GPHW2023: Barrières à la vaccination contre le VPH : comment y répondre pour favoriser une équité vaccinale au niveau mondial

Theme: Empowering Our Communities – Protecting Minorities & the Most Vulnerable

Date and Time: 05 April 2023 | 19:00 – 19:30 (CEST)

Event Description: Le Virus du papillome humain (VPH) est une des maladies transmissibles sexuellement (ITS) les plus répandues au monde. Plusieurs types de VPH ont été identifiés comme étant cancérigènes. Le VPH est d’ailleurs responsable de plus de 95% des cancers du col de l’utérus. Ce cancer est, au niveau mondial, le quatrième cancer le plus fréquent chez les femmes. Malheureusement, sur l’ensemble des décès causés par ce cancer en 2020, 90% sont survenus dans des pays à faible ou moyen développement. Considérant que plusieurs types de vaccin existent afin d’aider à prévenir l’infection au VPH, le manque de couverture vaccinale dans les pays à faible et moyen développement constitue une grave iniquité de santé. De plus, les femmes sont beaucoup plus à risque de graves complications, voire de décès, suite à la contraction du VPH. Le manque de couverture vaccinale constitue donc également une iniquité de santé au niveau du genre. Dans ce webinaire, nous discuterons des barrières à la vaccination contre le VPH dans les pays à faible et moyen développement, et des stratégies pour y répondre, en prenant en compte le contexte social, économique, et politique.

Event Type: Seminar/Webinar

Event Format: Virtual

Language(s): Français

Organiser(s): Raphaëlle Perrot (WFPHA) & Association camerounaise de santé publique

How to Attend In-person: N/A

How to Attend Virtually: Facebook

Registration: N/A

GPHW2023: Semana mundial de la salud pública – Colombia

Theme: 5 Themes

Date and Time: 03 – 07 April 2023 | 16:00 – 06:00 (CEST)

Event Description: En este momento Colombia está atravesando un momento coyuntural, relacionado con la propuesta de una reforma al sistema de salud; las temáticas tratadas y las campañas que se divulgarán en redes sociales, tocarán algunos aspectos cruciales de la misma. Durante la semana del 3 al 7 de abril de 2023, la Asociación Colombiana de Salud Pública (Colombia), se adhiere a la celebración de la segunda edición de la Semana Mundial de la Salud Pública, con el tema “Por la construcción de un sistema sanitario más equitativo, sostenible y fuerte” convocado por la Federación Mundial de Asociaciones de Salud Pública (WFPHA); se expondran diferentes temáticas relacionadas con el quehacer en Salud Pública así: La preparación de profesionales y asociaciones de salud pública para los nuevos desafíos, la lucha contra el cambio climático, el fortalecimiento de nuestras comunidades vulnerables y la salud cómo un derecho humano.

Event Type: Seminar/Webinar

Event Format: Virtual

Language(s): Spanish

Organiser(s): Asociación Colombiana de Salud Pública

How to Attend In-person: N/A

How to Attend Virtually: Zoom and YouTube

Registration: https://www.saludpublicacolombia.org/

GPHW2023: Women’s Education and Maternal Health, Focusing on Fertility

Theme: Empowering Our Communities – Protecting Minorities & the Most Vulnerable

Date and Time: 05 April 2023 | 17:00 – 19:00 (CEST)

Event Description: In this seminar event, I will be looking to investigate the effects of an increase in overall women’s education, on the total fertility rate of women around the world. According to Roser (2019), improving women’s education improves women’s rights and opportunities, but it also promotes healthier societies by advancing the demographic shift and reducing birth rates to curb population growth. So to examine how improving the overall standing of women’s education could affect fertility rates, I will specifically look at the correlation between girls’ primary school completion, contraceptive use, and the average number of babies born to women. It’s important to note that birth rate and fertility rate are two different rates that often go hand in hand. “The birth rate is the annual number of births per 1,000 of the population, and the total fertility rate is the average number of children a woman would have assuming that current age-specific birth rates remain constant, throughout her childbearing years” (Smoak, 2019). Participants will be Global Health King’s College, Global Mental Health (Msc) King’s College London and LSHTM, MPH students at LSHTM and Imperial, the above post-graduate students and faculties have shown interest in the abstract shared of this paper and are willing to attend the seminar event during GPHW and virtually and in person, it will be open to anyone interested in attending.

Event Type: Seminar/Webinar

Event Format: In-person and Virtual

Language(s): English

Organiser(s):

How to Attend In-person: King’s College London, Guy’s Campus

How to Attend Virtually: Microsoft Teams

Registration: N/A

GPHW2023: Young WFPHA: A Call to Action for the Future Leaders in Public Health

Theme: Preparing Public Health Professionals & Associations for the New Challenges

Date and Time: 03 April 2023 | 10:00 – 11:30 (CEST)

Event Description: The Young WFPHA (World Federation of Public Health Associations) is a network that unites early-career public health professionals and students. Its primary objective is to promote collaboration, networking, and leadership development among students and young professionals in the public health field. The mission of the network is to provide a platform for discussion, support, and advocacy, enabling early-career public health professionals across the globe to share knowledge, experiences and opportunities. The vision is to empower and engage the next generation of public health leaders to create a healthier and more equitable world. This will be achieved by promoting various opportunities for training, research, mentoring programs, networking, skill-building, and facilitating the exchange of knowledge and best practices across regions and disciplines.

Young WFPHA recognizes the importance of young people’s perspectives and voices in shaping public health policy at both the national and international levels. It seeks to represent and empower young people in decision-making processes and ensure that they have a say in the global public health discourse. In this regard, Young WFPHA has representation inside the WHO Youth Council (WHO YC), specifically attending to the Mental Health and NCDs Working group. The goal is to become an official member of the WHO YC within the next two years.

Following this presentation, representatives from several international associations in public health will be invited to participate in a roundtable discussion. This aims to encourage global collaboration and the dissemination of the network’s guiding principles. Young WFPHA’s aim is to bring together young people from different parts of the world, creating a global community that can collaborate, learn from each other, and take action to improve health outcomes for all. The network calls on all young professionals in public health to join in this mission.

Event Type: Panel Discussion & Round Table

Event Format: Virtual

Language(s): English

Organiser(s): WFPHA Students and Young Professionals Working Group

How to Attend In-person: N/A

How to Attend Virtually: Zoom

Registration: N/A

GPHW2023: Towards Training a New Generation of Infodemic Managers

Theme: Preparing Public Health Professionals & Associations for the New Challenges

Date and Time: 03 April 2023 | 13:00 – 14:00 (CEST)

Event Description: As new acute public health crises emerge daily, many countries request infodemic managers to be deployed. However, health-oriented agencies offering these services are in serious lack of people with experience and the right competencies. Early during the COVID-19 pandemic, people from disinformation research, journalism, and fact-checking stepped into this space to fill the analytical needs gap. What is now needed are fully trained infodemic managers who mastered the complex skillset required to mitigate the damaging impact of the infodemic on public health. This cannot be achieved without the cooperation of higher education institutions, mainly the Schools of Public Health and/or Faculties of Medicine. This online round table will bring international speakers of different backgrounds and affiliations to discuss the possible integration of infodemic management competencies into medical curricula and other forms of continuous medical education.

Speakers:

• Feili Tu-Keefner, School of Information Science, University of South Carolina, USA
• Santi Indira Astuti, Faculty of Communication Science, Islamic University of Bandung, Indonesia
• Mara Rubia Andre Alves de Lima, Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre, Brazil
• Stefan Mandić-Rajčević, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade

Moderator:

• Aleksandar Stevanović, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade

Event Type: Panel Discussion & Round Table

Event Format: Virtual

Language(s): English

Organiser(s): School of Public Health and Health Management, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade

How to Attend In-person: N/A

How to Attend Virtually: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0pl_z6wF4Q 

Registration: N/A

GPHW2023: Reducing Inequalities by Generating Innovative Health Tools and Services – French Red Cross

Theme: Empowering Our Communities – Protecting Minorities & the Most Vulnerable

Date and Time: 05 April 2023 | 11:00 – 12:00 (CEST)

Event Description: The webinar aims to describe the French Red Cross (FRC) vision and plan to fight against social inequalities in health, with a view to promoting access to prevention, healthcare, and social rights for vulnerable people. In addition to this objective, we work to (re)create social links with isolated and excluded people, and aim to strengthen their autonomy, their empowerment, and their resilience in terms of health. To achieve these objectives, many actors from the FRC network and partners, combine their efforts and skills through four forms of projects:

• A volunteer network involved in social and health centers,
• Mobile teams, driving the outreach approach,
• Medicalized social housing for homeless people,
• Health access points.

Each project can thus offer one or more free services, including medical and paramedical care; delivery of medication for people without health coverage; prevention, health promotion and therapeutic education activities; psychosocial support activities; individualized social support; and coordination of complex pathways. In support of fieldwork, the FRC is working to create tools to improve knowledge of vulnerable populations and their needs, to map and identify good practices, to better communicate with patients, and to facilitate their care pathways.

Event Type: Seminar/Webinar

Event Format: Virtual

Language(s): English

Organiser(s): Croix-Rouge française

How to Attend In-person: N/A

How to Attend Virtually: N/A

Registration: https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/billets-reducing-inequalities-by-generating-innovative-health-tools-and-services-545991363867