Join Pape Gaye, President and CEO of IntraHealth International, US Senator Kay Hagan, Admiral William J. Fallon, and global health leaders at the forum “Why Global Health Matters to North Carolina,” on September 21, 2009, from 3–5 pm. Presented by the Triangle Global Health Consortium and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Global Health Policy Center, this forum will examine how North Carolina’s universities, non-governmental organizations and biotech industries working in global public health contribute to the State’s economy. Duke University will also release a special report entitled “Why Global Health Matters to North Carolina: The impact of the global health sector on North Carolina’s economy,” co-authored by Duke University economics professor Charles Becker, Kimberly Page of the Duke Global Health Institute, and a small team of Duke researchers.

This event will be the first in a series of six planned forums led by the CSIS Commission on Smart Global Health Policy and will include two panels led by key leaders and experts, followed by a town hall style forum for questions by attendees.

Gaye will be co-presenting the second panel of the day, The Impact of the Global Health Sector on North Carolina, with fellow Consortium members, Michael Merson, Director of the Duke Global Health Institute and CSIS Commissioner, and Margaret Bentley, Associate Dean at UNC-Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health and IntraHealth Board Member. The panel will highlight the collective strengths of the organizations in the Triangle Global Health Consortium—whose founding members include IntraHealth International, Family Health International, Research Triangle Institute, Duke University, UNC-Chapel Hill, NC State University and NC Biotechnology Center—and the ways in which their work enriches North Carolina.

This event will be streamed via live webcast at the following website: http://www.ustream.tv/dukeuniversity.