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2007

2007 Summit Report Summarizes the conceptual foundation, key findings, and impact of this year’s Summit.

2007 Summit Plenary Summaries One page briefs that provide overviews of Summit plenary discussions

The Summit Challenge 2007 Provides the conceptual foundation for the Pacific Health Summit

2007 HIT Case Studies The NBR Center for Health and Aging has updated and expanded its library of HIT case studies for 2007. Documents range from case studies of HIT adoption in different countries to overviews on key elements of HIT. Functional case studies are also included.

Pandemic Influenza Vaccines: Building a Platform for Global Collaboration A report from the January 2007 Pandemic Influenza Vaccines Workshop, which took place in Beijing and was co-presented by the Chinese CDC and The NBR Center for Health and Aging. A Summit 2006 Plenary Session on Vaccines provided the foundation for these discussions.

Focus India Health IT Workshop report A report from the February 2007 "Focus India Health IT Workshop" held in Mumbai, India

2006

From Bullet-Proof Examples to Policy and Practice A report from the November 2006 HIT Lab workshop in Singapore.

Foreign Policy's Pacific Health Summit Supplement The 2006 September/October issue of Foreign Policy features the Pacific Health Summit discussions and participants.

Information Technology: Advancing Global Health Craig Mundie, Senior Vice President and Chief Technical Officer of Strategies and Policy at Microsoft, provides an elegant but powerful architecture to show how we can use information technology to address major challenges facing global healthcare.

Integrating People and Approaches Toward Early Health The launch publication for the East Meets West Workgroup examines the benefits of integrating Western and Eastern approaches to health and medicine, as well as how that integration can occur at the government, cultural, and local levels, that is between doctor and patient.

"Chronic Neglect" An article in the 2006 September/October issue of Foreign Policy examines the rise of chronic diseases in the developing world.

An Avian Flu Pandemic: What Would It Mean, and What Can We Do? The publication grapples with questions surrounding the possibility of an avian flu pandemic through a print roundtable of essays that reconsider "national security" and examine the respective roles and responsibilities of the public and private sectors.

Making the Case for Health IT A report from the April 2006 HIT Lab workshop in Tokyo

2005

The Summit Challenge provides the conceptual foundation for the Pacific Health Summit.

Foreign Policy's Pacific Health Summit Supplement The 2005 September/October issue of Foreign Policy features the Pacific Health Summit discussions and participants.

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