Speakers:
Plenary Speakers:
Dr. Shafik Dharamsi, Centre for International Health
Dr. Michael Seear, UBC Department of Pediatrics, BC Children’s Hospital
Sherri Brown, PhD Candidate, SFU.
Jackie Sherris, PhD, Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH) Seattle
Steve Gloyd, UW, Director, International Health Program; Executive Director, Health Alliance International
Ed Mills, PhD, LLM, Assistant Professor, SFU Faculty of Health Sciences
Shafik Dharamsi, UBC Centre for International Health
Environment, Health and Climate Change
Session 2A: Environmental Change, Globalization and the Humanitarian Aid
Tim Takaro, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences: Global disparities in vulnerability from climate change.
Miriam Palacios, Oxfam Canada: Compensation of developing countries for environmental consequences of climate change: Reflection on Oxfam’s campaign at the 2007 climate conference in Bali.
Gerardo Otero: SFU Latin American Studies: The Neo-Liberal Food Regime
Session 5A: Emerging Issues in Environmental Health
Carl Lowenberger, SFU Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry: The effects of climate change on the transmission of emerging and re-emerging vector-borne diseases
Hasanat Alamgir: SFU/ Occupational Safety and Health Agency for Healthcare
Dr. Erica Frank: UBC Department of Health Care and Epidemiology: Physician Health and its Unique Role in Climate Change.
Not Forgotten: Invisible Populations and the MDGs
Session 2C: Maternal Child Health and the MDGs: What’s left out?
Alison Moore, UW/Health Alliance International, Seattle: Improving Maternal and Newborn Health in Timor-Leste: Evaluation of Birth-Friendly Facilities.
Colleen Osterhaus, Health Alliance International, Seattle: Birth Friendly Facilities in East Timor: Responding to maternal and infant mortality
Judi Fairholm, Canadian Red Cross: Plan to Protect.
Amineh Ayyad: MPH, UW Department of Global Health. Besieged: Maternal Child Health in Palestine.
Session 3A: Gender, Inequality and the MDGs
Charlene Phung, MPH Candidate, SFU: The Gender Gap and Global Health
Jackie Sherris: Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), Seattle: Violence against women and girls as a global public health crisis.
Maria-Cecilia Venzon: Lightcatchers: The Use of Performance-Based Teaching to Discuss Community Health Issues Examining and its Implications for Intimate Partner Violence.
Session 3C: Global Problems; local realities: Lessons from BC populations
David Eby, Lawyer, Pivot Legal Society:. The DTES as a microcosm of global health and human rights.
Brandon Marshall, UBC HCEP /BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS: Contextual factors associated with an increased risk of HIV and STI transmission among a cohort of street-involved youth in Vancouver.
Vivian Josewski, RN, MPH, SFU: Aboriginal Mental Health Reform in the Interior Health.
Simon Davis, Grandview Medical Clinic: Meeting the health care needs of the mentally ill: (1) Priority populations and (2) Self neglect of medical care.
Session 5C: What about the workers? Health human resources as an invisible population.
Alex Berland, Mid-Main Community Health Centre: What about the Workers? Nurse education for MDGs.
Julia Robinson, Health Alliance International, UW: Health care workers - a population essential to achieve the MDGs.
Kate Tairyan, PhD, UBC Health Care and Epidemiology: Health Sciences Online: globally democratizing health sciences knowledge.
Ali Palmer, MPH Candidate, SFU/BC Centre for Excellence, HIV/AIDS: The role of task-shifting in meeting critical global health needs.
Conflict and Human Rights in Global Health perspective:
Session 2D: The Health of Conflict-affected populations
Jo O’Callaghan, Canadian Red Cross (Vancouver). Humanity in the War Zone
Shelagh Baird, UW Department of Global Health: Militarism and conflict: a critical barrier to global health
Dr. Ronald Lett, Canadian Network for International Surgery: Burden of injury during the complex political emergency in northern Uganda.
Judy McLean: UBC Faculty of Land and Food Systems: The enigma of protein deficiency in a fishing village near Lake Victoria - a case study of the complexities of malnutrition and the challenges to meeting MDGs 4 and 5.
Session 3D: Reproductive Health and Human Rights
Dr. Wendy Johnson, UW:
Kelly Roulette: West Coast Women’s LEAF: Women’s Reproductive Rights in Canada: A Legal Perspective
Dr. Jan Christilaw: VP of Medicine, BC Women’s Hospital. Maternal Mortality and Reproductive Rights in the context of the MDGs: reflections on international work.
Miriam Palacios: Public Engagement Coordinator, Oxfam Canada: Critical tools to advance the MDGs: strong health care systems and responsiveness to women's health needs.
Session 5D: Complication and Risk: HIV/AIDS and Conflict
Ed Mills, PhD, MSc, LLM. SFU Faculty of Health Sciences/TASO Uganda: Delivering HIV/AIDS care to conflict affected populations. Moving from denial to successes
James Pfeiffer, UW Department of Global Health/Health Alliance International: Integration of HIV/AIDS treatment into primary health care in Mozambique: A health system strengthening approach.
Dr. Zied Mhirsi: UW Department of Global Health: HIV in post conflict and emergency setting : An update from Sudan
Mental Health In Global Perspective
Session 2B: Profiles of Risk: Addiction and HIV in special populations
Vicky Bungay:
MJ Maloy: Risk factors for HIV infection among Aboriginal people using a Supervised Injection Facility (SIF) in Vancouver, Canada
Robb Chauhan & Richard Utendale: Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU): The Invisible Epidemic in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
Session 3B: Mental Health and political conflict: Causes & consequences
Evan Kanter, Assistant Professor, UW Department of Psychiatry; VA of Puget Sound: Mental Health Consequences of War on Civilian Populations.
Brian Walker: M.Ed (Counselling Psych): Canadian Military & Veterans Transition Program.
Jeffrey Johnston, LL.B., M.St.(Law) - The Need for Minimum Standards in the Use of Diplomatic Assurances to Protect Against Torture.
Paul Rushton: MA (UPeace): Natural Killers: The Evolutionary Psychology of Suicide Violence.
Session 5B: A Long Memory: the mental health needs of displaced populations.
Michael Seear: Assistant Professor, UBC; Pediatric Respirologist, BC Children’s Hospital. The mental health of children following a major disaster: what can an outsider offer?
Stephen Bezruchka: Population Health, UW; Clinical and international health: Societal Inequality and Mental Health.
Veronica Fynn, Independent Researcher/Consultant, BC Government: Psychological Interventions for War Affected Refugees in Africa.
Media/Presentations:
(see clips of our movie presentations on our Films page)
Nino Pagliccia, Centre For International Health, UBC: ELAM and training global health workers in Cuba. (Following Salud! Documentary).
Matti per il calcio (Mad about Football): Documentary film about an innovative mental health program in Italy harnessing the nation’s love for soccer.
Sari’s Mother, an Academy Award-Nominated documentary by James Longley. An Iraqi mother searches for treatment for her HIV positive child during the war.
Besieged: Documentary by Amineh Ayyad, one of our speakers, on health care in Palestine.
The Blood of YingZhou District: Award-winning documentary of a year in the life of children in the remote villages of Anhui Province, China, who have lost their parents to AIDS. Traditional obligations to family and village collide with terror of the disease.
Posters:
Ian Fyffe: The Elderly in India: A Multidisciplinary Perspective
Mara Kardas-Nelson: Collaborating Communities: Community Based Approached to Talking About HIV/AIDS and Resource Access in a Marginalized Canadian Population.
Alisha Mills: Student-Led Community Health Project in the Indian Himalayas
Nathan O’Hara: Training for the treatment of Orthopaedic trauma: A collaborative Ugandan-Canadian pilot study
John Hu:
Brandon Marshall:
(plus select other posters)
Also see the Keynote Speakers page.