Dr. Janet Currie to speak on September 24, 2010
WINNIPEG, MB – The University of Winnipeg’s Faculty of Business and Economics plays host to the first Business Breakfast of the 2010/11 academic year with a lecture on Childhood Health and its effects on Adult Lives on Friday, September 24, 2010 from 7:30 – 9:00 am in The Faculty Club, (4th floor, Wesley Hall, 515 Portage Avenue). This lecture features the internationally recognized Dr. Janet Currie, Director of the Program on Families and Children at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Columbia University. Tickets are $30 with proceeds going to support scholarships for students in Economics.
This lecture discusses what economists have learned about the effects of various influences on early childhood and life outcomes, and about remedying the effects of negative influences.
Janet Currie is one of the world’s most influential economists working in the area of social policy, said Michael Benarroch, Dean of Business and Economics. We are pleased she will share her expertise with our faculty and our students as well as Winnipeg’s business community which can influence and impact the way we conduct our business.
Biography
Janet Currie is the Sami Mnaymneh Professor of Economics at Columbia University. Her research focuses on the health and well-being of children. She has written about early intervention programs, programs to expand health insurance and improve health care, public housing, and food and nutrition programs. Much of this research is summarized in The Invisible Safety Net: Protecting the Nation’s Poor Children and Families Princeton University Press, which has just been released in paperback. Her current research focuses on socioeconomic differences in child health, and on environmental threats to children’s health from sources such as toxic pollutants and fast food.
To order tickets please contact Dallas Hull at d.hull@uwinnipeg.ca or call 204.786.9990
