TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2009

WOMEN AND GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT FORUM

ADVANCE REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED.

PATHWAYS TO EMPOWERMENT: A WORLD WITHIN OUR REACH

Helene D. Gayle, President and Chief Executive Officer, CARE USA

For decades, the “serious” foreign policy issues were the likes of nonproliferation or trade rules. However, a new agenda is emerging and the treatment of women around the world is high on it, demonstrated by the creation of the Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee on global women's issues, the White House’s creation of a new Council on Women and Girls, and the State Department’s naming of a new position of special ambassador for global women’s issues. Please join us with global health and development expert Helene Gayle for a discussion on why the advancement of women worldwide is necessary for the U.S. government to successfully accomplish its foreign policy priorities. Helene Gayle will speak of experiences traveling the globe to oversee CARE’s work – from visiting women launching new businesses in sub-Saharan Africa to meeting girls in Afghanistan that risk their safety to go to school every day. Through these stories, she will share her organization’s strategy of working through women and girls to address the root causes of poverty, and examine how women’s being high on the agenda is critical to bringing a world within our reach.

Helene D. Gayle, president and chief executive officer of CARE USA, is an internationally recognized expert on health, global development, and humanitarian issues. Dr. Gayle spent twenty years with the Centers for Disease Control, focused primarily on combating HIV/AIDS. Dr. Gayle then directed the HIV, TB and Reproductive Health Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. At CARE, she heads one of the world’s premier international humanitarian organizations, with programs in more than 60 countries to end poverty. Named one of Newsweek’s top 10 “Women in Leadership” in October 2008 and The Wall Street Journal’s “50 Women to Watch” in 2006, Dr. Gayle has published numerous scientific articles and has been featured in media outlets as diverse as the New York Times, Washington Post, Glamour, O Magazine, Ebony, Essence, The Financial Times, National Public Radio, and CNN. Dr. Gayle was born and raised in Buffalo, NY. She earned a B.A. in psychology at Barnard College, an M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.P.H. from Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Gayle serves on several boards, including the Center for Strategic and International Studies, ONE, the American Museum of Natural History, the Institute of Medicine, and Johns Hopkins University. She lives in Atlanta, GA.

Generously supported by

Elysian Hotel
11 East Walton
Chicago, IL 60611

12:00 p.m. Registration       
12:30 p.m. Lunch and discussion
 2:00 p.m. Program adjourns

Members $50
Nonmembers $50

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