How can and should research impact public health policy priorities?
Chair: Merilee Grindle Introductory remarks by: Arachu Castro and Mitermayer Reis –> The role that universities should play in informing policy –> Setting priorities to invest scarce resources Goal: Help identify roles that universities can and should seek to play in shaping public health policy; consider how individual efforts and initiatives can most effectively help address most pressing problems. ——————————————————————————————————– Session III: Concrete Opportunities and Next Steps Chair: Michael Starnbach Introductory remarks by: Donald Harn and Rui Maciel –> Future opportunities –> Commitments to foster collaborative action Goal: Establish concrete goals for individual action by each participant that seek to further Brazil-Harvard collaboration in public health; public service.