Who Decides? Gender, Medicine and the Public’s Health conference in Cambridge April 10th and 11th
Who Decides?
Gender, Medicine, and the Public’s Health
April 10–11, 2014
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Gender, culture, economics, politics, and power affect health-care decisions by providers, patients, and communities in the United States and around the world. This conference will explore the choices behind medical research funding and practice, health-care delivery, and policy making.
Playwright, author, and activist Eve Ensler will open the conference on Thursday evening. She will give a presentation based on her book In the Body of the World: A Memoir of Cancer and Connection (2013), which will include readings and a Q&A session moderated by Diane Paulus, artistic director of the American Repertory Theater.
Friday’s program brings together physicians, policymakers, journalists, and academics. Panelists include United States Representative Louise Slaughter, NPR’s Julie Rovner, New York University’s Barron Lerner, MD, PhD, and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center’s and UCLA’s C. Noel Bairey Merz, MD. Conference topics range from how gender dynamics shape health, research, and disease to health-care delivery under the Affordable Care Act.
This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required.
For more information and to register, please visit http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2014-who-decides-conference.
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University is dedicated to creating and sharing transformative ideas across the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences. The Fellowship Program annually supports the work of 50 leading artists and scholars. Academic Ventures fosters collaborative research projects and sponsors lectures and conferences that engage scholars with the public. The Schlesinger Library documents the lives of American women of the past and present for the future, furthering the Institute’s commitment to women, gender, and society. Learn more about the people and programs of the Radcliffe Institute at www.radcliffe.harvard.edu.
