Plenaries / Sessions plénières / Sesiones plenarias




Opening plenary: Inspiring insights into health and sustainable development

11.07.2010 (Sunday, 16:00-18:00)

Co-chairs:   

  • Mr. Joachim Eder, President of the Foundation Council, Health Promotion Switzerland
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  • Prof. Vivian Lin, La Troube University; Chair, Global Scientific Committee Geneva 2010; IUHPE Vice President for Scientific Affairs
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Coordinator:
  • Dr. Ursel Broesskamp-Stone, Head, International Affairs/ Senior Advisor Policy, Health Promotion Switzerland; Vice-Chair, Global Scientific Committee; IUHPE Vice-President for Europe
Welcome Addresses:
  • Mr. Pascal Strupler, Director, Swiss Federal Office of Public Health (MoH), Switzerland
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  • Prof. David McQueen, President IUHPE
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Key welcome speeches addressing the conference theme:
Key panel discussion (20-30min) with the speakers above: Dr. Zsuzsanna Jakab, WHO-Euro; Mr. Pascal Strupler, MoH Switzerland; Mr. Michael Hübel, DG Sanco, European Commission.
Moderator: Prof. David McQueen, President IUHPE
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1st plenary: Territorial change and urbanisation

12.07.2010 (Monday, 09:30-11:00)

Short presentation by Michael Sparks: "World conference and Sustainability"
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Co-Chairs:

  • Dr. Wilfred Kreisel, Former Director WHO Centre for Health Development, Kobe, Japan
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  • Mr. Andrew Kiyu, Consultant epidemiologist, Sarawak Health Department, Sarawak, Malaysia
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2nd plenary: Social and cultural change

13.07.2010 (Tuesday, 09:00-10:30)

Short presentation by Andy Biedermann: "Sustainability Tools at the World Conference"
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Co-Chairs:

  • Prof. Dr. Thomas Abel, Chair of the Swiss Scientific Committee, University of Bern, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, Bern, Switzerland
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  • Prof. Katherine Frohlich, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Montreal, Montréal, Canada
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3rd plenary: Environmental change (healthy3)

14.07.2010 (Wednesday, 09:00-10:30)

Short presentation by Ursel Broesskamp: "Travel and communication"
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Co-Chairs:

  • Dr. Krissada Raungarreerat, Chief Executive Officer, Thai Health Promotion Foundation, Bangkok, Thailand
  • Dr. Thomas Mattig, Director Health Promotion Switzerland, Bern, Switzerland
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9:00-9:20:
Keynote speaker: Prof. Rajendra Pachauri, Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), India
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9:20-9:30:
Introduction of the White Paper “The Food System: a Prism of Present and Future Challenges for Health Promotion and Sustainable Development” (PDF, 1.92 MB)
Key Speaker: Prof. Ilona Kickbusch, Lead Author of the White Paper; Kickbusch Health Consult, Director Global Health Programme, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland
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9:30-10:30: Panel discussion on White Paper by the Platform for Opinion Leaders (POL):
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  • Prof. Rajendra Pachauri, Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), India
  • Dr. Mary Amuyunzu-Nyamongo,  Executive Director & co-founder of the African Institute for Health and Development (AIHD), Nairobi, Kenya
  • Dr. Hans Rudolf Herren, Founder and Director of Biovision, Winner of the World Food Prize in 1995, President of the Millennium Institute, Switzerland
  • Dr. Mihaly Kökeny,  Former Minister of Health, Hungary
  • Dr. Olivier Raynaud, Senior Director, Global Health and Healthcare Sector, World Economic Forum, Geneva, Switzerland
  • Moderator: Dr. Thomas Streiff, CEO, The Sustainability Forum, Zürich, Switzerland

4th plenary: Economic Change and Global Challenges

15.07.2010 (Thursday, 14:00-15:30)

Short presentation by Mark Dooris: “Can IUHPE become a sustainable organisation?”
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Co-Chairs:

  • Dr. Gordon Alexander, Senior Policy Advisor in UNICEF’s Regional Office, Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States, Geneva, Switzerland
  • Prof. Lyuba Zarsky, Associate Professor in the International Environmental Policy Program of the Monterey Institute of International Studies, Senior Research Fellow with the Global Development and Environment Institute (Boston), International Research Fellow at the International Institute for Environment and Development (London)
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