Rosalynn Carter
Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter has worked for more than three decades to improve the quality of life for people around the world. Today, she is an advocate for mental health, early childhood immunization, human rights, and conflict resolution through her work at The Carter Center in Atlanta, Ga. Founded in 1982 by Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, the Atlanta-based Carter Center has helped to improve the quality of life for people in more than 65 countries. The Center, in partnership with Emory University, is committed to advancing human rights and alleviating unnecessary human suffering.
Each year, she hosts the Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy, bringing together leaders of the nation's mental health organizations to address critical issues. Mrs. Carter emerged as a driving force for mental health when, during the Carter administration, she became active honorary chair of the President's Commission on Mental Health, which resulted in passage of the Mental Health Systems Act of 1980.
read more about Rosalynn CarterTodd Harper
Todd began as Chief Executive Officer VicHealth, in April 2007, following many years in tobacco control. Prior to taking on his current role, Todd was Quit Victoria’s Executive Director from 1999 to 2007. Under his leadership, Quit and the VicHealth Centre for Tobacco Control have developed national and international recognition for their work on tobacco control.
Following various positions for Tasmania’s Department of Health and Human Services, including in the area of community housing, Todd worked as Executive Director of the Tasmanian Council on AIDS and Related Diseases. He has a degree in economics, a postgraduate diploma in health promotion and in 2006 he completed requirements for a postgraduate diploma in health economics.
read more about Todd HarperDr. Carles Muntaner
Dr. Carles Muntaner is the chair in psychiatry and addictions nursing research in the social policy and prevention research department at the Centre for Addictions and Mental Health (CAMH). He is also a professor at the faculty of nursing with a cross-appointment in the department of public health sciences, faculty of medicine, University of Toronto.
An active and dedicated scholar in social epidemiology for many years, Muntaner has contributed many policy resolutions on social determinants of health to the American Public Health Association (APHA) including a study of community violence; expansion of Occupational Safety and Health Administration regulations over home work places; and elimination of racism in maternal and child health. He has conducted research in disadvantaged communities in the US, the European Union, Latin America and Western Africa and has provided intellectual leadership for public health with his pioneering work in areas of health disparities and social inequalities in health.
read more about Dr. Carles MuntanerKate Gilmore
Kate is deputy to Irene Khan and as such is responsible for operational leadership of the international dimensions of our work. She oversees the daily workings of our more than 450 staff based in international offices around the world and has been responsible for leading broad-ranging organizational change since arriving at our International Secretariat in 2001.
Prior to this appointment, Kate was the national director of Amnesty International in Australia. Previously she had worked in the health sector including as an activist for women's human rights, particularly in the area of violence against women.
She was the founding coordinator of the Centre Against Sexual Assault (CASA House) at the Royal Women's Hospital and has degrees from the University of New England, the University of Melbourne and the former Phillip Institute of Technology, now RMIT
read more about Kate GilmoreDavid Osher
Dr Osher is a Managing Research Scientist at the American Institutes for Research, where he leads centres and projects that focus on educational equity, disparity reduction, the conditions for learning, prevention, collaboration, social emotional learning and youth development, and school- and community-wide interventions for children and youth with mental health problems and disorders and their families.
Osher is Director of the Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice, and Principal Investigator of three centres that support major US initiatives and receive support from the US Departments of Education, Health and Human Services, and Justice:
read more about David OsherDr Morton Beiser
Dr Beiser is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, founding Director of the Toronto Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Settlement (CERIS), and National Scientific Coordinator, Reducing Health Disparities Initiative of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
After graduating from the University of British Columbia (MD 1960), Dr Beiser spent his early professional years in the United States, primarily at Duke, Cornell and Harvard Universities. In 1971, he was appointed Associate Professor at Harvard University, where he conducted research on the health effects of urbanization in Senegal, and on mental health services available to Aboriginal people living on US reservations.
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