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Introducing a New Chapter in ISGlobal

Sir Andrew Haines, chairman of 'The Lancet' Commission on Planetary Health, will participate on the presentation of the new phase of our institution

Date
14/02/2017
Hour
17.00
Place
Palau Macaya
(Passeig de Sant Joan, 108) Barcelona
Speakers
Andrew Haines (The Lancet, LSHTM)

Upon the merger with CREAL (Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology), ISGlobal becomes one of the pioneering centres that brings together research on transmissible diseases with research on chronic diseases and their environmental determinants.

To introduce this new phase of our Institute, Sir Andrew Haines, chairman of The Lancet Commission on Planetary Health and professor and former director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), will participate as featured lecturer with a talk about a new trend of thought that links people health with environment.

The conference, organised together with "la Caixa" Banking Foundation, will be held in Palau Macaya, Barcelona, on 14 February, at 5 PM. Seating will be allocated on a strict order of arrival basis. In case the auditorium's seating capacity is exceeded, annex spaces will be available to follow the event through a closed-circuit television.

Program of the event

17.00
  Welcome - Josep Ollé, Director of Palau Macaya
17.05
  Speech by Jaume Giró, General Director Fundació Bancària ”la Caixa”
  ”la Caixa”
17.20
  ISGlobal presentation – Antoni Plasència, General Director ISGlobal
17.27
  Speech by Josep M Antó, Scientific Director ISGlobal
17.35
  Speech by Conseller de Salut Antoni Comín, Generalitat de Catalunya
17.45
  Conference by Sir Andrew Haines, chair of the Lancet - Rockefeller
  Foundation Commission on Planetary Health
18.15
  Debate between Sir Andrew Haines, Leonardo Simao, President of
  Manhiça Foundation, and Pedro Alonso, Director of the WHO Global
  Malaria Program. Patricia Fernández de Lis, editor-in-chief for Science
  at El País and Materia, will moderate and open the debate.
18.45
  Closure by Javier Solana, President of the Executive Committee of
  ISGlobal
19.00
  Snack
19.30
  End of event