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Experts to discuss health and aging

WHAT: Science, health and an Aging Society

WHO: Harvey Fineberg, President, Institute of Medicine
Lisa Berkman, Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy, Harvard School of Public Health
John Bongaarts, Vice President and Distinguished Scholar, Population Council
John W. Rowe, Professor of Health Policy and Management, Columbia
University; former Chairman and CEO, Aetna, Inc.

WHEN: Sunday, April 29, 2007
9 – 10:30 am

WHERE: National Academy of Sciences
C Street between 21st and 22nd Streets, NW
Washington, D.C.

CONTACT: Maureen O’Leary
National Academy of Sciences
202 334-2138
moleary@anas.edu

Paul Karoff
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
617 576-5043
Cell – 781 264-7298
pkaroff@amacad.org

BACKGROUND: More than 800 of the foremost scientists, humanists and leaders in business and public affairs will gather in Washington, DC April 27-29 when the nation’s two oldest learned societies – the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society (APS) -- meet jointly for the first time, in collaboration with the National Academies. The panel discussion on the courts is part of the joint meeting, Public Good: Knowledge as the Foundation for a Democratic Society, during which leading experts will also explore the courts, energy and the environment, the economy, religion, the media and other topics.

REPORTERS WHO WISH TO ATTEND MUST REGISTER IN ADVANCE with the Office of News and Public Information; tel. 202-334-2138 or e-mail news@nas.edu.

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