Experts Head To Atlanta For Summit On U.S. Leadership Global Health and Water
This Monday leaders from various sectors will come together for a one day summit.
Spearheaded by Georgia Senator Johnny Isakson, the summit is called, Sustaining American Leadership in Global Health and Water.
Officials from the international group CARE, the CDC, non-profits and the private sector are all coming together.
Wayne Lord is the director of the World Affairs Council of Atlanta, one of the three principal organizers of the summit.
He says these partnerships are the most effective in addressing global health and water issues.
Lord says the summit allows experts from various fields to exchange ideas, “given the urgency and immense scope and scale and challenge of the global health and water issues.”
There’s a challenge, “that we face,” he says. “How can we create the best collaborations the best partnerships to produce the both innovation and implementation in the field?”
The U.S is crucial among those collaborations says Lord given the current financial stress of the nation.
“We were able to agree that we ought to look at the issue of how to sustain America’s leadership in global health and in water technology and in water systems going forward.”
Those U.S leadinitiatives include providing safer drinking water and creating sanitation systems.
Regions in Kenya, Honduras and Haiti have benefitted from U.S involved partnerships.
A live webcast of the summit can be watched here: http://smartglobalhealth.org/index.php/preview/pages/webcast_live/
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