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Moderators:
Judith Shapiro |
Lynn Sherr |
Soledad O'Brien |
The
Barnard Summit is sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
and Merck & Co., Inc.
Media
Sponsors:
Accommodations
provided by:
Panelists
Include:
Byllye Avery, health activist and founder, National Black
Women’s Health Project
Dr.
Mary Travis Bassett,
Deputy Commissioner for the Division of Health Promotion and Disease
Prevention at the New York City Department of Health and Mental
Hygiene (DOHMH)
Dr.
Cristina Beato, principal deputy secretary for health to Tommy
G. Thompson, Secretary of Health and Human Services
Joan Jacobs Brumberg, Professor of History in the Department
of Human Development at Cornell University and author of Fasting
Girls: The History of Anorexia Nervosa and The Body Project:
An Intimate History of American Girls
Dr. Helene Gayle ’76, Director of HIV, Tuberculosis
& Reproductive Health at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,
and former director, Centers for Disease Control
Carolyn
Hannan, Director, The United Nations Division for the Advancement
of Women
Ping-chen Hsiung, a historian who studies gender and medicine
in China
Gina Kolata, The New York Times science writer covering
medicine, biology and health, co-author of Sex in America: A
Definitive Survey, and author of the forthcoming Ultimate
Fitness: The Quest for Truth about Exercise and Health
Dr. Marianne Legato, founder and director, Partnership for
Gender-Specific Medicine, professor
of clinical medicine at Columbia University and author of Eve’s
Rib
Cindi Leive, editor-in-chief, Glamour magazine
Dr. Afaf I. Meleis, dean, University of Pennsylvania School
of Nursing, and president, International Council on Women's Health
Issues
Ellen More, professor of history and medical humanities,
Institute for the Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical
Branch and author of Restoring the Balance: Women Physicians
and the Profession of Medicine, 1850-1995
Judy Norsigian, executive director and co-founder, Boston
Women’s Health Book Collective, and co-author of Our Bodies,
Ourselves
Soledad
O'Brien has been co-anchor of "Weekend Today," NBC's
top-rated weekend morning news program, since July, 1999. In addition
to her responsibilities at "Weekend Today," O'Brien has
produced health and science stories for "Nightly News."
Dr. Vivian Pinn, director, Office of Research on Women’s
Health, National Institutes of Health
Dr. Judith Reichman’66, Ob/Gyn, author of I'm Too
Young to Get Old and I'm Not in the Mood; "Today
Show" medical contributor and co-host, PBS's Straight Talk
on Menopause
Jeffrey Sachs, economist and advisor to United Nations Secretary
General Kofi Annan and director, Columbia University Earth Institute
Dr. Nafis Sadik, special advisor to the United Nations Secretary
General, special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Asia and former executive
director of the United Nations Population Fund
Dr. Isaac Schiff, professor of gynecology, Harvard Medical
School and director, Vincent Obstetrics and Gynecology Service,
Massachusetts General Hospital
Faye Wattleton, president, The Center for the Advancement of
Women
Dr.
Susan F. Wood serves as Director of the Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) Office of Women's Health (OWH)
Elizabeth Wurtzel, bestselling author of Prozac Nation:
Young and Depressed in America; More, Now, Again: A Memoir
of Addiction and Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women
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