Presentations

World Health Day 2006

Regional Health Week

Contributions of human resources to health

Tuesday April 4, 2006
Coordinator: Silvina Malvarez

• Agenda
• The role of human resources in the achievements of health objectives
  Conference by Dr. Derek Yach - Rockefeller Foundation
• Panel: Contributions and challenges of human resources in the success of the priority health programs
  Moderator: Charles Godue — Unit of Human Resources for Health
  • John Ehrenberg - Unit of Disease Prevention and Control
  • Elsa Moreno - Area of Family and Community Health
  • Carol Vlassoff - HIV Program
  • Jorge Rodriguez - Unit of Mental Health and Special Programs

Public Health Workforce: Prospects for its Development

Tuesday April 4, 2006
Host: Charles Godue, PAHO/WHO
Moderator: Barbara J. Hatcher, APHA / WFPHA

• Agenda
• Enumerating the Public Health Workforce in the Americas: Lessons Learned from the United States Experience
  Kristine M. Gebbie
  Elizabeth Standish Gill Associate Professor of Nursing
  Director, Center for Health Policy
  Columbia University
• Global Aging: Its Impact on the Public Health Workforce [Envejecimiento de la población global: su impacto en la fuerza de trabajo de la Salud Pública]
  Barbara J. Hatcher
  American Public Health Association
  Interim Secretary-General
  World Federation of Public Health Associations
• Critical Challenges of Human Resources for Health in Sub Saharan Africa: A Call for Action [Desafíos críticos de los recursos humanos en salud en el Sub Sahara, Africa: Un llamado para la acción]
  Gilbert Kombe
  Senior HIV/AIDS Technical Advisor
  The Partnership for Health Reformplus Project
  Abt Associates Inc.
• Improving Evidence-based Public Health Practice through Information Access[Mejorar la práctica de la salud pública basada en evidencia mediante el acceso a la información]
  Marjorie A. Cahn
  Head, National Information Center on Health Services Research
  and Health Care Technology (NICHSR)
  National Library of Medicine
• The Leadership and Management Challenge -- Why the Critical Shortage?
  Director, Sustainable Management Development Program
  Coordinating Office for Global Health
  Office of Capacity Development and Program Coordination
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Health and Work Conditions of the Health Care Workers in the Americas

Wednesday April 5, 2006

• Condiciones de salud y trabajo en el sector de la salud en las Américas: perspectiva institucional[Conditions of health and work on the health sector in the Americas: an institutional perspective.]
  
• Salud y seguridad de los trabajadores del sector salud [Health and Safety of Health Sector Workers.]
• Plan de trabajo: Salud y seguridad de los trabajadores del sector salud [Work Plan: Health and safety of Health Sector Workers.]
Dr. Ada Ávila Asunción, Professor of the Worker's Health, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Dra. Luz Maritza Tennassee, Worker's Health Regional Advisor, PAHO
Dr. Carlos Rosales, Regional Advisor on Human Resources Mangement, PAHO

• World Health Day and The World Health Report 2006
  
Dra. Susan Wilburn, Occupational Health, WHO
• Health and Working Conditions of Healthcare Workers in the Americas
  
Dr. Armand Pereira, Representative Director, International Labor Organization, Washington Office
• Health of Healthcare Workers - a Canadian success story -
  
Dr. Annalee Yassi, Executive Director of the Occupational Health and Safety Agency for Healthcare in British Columbia, Canada
Dr. Erica Frank MD, MPH, Occupational Health and Safety Agency for Healthcare in British Columbia, Canada

• La salud de los trabajadores de la salud en México. [Healthcare Workers' Health in Mexico]
  
Dr. Víctor Borja, General Coordinator on Health at Work in the Mexican Institute of Social Security in Mexico
• Trabalho e trabalhadores na saúde: uma questão de Estado (Brasil) [Work and Healthworkers: a question of State (Brazil)] in Portuguese
  
Dra. María H. Machado, Director of Management and Regulation Department, SGTES/MS, Brazil

• Surveillance of Blood Exposures Among Healthcare Workers in the Americas: From Science To Policy
Janine Jagger, M.P.H., Ph.D., International Healthcare Worker Safety Center, University of Virginia

• Occupational Safety and Health in the Healthcare Sector
David Weissman, National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health
Teri Palermo, National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health
Marilyn Fingerhut, National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health

Addressing the HR Crisis through a Systems Approach

Wednesday April 5, 2006

• Leadership and HR Systems Strengthening: The Nicaragua experience
  
Elena Décima, Principal Program Associate, Leadership, Management and Sustainability, MSH

World Health Week Speech

Thursday April 6, 2006

• Conference by Gary M. Koritzinsky, M.D.

Expanding Access through Recruitment and Leadership

• Yale New Haven Center for Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Response
  
Kelly Martens, Yale New Haven Health System