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at Yale conference

In June, officials from Ethiopia, Ghana, Liberia, Mexico, and Rwanda convened in New Haven for a conference on global health. The conference, entitled “Strategic Problem Solving in Global Health” and organized by Elizabeth Bradley, Ph.D., professor of public health, aimed to generate a high-level dialogue on how to approach vital health care issues facing each country. Bradley is director of the Yale Global Health Initiative.

"We have promising approaches that can reduce maternal mortality, for example, or improve access to quality health care," Bradley said. "The challenge is applying these lessons in different countries and ensuring that there is leadership needed to make change."

Yale launched the Global Health Leadership Institute (GHLI) in February 2009, in an effort to accelerate improvements in the effectiveness and efficiency of health care in developing nations around the world.

This inaugural conference of the GHLI was funded by The Glaser Progress Foundation.

—Helen Dodson and Charles Gershman

Photo by Michael Marsland