Conferences and Workshops

Over the years, the Center has sponsored regional and national conferences regarding important topics. With support from the University and the Greenwall Foundation, Vital Lines Vital Signs was convened, a national conference that brought together poets, scholars and health care professionals to discuss connections among illness, health, suffering and recovery, and the reading and writing of poetry.

 

In March 2007, the Center sponsored a conference on Maternal Birth Trauma in the Developing World: Ethical Issues in Obstetric Fistula, funded primarily by a Provost’s Commonfund Grant with support from the Duke Global Health Institute, and the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, for the purposes of establishing international guidelines on managing obstetric fistula.

 

In October 2008, After the Fall: Changing Health Care in America was a two day symposium that invited national experts and leaders to Duke to engage in public discourse over the topic of health care reform at the height of a highly-charged presidential campaign that focused debate on this critical issue.