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Hundreds of Hopkins alumni and friends gathered in Philadelphia on April 8, 2006, to share stories of discovery and discuss issues of the day.

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U.S. Health-Care Crisis
Length 1 hour, 2 minutes

Affordable, accessible health care is moving further out of reach for most Americans. What are the root problems? What are the most promising strategies for tackling them?

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Moderator
William R. Brody, M.D., Ph.D.
President, Johns Hopkins University

Presenters
Gerard Anderson, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Hospital Finance and Management, Professor of Health Policy and Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University

Ruth R. Faden, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Philip Franklin Wagley Professor of Biomedical Ethics, Executive Director, Phoebe R. Berman Bioethics Institute, Johns Hopkins University

Douglas E. Hough, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Chair, Business of Health Department, School of Professional Studies in Business and Education, Johns Hopkins University

Michael J. Klag, M.D., M.P.H. (SPH '87)
Dean of the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University

Kathleen M. White, Ph.D., RN, CNAA, BC
Associate Professor, Coordinator for Master of Science in Nursing (Health Systems Management) and MSN/MBA programs, School of Nursing, Johns Hopkins University

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National Security in the Age of Terrorism
Length 58 minutes

Since 9/11, the U.S. has revolutionized the ways it gathers intelligence, defines threats, and treats prisoners. Are we safer today? Whether yes or no, at what price?

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Moderator
John E. McLaughlin
Senior fellow, Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies, Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

Presenters
Daniel Deudney, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations, Department of Political Science, Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University

Sheldon F. Greenberg, Ph.D., M.Ed. (SPSBE '73)
Director, Division of Public Safety Leadership, School of Professional Studies in Business and Education, Johns Hopkins University

Marguerite Littleton-Kearney, DNSc, RN, FAAN
Associate Professor, Program Coordinator, Health Systems Management: Emergency Preparedness/Disaster Response, School of Nursing, Johns Hopkins University; Associate Professor, Anesthesiology/Critical Care Medicine, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University

Gerald M. Masson, Ph.D.
Director, Information Security Institute, Professor of Computer Science, G.W.C. Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University

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Extreme Exploration: How is satellite imagery helping disease forecasters track viruses?
Length 17 minutes

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Presenter
Gregory Glass, Ph.D.
Professor, W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University

Extreme Exploration
Length 1 hour

What are deep-diving robots revealing about the remotest reaches of the sea? What ingenious thinking factored into the New Horizons Pluto probe? What light can an earth-bound astrophysicist shed on the origins of the universe?

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Moderator
Nicholas P. Jones, Ph.D.
Dean of the G.W.C. Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University

Presenters
Jonathan A. Bagger, Ph.D.
Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Chair of the Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy, Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University

Mark Perry, Ph.D. (A&S '89)
Lead Engineer for New Horizons, the first mission to Pluto
Systems Engineer, Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University

Louis L. Whitcomb, Ph.D.
Professor in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science, G.W.C. Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University