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IUHPE Global Elections
Members of the Board of Trustees 2007-2013 President 2007-2010
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Every three years, in accordance with the IUHPE’s Constitution and Bye-Laws, Members of the Board of Trustees are elected by the General Membership of the IUHPE. The voting process takes place before the World Conference in order to provide each member with an equal opportunity to elect the members of the IUHPE Board of Trustees. The incoming Board of Trustees elects in turn the IUHPE President and administers and governs the IUHPE between the sessions of the General Assembly. The nomination process will take place between the 13th of August 2006 and the 12th of December 2006, and the names of all candidates who have confirmed in writing their ability and willingness to stand for election will be enclosed on the ballot paper, according to the Region in which they live. All procedures and guidelines to propose candidates to stand for election for the Board of Trustees for the period 2007-2013 will be clearly outlined in the call for nominations which will be sent in writing to all members of the IUHPE across the world.
The timetable summarises the main steps and deadlines for each of these nomination and election processes. For any further information that you may need, please send an email to Marie-Claude Lamarre, Executive Director, (mclamarre@iuhpe.org).
Summary of timetable
8-10 May, 2006 Nominations by the Board of Trustees of an Electoral Committee. The Board of Trustees at its meeting in Kenya in May 2006 has agreed that each Regional Vice-President would be part of the Committee, which will be chaired by the Vice President for Coordination, Administration and Membership Services, Dr Pierre Arwidson. 13 August 2006 Nominations requested for Membership of the Global Board, 2007-2013 12 December 2006Deadline to receive nominations and written confirmations of candidates plus their election statements 13 January 2006 Mailing of voting papers to the General Membership with a booklet of statements, instructions to vote, and ballot papers 27 May 2007 Deadline to receive ballot papers at headquarters 3 June 2007 Counting of votes by the Electoral Committee 9 or 10 June 2007 Announcement of the results of the Board of Trustees 2007-2013 elections at the outgoing meeting of the Board of Trustees 11 June 2007 Formal announcement of Elections of Members of the Board, 2007-2013 12 June 2007 Election of the President, 2007-2010 at an extraordinary session of the incoming Board of Trustees (members elected in 2004 until 2010 + 2007-2013 members) 13 June 2007 Formal announcement of Election of the President, 2007-2010 15 June 2007 World Conference closing ceremony –Hand over of presidency 16 June 2007 In-coming Board meeting with new President presiding
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In memoriam
The IUHPE has learned with profound sadness of the recent passing of two major figures from IUHPE history:
Mr Paul Hindson, from Australia served as President of the IUHPE from 1982 through 1985. He organised the IUHPE’s 11th World Conference on Health Education in Hobbart, Tasmania in 1982. He dedicated most of his Presidency to the Regional development of the IUHPE and was instrumental in the establishment of the IUHPE Regional structures in South-East Asia and in the Northern Part of the Western Pacific. As an economist, he familiarised himself with health education through community development for Aborigines. He earned a Master’s degree in Public Health Education from the University of California at Berkeley, United-States.
Twenty years ago, he was already highlighting priority areas of the work of the IUHPE, upon which we continue to focus today: “We should educate our decision makers by keeping them better informed about the real needs of the population, and in the health aspects of the community they serve; […] The action of the IUHE should not be limited to educating people. Action implies that each one of us become involved in establishing public health interventions in our own countries, involved in lobbying our governments to commit resources to public health programmes, and to share resources with other countries”. (Hygie, Oct 83 – Vol. II, 1983/3) Dr V. Ramakrishna was a former Regional Advisor in Health Education of WHO/SEARO and the first Regional Director and then Vice President of IUHPE South-East Asian Regional Bureau. He is acknowledged as the Father of Health Education in India. As mentioned by Dr N. R. Vaidyanathan, current IUHPE/SEARB Regional Director “he was a man of humility, erudition and compassion. Affectionately called as Dr Ram by his friends and admirers, he occupied positions of distinction right from the State level to International level in Medicine, Public Health and Health promotion. He established the Central Health Education Bureau in the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare of the Government of India and laid the foundation for setting up State Health Education Bureau in all States of the country.”
Paul Hindson Dr V. Ramakrishna
Pan American Health Organization Publication
2005, 247p., ISBN 92 75 11612 1 Order code: SP 612 Price: US$30.00 / US$20.00 in Latin America and the Caribbean Languages Available: English, Spanish
This publication, written by leading international public health professionals, highlights 13 case studies on a variety of topics including control of vitamin A deficiency, folic acid fortification of bread, control of iodine deficiency disorders, and the contribution of research to infant breast-feeding policies, as well as successful community projects to promote increased physical activity and the role of urban planning and public transportation in reducing the prevalence of sedentary lifestyles, among other important topics. Nutrition and an Active Life: From Knowledge to Action will become an important resource on best practices at the national and community levels for professionals working in health promotion, maternal and child health, nutrition, fitness, social marketing, and public health education.
This publication can be acquired by visiting PAHO Online Bookstore at http://publications.paho.org or through PAHO Sales and Distribution Center, P.O. Box 27, Annapolis Junction, MD 20701-0027, U.S.A.; Tel: (301) 617-7806, Fax: (301) 2069789; Email: paho@pmds.com. You can also contact Maria Recio, PAHO Publications, at reciomar@paho.org
Vancouver, Canada, June 10-15, 2007
The official launch of the 19th IUHPE World Conference on Health Promotion & Health Education was celebrated on March 24, 2006 at the Pan Pacific Hotel, at the same venue as the Vancouver Convention & Exhibition Centre, where the World Conference will take place next year. The meeting was attended by a large audience of public health and health promotion professionals from government, academic and non governmental local, national and international institutions as well as from all the other sectors involved in the preparation of the event.
The celebration was hosted by Dr Marcia Hills, President of the Canadian Consortium for Health Promotion Research, and Chair of the Conference, and by Dr David Butler-Jones, Chief Public Health Officer of Canada, and Honorary Co-Chair of the Conference.
Twenty years ago the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion marked the first international conference on health promotion, kicking off, in the words of IUHPE President Maurice Mittelmark, “A healthy, vigorous, effective and growing movement”.
With the hosting of the 19th IUHPE World Conference in Vancouver in June 2007, we will be celebrating the true “coming of age” of the health promotion movement with thousands of participants from around the world.
The 19th World Conference provides a great opportunity to renew our commitment to health promotion as we enter the 21st century.
The 2007 conference will focus on four key themes: •Reducing Health Inequities •Assets for Health and Development •Enabling Systems Transformation •Assessing the Effectiveness of Health Promotion.
All participants at the launch were encouraged to be active ambassadors for health promotion and education and for an as broad as possible attendance at the World Conference, next year in Vancouver. In turn we would like to urge you to use your professional and personal networks to promote the conference and the significant sponsorship opportunities this unique world assembly provides.
We would also like to encourage you to visit as often as possible the conference website and use it as a vehicle to encourage others to become engaged and willing to participate: www.iuhpeconference.org
