141st APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition

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Online Program

5053.0
Current Issues in Global health

Wednesday, November 6, 2013: 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Oral
This session will discuss the common current issues in global health and will focus on MDGs , global health diplomacy and working at grass root levels.
Session Objectives: Identify the current progress and challenges in global public health
Moderator:
Jaya Prakash

8:30am
Counting what we know; Knowing what to count: Sexual and reproductive rights, maternal health, and millennium development goal 5   
Alicia Ely Yamin, JD MPH, Vanessa Boulanger, MSc and Kathryn L. Falb, ScD, MHS
     
8:45am
Health systems, health workers & communities: We can't reach MDG 4 without them all!   
Mary A. Carnell, MD MPH, Amanda Pomeroy, MS and Leanne Dougherty
     
9:00am
Intersection of diplomacy and public health: The role of health attaches in the United States government's global engagement   
Matthew Brown, PhD, MPS, Craig Shapiro, MD, MPH, Alicia Livinski, MPH, MLS, Thomas Novotny, MD, MPH and Jimmy Kolker, Ambassador, MPA
     
  
9:15am
Improving training in low-resource settings with clinical videos   
Peter Cardellichio, PhD
     
9:30am
Act global and think local: How the Haiti adolescent girls network and local adolescent girls advocates can work together to create safe spaces for adolescent girls.    
Lodz Joseph, M.P.H.
     

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: International Health
Endorsed by: Medical Care, Population, Reproductive and Sexual Health, Socialist Caucus, Men's Health Caucus, Asian Pacific Islander Caucus for Public Health

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH) , Masters Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES)

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