About the IPE
The Ford School's Integrated
Policy Exercise (IPE) is an innovative component of the curriculum at the Ford
School, designed to help students integrate the skills they are learning in
different courses and to work together across classes and concentrations. It is
an intensive, one-week policy simulation that gives student teams the chance to
do a time-pressured policy study from the point of view of a particular policy
actor. Student teams present the results of their study and their policy
recommendations in public and form coalitions around policy positions.
All Ford School classes will be
cancelled the week of the IPE (in the Winter 2003 term, this will be the first
week of the term) so that students and faculty can devote their full attention
to the simulation. Both faculty and outside experts will be closely involved in
working with student teams and evaluating their performance. Students will also
have the chance to vote on a variety of peer awards.
About the Global AIDS Forum
HIV/AIDS has had a devastating
effect on the global community. More than 60 million people worldwide have been
infected with HIV since the epidemic began two decades ago. An additional 68
million people in the 45 most affected countries is projected to die prematurely
as a result of AIDS between 2000 and 2020. For many countries, particularly
those in sub-Saharan Africa, the disease has reached a critical point with
HIV/AIDS having a profound impact on growth, income, and poverty. A recent
study by UNAIDS suggests that GDP has declined 2.6% annually for countries with
national HIV/AIDS prevalence rates of 20% or more.
The Global Fund
to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, & Malaria (Global Fund) was established in June
2001 to facilitate an aggressive global response to the AIDS epidemic. This
nongovernmental organization, in partnership with UNAIDS and the World Health
Organization, seeks to attract both public and private contributions to increase
funding for preventing and treating HIV/AIDS in the world’s poorest countries.
To date, over US$ 2 billion have been pledged to the firm. This amount,
however, falls far short of the US$ 7 billion needed annually to effectively
combat the disease.
The Gerald R
Ford School of Public Policy is hosting the Global AIDS Forum 2003 to address
the current inadequacies of the Global Fund in leading the fight against
HIV/AIDS. Students representing national governments, nongovernmental
organizations, AIDS activists, and pharmaceutical firms will convene at the
Forum to develop and propose changes to the structure and mission of the Global
Fund. These changes potentially include: a new financing mechanism for the
Global Fund; a general framework for distributions from the Global Fund that its
both efficient and equitable; new program guidelines that focus on specific
prevention and treatment activities sponsored by the Global Fund; and changes in
the administration of intellectual property laws that balance concern for
reducing the incidence and impact of HIV/AIDS with respect for global agreements
on intellectual property rights.
Global AIDS Forum 2003 will begin at 2 p.m. on Monday, January 6
and will continue full-time through dinner on Thursday, January 9. The
formal proceedings will culminate in a plenary session of United Nations Member
States to vote on the reform proposal developed during the week.
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Thank You!
We hope you enjoyed the 2003
Integrated Policy Exercise! The IPE would like to thank the Advocacy
NGOs for raising more than $350 for the Global Fund.
Stephen Lewis Follow-up Links
Global and Mail Article:
NY Times Opinion:
Hank McKinnell, CEO of Pfizer, Inc.
Feedback from Mr McKinnell on IPR
IPE
Announcements
01.16.03 Course Evaluation Summary
01.05.03 Revised IPE Schedule
12.10.02 Final Student
Roles
12.02.02 Preliminary Student Roles
10.16.02
Workshop
Confirmation List
09.26.02
Fall Workshops for the IPE
09.06.02
IPE Global AIDS Forum
Announcement
Contact Us
Marina v.N. Whitman (marinaw@umich.edu)
Professor of Business Administration and Public Policy
Christianne Kerstin Hall (ckhall@umich.edu)
Graduate Student Instructor
Paul Wong (pwong@umich.edu)
Graduate Student Instructor
Gerald R Ford School of Public Policy
440 Lorch Hall
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1220
Updated:
18 January 2003
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