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Urban Health and Biodiversity Digital Platform - Concept and Structure

142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition (November 15 - November 19, 2014): http://www.apha.org/events-and-meetings/annual
Tuesday, November 18, 2014 : 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM

Guilherme Franco Netto, MD, MPH, PhD , Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro – RJ, Brazil
Audio (mp3) recording Recorded Presentation (mp4)
Fiocruz – PAHO/WHO Collaborative Center on Public Health and Environment, Work Plan (2014-2017), includes to launch a Digital Platform on Public Health and Environment, focused initially to seek an integrated approach between Urban Health and Biodiversity. The objective is to share the concepts and the structure of the platform with the SDE/PAHO Section on “Challenges and opportunities  for collaboration to advance environmental health in the Americas” participants.

Learning Areas:

Environmental health sciences
Implementation of health education strategies, interventions and programs
Public health or related public policy
Systems thinking models (conceptual and theoretical models), applications related to public health

Learning Objectives:
Demonstrate the concepts and structure of the Fiocruz – PAHO/WHO Collaborative Center on Public Health and Environment Digital Platform on Public Health and Environment, focused initially to seek an integrated approach between Urban Health and Biodiversity.

Keyword(s): Urban Health, Environmental Health

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: Superintendent Public Health of the Rio de Janeiro Health Secretary; General Coordinator of National Environmental Health Surveillance Program (2001-2006), establishing policy, strategy, policies and health programs related to the environment. Worked in Mexico as consultant for Sustainable Development and Environmental at Pan American Health Organization (2006-07); Director of the Environmental and Occupational Health Department of the Ministry of Health from 2007-2013; Since 2013 is on charge of the Environmental Health Program at Oswaldo Cruz Foundation.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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