Population Symposium 2010
The Population Symposium for World Population Day
This Symposium was held on Monday the 12th of July 2010, in the John Snow Lecture Theatre at the School.
It was held to recognise the projected increase in global population by at least 2 billion over the next forty years. Such growth has significant implications for all our futures - both in environmental and development costs.
The Symposiums purpose was to highlight the importance of population growth and its complex implications for food security, water, environmental and climate-change issues, health, poverty and development. The impact of population growth and changing demographic patterns on these issues has been seriously neglected in recent decades and there is a need to raise the profile of population and explore the ways we can mitigate the effects, and adapt to the challenges, of rapid population growth to achieve global health and enhanced wellbeing for all.
Speakers included
Sir Andy Haines; former Director of the School
John Cleland, CBE; Professor of Medical Demography, PSD, LSTHM
Robert Eastwood; Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Sussex
Oona Campbell; Professor of Epidemiology and Reproductive Health, EPH, LSHTM
Dan Kaseje; Professor of Public Health and Vice Chancellor at Great Lakes University of Kisumu, Kenya
Doctor Zeba Sathar; Country Director, Population Council, Pakistan
Doctor Alex Ezeh, Executive Director, African Population and Health Research Centre, Nairobi, Kenya
Sir John Beddington, CMG FRS; Professor of Applied Population Biology at Imperial College London, Government Chief Scientific Adviser and Head of the Government Office for Science
Malin Falkenmark; Professor Emerita of Applied and International Hydrology at the former Swedish Natural Sciences Research Council, Scientific Advisor at the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), and Chair of the Scientific Program Committee for the Stockholm Water Symposium
Karen Newmanp; Network Co-ordinator, Population and Sustainability Network
Malcolm Potts; Professor of Population and Family Planning, University of Berkeley
Doctor Gill Greer; Direcotr-General, International Planned Parenthood Federation
Babatunde Osotimehin; Professor of Clinical Pathology, Nigeria's ex-Minister of Health (in office December 2008 to May 2010)
Sir John Sulston, FRS; Chair of the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation (SEI) at the University of Manchester
For photos from the day, please click here
For the agenda, please click here
Please click for a PDF of 'Population Policy Brief - Breaking the Silence on Global Population Issues'
