PETER BLOOM – Plenary II
Peter Bloom is the Executive Director and Co-founder of JUNTOS, a Philadelphia and Mexico-based organization of Latino immigrants organizing to build power for justice in the United States and their home countries. Mr. Bloom has presented widely and done considerable research on the challenges facing immigrants, especially the undocumented, as they migrate, organize and settle.

JEFF CRISP – Plenary I
Jeff Crisp, PhD, M.Soc.Sc, B.Sc.Econ, is head of Policy Development and Evaluation at UNHCR, the UN's refugee agency. He has previously held a number of senior positions with UNHCR and with the Global Commission on International Migration, where he served as Director of Policy and Research. Dr. Crisp was the principal author of the Global Commission's report to the UN Secretary-General, 'Migration in an interconnected world'. He has first-hand experience of refugee situations and UN operations throughout the world and has published widely on refugee, migration and humanitarian issues, as well as African affairs. He holds a PhD in African Studies and Political Sci. from the Univ. of Birmingham, UK. .

ULRICH GAILLARD – Plenary III
Ulrick Gaillard, JD, is founder/CEO of Batey Relief Alliance and BRA Dominicana. U.S.-trained attorney with academic focus on International Law, International Business Transactions and European Union Law. Obtained his BA in Political Science at the City University of New York (1992) and his Juris Doctor at the Roger Williams University School of Law in Rhode Island (1996).

KENNETH W. GOODMAN – Plenary II
Kenneth W. Goodman, Ph.D., is co-director of the Univ. of Miami’s Ethics Programs, including its Business Ethics Program, and founder and director of the Bioethics Program and its Pan American Bioethics Initiative. He is director of the Florida Bioethics Network. Dr. Goodman is an Assoc. Prof. in the Univ. of Miami’s Department of Medicine, with appointments in the Departments of Philosophy, Anesthesiology and Epidemiology and Public Health and School of Nursing and Health Studies. He has recently published a book about ethics and evidence-based medicine for Cambridge Univ. Press and, with a colleague, prepared a book of case studies in ethics and health computing for Springer-Verlag. He has co-authored a book on ethics in public health and one on artificial intelligence; edited a book on ethics and medical computing; co-edited a book on artificial intelligence; and published and presented numerous articles in bioethics, the philosophy of science, and computing.

RANKALL KUHN – Plenary II, Session A1
Randall Kuhn, PhD, is Asst. Prof. and Director of the Global Health Affairs Program at the Univ. of Denver Graduate School of International Studies. A demographer and sociologist by training, Kuhn’s research focuses on the impact of kinship, socio-demographic change, migration, and community on health and well-being in disadvantaged communities throughout the world. His key projects presently focus on the impact of migration on health in migrant-sending communities in Bangladesh and Indonesia, and on the impact of the Indian Ocean tsunami on community health and well-being in Sri Lanka. Kuhn’s expertise lies in the collection and analysis of health and migration data, qualitative/quantitative methodology, and analysis of vital registration data. He spent two years living and conducting research in Bangladesh.

JEAN WILLIAM PAPE – Keynote Address, Session B1
Jean William Pape, MD is Prof. of Medicine at Cornell and Director of GHESKIO in Haiti. He is a graduate of Columbia (BS, 1971) and Cornell (MD, 1975) Universities. Dr. Pape made significant public health contributions in Haiti that led to a 50% decrease in the national infantile mortality and to a similar decrease in the national HIV seroprevalence, showing that it is possible to develop successful national programs under the worst possible conditions. He has been awarded the highest recognition by: Haiti (Leon Audain award); France (legion d’Honneur) for his “contribution to the improvement of the health of people in the world”; United States (member of the Institute of Medicine of the United States). He is an internationally recognized expert in infectious diseases.

SARAH PAOLETTI – Plenary II
Sarah Paoletti, JD, is a Clinical Supervisor and Lecturer at Penn Law, where she directs the Transnational Legal Clinic. She previously was a Practitioner-in-Residence in the International Human Rights Law Clinic at the Washington College of Law at American Univ., where she also taught a seminar on the rights of immigrants in the workplace. Her areas of specialty include international human rights, immigrant rights, asylum law, and labor and employment law. She has participated in discussions before committees of both the United Nations and the Organization of American States on the Rights of Migrant Workers. Prior to joining the faculty at WCL, she was an attorney at Friends of Farmworkers, Inc., where she provided legal services to migrant workers in Pennsylvania.

JEFF PASSEL – Plenary I, Session A1
Jeff Passel, PhD, joined the Pew Hispanic Center in Washington, DC in January 2005. His research interests include the demography of Hispanics and immigrants, measurement of immigration (particularly undocumented), and the impacts and integration of immigrants into American society. He also works on Generational dynamics, population projections, defining racial/ethnic groups, and measuring census undercount. Previous positions include Principal Research Assoc. at the Urban Institute (1989-2005) and the Census Bureau (1974-1989) where he directed programs of population estimates, projections, and demographic methods for measuring census undercount. Dr. Passel has served on committees of the Population Association of America, Panels of National Academy of Sciences, and is on the Social Security Advisory Board’s Technical Panel. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Statistical Association. Dr. Passel has degrees from Johns Hopkins Univ. (PhD), Univ. of Texas at Austin (MA), and MIT (BS).

ED ZUROWESTE – Plenary II, Session A1
Ed Zuroweste, MD, combines a full compliment of clinical, administrative, and instructional responsibilities in the various positions he holds. He is Chief Medical Officer of the Migrant Clinicians Network, Inc., a national clinical network of providers who care for the mobile poor. Additionally, Dr. Zuroweste is an Asst. Prof. of Medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine where he directs an International Health Elective for fourth year medical students to Honduras twice a year. He is the attending physician for two PA State Health Department Tuberculosis Clinics and he serves as a clinical consultant for the Bureau of Primary Health Care throughout the USA. He is the past chair of the National Coalition to Eliminate Tuberculosis. He has served as an appointed member of the National EPA Pesticide Program Dialogue Committee and currently is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved.