"Pills, Politics, and Public Trust: Ethical Crossroads and the Pharmaceutical Industry "

Friday, February 16, 2007
12 noon - 2:00 p.m.
Ford Amphitheater
University Hospital

Opinion polls and popular media have become replete with images of “big, bad” drug companies. What are the bases of these perceptions? Are they realistic or unfair? What are the consequences—for the pharmaceutical industry and for health care in general—when there is an erosion of public trust in the ethical practices of drug companies? What would be required to restore that trust?

Panelists

David Canter
Senior Vice President, Pfizer Global Research and Development; Director, Michigan Laboratories

Philip Hilts
Author and former senior medical and science writer for the New York Times

Peter Lurie
Deputy Director, Health Research Group, Public Citizen

Paul Antony
Chief Medical Officer, Pharmaceutial Research and Manufacturers
Association

Moderators

Henry Greenspan, Ph.D. and Duane Kirking, Pharm. D., Ph.D.

For further information, call 734-994-0727, or message hgreensp@umich.edu. 

This program is co-sponsored by the Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation of Michigan and, at U-M, by the Ethics in Public Life Initiative, LSA Citizenship Theme Year, Office of the Vice President for Communications, Department of Internal Medicine, Program in Society and Medicine, College of Pharmacy, Ford School of Public Policy, Health Policy Students Association, and the School of Public Health. 

Free and open to the public
For more information, contact:
FORUM_on_Health_Policy@umich.edu