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Inauguration of the Linda and Timothy O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law ruler

For Immediate Release
April 12, 2007

Contact:
Kara Tershel
(202) 662-9500

Media Advisory

WHAT:

Inauguration of the Linda and Timothy O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University

WHEN:

Thursday, April 19, 2007
Friday, April 20, 2007

SCHEDULE:

THURSDAY, APRIL 19

4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
Investiture and Inaugural Lecture
"Meeting Basic Survival Needs for the World’s Least Healthy People: Toward a Framework Convention on Global Health"

Lawrence O. Gostin, Associate Dean for Research and Academic Programs, Georgetown University Law Center, and Faculty Director and Director of the Center on Global Health, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law

7:45 – 8:15 p.m.
Address
Julie Louise Gerberding
, Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

FRIDAY, APRIL 20

8:45 - 8:55 a.m.
Welcome
T. Alexander Aleinikoff
, Dean, Georgetown University Law Center
Bette Keltner, Dean, Georgetown University School of Nursing & Health Studies

8:55 – 9:00 a.m.
Remarks: "The O’Neill Institute Mission"
Lawrence O. Gostin
, Associate Dean for Research and Academic Programs, Georgetown University Law Center, and Faculty Director and Director of the Center on Global Health, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law

9:00 – 10:00 a.m.
Address
Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.)

10:00 – 11:15 a.m.
Session I: Panel on Disease Prevention and Health Outcomes

Moderator: Bernhard Liese, Chair, Department of International Health, Georgetown University School of Nursing & Health Studies, and Director of the Center for Disease Prevention and Health Outcomes, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law
Richard Gephardt, former Majority Leader, U.S. House of Representatives
Michael A. Stoto, Professor, Georgetown University School of Nursing & Health Studies
Derek Yach, Director, Global Health Policy, PepsiCo
Kathryn Zeiler, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center

11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Session II: Panel on Global Health
Moderator: Lawrence O. Gostin
, Associate Dean for Research and Academic Programs, Georgetown University Law Center, and Faculty Director and Director of the Center on Global Health, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law
David Fidler, Professor, Indiana University School of Law
Timothy S. Jost, Professor, Washington and Lee School of Law
Jennifer Prah Ruger, Professor, Yale School of Public Health

12:45 – 2:00 p.m.
Luncheon Address
Harvey V. Fineberg
, President, Institute of Medicine

2:15 – 3:15 p.m.
Session III: Panel on Regulation and Governance
Moderator: David Vladeck
, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center, and Director of the Center on Health Regulation and Governance, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law
Lisa Heinzerling, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
Carol M. Browner, former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
David A. Kessler, former Commissioner, U.S. Food and Drug Administration

3:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Session IV: Panel on Health Care Financing and Organization
Moderator: Judith Feder
, Dean, Georgetown Public Policy Institute
M. Gregg Bloche, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center, and Director of the Center on Health Care Financing and Organization, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law
Richard A. Epstein, Professor, University of Chicago Law School
Michelle M. Mello, Professor, Harvard School of Public Health
Timothy Westmoreland, Visiting Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Senior Scholar, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, and Research Professor, Health Policy Institute, Georgetown Public Policy Institute

WHERE:

The Gostin lecture and the morning sessions on Friday, April 20 will take place at:

Georgetown University Law Center

Hart Auditorium - McDonough Hall

600 New Jersey Avenue, NW

Washington, D.C. 20001

Press must use the F Street entrance.

The addresses by Drs. Gerberding and Fineberg will be held at:

Georgetown University Law Center

Hotung Building - 2nd Floor

550 First Street, NW

Washington, D.C. 20001

Press must use the Tower Green entrance.

The afternoon sessions on Friday, April 20 will take place at:

Georgetown University Law Center

Gewirz Student Center - 12th Floor

120 F Street, NW

Washington, D.C.  20001

NOTE:

The O’Neill Institute, co-founded by Georgetown University Law Center and Georgetown University School of Nursing & Health Studies, was created by a generous gift from Linda and Timothy O’Neill. It will be among the first for the study of global and national health law, with centers on global health, disease prevention and health outcomes, health regulation and governance, and health care financing and organization.

Timothy O’Neill is the senior strategy officer at Goldman Sachs & Co. in New York. A 1977 graduate of Georgetown University Law Center, he is a member of Georgetown University’s Board of Directors and chairman of the finance committee. Linda O’Neill graduated from Georgetown University School of Nursing & Health Studies in the same year and is the current chair of the school’s Board of Visitors.

A Web cast and transcripts will be available at http://www.law.georgetown.edu/oneillinstitute/program.html.

Media interested in attending should contact Kara Tershel at kat5@law.georgetown.edu.