By Russell DeVita

Hollywood, Health & Society Director Sandra de Castro Buffington will participate in a summit meeting in Atlanta on May 21 titled “Sustaining U.S. Leadership in Global Health and Water.”

The conference, which is being co-sponsored by the Center for Strategic & International Studies, the World Affairs Council of Atlanta and CARE USA, will outline the “principles and policies that will be needed to sustain America’s leadership in improving people’s health worldwide.“ It will feature leading representatives from government, non-governmental organizations, business, universities and others.

Buffington will take part in a discussion titled “Public Opinion on U.S. Support for Global Health” with co-panelists Dr. Mollyann Brodie, vice president and director of public opinion and media research, Kaiser Family Foundation; Michael Elliott, president and CEO, the ONE Campaign; and Kevin Riley, editor of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. It will be moderated by Dr. J. Stephen Morrison, director of the CSIS Global Health Policy Center, a leading policy research institution focused on building bipartisan awareness about global health and its importance to U.S. national security.

The event will be webcast live here.

Also while in Atlanta, Buffington will deliver a presentation May 22 on incorporating public health messages in TV storylines, children’s programs and other media, as part of a special briefing at the Roybal Campus of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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