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The Institute for Global Health present this public conversation on; “Social Networking and the Future of International Development,” with insights from FutureConnect author Pete Cranston and Dr Gerry Bloom, research fellow at the Institute of Development Studies.
In the Chair: Nick Perkins, CFSC Chairman
Abstract: The Board of Directors of the Communication for Social Change Consortium (CFSC) Europe invites you to a public conversation on “Social Networking and the Future of International Development”. Highlighting the work of the CFSC Consortium and its newly released report to aids2031 initiative “FutureConnect”. In the year 2031 it will be 50 years since the first report of AIDS. Aids2031, headed by Dr Heidi Larson of the Institute for Global Health, Imperial, is a consortium of partners who are working together to mobilize the global AIDS response to include a long-term view. Aids2031 is not about what we should do in 2031, but what we can do differently now, to change the face of the pandemic by 2031. The Communication for Social Change Consortium Europe (www.cfsc.org) (CFSC) Consortium is a nonprofit organization working globally to help people living in poor communities lift their voices, stories, ideas, and beliefs in order to influence the change they need in their societies and in their lives. CRSC consortium is a registered charity in the United Kingdom, registration number 1125636. The publication FutureConnect can be downloaded from the CFSC Consortium website.
Biography for Dr Gerry Bloom: Gerald Bloom is a medical doctor and health economist with expertise in health policy, planning and finance. He has been based at the Institute of Development Studies in the UK since 1985, where he is the convenor of the Health and Social Change Programme. He has a special interest in the strategic management of health sector change. He has worked for many years on health system development in Africa and Asia. He has undertaken many consultancies and research projects on health expenditure and finance and strategic management of sectoral change. He is on the core supervision team of a major World Bank/DFID rural health development project in China. He has completed several major studies of the impact of economic reform on health services in China. He is Co-Chairman of the China Health Development Forum, which facilitates exchanges between researchers and policy-makers, and a Visiting Professor at the Beijing Normal University. His recent work in Africa includes a review of community health finance in Ghana and an evaluation of the poverty impact of the Malawi Social Action Fund.
A reception featuring the work of the CFSC Consortium follows the conversation at 19.00
To reserve your place, please email Ms. E’Lon Cohen: ecohen@cfsc.org or phone the CFSC Consortium Europe office on 0207 653 1963 by March 8.