff Chelsky is a Senior Economist in the European Department of the
IMF. Mr. Chelsky was formerly in the IMF's Independent Evaluation
Office and spent 5 years as the Senior Advisor to Canada's Executive
Director on the IMF's Executive Board. Prior to that, Mr. Chelsky
worked for the Canada's Department of Finance and Industry
Department in Ottawa.
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"Public Policy and the Challenge of Chronic Noncommunicable Diseases" discussed at the InfoShop on June 27, 2007, from 2:00 to 4:00pm in J1-050

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Health, Nutrition and Population, Human Development Network
cordially invite you to a panel discussion featuring a recent
publication
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| | By Olusoji Adeyi , Owen Smith , |
| | Sylvia Robles |
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| | Within a decade, chronic |
| | noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) will |
| | dominate health care needs in most |
| | low-and middle-income countries. |
| | Increasingly, policymakers and |
| | program managers are being |
| | challenged to formulate effective |
| | strategies for preventing NCDs, to |
| | address cost-pressures arising from |
| | new technologies, and to mitigate |
| | the effects of disabilities on those |
| | affected by NCDs. But how can |
| | policymakers control health costs |
| | even as new technologies become |
| | available? How might program |
| | managers deliver services as |
| | efficiently and equitably as |
| | possible? What are some broad |
| | guidelines for determining the roles |
| | of public policy in relation to |
| | preventing and controlling NCDs? |
| | The authors point out that the |
| | effective policy response will be |
| | twofold: to develop programs to |
| | avoid the looming NCD burden of |
| | disease to the extent possible-for |
| | example, through public health |
| | interventions and improved health |
| | care- and simultaneously to prepare |
| | to address the health system and |
| | economic pressures that will arise |
| | from the increase in NCDs. |
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007
2:00 - 4:00 pm
World Bank J Building - J1-050
(701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.)

Coffee and Cookies will be served.

Chaired by:
Joy Phumaphi
Vice President & Head of Network, HDNVP
Joy Phumaphi is the Vice President of the Human Development Network
at the World Bank. Prior to joining the Bank, Ms. Phumaphi worked at
the World Health Organization as the Assistant Director General for
Family and Community Health Department. Before that, she served in
the Parliament and as Minister for Health of Botswana.

Moderated by:
Phillip Jeremy Hay
Communications Adviser, HDNOP
Phillip Hay is Communications Adviser for the Human Development
Network, helping to raise the profile and proven impact of human
development issues such as health, nutrition and population,
HIV/AIDS, education, etc, in the global and national media, and
within the Bank's own development community. He also works closely
with key partners such as civil society, the specialist UN agencies,
parliamentarians, the private sector, and others to advance the
human development agenda. Mr Hay is a former BBC Special
Correspondent and veteran commentator on international affairs.

Discussion by authors:
Olusoji Adeyi
Coordinator of Public Health Programs, HDNHE
Olusoji Adeyi is the Coordinator of Public Health Programs in the
Human Development Network. He has extensive experience in strategies
and programs for health systems and disease control. He was
previously Lead Health Specialist in the Europe and Central Asia
Region. He has worked for WHO, the Government of Nigeria, UNAIDS and
the Harvard School of Public Health.

Sylvia C. Robles
Senior Public Health Specialist, HDNHE
Sylvia C. Robles is a Senior Public Health Specialist at the World
Bank. Dr. Robles has worked on program evaluation and research on
prevention for tobacco, cancer, diabetes and other non-communicable
diseases. She has worked on training local public health
professionals and developing surveillance systems in underserved
areas. Before being seconded to the World Bank in 2005, she was the
head of the WHO/PAHO Program for Non-communicable Diseases for the
Region of the Americas.

Owen Smith
Economist, SASPR
Owen Smith is currently working as an Economist in the South Asia
poverty reduction and economic management (PREM) unit of the World
Bank, having previously worked in the Health, Nutrition, and
Population (HNP) anchor on non-communicable diseases. Prior to
joining the World Bank in 2005, he worked as a health economist with
Abt Associates, Inc., and as an economist in the Canadian Ministry
of Finance.

Closing Remarks by:
Cristian Baeza
Acting Director, Health, Nutrition and Population, HDNHE
Cristian Baeza is the Acting Director, Health, Nutrition &
Population in the Human Development at the World Bank in Washington
DC. His main area of work and research is on Health Financing and
Health Systems and their contribution to social protection and
poverty alleviation. Previously, Dr. Baeza was the Lead Health
Policy Specialist in the Latin America and Caribbean Region of the
World Bank and prior to that, Senior Health Systems Specialist for
Social Security Policy and Development at the International Labor
Organization (ILO).

About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly
Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible
space at headquarters and provides internal and external audiences
with over 15,000 titles published by the World Bank, international
organizations, and other publishers on development issues.

For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop

Comments about the events program:

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REMINDER: "A General Theory of Trade and Competition: Trade Liberalization and Competitive Markets" discussed on June 11, 2007, at 12:00pm in J1-050

InfoShop & Global Strategy Project & International Trade Department, World Bank
Invite you to a discussion featuring a recent publication

A General Theory of Trade and Competition
Trade Liberalization and Competitive Markets
By Shanker Singham

General Theory of Trade and Competition is the first academic or practitioner
text book to establish a general theory of trade and competition and attempts to
bring these two disciplines back together. Shanker Singham demonstrates that
there is indeed a powerful interface between these two areas and that by
understanding this interface practitioners, be they in governments, companies or
law and economics firms can succeed in trade negotiations as well as build up
support for free trade principles in a time when they are being increasingly
challenged. By noting that consumer welfare is enhanced where trade
liberalization is accompanied by competitive markets and property rights
protection, the author articulates an overall vision in which future
policymakers can frame a different kind of trade debate.
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Monday, June 11, 2007 from 12:00pm - 2:00pm
World Bank J Building, J1-050, 701 18th Street, NW
For non bank staff, please RSVP to InfoShopevents@worldbank.org
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Moderated by
Marco Vicenzino
Director, Global Strategy Project
Marco Vicenzino is the founder and director of the Global Strategy Project.
Mr. Vicenzino served as Deputy Executive Director of the International Institute
for Strategic Studies-US (IISS-US) in Washington, DC, and is an international
attorney. Mr. Vicenzino has taught International Law at the School of
International Service of American University. As a strategic policy
analyst, commentator and regular guest speaker on foreign affairs, he has
contributed to various international media outlets, including BBC World
News, CNN International, CNN Spanish, Al Jazeera, Univision, RAI,
Financial Times, Le Figaro, El Mundo, Al Hayat, FT Deutschland, El Universal
and Folha de Sao Paulo. Mr. Vicenzino has also served as an advisor to the
World Bank.
Presented by author:
Shanker Singham
Shanker Singham is Chairman of the International Trade and Competition Policy
Roundtable and the leader of Squire Sanders and Dempsey LLP's market access/WTO
practice. He is one of the world's leading lawyers in this area, and has
written over fifty articles and book chapters on related topics. He is widely
quoted on these issues in the media including being interviewed by CNBC on the
Doha Development round of WTO negotiations, and being quoted in the Financial
Times, Times, Reuters, the Economist, Wall Street Journal and New York Times, as
well as Time and Wired Magazines.
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About Global Strategy Project
The Global Strategy Project is a non-profit, nonpartisan organization, based in
Washington, DC, that strives to bring foreign affairs to the center of public
debate. Its purpose is to provide a global audience with an objective
understanding, through analytical publications and other activities, of events,
developments and issues that impact international peace and security; to convene
public and private actors in forums to improve dialogue and relations and
promote the understanding of issues that impact international peace and
security; and to contribute to a process that fosters and advances international
peace and security. For more information, visit:
http://www.globalstrategyproject.org.

About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and serves as a
forum for substantial debate on international development. Our extensive events
program consists of more than 250 events over the past two years and has hosted
many internationally recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama,
Jeffrey Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly Fiorina.
The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible space at headquarters and
provides internal and external audiences with over 15000 titles published by the
World Bank, international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.

For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop
Comments about the events program: http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0