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WEEK AHEAD EVENTS FOR APRIL 28-May 2, 2003
TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 2003
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS host a breakfast briefing entitled: "How to Protect Medicare for Future Generations."
WHO: The speakers are:
Rep. Nancy Johnson (R-CT), Chairwoman of the House Ways & Means Health Subcommittee (invited)
Tom Scully, Administrator of the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Jeff Lemieux, Director of Economic Studies at the Progressive Policy Institute
John C. Goodman, President of the NCPA.
DATE: April 29, 2003
LOCATION: 2168 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: Sean Tuffnell, 800-859-1154
WEB ADDRESS: ncpa.org
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN COLLABORATION WITH COMMUNITY VOICES: HEALTHCARE FOR THE UNDERSERVED, AN INITIATIVE OF THE W. K. KELLOGG FOUNDATION, hold a press briefing to shed light on the health gap facing men, particularly men of color.
WHO: The speakers are:
Louis W. Sullivan, M.D., Former Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services
Georges Benjamin, M.D., Executive Director, American Public Health Association
Robert Guillaume, Actor & Author
Alonzo Mourning, NBA Basketball Player
Gail Warden, President and Chief Executive Officer, Henry Ford Health System
Joseph Betancourt, M.D., M.P.H., Senior Scientist, Senior Scientist, Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School
Alwyn Cohall, M.D., Principal Investigator and Director of the Harlem Health Promotion Center, and Associate Professor of Clinical Public Health and Pediatrics at the Mailman School of Public Health and New York Presbyterian Hospital.
DATE: April 29, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Paul DelPonte, 202-872-4860 x238
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: MARSHALL INSTITUTE Washington Roundtable on Science and Public Policy holds a program entitled Security in Society Protecting an Increasingly Connected World featuring Harvey Rubin, MD, PhD Director for the Institute for Strategic Threat Analysis and Response at the University of Pennsylvania.
DATE: April 29, 2003
LOCATION: The Army & Navy Club, 901 17th Street, NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-296-9655
WEB ADDRESS: marshall.org
TIME: 5 p.m.
EVENT: NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION AND THE FRIEDRICH NAUMANN STIFTUNG hold a discussion on the Future of Transatlantic Relations with Wolfgang Gerhardt, Chairman, Parliamentary Group, Free Democratic Party, Federal Republic of Germany.
DATE: April 29, 2003
LOCATION: The Willard, Franklin Pearce Room, 1401 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: Jud Mathews, 202-986-4901
WEB ADDRESS: newamerica.net
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 2003
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE holds a program on Environment and Statecraft: The Strategy of Environmental Treaty-Making with with Scott Barrett, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
DATE: April 30, 2003
LOCATION: 1616 P Street, NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-328-5000
WEB ADDRESS: rff.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker" news program featuring Thomas Menino, Mayor of Boston and President, U.S. Conference of Mayors, discussing "America's Cities: Stories from the Homefront."
DATE: April 30, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 2:30 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker" news program featuring The Minister of Trade and Industry of Singapore, George Yeo, discussing "the U.S.-Singapore Free Trade Agreement.
DATE: April 30, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 4 p.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on A Closer Walk: A Film about AIDS and the World.
WHO: The speakers are:
Robert Bilheimer, Writer, Producer, and Director of A Closer Walk
Helene Gayle, Gates Foundation
DATE: April 30, 2003
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
THURSDAY, May 1, 2003
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
EVENT: RADIO FREE EUROPE/RADIO LIBERTY holds a briefing by Marshall Goldman
Kathryn W. Davis Professor of Soviet Economics, Wellesley College
Associate Director, Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard University discussing
Putin and the Oligarchs: What are the Implications for Russia.
DATE: May 1, 2003
LOCATION: 1201 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-457-6949
WEB ADDRESS: rferl.gov
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: NATIONAL ECONOMIST CLUB holds its luncheon program featuring Bert Ely, Ely & Co., discussing "What Could Happen When the Japanese Economy Blows Up."
DATE: May 1, 2003
LOCATION: LC, 101 Independence Avenue SE, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 703-739-9404
WEB ADDRESS: national-economists.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOMAN'S NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CLUB presents Anne Keiser, a Club member and formerly a still photographer and picture editor with the National Geographic Society's television division.
DATE: May 1, 2003
LOCATION: 1526 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-232-7363
WEB ADDRESS: democraticwomen.org
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
EVENT: COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS holds a program on U.S. Occupation of Japan:
Personal Reflections and Lessons for Today.
WHO: The speakers are:
Eleanor Hadley, Author, Memoir of a Trustbuster: A Lifelong Adventure with Japan
Patricia Hagan Kuwayama, Senior Research Associate, Center on Japanese Economy and Business, Columbia University Graduate School of Business;
Collaborator, Memoir of a Trustbuster: A Lifelong Adventure with Japan
Koichi Hamada, Professor of Economics, Yale University; Professor Emeritus, University of
Tokyo
Edward Lincoln, Senior Fellow, Asia and Economic Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
DATE: May 1, 2003
LOCATION: Council on Foreign Relations, 1779 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: Marieke Beeuwkes, 212-434-9716
WEB ADDRESS: cfr.org
FRIDAY, May 2, 2003
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: CATO INSTITUTE holds a hill briefing on " After Victory: A Strategy for Exiting the Persian Gulf. "
WHO: The speakers are:
Christopher Preble, Director, Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute
Charles Peña, Director, Defense Policy Studies, Cato Institute
DATE: May 2, 2003
LOCATION: B-338 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-789-5229
WEB ADDRESS: cato.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker" news program featuring Erika Harold, Miss America 2003.
DATE: May 2, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
