Event: Exploring climate change, food security and global health, and why women are the key to lasting solutions

Exploring climate change, food security and global health, and why women are the key to lasting solutions

The Obama administration has announced an ambitious global health initiative which seeks to broaden and integrate our approach to global issues, including HIV/AIDS, family planning and reproductive health, neglected tropical diseases, and maternal and child health. This new, more comprehensive global health strategy also embraces a women-centered approach. After years of funding decreases and hostile policies directed at international family planning and reproductive health programs, this initiative marks a welcome change.

In our interconnected world, these funding and policy changes not only save and improve lives, but also positively impact other challenges that President Obama prioritized in his recently proposed budget for FY 2011: global health, climate change and food security.

Please join IATP and Population Action International (PAI) to explore why a women-centered and rights-based approach is important in our policy responses to climate change mitigation, adaptation and food security. We will discuss how these issues intersect with rapid population growth and how the voices, experiences and health of women are being considered in global conversations.

When: Tuesday, April 6, 2010 • 5:30–7 p.m.

Where: 2104 Stevens Avenue South, Minneapolis

Who:

• Alexandra Spieldoch, IATP Global Governance Coordinator
• Suzanne Ehlers, PAI Interim President