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Conference
Archive - 2010
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GLOBAL HEALTH: A HUMANITARIAN CRISIS?
Sunday, October 31st to Wednesday November 3rd, 2010
Crowne Plaza Ottawa Hotel 101 Lyon Street N, Ottawa, Ontario
The Canadian Conference on Global Health (CCGH) took
place October 31- November 3, 2010 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Ottawa, Ontario.
The CCGH, organized and hosted annually by CSIH, provided an opportunity for
professionals working in international health, global health and public health
to share knowledge and experience, and promote innovation and collaborative
action among participants. The conference has become an important networking
forum for practitioners, researchers, educators, policy makers and community
advocates working in health and development within and outside of Canada. The
Conference also provided a forum for peer review among individuals and
organizations involved in the field, thereby fostering a robust process for
building knowledge and strengthening programs in international, global and
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Conference Plenary Presentations
Monday, November 1 – Defining the Crisis: Global Health, Equity and
Humanitarian Crises
- Dr. Nevio Zagaria -
Acting Director of the Department of Emergency Response and Recovery
Operations (RRO) in
the Health Action in Crises cluster, WHO
(PDF
powerpoint presentation)
- Dr. Jon Andrus –
Deputy Director, PAHO
(PDF
powerpoint presentation)
- Dr. Paul Spiegel –
UN Refugee Agency’s Chief of Public Health; Senior Associate,
Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public
Health, Johns Hopkins University, 02/10-present;Senior Visiting
Scientist, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative Program, Department of
Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health,
Boston, MA, 2008-present; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Hubert
Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health of
Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 07/99-present
(PDF
powerpoint presentation)
Tuesday,
November 2 – Evidence and Interventions
- Dr. Andrew Padmos -
Chief Executive Officer, The Royal College of Physicians and
Surgeons of Canada
(PDF
powerpoint presentation)
- Dr. Mickey Chopra
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Chief of Health and Associate Director of Programmes at UNICEF;
Former Director of the Health Systems Research Group of the South
Africa Medical Research Council
(PDF
powerpoint presentation)
- Dr. Wesler Lambert
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Director of Monitoring and Evaluation for Partners in Health Haiti
Programs; Director of Unité Communale de Santé for the Ministry of
Health of Haiti; Consultant for Partners in Health, Rwanda
(PDF
powerpoint presentation)
Wednesday, November 3 - Thinking Globally/Acting Locally: The Reality
and Challenges for the Future
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Daily Conference Themes and Highlights:
Sunday,
October 31 |
Theme:
Pathways to Global Health Competence
Global health competence for practitioners, researchers, and
community development and government decision makers will be
further strengthened through workshops and consultations at this
forum that will improve our collective ability to address the
crisis.
Gairdner Foundation Lecture with Nicholas White
Nicholas White, 2010 Gairdner Laureate, Director, Mahidol Oxford
Tropical Medicine Research, Mahidol University, Bangkok,
Thailand
Malaria Control & Elimination
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Monday,
November 1 |
Theme: Defining the Crisis: Global Health, Equity and
Humanitarian Crises
The state of global health, the inequities in global health and
the determinants of health will be highlighted as one of the key
subthemes of this conference. Humanitarian responses will also
be highlighted as well as global and regional approaches,
processes challenges and solutions will be presented and
discussed.
CSIH Annual General Meeting
Theme: The Crises and Responses
The scope of natural disasters climate change and
political/social conflicts and the inequitable impact on global
health will be a critical subtheme. Humanitarian responses will
also be highlighted as well as global and regional approaches,
processes challenges and solutions.
Starved for Attention: Multimedia presentation from Médecins
sans frontières
How the international food aid system is failing children; and
how MSF's multimedia campaign, Starved for Attention, aims to
spur public awareness and push international food aid donors to
make their food nutritionally adequate for young children.
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Tuesday,
November 2 |
Theme: Evidence/Research and Interventions
What is the evidence, what is working what is not working and
why. What are the challenges, (financing, implementation and
dissemination)?
• What are the new innovations and what have we been doing that
works and what do we know that works but is not getting the
support it needs?
• Where are the research gaps? Who is funding and what are the
partnerships that need to be in place to ensure sustained
funding and support to establish the best evidence?
Don and Elizabeth Hillman Lecture with Mickey Chopra
Mickey Chopra, Chief of Health and Associate Director of
Programmes at UNICEF; Former Director of the Health Systems
Research Group of the South Africa Medical Research Council.
Global Health TV
Global Health TV is the online news channel, and onsite
conference television channel, dedicated to health news and
views, created by WebsEdge/Health. On each day of the
conference, Global Health TV will be featuring a new television
episode on plasma screens around the venue, as well as on a
dedicated television channel in guest hotel rooms. This venture
serves to raise the visibility of the hard work of the global
health community, and to provide an opportunity to learn about
new and ongoing initiatives that are making a difference.
International Night Reception and Dinner
Live entertainment provided by the StarTools.
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Wednesday, November 3 |
Theme: Challenges and Solutions Putting the Human into
Humanitarian Responses
What about the response? How well are humanitarian responses
responding, what are the challenges. What about more sustainable
solutions to the global health crises?
• What have we learned from humanitarian responses and how can
the response be sustained and more effective after the emergency
phase? Are there success stories in terms of health systems
strengthening which we should be celebrating? Why are the
success stories not being rolled out?
• How are we coordinating with other sectors to build and
strengthen responses that will improve global health inequities?
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Theme Overview
The state of global health is in a global crisis – millions die each
year needlessly1.
This is a crisis which requires a humanitarian response. Why a
humanitarian response? A humanitarian crisis (or "humanitarian
disaster") is an event or series of events which represents a critical
threat to the health, safety, security or wellbeing of a community or
other large group of people, and which has a profound impact on the
poorest of the poor.2
While the state of global health is not usually seen as an acute or
unexpected emergency; there is nevertheless an urgent need for global
health to be recognized as a serious humanitarian crisis. The
response to this global crisis needs to be dramatic and human to at
least match the zeal and resources that characterize our response to
tsunamis, floods, or earthquakes. It requires a concerted, balanced and
coordinated response utilizing humanitarian approaches along a continuum
from emergency rapid responses that we see in emergency situations to
the longer term sustained development investments in health systems and
their good governance. The response also has to come from other sectors
such as education, environment and transportation, trade and commerce,
which not only determine health but help to strengthen resilience and
responses to disasters and emergency situations.
In the past five years, of the 40 countries at the bottom of the Human
Development Index, 26 have experienced war or major natural disaster.
Many of these countries, as they try to move forward, are faced with
dysfunctional social systems, and infrastructures which are extremely
weak or nonexistent. Major natural disasters, especially severe drought,
floods and earthquakes will have an inequitable impact on those very
same nations. Populations from low-income countries who already face a
considerable burden due to the effects of poverty, are particularly
vulnerable to the effects of natural disasters. Capacity for rapid,
coordinated and multi sectoral risk management and response, which
includes humanitarian responses, is needed for national governments,
international and regional organizations and development and
humanitarian workers now and in the future.3
The 2010 Canadian Conference on Global Health will provide the venue and
the opportunity for the global health community to come together with
other sectors which also may have an impact on global health. This
conference will provide the opportunity for the critical interface with
other emerging crises and the need to ensure that health is placed front
and centre as a priority issue that needs to be addressed. The following
issues will be discussed: the economic crisis, the movement of people
(forced migration and refugees), armed combat, climate change, pandemics
and transparency and governance. These issues will be highlighted in
terms of their relationship to the global health crises and the need to
integrate health into these various sector responses.
1.
Global health is the health of populations in a global context and
transcends the perspectives and concerns of individual nations.[1]
Health problems that transcend national borders or have a global
political and economic impact, are often emphasized.[2] Thus, global
health is about worldwide improvement of health, reduction of
disparities, and protection against global threats that disregard
national borders.[3]
2.
A humanitarian crisis (or "humanitarian disaster") is an event or series
of events which represents a critical threat to the health, safety,
security or wellbeing of a community or other large group of people,
usually over a wide area. Armed conflicts, epidemics, famine, natural
disasters and other major emergencies may all involve or lead to a
humanitarian crisis.
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Knight Centre for International Media, 2010
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