Penn in Latin America Conference 2016

Led by the Perelman School of Medicine's Center for Global Health, this conference on public health threats in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) aimed to: (1) mobilize LAC-interested faculty throughout Penn to participate in a half-to-one day symposium; (2) engage faculty from at least five Schools of the university to serve as speakers in this symposium; (3) invite distinguished external guests who couple to ongoing and/or desired strategic relationships in LAC – e.g. Costa Rica, Guatemala, Brazil, Colombia and Peru; (4) coalesce the conference observations/conclusions in a white-paper to be submitted for publication; and (5) provide seed funding for 2 research projects which were enhanced or initiated through conference networking activities.