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Canadian Conference on
Global Health 2010
(formerly
Canadian Conference on International Health)
GLOBAL HEALTH: A HUMANITARIAN CRISIS?
Sunday,
October 31st to Wednesday November 3rd, 2010
Crowne Plaza Ottawa Hotel 101
Lyon Street N, Ottawa, Ontario, K1R 5T9
The conference program has
been accredited by the College of Family Physicians of Canada, and the
Ontario Chapter, for up to 16.0 Mainpro–M1 credits.
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Conference
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. 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.
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.
3.
Knight Centre for
International Media, 2010
Contact us:
Canadian Conference on Global Health
c/o Canadian Society for International Health
1 Nicholas St,
Suite 1105
Ottawa,
ON, Canada K1N 7B7
Phone: 613 241-5785 x 326
By email:
ccgh2010@csih.org
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