Ron Deprez speaks on panel sponsored by New America Foundation

Ronald Deprez, Ph.D., M.P.H., director of UNE’s Center for Community and Public Health and associate professor of public health, spoke on a panel sponsored by the New America Foundation on May 21, 2012, in Washington, D.C.

The panel presentation was titled “Making Biomedical Science Nimble:  It’s the Patients, Stupid!”  It was live-streamed, along with six other panel presentations, as part of an event titled “How to Save America’s Knowledge Enterprise,” which explored new ways of thinking about science and technology and the government’s role in advancing them.

To view the event, click here.
 

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