EVENT: Margaret Hamburg: Protecting Public Health: FDA's Global Challenge
DATE: Jan. 28, 2010 (Thurs.)
TIME: 5:30 p.m. networking reception, 6 p.m. program
PLACE: Commonwealth Club, 595 Market St., SF
COST: Free, register at
http://tickets.commonwealthclub.org/auto_choose_ga.asp?area=1&shcode=1559Underwritten by the California HealthCare Foundation
Margaret Hamburg, M.D., Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration
J. Michael Bishop, M.D., Professor and Director, G.W. Hooper Foundation, UCSF and Chancellor Emeritus UCSF - Moderator
FDA chief Hamburg has been tasked with an extremely difficult job: ensuring the safety of everything we consume, in an increasingly globalized world with increasingly obscured accountability trails. With a background in medicine, science and public health, she is well-positioned to meet the myriad of challenges facing the FDA. As New York's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene commissioner, Hamburg improved services for women and children, instituted needle-exchange programs to reduce the spread of HIV (the AIDS virus), and created the first public health bio-terrorism defense program in the nation. Her most celebrated achievement, however, was curbing the spread of tuberculosis. Learn what she has planned to help keep the nation and its food and medicine supply safe.
