Dear Colleagues
I am pleased to announce that our Symposium dinner speaker will be Emma Lacey-Bordeaux, Row Editor and Reporter for CNN, Washington DC. Ms. Lacey-Bordeaux reports on crime, incarceration, and criminal justice. She produced the award winning CNN documentary, 'The Feminist on Cellblock Y', which can be seen in its entirely on Youtube.
Grand challenges are ambitious goals that harness science, technology, and innovation to solve important national or global problems, and that have the potential to capture the public's imagination. Closing the urban poverty gap is a grand challenge. This gap prevents human capital from achieving full productivity, attenuates societal consumption, and limits economic growth. High unemployment, school dropout, violent crime, stress-induced mental and physiological disease, and malnutrition are the hallmarks of urban poverty. Hollowed inner-city cores accompanying rising poverty have resulted in diminished public finance and the capacity for local governments to respond. Free markets may hold some answers. This symposium brings together scholars from business studies, public health, nursing, engineering, and economics to present their research to facilitate multidisciplinary conversations. The goal is to discover how market-based principles might offer clues to the solutions for these multifaceted challenges.
$50 registration* includes reception, breaks and meals for both days: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/johns-hopkins-symposium-on-free-market-solutions-to-urban-grand-challenges-tickets-53910549906
Phillip H. Phan
Johns Hopkins University
*Please write to pphan@jhu.edu with your travel itinerary to obtain a code for free registration