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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/5/09, <b class="gmail_sendername">Garance UPHAM</b> <<a href="mailto:fannie.upham@gmail.com">fannie.upham@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><br>In the course of EB discussion on the social determinants and the preceding Monday morning discussion on the impact of the financial crisis on health, we all heard a member of the US delegation publicly say that the new Obama Administration would consider the holding of a national US commission on the social determinants of health and may envision the organization of a global conference on the Commission on the social determinants of health.<br>
It is to be noted that several LMIC countries, generally at odds with the (up to now very intransigent) US delegation position on IP, Code of practice for migrating health personnel, and so forth, are demonstrating global leadership in health on this issue, by having organized their own National commission on the social determinants...<br>
We must encourage President Obama on this path.<br></blockquote></div>