Hosted by the European Union Center, Texas A&M Health, the Bush School of Government & Public Service, and Talking to Machines.
Improving health outcomes is one of the most important scientific challenges of our time. Contributing to this goal is evidenced-based research on designing health policies. The Global Health Challenges (GHC) conference will assemble world-renowned researchers who are leading the scientific community in designing and implementing research to address our most pressing global health policy challenges.
Contact Information:
Kevin Guillory: bushschooleuc@tamu.edu
Global Health Challenges Conference | October 10–11
Thursday, October 10 and Friday, October 11
Annenberg Presidential Conference Center
Lunch will be provided both days
Please RSVP if you plan to join us for all or part of the conference.
Day 1 Agenda
Thursday, October 10, 2024
9:00 a.m–5:00 p.m.
8:30 a.m.
Coffee, fruit and breakfast pastries
9:00 a.m.
Opening remarks
9:30–10:15 a.m.
“Preventing the Exclusion of Migrants from Health Services in Ecuador: A Behavioral Intervention”
Enrique Fatas
Professor, Universidad Europea, Spain
10:20–11:05 a.m.
“Addressing the Wicked Problem of Access to Care Through Telehealth and Interdisciplinary Practice”
Carly McCord
Executive Director, Texas A&M Telehealth Institute, Clinical
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
11:05–11:25 a.m.
Break
11:25 a.m.–12:10 p.m.
“Combining Information from Multiple and Diverse Sources to Answer Casual Questions”
Issa Dahabreh
Associate Professor, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
12:10–1:10 p.m.
Lunch
1:10–1:55 p.m.
“Taste or Test: Experimental Evidence on Improving Household Demand for Water Quality Testing in India”
Sharon Barnhardt
Director, Center for Social and Behavioural Change at Ashoka University, India
2:00–2:45 p.m.
“Using Participatory System Dynamics Modeling to Address Racial Disparities in Maternal Health”
Michael Lemke
Assistant Professor, School of Public Health, the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health
2:50–3:40 p.m.
“Navigating Medicaid: Experimental Evidence on Administrative Frictions and Loss of Coverage Renewal”
Laura Dague
Yolanda and Jimmy W. Janacek ’65 Professor of Health Policy and Administration Department, The Bush School of Government and Public Service
3:40–4:00 p.m.
Break
4:00–4:45 p.m.
“Practice-Based Solutions for Global Health and Education: Lessons Learned”
Goof Buijs
Manager, UNESCO Chair Global Health & Education
Day 2 Agenda
Friday, October 11, 2024
9:00 a.m–12:00 p.m.
8:30 a.m.
Coffee, fruit and breakfast pastries
9:00–9:45 a.m.
“Prevention is Possible: The Iceland Model for Preventing Adolescent Substance Abuse”
Michael Mann
Professor and Director/Divisional Dean of the School of Public and Population Health, Boise State University
9:50–10:35 a.m.
“Access Matters: Health, Justice, and Why They Need Each Other”
Keegan Warren
Executive Director, Institute for Healthcare Access, Texas A&M University
10:40–11:00 a.m.
Break
11:00–11:45 a.m.
“Artificially Intelligent Randomized Control Trials”
Ray Duch
Professor, Nuffield College, Oxford
11:45 a.m.–12:20 p.m.
Closing Remarks and Lunch
Public Forum: Expert Roundtable About Global Health Challenges | October 11
Thursday, October 10, 2024
5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
Bush Library Theater
Please RSVP if you plan to join us for the forum.
Join a panel of health scholars for a roundtable discussion as they talk about local, national, and global health issues.
Panelists
DR. SHARON M. BARNHARDT
is a distinguished public policy expert with over two decades of experience in academia, research, and leadership. As a Director at the Centre for Social and Behaviour Change at Ashoka University in India, she specializes in behavior science and measuring behaviour change innovations. Her research has been published in Comparative Political Studies, the Journal of Development Economics, and the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. She has secured funding for research on health and nutrition from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the U.S. National Institutes of Health, and the UK’s Department for International Development. Dr. Barnhardt is a faculty affiliate at J-PAL and serves on the steering committee of the Initiative for What Works to Advance Women and Girls in the Economy. She holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy from Harvard University.
DR. ENRIQUE FATAS
is Professor of Behavioral Economics at the Universidad Europea in Spain, where he directs the Behavioral Economics Institute. He was previously a Professor in Economics at Loughborough University and the University of East Anglia, in the United Kingdom, and a Professor in Behavioral and Decision Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. Enrique is an expert in the design and evaluation of public policies inspired by behavioral sciences. Since obtaining his PhD in Economics at the University of Valencia, in Spain, he has published more than 100 scientific interdisciplinary papers in journals such as Psychological Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Management Science, or the American Economic Journal – Microeconomics. Enrique has worked as a senior consultant for international organizations and governments, including the World Bank, the European Commission, the International Labor Organization, and USAID, in Asia, Europe, Africa and the Americas.
KEEGAN WARREN, JD, LLM
is the Executive Director of the Institute for Healthcare Access at Texas A&M University. She brings lived experience and a civil justice lens to bear on health and wellness, specializing in non-medical drivers of health and health equity. An attorney and Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) director with over two decades of senior management experience spanning health and human services, she is a national expert on integrating medical and social services through medical-legal partnership (MLP), a care delivery model that leverages legal expertise to advance individual and population health. Keegan is currently serving a three-year term on the National Academy of Medicine Board on Health Care Services.
DR. KELLY WILSON
is a Professor in the College of Nursing in the Health Science Center at Texas A&M University. Her research explores the intersection of community, education, healthcare access, and adolescent health risk factors. She investigates the challenges adolescents and young adults face in making informed health decisions, often due to practice, policy, environments, or systems that restrict developing young peoples’ knowledge and skills. Her work also encompasses the role of youth-serving professionals and healthcare providers in shaping health outcomes within organizational and community contexts. Dr. Wilson employs ecological approaches to address health disparities and promote youth-friendly environments. Since 2009, she has secured continuous funding from federal and organizational sponsors to further her research on adolescent health and equity. Although much of her research has a U.S.-perspective, she is especially passionate about global health initiatives and using her lessons learned to understand the uptake and use of Sustainable Development Goals. She is part of a forward-thinking initiative to engage school health professionals in systems thinking at a global level.
