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Connecting Ideas and Knowledge Sharing on Equity and Health
PAHO/WHO Symposium – 9:00 am – 5:00 pm February 24th, 2010
10th Anniversary of Equity and Health listserv
 This symposium on health determinants and inequalities will be focused on the analysis of thematic trends and conceptual frameworks developed in the last 10 years and their policy implications. It also will address global methodological issues of measuring health inequalities and evaluating policy and program impact.
A draft of the agenda by topic is below. The names of some speakers and discussants TBC the final agenda will be sent before the meeting. The entire meeting will be web cast in order to reach a wide international audience of health equity researchers and advocates.
The format will be a short presentation on the subject of each panel 10-15 min max – Three/four discussants 5 to 10 min max. - Q&A 15 min max.from
Participants in person:
PAHO Pan American Health Organization Regional Office of the World Health Organization
525 Twenty-third Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20037, United States of America
Room A
Virtual participants via web:
https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=1110&password=M.A4FA308B5F1FA6CD60DB62C0137303
To participate in person or virtually please confirm you availability before February 22nd
This event is being organized by WHO, PAHO/WHO, and Kellogg Fellows
Resources collection:
We are also updating the collection of resources on Equity, Health and Human Development, please post the best resources you have online – Links below or send by email to
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Link to post your best resources on Health and/or Equity, Social Disparities and/or Social Determinants of Health:
http://devserver.paho.org/equity/addentry.php
To browse posted resources: http://devserver.paho.org/equity/listEquity.php
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Equity and Health
Connecting Ideas and Knowledge Sharing
February 24th, 2010
PAHO/WHO Pan American Health Organization
525 23rd St. NW Washington DC 20037
Room A |
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Time |
Welcome remarks
Dr Mirta Roses, Director PAHO/WHO |
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9:00 - 9:15 am |
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Panel |
Speakers |
Discussants |
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9:15-10:15am |
Following up the Commission on Social Determinants of Health: How Do We Move to Action? |
Dr Rüdiger Krech Director, Department of Ethics, Equity, Trade and Human Rights, World Health Organization,
WHO Geneva, Switzerland
Sir Michael Marmot, Director, International Institute for Society and Health, University College, London
Galvão, Dr. Luiz Augusto PAHO/WHO Sustainable Environmental Health SDE Area Manager
Chair: Dr. Kumanan Rasanathan, Department of Ethics, Equity, Trade and Human Rights, World Health Organization, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland
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Dr. Jeanette Vega, Undersecretary for Public Health, Ministry of Health, Chile
Dr. Bernardo Kliksberg, UNDP advisor; UNDP-Spain Fund Director
Dr Jose Romero Teruel, Professor Georgetown University
Sir George Alleyne PAHO/WHO Director Emeritus
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10:15 –10:30 am |
Thematic Networks and Dissemination of Information
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Ana Lucia Ruggiero, EQ List Moderator KMC - PAHO/WHO
Barbara Krimgold, Director, Kellogg Fellows and Scholars
Programs, CFAH
Kira Fortune, VHL-
Social Determinants of Health SDE PAHO
Sandra Raiher, CEDES Argentina |
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10:30- 10:45am coffee break |
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10:45 - 12:30pm |
Understanding the determinants of health & implementing population health programs |
Dr Paula Braveman, MD, MPH
Professor of Family and Community Medicine; Director, Center on Social Disparities in Health - University of California, San Francisco
Chair:
Dr. Alexandra (Lexi) B. Nolen, PhD, MPH
Director, Center to Eliminate Health Disparities; Associate Director of the PAHO/WHO Center for Training in International Health; University of Texas Medical Branch
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Kenneth Olden, Dean, CUNY Institute for Health Equity, Lehman College, and Professor, Hunter College, NYC
Dr. Ulysses Pannisset, Coordinator Research Translation to Policy Unit and EVIPNet, RPC/IER, WHO
Erin Ueffing
Administrator, Campbell and Cochrane Equity Methods Group, Centre for Global Health, Institute of Population Health - University of Ottawa
Dr. Olivia Carter-Pokras, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
University of Maryland College Park School of Public Health
Dr. Clem Bezold, Chairman, Institute for Alternative Futures
Dr. Oscar Mujica, PAHO/WHO [5 min.] |
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Lunch |
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1:30 - 2:00 pm |
An Equity of Opportunity Framework for Child
Development |
Dr. Dolores Acevedo-Garcia
Associate Professor, Northeastern University, Bouve
College of Health Sciences and Director, Institute on Urban Health Research
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Dr. Manuel Peña PAHO/WHO Nutrition Center
Dr. Emma Sanchez – Kellogg Health Scholar, Center on Social Disparities in Health, University of California, San Francisco
Dr. Karen Ertel – Kellogg Health Scholar, Harvard School of Public Health
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2:00 - 3:00 pm |
Global Health & Ethics |
Dr. Lawrence O. Gostin
Linda D. and Timothy J. O’Neill Professor of Global Health Law; Faculty Director, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law; Professor of Public Health, the Johns Hopkins University Georgetown
Law
Dr. Gregg Bloche Professor of Law; Co-Director, Georgetown-Johns Hopkins Joint Program in Law and Public Health
B.A., Columbia; J.D., M.D., Yale
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Dr. Fernando Lolas, Bioethics Program Director PAHO/WHO
Dr. Jennifer Prah Ruger, Professor Yale University |
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3:30 - 4:00 pm |
Knowledge Networks
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Ramesh Krishnamurthy
US CDC
Al Shorbaji, Najeeb Mohamed, KMC WHO
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Theresa Bernardo, PAHO/WHO, KMC
Agnes Soares BIREME PAHO/WHO
Marcelo D’Agostino PAHO/WHO, KMC
Stacey Aronson US National Library of Medicine NLM |
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4:00 - 4:30 pm |
Immigration and Health in the Americas: Linked
Destinies
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Dr. Dolores Acevedo –Garcia
PhD, MPA-URP Associate Professor, Bouve College of Health Sciences Associate Director, Institute on Urban Health Research Northeastern University |
Dr. Edna Viruell-Fuentas - Assistant Professor, Latino/Latina Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dr. Emma Sanchez – Kellogg Health Scholar, Center on Social Disparities in Health, University of California, San Francisco
Dr. Shedra Amy Snipes - NCI Cancer Prevention Fellow, University of Texas Health Science Center
Dr. Rifat Latifi, MD,FACSProfessor of Surgery
The University of Arizona, Department of Surgery
Vice Chairman, International Relations
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4:30 - 5:30 pm |
Health
Financing |
Ms. Amada Glassman, Principal Health Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank IADB/BID
Dr. David Gwatkin, World Bank advisor
Dr. Philip Musgrove, Health Affairs
Chair: Dr. Ruben Suarez THR PAHO/WHO
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5:30 pm |
Closing
remarks
Dr Jon Andrus, Deputy Director PAHO/WHO
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