Secretary Leavitt Chairs Panel on Health Care at White House Conference on the Americas  | Secretary Leavitt speaks at the panel on "Strengthening Health Care" at the White House Conference on the Americas. |  | First Lady Laura Bush at the panel on "Strengthening Health Care" at the White House Conference on the Americas. |  | Members of the panel on "Strengthening Health Care" at the White House Conference on the Americas. From left to right, The Honorable Kent R. Hill, Ph.D., Assistant Administrator for Global Health, U.S. Agency for International Development; Marie-Marcel Deschamps, M.D., Technical Director, Groupe Haitien d'Etude du Sarcome de Kaposi et des Infections Opportunistes, Haitï; The Honorable Michael O. Leavitt, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services; Steven Miller, President, HELPS International; Oscar Orrantia, Chairman of the Board, Junta de Beneficencia de Guayaquil, Ecuador; and William P. Magee, Jr., D.D.S., M.D., Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Operation Smile. |
July 10, 2007 - The President and Mrs. Bush hosted a White House Conference on the Americas on July 9, 2007. At the conference, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Michael O. Leavitt, chaired an interactive panel on health care. With the theme of "Advancing the Cause of Social Justice in the Americas," the conference included representatives of approximately 150 regional-based and 100 United States-based non-governmental organizations, the private sector, and foundations to discuss and highlight the vast array of societal interaction between the United States and its neighbors to better the lives of the region’s citizens. Topics covered were expanding economic opportunity, investing in education, meeting health-care needs, and building public-private partnerships. For more information:
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