The 5th Annual Ric Pfeffer Lecture Presents

VICENTE NAVARRO

"Unmentionable Causes of Worldwide Inequality and Poverty"

Friday, March 2, 7:30pm

Johns Hopkins University
210 Hodson
Homewood Campus
3400 block N. Charles Street

Vicente Navarro will discuss his research on growing inequalities in the age of globalization. Navarro provides convincing evidence that governments create barriers that establish ever more control by powerful multinational monetary interests and undermine the ability of workers to organize in order to improve their own social and economic conditions.

Dr. Navarro is professor of health and public policy, sociology, and
policy studies at The Johns Hopkins University and professor of political
and social sciences at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. He is
founder and past president of the International Association of Health
Policy and founder and editor-in-chief of the International Journal of
Health Services. His recent books include 'The Political Economy of Social
Inequalities' (2001) and 'The Political and Social Contexts of Health'
(2004). In 2002 his analysis of the failures of post-Franco Spain,
'Bienestar Insufficiente, Democracia Incompleta', was awarded that country's
equivalent to the Pulitzer Prize.

Ric Pfeffer, in whose honor this lecture series was established, worked as
a lawyer with OSHA at the Department of Labor, where he made
notable contributions to worker safety. At the time of his retirement due to
illness, he was developing a standard to that would have established a
single universal process for managing and monitoring worker health and
safety in all of the nation's workplaces-a project since abandoned by the
Bush Administration.

The Ric Pfeffer Lecture is a program of Research Associates Foundation,
organizer of the Progressive Action Center. To make a tax deductible
contribution for the Ric Pfeffer Lecture, make a check out to "Research
Associates Foundation" and mail to: Research Associates Foundation, 1443
Gorsuch Ave., Baltimore, MD 21218.

Sponsors: JHU Justice and Research Associates Foundation

Information: 410.466.7344 or cdadamo-AT-altpress.org