March Meeting 2014 - External Speakers

Opening Ceremony: Margaret Mungherera, World Medical

Lola Dare, CEO of Center for Health

Association (WMA), President

Sciences Training, Research and Development (CHESTRAD), IFMSA Board of Recommendations member

Dr Margaret Mungherera from Uganda has been a medical doctor for 30 years and a psychiatrist for 20 years with forensic psychiatry as specific area of interest. Dr Margaret has expertise in training health professionals and Community Health Workers (CHWs), mental health research, human rights advocacy, non-profit organizational governance and development. You can read her full CV here. Dr Margaret will also speak on the 5th march at the President Sessions presenting the work between National Medical Associations and NMOs http://www.wma.net/en/60about/40leaders/ CV_Mungherera.pdf

Dr. Lola Dare is a community physician and epidemiologist. Dr Dare facilitates health leadership development and management programs and serves consultant for many regional and global organizations in public health and social development (health, education and poverty reduction), working at local, national and regional levels to advocate for, and support the increased application of management and business tools to improve the performance of African health and social development systems.

You can read more about Dr Lola Dare here. http://www.chestradngo.org/index.php?option=com_content&vie w=article&id=98&Itemid=98

Theme Event Sessions: Dr. Mihaly Kokeny, Senior Fellow of the Global Health Program at The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Hungarian, trained for medicine, cardiology, health care management and political sciences. He joined the staff of the Hungarian health ministry in 1979. He was working in various government positions including Secretary of State (1994-1996, 2002-3), Health and Welfare Minister (199698, 2003-4), Government Commissioner for public health coordination (2004-2006). In the Parliament he was the Chairman of the Health Committee (1998-2002, 2006-2010).

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In 2010, he served as a Chair of the WHO Executive Board. Currently he works as a health policy consultant. He is Senior Fellow of the Global Health Program at The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva, Switzerland) and contributes to global health diplomacy education and research.

He is also a lecturer at the University of Debrecen, Faculty of Public Health in Hungary (on global health and health policy).

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Ilona Kickbush, Prof, Director of the

Eugenio

Global Health Programme at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva

Department on Public Health, Environment and Social Determinants of Health (PHE), World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva; IFMSA Board of Recommendations member

Ilona Kickbusch is the Director of the Global Health Programme at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. She advises organisations, government agencies and the private sector on policies and strategies to promote health at the national, European and international level. She has published widely and is a member of a number of advisory boards in both the academic and the health policy arena. She has received many awards and served as the Adelaide Thinker in Residence at the invitation of the Premier of South Australia. She has recently launched a think-tank initiative “Global Health Europe: A Platform for European Engagement in Global Health” and the “Consortium for Global Health Diplomacy”.

Her key areas of interest are global health governance, global health diplomacy, health in all policies, the health society and health literacy. She has had a distinguished career with the World Health Organization, at both the regional and global level, where she initiated the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion and a range of “settings projects” including Healthy Cities. From 1998 – 2003 she joined Yale University as the head of the global health division, where she contributed to shaping the field of global health and headed a major Fulbright programme. She is a political scientist with a PhD from the University of Konstanz, Germany.

Villar

Montesinos,

Dr Eugenio Villar is a pediatrician trained in Peru. He currently works at the Department for Public Health, Environment and Social Determinants of Health at WHO. For more information read here http://www.crics8.org/agendas/program/pers on.php?lang=es&id=9

Mikaela Hildebrand, Youth Program Coordinator, UNAIDS, Geneva Mikaela has the overall responsibility to develop and implement UNAIDS youth strategy work-plan and budget.

Coordination the implementation of UNAIDS youth strategy across UNAIDS regions in collaboration with 7 regional youth officers.

Within the Inter-Agency Network on Youth Development, Mikaela supported the development of UN Secretary General's System-Wide Action Plan on youth. She also conceptualized and managed CrowdOutAIDS.org as online collaboration space for continuous collaboration and engagement on UNAIDS youth strategy as well as developed and deepened strategic partnerships with key youth organizations within and outside the AIDS response.

Erica

Wheeler, Technical Officer, Department of Health Workforce, World Health Organization (WHO)

You can read more here. http://www.ilonakickbusch.com/kickbusch/in dex.php

Dr Erica Wheeler’s background is in public health and her career and academic studies cover a range of areas in research, policy and planning a period of 25 years. She has worked for WHO over the last 14 years and for a brief period for the Asian Development Bank. Her work over the year has spanned

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the areas of curriculum development, training, policy and knowledge brokering in mental health and human resources for health. More lately, the focus or Dr Erica’s work in WHO HQ has been to coordinate the work on the production, education and training of health workers with an initial focus on developing and promoting global policy guidelines to transform and scale up health professionals education and training.

Lloyd Russell Moyle, Vice President for External Affairs, European Youth Forum, United Kingdom Lloyd is a Vice President of the European Youth Forum where he leads on development issues and social enterprises and co-ordinates the work in the Autonomy and Inclusion Chapter of European Youth Forum’s work (Education, Employment, Youth Rights, Anti-Discrimination and Mobility).

Alessandro

Demaio,

Postdoctoral Fellow in Global Health and NCDs at Harvard Medical School, Assistant Professor at the Copenhagen School of Global Health Dr Demaio trained and worked as a medical doctor in Melbourne, Australia. While working as a doctor at The Alfred Hospital, he completed a Masters in Public Health including field work in Cambodia.

In 2010, Alessandro relocated to Denmark and began a PhD fellowship in Global Health with the University of Copenhagen, focusing on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs).

His PhD research was based in Mongolia, working with the Ministry of Health, UN and other local and international partners to provide an epidemiological evidence-base

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for current and future public health and policy responses to the growing burden of NCDs. In 2013 Dr Demaio co-founded NCDFREE, a global social movement against NCDs including the crowd-funding of $60,000US and the making of 3 short advocacy films one in collaboration with the World Health Organization.

Currently, Alessandro holds a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Harvard Global Equity Initiative, Harvard Medical School and is an Assistant Professor at the Copenhagen School of Global Health.

In addition to his research, Alessandro lectures for the University of Copenhagen, The University of Melbourne, Coursera (MOOC) and Charité - Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, and is a regular contributor to academic and public discourse.

Bryan Collinsworth, UAEM Executive Director Bryan Collinsworth has a broad background in policy advocacy, organizing, management and communications. As the national student coordinator for STAND (Students Taking Action Now: Darfur) in 2006, Bryan mobilized student activism against global human rights violations. He subsequently served on the Capitol Hill staff of Congresswoman Betty McCollum, the founder of the Congressional Global Health Caucus. Most recently, Bryan directed online organizing and advocacy for the New York Working Families Party, running issue campaigns for economic justice and government and corporate accountability.

Bryan studied global politics and history at Sarah Lawrence College, from which he holds a B.A., and UCLA.

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General Program: Mukesh

Haikerwal,

Council, (WMA)

World

Chairman of Medical Association

Dr Mukesh Haikerwal is a General Medical Practitioner in Melbourne's Western Suburbs where he has practiced since 1991. Dr Haikerwal is the Chairman of Council of WMA. He was the 19th Federal President of the Australian Medical Association, its Federal Vice President and, prior to that AMA Victorian State President.

He is a Professor in the School of Medicine in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia and was appointed to the NH&MRC Health Care Committee. Between February 2008 and June 2009 he was appointed a Commissioner to the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission by the Prime Minister and Minister for Health. In January 2011 Dr Haikerwal was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for distinguished service to medical administration, to the promotion of public health through leadership roles with professional organizations, particularly the Australian Medical Association (AMA), the reform of the Australian health system through the optimization of information technology, and as a general practitioner.

Dr Haikerwal will have a presentation on the 6th March at the President’s Sessions on the theme of the Leadership.

Caroline

Moulins,

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Caroline Moulins works for the ICRC as a data analyst for the Health Care in Danger (HCiD) project, conducting the HCiD incident analysis in cooperation with 23 operational delegations. She joined the

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ICRC in November 2011 as Assistant in the Public Relations Unit seconding Press Officers. Prior to this, she took an internship with the French delegation to the OECD in Paris where she was monitoring policies.

During her studies, she worked as a volunteer for a local branch of OXFAM in Lyon. Caroline holds a Master's degree in Social Economics, Project Development and Management from Lyon 2 University and a Diploma in International Relations from Sciences Po Lyon.

Session in the IFMSA March Meeting 2014: Disaster Risk Management preGA, March 1st 11.00 - 12.30 “Health Care in Danger”.

Dr.

Luca

Ragazzoni,

Center for Research and Education in Emergency and Disaster Medicine (CRIMEDIM) Dr. Luca Ragazzoni from Italy is a specialist in Anesthesiology and Critical Care. He is currently performing research at the Center for Research and Education in Emergency and Disaster Medicine (CRIMEDIM), Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy. He participated in two humanitarian missions for UNDP in Sri Lanka, and was the head of Mission of two humanitarian missions for the Italian NGO Rainbow for Africa in Burkina Faso. Luca is the director of an Italian program in Disaster Medicine and lecture at the European Master in Disaster Medicine. The latest addition to his work experience consists of the coordination of a project in collaboration with MSF-Italy to enhance the professionalization of the humanitarian sector involving residents in anesthesia and critical care medicine.

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1st 12.30 - 13.00 “Disaster Simulation in Medical Education”, 14.00 - 18.30 “Disaster Simulation”, and March 2nd 14-00 - 15.00 “Disaster Risk Management in Medical Education”.

1st 12.30 - 13.00 “Disaster Simulation in Medical Education”, 14.00 - 18.30 “Disaster Simulation”, and March 2nd 14-00 - 15.00 “Disaster Risk Management in Medical Education”.

Health 2.0 preGA, Modern information and communication technologies for health How the Information Revolution is changing healthcare and what our contribution could be, 11.35 - 12.20 Modern Approaches to Disaster Medicine

Session in the IFMSA March Meeting 2014: Disaster Risk Management preGA, February 28th 19.30 - 20.30 “International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War”

Shyama Kuruvilla, The Partnership for Dr. Luca Carenzo, European Society of Emergency Medicine (EuSEM) Dr. Luca Carenzo is currently a research associate at the CRIMEDIM Research Center in Emergency and Disaster Medicine, Università deli Studi del Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy. His main research fields are simulation in disaster medicine and semi-quantitative evaluation methodologies for simulations in disaster medicine. Luca is also a course tutor at the European Master in Disaster Medicine. Last autumn Luca was elected for years 20142016 co-chair of the European Society for Emergency Medicine (EuSEM) Young Emergency Medicine Doctors Section. For the section he coordinates all the section courses and training and is currently working on an international european exchange for emergency medicine residents.

Session in the IFMSA March Meeting 2014: Disaster Risk Management preGA, February 28th 19.30 - 20.30 “Societty of Emegency Medicine”.

Niloufar Rahim, International Physician for the Prevention (IPPNW)

of

Nuclear

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Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, IFMSA Board of Recommendations Member Dr Kuruvilla is currently serving as the Senior Technical Officer- Knowledge for Policy at The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health.

Dr Shyama Kuruvilla is responsible, with partners, for the design, development and management of The Partnership’s knowledge system and summaries to facilitate the translation of knowledge into policy and practice to improve maternal, newborn and child health. Dr Kuruvilla (India) has worked as a research, professor, and policy analyst and joined The Partnership from the Department of International Health, Boston University.

She was previously employed at the World Health Organization in Switzerland as a Scientist and Global health Leadership Officer in Evidence and Information for Policy. Dr Kuruvilla has coordinated and collaborated on a range of multidisciplinary international projects focusing on global health policy and partnerships, policy science and political philosophy, knowledge translation and the assessment of health research and policy impact. Dr Shyama Kuruvilla attained a PhD in public health and policy from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where she was a Research Fellow.

She graduated from

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Cornell University with an M.S., concentrating on health services administration and health communication.

Her undergraduate degree was in occupational therapy from the Christian Medical College and Hospital in Vellore, India, where she also coordinated a community-based rehabilitation program through the Department of Community Health and Development.

Sessions in the IFMSA March Meeting 2014. Women’s Global Health PreGA, March 2nd 14.00-16.00 “The Quest for Safe Abortion + A Call to Action” and SCORA session March 4th 12.00-13.00 “IpasMaternal Health and Values Clarification”.

Sessions in the IFMSA March Meeting 2014: Women’s Global Health preGA, February 28th 11.15-12.00 “Where are we at with MDGs 3&5 and what will happen post 2015?” and March 1st 9.30-10.15 “An Introduction to Global Maternal Health”

Professor El Kissi is a psychiatrist working and researching in the areas of sexology, sexuality and infertility, as well as other topics in psychiatry including personality disorders.

Karah

Pedersen,

Senior Technical Advisor, Youth Program, Ipas Karah Pedersen is a Senior Advisor at Ipas, an international nongovernmental organization (INGO) that works to improve women’s access and rights to safe high quality abortion and related reproductive health care services. Karah leads Ipas’s Youth Program, a multi-year program aimed at building the capacity of partners and staff to advance comprehensive reproductive health services for young women. Karah returned to Ipas in 2013 after working at FHI 360 as an organizational learning manager and youth reproductive health specialist. She has also worked to provide safe abortion care services in Rajasthan, India and conducted research on HPV vaccine acceptability for young women. Karah has a master’s in public health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Despite more than 12 years of experience at reproductive health INGOs, Karah considers herself to be young at heart.

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Yousri

El

Kissi,

Psychiatry, Farhat Sousse, Tunisia

Department of Hached Hospital,

Sessions in the IFMSA March Meeting 2014. SCORA sessions March 5th 9.4510.30 “Sexuality and Pleasure”.

Victor Watz, Coordinator Fake Free, Swedish Organization

Youth

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Viktor Watz works for a think-tank called Fake Free which is a part of the Swedish Youth Temperance Organization in Sweden. Fake Free springs from the ideas from the work of Adic Sri Lanka and has existed since 2009. Fake Free focus on the social aspects of using alcohol and how this affects the mind and behavior of people.

Fake Free wants to question and examine how and why alcohol always is present when there is a party going on. Viktor has earlier worked with prevention in the field of tobacco and sexual health, but is specialized in the relationship between food and health.

Sessions in the IFMSA March Meeting 2014 - PreGA International Public Health Leadership Training February 28th, 12:0018:00” What is what: reasons for young people to use alcohol, expectancies,

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placebo, culture” (the workshop on the most innovative prevention approach).

Amaranath Tenna, Alcohol and Drug Information Center, Sri Lanka ADIC is an organization working in the field of drug demand reduction over last 15 years. During this period they have contributed substantially by introducing innovative and scientific based drug demand reduction strategies in Sri Lanka and to other countries especially in SAARC Region.

Inaugurated in April 1987 and was established as an independent organization in 1990, ADIC has been recognized by the World health Organization in 1993 by awarding the prestigious WHO award, “Tobacco or Health Medal”. In 1998 and in 1999 ADIC won the awards from International Federation of Non Governmental Organization (IFNGO) for the Most Outstanding New Project, for the achievements from the drug Demand Reduction Project launched at Hapugastenna Tea Estate in Sri Lanka and for creating of Voluntarism respectively.

ADIC also won the Commonwealth Youth Service Award 1998/99 granted by the Commonwealth Secretariat. In 2000, ADIC was invited to participate in the “Alcohol Policy Strategy Advisory Committee” of the WHO. In 2013 ADIC stood out for its campaign for pictorial warnings on cigarette packets and was awarded the NGO of the year in Sri Lanka. ADIC contribute to the international advocacy by collecting and disseminating information, conducting trainings, workshops and mobilize communities through effective strategies.

ADIC gives the technical consultancies on implementing tailor made effective strategies to alcohol, tobacco and other drug prevention internationally.

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Sessions in the IFMSA March Meeting 2014 - PreGA International Public Health Leadership Training March 1st 9:00-18:00 “From grass-roots to global scale - how to curb the activities of Big Alcohol and Big Tobacco”

Dr. Karim Abderlwahed and Hamza Saddam, President and President of Honor of the Association Tunisienne Pour la Promotion de la Santé The Association Tunisienne Pour la Promotion de la Santé was created and established after the revolution of January 14, 2011.The primary axis of the association is to design, prepare and implement a compatible model with the health system and social scientific knowledge of the most vital sectors in Tunisia through the efforts and energies of its members and experts in the field of health and other relevant fields.

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Dr. Sabine Kleinert Senior Editor - The Lancet Sabine Kleinert studied Medicine in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and the USA, and trained as a Pediatrician in the UK and Belgium. After further specialist training in Pediatric Cardiology at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London and the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, Australia, and research training at the Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, USA, she joined The Lancet as a full-time Medical Editor in 1998. In March 2002, she became Executive Editor, and in July 2006 Senior Executive Editor. She joined the Committee on Publication Ethics in 1999, was elected to Council in 2002, and served as ViceChair from 2006 to March 2012. She is on

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the steering committee for the World Health Summits, held annually in Berlin, Germany, and was a member of the planning committee of the first and second World Conference on Research Integrity. She now co-chairs the planning committee for the 2013 World Conference on Research Integrity.

Session in the IFMSA March Meeting 2014: The PreGA Workshop on RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES - BUILDING THE NEXT GENERATION OF MEDICAL RESEARCHERS

Dr.

Elizabeth

Wager,

Publications

Consultant Sideview Freelance publications consultant and trainer and has worked with scientists, editors and writers on six continents. Before setting up her own company she worked in the publishing and pharmaceutical industries (for Blackwell Scientific, Janssen Cilag and GlaxoSmithKline). She chairs the Committee on Publication Ethics and is a member of the BMJ’s Ethics Committee, the World Association of Medical Editors Ethics Committee, and the CONSORT for Abstracts steering group. She is a Visiting Professor at the University of Split School of Medicine.

She is a co-author of Good Publication Practice for Pharmaceutical Companies (2003), the European Medical Writers Association guidelines on the role of medical writers (2005), the Wiley-Blackwell Best Practice Guidelines on Publication Ethics (2006), COPE Best Practice and flowcharts for journal editors and the author of books on ‘Getting Research Published: an A to Z of Publication Strategy’ (2nd edition 2010) and ‘How to Survive Peer

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Review’. She has published research and commentaries on peer review and is the coauthor of two systematic reviews on the effects of peer review. In 2010 she was awarded a PhD for a thesis entitled ‘Peer review and editorial processes for improving the quality of research reporting’.

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Dr. Angelo D’Ambrosio - Information Technology Gesù)

Group

(Hospital

Bambin

Angelo D’Ambrosio is a scientific consultant in digital epidemiology for the Pediatric Hospital Bambin Gesù of Rome, Italy.

His work mainly consists of using Internet technologies and Social Network for investigating Public Health topics and assessing technologies to be use in clinical context. He previously worked in SISM (Segretariato Italiano Studenti in Medicina), the italian IFMSA NMO, as Information Technology Group Coordinator for 2 years, implementing many modern technologies to improve communication and management workflows in his association. He also created the position of Local Officer for Information Technology, to help Local Committees to better exploit technologies in the associative work and advocate on themes like modernization and openness of health care and medical research. He was also involved in promoting the Open Access movement in SISM Italy, collaborating with the Right To Research Coalition, a student movement wich aim is to advocate for open distribution of academic knowledge.

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Dr. Helmy Mekaoui - Head of Medical Operational Support Unit Athens (SOMA) Médecins Sans Frontières-Greek Section Through longer-term programs, MSF treats patients with infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, sleeping sickness and HIV/AIDS and provides medical and psychological care to marginalized groups such as street children. Founded by doctors and journalists in 1971, MSF is now a worldwide movement with sections in 19 countries and an international coordination office in Geneva, Switzerland. Dr.Mekaoui has participated in many MSF initiatives as Emergency Coordinator.

PreGA Disaster Management Risk

Dr.

Najeeb

Al-SHORBAJI

Director, Knowledge, Research Department

Ethics

WHO and

Dr Najeeb Al-Shorbaji has been working as Director of the Department since 1 September 2008. Prior to that, he held the posts of Information Scientist at the WHO Regional Centre for Environmental Health Activities (CEHA), Amman, Jordan between 1988 and 1993. He moved to the Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean in Alexandria in June 1994 then to Cairo, Egypt in August 2000. He worked there as Officer-inCharge of Health Literature Service, Regional Informatics Officer, Regional Advisor for Health Information Management and Telecommunication and Coordinator for Knowledge Management and Sharing. Dr AlShorbaji is from Jordan, born in 1954,

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married and holds a PhD in Information Sciences since 1986 from University of Wales, United Kingdom. While at the Regional Office in Cairo between 2000 and 2008, Dr Al-Shorbaji led the regional eHealth programme. He initiated a number of regional projects, convened the regional conference on eHealth on a regular basis and developed the regional strategy for knowledge management.

During the same period he managed the knowledge management and sharing programs and coordinated the publishing, translation and web services.

He organized on a regular basis the regional conference on virtual health sciences library and the regional conference on medical journal publishing. Dr Al-Shorbaji's current portfolio covers WHO publishing activities and programs, library and knowledge networks, eHealth, knowledge translation and WHO Collaborating Centres. Dr Al-Shorbaji’s publications in both Arabic and English in addition to the more important conference presentations appear in the adjacent list. Dr Al-Shorbaji is invited to scientific and professional conferences as keynote speaker and thought leader in the areas of eHealth and access to knowledge in global health.

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Dr.

Regina

UNGERER,

WHO Department of Knowledge Management and Sharing She is Project Manager for the ePORTUGUESe Program from April 2006.

The ePORTUGUESe Program started in 2005 as a platform to strengthen collaboration among Portuguese-speaking Member States in the areas of health information and capacity building of human resources for health.

Portuguese is the sixth most spoken language in the world with almost 300 million people throughout the world. It is the official language of eight WHO Member States (Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe and Timor Leste), geographic located in four continents and four WHO Regional Offices (AFRO, AMRO, EURO and SEARO). Five of the Portuguesespeaking countries are among the least developed in the world according to the UNDP Human Development, in much need of reliable and up-to-date health information, especially to strengthen their health systems, and engage in strategies to reach their Millennium Development Goals. It is considered that the lack of Information is one of the biggest limitations for human development and knowledge plays an important role for the rights to health and education, the rights of women and children.

Ultimately, the lack of health information can cost lives as well the shortage of trained Human Resources for Health (HRH). She was Project Manager for a Health Promotion in Action Project. This project (Health Promotion in Action) was developed as a technical cooperation between CPHA (Canadian Public Health Association) and ENSP (National School of Public Health of FIOCRUZ), that aimed to introduce health

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promotion strategies in a Health Centre training facility inside FIOCRUZ. The main goal was to develop a health promotion network among several Health Centers in Brazil. She was Responsible for the Monthly PTA Bulletin International School of Geneve and she receive an Award of recognition for South-South Cooperation in Health (UN Office for the South-South Cooperation).

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Dr. Adolfo Sparenberg, ISfTeH Board Member Adolfo L. F. Sparenberg, MD, graduated from the Medical School of the Federal University of Pelotas/Brazil in 1985. He is a cardiologist and MSc in Biomedical Engineering. Also, a former president of the Medical Association of Sao Lourenço do Sul (SOMESUL) RS/Brazil, an ISfTeH associated member. Since its foundation in 1999, SOMESUL has been a leading medical institution in the field of eHealth projects implementation including telecardiology, teleradiology and telepsychiatry.

Adolfo is the coordinator of the eHHealth Centre of the "Instituto de Cardiologia" of the State of Rio Grande do Sul (RS), Brazil.

Starting its activities in 2007, the eHealth Centre of the Instituto de Cardiologia RS, is in charge of providing a 24/7-telecardiology service to remote towns. Established through a partnership with the State Government, the program offers: immediate ECG analysis, videoconferencing. Since

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2008, Adolfo Sparenberg is one of the Coordinators of the ISfTeH Students Working Group, whose major responsibility is promoting eHealth activities internationally while focusing on a new generation of professionals. As part of this strategy, the ISfTeH Students Working Group organizes a series of multi-seat web conferencing sessions, traditionally held during some of the ISfTeH officially supported meetings. In Jan 2011, Adolfo Sparenberg was elected as a Board Member of the International Society for Telemedicine and eHealth (ISfTeH), for the period 2011-2013. As part of the work he developed in the position of board member of the ISfTeH, we highlight the activities developed towards the establishment of a partnership between the ISfTeH and the IFMSA (International Federation of Medical Students Association), celebrated in the current year. Through this cooperation about 1.2 million students from medical schools over a hundred countries, now, have access to the activities offered by the ISfTeH, on a free of charge basis.

It should also be mentioned the performance of activities in conjunction with other ISfTeH Working Groups, highlighting the organization of webconferencing sessions in conjunction with the Telenursing Working Group and, more recently, activities developed in cooperation with the Free Software Working Group.

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Dr. Etienne Saliez, ISfTeH working group PBLT (Collaborative Care Team in Open Source) She is responsible of the PBTL project within Open Source working group of the ISfTeH, International Society for Telemedicine, a not for profit organization with members in 80 countries and developing regions.

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Alberto

E

Tozzi,

MD

- Head of multifactorial diseases and complex phenotypes research area and Head of telemedicine project unit at Ospedale Bambino Gesù (Rome, Italy) Dr Tozzi is a pediatrician and an epidemiologist with experience in vaccine trials and in surveillance of infectious diseases. He has worked as a researcher with the Italian National Health Institute for more than 15 years. In this period he has worked in several projects concerning the prevention of nosocomial infections, HIV infection in children, and surveillance of transmissible diseases. In this area he had responsibilities in surveillance of enteric bacteria and haemolytic uremic syndrome, in surveillance of pertussis at the European level, and in supporting recommendations on immunization in cooperation with the Italian Ministry of Health. He has been part of the coordination group of a large clinical trial on acellular pertussis vaccines that involved nearly 16000 Italian children. He was also responsible for a study on the

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effect of thimerosal contained in vaccines on neuropsychological development of children, funded by the US Centers for Disease Control.

In 2004 Dr Tozzi moved to the Bambino Gesu Pediatric Hospital, a large clinical and research centre where he joined the epidemiology unit. In this period he continued to work in vaccine preventable diseases with studies on the epidemiology of rotavirus, on conjugate pneumococcal vaccines and pneumococcal infections, on immunization of children with chronic diseases, on determinants of carrier state for MRSA in children, and on the immunological memory in children who received hepatitis B vaccines. He has been also a cnsultant for WHO for activities on polio eradication and for the investigation on a cluster of severe adverse events to vaccines in India. He is also a component of the Expert Vaccine Group of the European Center for Diseases Control.

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Professor

David

Gordon,

Federation for Medical President-Elected

World Education,

Professor David Gordon is visiting professor at the University of Copenhagen, emeritus professor of medicine at the University of Manchester, and visiting professor in Chisinau, Moldova. He was dean of the medical faculty in Manchester for seven years.

Medical Schools (now the Medical Schools Council), the representative body for all medical schools in the UK, particularly concerned with UK national policy for medical education and for medical schools, and with the interaction of medical schools with their parent universities.

At the University of Copenhagen he is a member of the staff of the World Federation for Medical Education (WFME), and works widely in Europe and elsewhere in the management and evaluation of medical schools. He was elected member of AMSE Executive Committee in 2002 and President of AMSE in 2004.

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Professor

Madalena

Association for Medical Education in Europe, Past-President Professor Madalena Patrício is a member of BEME (Best Evidence in Medical Education) of Medical Teacher and of the Editorial Board of the Harvard Medical School Program Portugal. She is assistant professor at the Institute of Introduction to Medicine at the Medical School of Lisbon University and Coordinator of the Lisbon BEME Group (Best Evidence in Medical Education).

In addition to assessment of clinical competences her special interests are in Humanization of Medicine, Training Teachers, Bologna process and Social Accountability of Medical Schools.

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Whilst dean in Manchester, he was also elected chair of the Council of Heads of

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Professor

Mohi

Eldin

Magzoub,

Association for Medical Education in Eastern Mediterranean Region, Secretary General Professor Mohi Magzoub has been working in the field of Health Care and Medical Education since the early 1980's in Sudan and Saudi Arabia. Have wide and diverse experience in both hospital and medical education administration. Have undertaken consultancy projects on behalf of WHO and other prestigious organizations in Syria,

South Africa, Kenya, Brazil, USA and elsewhere. Have published excess of 100 publications, routinely participate as speaker and moderator at international symposiums and routinely oversee courses, seminars and workshops in the field of medical education.

Professor Mohi Magzoub was also the first IFMSA SCOPH Director (1982-1983).

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Invited guests: Xavier Deau, President-elect, World Medical Association (WMA) Dr Xavier Deau is a general practitioner from Epinal (Vosges) in France. He was elected last year as a President of WMA and will resume his position in October 2014. Dr Deau is the current President of the European and International Delegation of the French Medical Council. During his career in French Medical Council, he was Vice President in charge of international relations, Vice President in charge of relations with Universities, and President of the Medical Training and Qualifications Department.

Dana Hanson, Past President, World Medical Association (WMA), IFMSA Board of Recommendations member Dr. Dana Hanson has been caring for patients in his Fredericton dermatology clinic since 1981. A Saint John native, he received his medical training from Dalhousie University and McGill University.

His keen interest in politics has led him to take an active role in addressing issues and

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shaping the future of the medical profession through his involvement in medical associations. Dr. Hanson first became involved at the regional level with the York Sunbury Queens Medical Society, and then moved on to become the President of the New Brunswick Medical Society from 1992 to 1993. From there, he became the President of the Canadian Medical Association from 2002 to 2003, and ultimately the President of the World Medical Association from 2009 to 2010.

Dr. Hanson has been presented with a number of awards, including the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal, the New Brunswick Medical Society's President's Award and Order of Merit, and the Distinguished Career Award from the York-SunburyQueens Medical Society.

Dr. Dana Hanson was made a Member of the Order of Canada in 2012. He is receiving the Order of New Brunswick for his outstanding leadership in the medical profession in New Brunswick and around the world.

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