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Gerald R Ford School of Public Policy ** Integrated Policy Exercise ** January 2003


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OUTSIDE EXPERTS

 

 

 

The Ford School of Public Policy is pleased to have the following outside experts for its 2003 Integrated Policy Exercise:

 

 

Keynote Speaker

 

Stephen Lewis, United Nations Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa

 

On June 01, 2001, Stephen Lewis was appointed as Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa by the United Nation’s Secretary-General Kofi Annan.   His mandate is to ensure follow-up to the April 2001 Africa Summit on HIV/AIDS and to the July 2001 United Nations Special Session on HIV/AIDS.

 

Mr. Lewis’ work with the UN has shaped the past two decades of his career.  From 1995 through 1999, Mr. Lewis was Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF.  In 1997, in addition to his work at UNICEF, he was appointed by the OAU to a Panel of Eminent Personalities to Investigate the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda and the surrounding events.  In 1993 he was coordinator for Graça Machel’s study on the "Consequences of Armed Conflict on Children.”  

 

From 1984-1988, Stephen Lewis was Canada’s Ambassador to the United Nations.  As Ambassador, Mr. Lewis focused on issues of African economic recovery and climate change.  He resigned the position in July 1988, but continued to act, in a personal capacity, as Special Advisor on Africa to the Secretary-General until the end of 1991.

 

In the 1960s and 1970s, Stephen Lewis was an elected representative to the Ontario Legislature, becoming leader of the New Democratic Party and leader of the Official Opposition.

 

More on Stephen Lewis (stephenlewis.pdf)

 

 

Speakers

 

E LaBrent Chrite

 

Dr. Brent Chrite is currently the Assistant Dean for International Development at the University of Michigan Business School, Managing Director of the William Davidson Institute and Director of the South Africa Initiatives Office at the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies.  Brent has been actively engaged in research and teaching in sub Saharan Africa for nearly a decade.  He has also worked extensively on individual and institutional capacity building initiatives with public and private sector enterprises throughout the continent.  He teaches on the political economy of Southern Africa in corporate strategy/international business at the Business School and completed his doctoral work at Michigan in 1998.    

 

Arnold S Monto

Dr. Arnold S. Monto is Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Michigan School of Public Health in Ann Arbor and is Director of the Bioterrorism Preparedness Initiative.  The major focus of his work has been the epidemiology, prevention and treatment of acute infections.  These activities have included work on the occurrence and characteristics of the infections as well as potential for vaccine prevention and antiviral treatment.  Among the courses he teaches in the School of Public Health is one on AIDS: A Public Health Challenge.

During his tenure at the University of Michigan, Dr. Monto has also served for periods of time in the Acute Respiratory Infection program at the World Health Organization, Geneva, and as Scholar in Residence at the United States Institute of Medicine/National Research Council.  He has been a member of the Pulmonary Diseases Advisory Committee of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and of the National Advisory Allergy and Infectious Diseases Council.  He has also served on various United States and international advisory bodies addressing the overall response to the problem of emerging and reemerging infections and control of influenza in the epidemic and pandemic situation.

 

Policy Roundtable Experts

 

David Canter

 

Dr. David Canter is Senior Vice President of Pfizer Global Research & Development, and site Director of Ann Arbor Laboratories.  He joined the Clinical Research Department of Warner-Lambert in 1984, initially in the UK, and moved to Ann Arbor in 1986.  He became the Senior Director of Cardiovascular Clinical Development in 1989, and Vice President of Drug Development in 1992.  From 1997-2000, he was Director of the Institut de Recherche et Development, Jouveinal in Paris.  It was following the merger of Pfizer & Warner-Lambert in 2000 that Dr. Canter assumed the position of Site Director of Ann Arbor Laboratories.  Dr. Canter was involved with the clinical development of Lopid, in particular with the sNDA and the revised labeling after the Helsinki Heart Study, as well as with Accupril in the treatment of CHF and the studies exploring the use of Quinapril in coronary artery disease.  He was also the project leader for the development of Lipitor from early phase 2 through the product launch.

 

Steve Charnovitz

 

Steve Charnovitz practices law at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington, D.C.  From 1995 to 1999, he was Director of the Global Environment &Trade Study (GETS), which he helped to establish in 1994. GETS is centered at Yale University.  From 1991 to 1995, he was Policy Director of the U.S. Competitiveness Policy Council in Washington, D.C. The Council issued four reports to the U.S. Congress and President.  From 1987 to 1991, he was a Legislative Assistant to the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.  Before that, he was an analyst at the U.S. Department of Labor where his projects included worker rights in U.S. trade negotiations, trade adjustment assistance, and technical cooperation with Saudi Arabia.  Mr. Charnovitz received a Bachelor of Arts and Juris Doctor from Yale University and a Master of Public Policy from Harvard University.  A collection of his essays, Trade Law and Global Governance, was recently published by Cameron May.  During 2002-03, he serves as an adjunct professor of law at Vanderbilt University Law School and at the Georgetown Law Center. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is admitted to the bar in the District of Columbia and New York.

 

Shingairai A Feresu

Dr. Shingairai Feresu is a Fogarty International Fellow in Public Health and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan.  She specializes in maternal and child health issues with a focus on Africa.  A native of Zimbabwe, Dr. Feresu has extensive field experience in her native country, having worked as a nurse, midwife, clinical instructor and nursing tutor there before moving on to research.  She has also consulted on maternal mortality trends in Zimbabwe for the Ministry of Health there, on the evaluation of training programs for non-governmental organizations, and on curriculum development for Michigan’s Master in Public Health program.

Sioban D Harlow

 

Dr. Sioban Harlow is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the School of Public Health and an Associate Director of the International Institute at the University of Michigan.  Dr. Harlow's  primary research interests are in women's health with a focus on occupation health of women in Latin America and a focus on reproductive health in both the domestic and international arena. She has particular expertise in the epidemiology of menstruation; her groundbreaking research on the epidemiology of menstruation has stimulated a more comprehensive understanding of the relevance of menstrual cycling to women's health.  Her international work focuses on occupational health of women and of reproductive health in working women.  In collaboration with colleagues in Mexico and Zimbabwe, her research focuses on understanding the etiology of adverse reproductive outcomes including preterm birth and preeclampsia. She currently directs a Fogarty International Center training grant in collaboration with El Colegio de Sonora and University of Zimbabwe aimed at strengthening reproductive health research capacity in Zimbabwe and the northwest border region of Mexico.

 

James R Hines

 

James R. Hines Jr. is a Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the University of Michigan.  Professor Hines studies international taxation, particularly the taxation of multinational corporations. His work focuses on issues in transfer pricing, the financing of foreign direct investment, the influence of tax regimes on the location of R&D and physical investment, the design of tax treaty policy, and the use of tax policy to control the actions of multinational firms. His research also examines the impact of domestic tax incentives on investment in the United States, issues related to tax compliance, and the impact of tax exemption for nonprofit organizations in the United States.  Professor Hines is also the Research Director of the Office of Tax Policy Research at the Business School and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

 

 

Evaluators

 

Joseph Farrell

Joseph Farrell is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He has published widely in such areas as industrial organization, regulation and antitrust, microeconomics, and game theory. He was Deputy Assistant Attorney General and Chief Economist, Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice in 2000-2001. His current interests include the pricing and distribution of pharmaceutical drugs.

Amy Shoen

 

Amy Sheon currently serves as Associate Director of the University of Michigan's Life Sciences, Values and Society Program. She spent 8 years at the National Institutes of Health in the Division of AIDS. As an extramural scientist, she oversaw epidemiologic studies of transmission of HIV from mothers to infants, and also international AIDS epidemiology studies. She also worked on projects preparing for large scale studies to test the efficacy of vaccines to prevent HIV/AIDS. Her interest in AIDS began in the early 1980s when she was conducting surveys about family planning and health in Trinidad and Tobago, Liberia, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe.  Ms. Sheon earned her MPH from the University of Michigan's School of Public Health, and her PhD in Health Policy and Management from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health.

 

 

Workshop Facilitators

 

Stephen Garcia, Negotiations Workshop, Professor of Public Policy

 

Steve Garcia is an assistant professor of public policy. His research interests focus on decision-making as it applies to nonprofit and public management, negotiation, and consumer behavior. Steve teaches courses on negotiation and public management. Before joining the Ford School, Steve earned his undergraduate degree from Stanford and worked as a marketing consultant for Charles Schwab, Merrill Lynch, and Wells Fargo Bank. Steve recently received a PhD in psychology from Princeton and was a Research Fellow at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School.

 

Melissa Rae Peet, Small Groups Workshop, Consultant

 

Melissa Peet, MSW, has extensive professional experience in facilitating leadership development, creating multicultural curricula, and developing collaborative learning environments within various academic units and disciplines in higher education. Currently, she is teaching a course that emphasizes the role of gender and race in group processes in Women’s Studies and Psychology. Her research addresses the development of critical consciousness in faculty and students and the ways in which collaborative teaching and learning facilitates intellectual development within individuals and community building within and across various social groups.