“You are not here to merely make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget that errand.” – Woodrow Wilson, Founders’ Address, Swarthmore College, 1913.
Associate Professor David Carr embodies Wilson’s message insofar as his research interests and efforts focus on land use/cover change, migration, fertility, and health in the Latin American tropics. Fittingly, Dr. Carr is one of three invited speakers at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholar’s event, “Population – Health – Environment Programs: Assessing the Past, Planning the Future,” slated for March 13 in Washington, DC. This event will “examine the results of recent evaluations of USAID- and Packard Foundation-funded PHE programs, as well as an assessment of PHE programs implemented by the World Wildlife Fund,” both of which David participated in. This meeting is the second event in the Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program, a year-long meeting series titled “PHE: Building the Foundation for the Next 10 Years," which takes a long-range, systematic look at PHE issues, case studies, research, and the future of the field.
The Woodrow Wilson Center is a national memorial to President Wilson which was established by Congress in 1968 and headquartered in Washington, D.C. It is “a nonpartisan institution, supported by public and private funds, engaged in the study of national and world affairs. The Center establishes and maintains a lively, neutral forum for free and informed dialogue,” and the mission of the Center is “to commemorate the ideals and concerns of Woodrow Wilson by: providing a link between the world of ideas and the world of policy; and fostering research, study, discussion, and collaboration among a full spectrum of individuals concerned with policy and scholarship in national and world affairs.” For more, see .
Due to his role as a reviewer of reports evaluating the risk of climate change caused by human activity for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Dr. Carr was also invited to a recent VIP reception for IPCC Nobel Peace Prize Laureates. The Fifth Annual Global Forum, titled “Global Warming: Change Your Attitude! Not the Weather,” was hosted by ATHGO (Alliance Toward Harnessing Global Opportunities) and held at UCLA February 27-March 1, 2008. ‘ATHGO partnered with UCLA’s Institute of the Environment to provide 300 highly motivated young people with 4 days of unparalleled access to the world’s leading experts on climate change. Speakers included numerous recipients of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, local Consul Generals and senior executives from the private sector, and international organizations’ (see .
