Contact: Maridith Geuder
On Wednesday, July 14, Dr. David E. Bloom, the Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography at the Harvard School of Public Health, will discuss the effects of health on the wealth of nations during a University of Mississippi Medical Center program.
His noon presentation in the Main Complex-Lower Amphitheatre R153 is the second in the Bower Seminar Series established last year by UMC and the Jackson-based Mississippi Health Policy Research Center.
Financial support for the series is provided by the Bower Foundation, a Jackson philanthropic organization whose mission is to improve the health of all Mississippians.
The two-year-old Mississippi Health Policy Research Center is a unit of Mississippi State University's nationally recognized Social Science Research Center. Now in its sixth decade, the SSRC provides detailed analysis and study of social and economic issues facing the state, region and nation.
Bloom, who also chairs Harvard's department of population and international health, has been honored with an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship and the Galbraith Award for economics teaching. He has been a Fulbright Scholar to India, scholar-in-residence for the Russell Sage Foundation of New York and consultant to the United Nations, World Bank, National Academy of Sciences, and a host of similar organizations.
He has written extensively on links between health status and economic growth, effects of population change on economic development, effects of rapid population growth, and the global spread and economic impacts of HIV and AIDS, among other topics.
Though Bower Seminars are intended primarily for medical, governmental and legislative audiences, members of the news media are invited to attend. For the convenience of attending reporters, Dr. Bloom will be available at 11:30 a.m. for a brief question-and-answer session preceding the program.
For more information on this Bower Seminar presentation, telephone Ellen S. Jones of the MHPRC at (601) 898-9339 or Bruce Coleman of UMC at 984-1100.