"Human beings are at the centre of concerns for sustainable development.
They are entitled to a healthy and productive life in harmony with nature" - Principle 1 of the Rio…..”Declaration on Environment and Development, 1992.

The Rio Declaration of 1992 recognizes that healthy populations are central to human progress and sustainable development, and remains equally true today. However, the economic pillar has been prioritized at the expense of the social and environmental pillars of sustainable development over the last few decades, becoming itself a source of volatility and destabilization.

The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development - UNCSD Rio+20 now offers an opportunity to re-examine the relationship between health and sustainable development. The proposed SDE Seminar series towards Rio+20 aim at contributing to this important debate by bringing different themes of relevance to sustainable development and health to inform all areas of the Pan American Organization about the themes under discussion in the Rio Conference, but also to inform public health stakeholders and other decision makers in the health sector, to better take part in the debate.

In the “Zero draft document of the Conference” [ http://bit.ly/zDNKbR ] under discussion, health is very poorly mentioned. With these debates we hope to provide an overview of some of the various and different aspects of health in the context of sustainable development.

The SDE Seminar series will happen every Wednesday   from 12 to 1pm ( Washington time), from February 8 to June 13th.

Invitation:

From the Area of Health Surveillance and Disease Prevention & Control - HSD/PAHO/WHO

To the Guest Speaker Lecture on:
Global Burden of Diseases, injuries and risk factors 1990-2010:
trends and challenges

By Prof. Christopher J. L. Murray, the Director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) and Professor of Global Health at the University of Washington.

January 19, 2012

Time:  2:00 pm - 5:00 pm - ET Time ( Washington DC USA)

To check local time in WDC against your time zone, see the World Clock at:

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meeting.html

Language: English

To participate in person:

Pan American Health Organization, PAHO/WHO

525 23rd St NW  Washington DC 20037 - PAHO HQ Room 1017

To participate online:

To login to the Elluminate session, use the link below and type your name on the sign in page:

http:/www.paho.org/Virtual/HSD-HA 

Agenda:

2:00 - 2:15               Welcome and introduction: Dr. Socorro Gross, Assistant Director PAHO/WHO

2:15 - 3:30               Presentation:
                              Global Burden of Diseases injuries-risk factors 1990-2010 trends and challenges

                              Prof. Christopher J. L. Murray, Director of the Institute for Health metrics and Evaluation (IHME), University of Washington

3:30 - 3:45              Coffee break

3:45 - 5:00              Q&A session - Moderator - Dr Fatima Marinho, Health Information and Analysis HSD

5:00                       Closing remarks - Dr Marco Espinal, Manager Area of Health Surveillance and Disease Prevention & Control

Presentation Content & discussion

“……The presentation   will highlight the preliminary results of the Global Burden of Disease 2010 Study, emphasizing innovations in the collection of data, novel methods of analysis, and visualization tools for data quality assessment.