GPHW2023: Assessment of Swallowing and Balance in Elderly People

Theme: Making Health a Human Right

Date and Time: 06 April 2023 | 14:00 – 16:00 (CEST)

Event Description: The academic staff of the Department of Logopedics and the Department of Kinezitherapy will assess swallowing and balance in elderly people. As a result of the obtained data, guidelines and recommendations will be given for the prevention and treatment of the identified deficiencies.

Event Type: Public Health Campaign

Event Format: In-person

Language(s): Bulgarian

Organiser(s): South-West University “Neofit Rilski”

How to Attend In-person: South-West University “Neofit Rilski” 66 Ivan Mihailov str., Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria

How to Attend Virtually: N/A

Registration: On-site registration is available on the day of the event.

GPHW2023: Making Health a Human Right: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue

Theme: Making Health a Human Right

Date and Time: 06 April 2023 | 11:00 – 12:00 (CEST)

Event Description: The ‘right to health’ is well understood as much more than the right to health care services. It includes the right to a wide range of socio‑economic factors that promote conditions in which people can lead a healthy life, and extends to the underlying determinants of health, such as food and nutrition, housing, access to safe and potable water and adequate sanitation, safe and healthy working conditions, and a healthy environment.

But where do these ‘rights’ come from? What is their status in 2023? Are they ethical principles, or legal principles, or both? Can rights language truly advance global health, particularly in low and middle income countries, or is the ‘right to health’ only a lofty ideal?

Research reveals differing conceptions of the right to health from different disciplinary perspectives. Are these visions reconcilable? Legal tools exist to advance rights, including health rights, but priorities must be identified by public health experts and affected communities.

In academic institutions, law and public health are taught in different faculties – truly interdisciplinary courses and centres are still rare. Other disciplinary perspectives – e.g., economics, geography, architecture, anthropology, theology – also have much to contribute, as do communities directly affected. Consultation and meaningful participation is often inadequate.

This session of Global Public Health Week will offer an opportunity for participants to share different disciplinary and regional perspectives on ‘Making Health a Human Right’. Everyone is welcome to join, listen and share their views. A short summary of the discussion and any suggestions for strengthening interdisciplinary collaboration will be circulated afterwards.

Event Type: Panel Discussion & Round Table

Event Format: Virtual

Language(s): English

Organiser(s): Groningen Centre for Health Law

How to Attend In-person: N/A

How to Attend Virtually: Zoom

Registration: https://nl.surveymonkey.com/r/KRQSR6C?

GPHW2023: Speech Therapy Interventions for Persons Who Have Recovered from COVID-19

Theme: Making Health a Human Right

Date and Time: 06 April 2023 | 12:00 – 13:00 (CEST)

Event Description: The academic staff of the Department of Logopedics will preset different interventions – assessment and therapy for persons who have recovered from COVID-19. The participants of the workshop will be speech and language therapy professionals.

Event Type: Workshop/Online Training

Event Format: In-person

Language(s): Bulgarian

Organiser(s): South-West University “Neofit Rilski”

How to Attend In-person: South-West University “Neofit Rilski” 66 Ivan Mihailov str., Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria

How to Attend Virtually: N/A

Registration: On-site registration is available on the day of the event.

GPHW2023: More than Just Numbers: Indigenous Community Engaged Research and Maternity Experiences/Narratives of First Nations, Métis and Inuit Birth/Surrogate Parents, Birth Partners, Elders/Knowledge Keepers, and Health Care Providers

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

Date and Time: 05 April 2023 | 21:00 – 22:00 (CEST)

Event Description: The historical, social, and political exclusion of Indigenous women from public health research does not address maternal health disparities for First Nation, Métis, and Inuit women across Canada. These disparities include 1.7 to over four times higher rates of infant mortality and preterm birth; sudden infant death syndrome; nutritional limitations; and inadequate prenatal care and high levels of stress. Despite these disparities, the 2009 Public Health Agency of Canada Maternal Experiences Survey did not capture Indigenous women’s maternity experiences. To understand the unique barriers and challenges faced by Indigenous women and families seeking perinatal care, ten semi-structured sharing circles, with a combined total of 56 participants across Canada were conducted. This presentation includes the diverse perspectives of Indigenous parents, health care providers, community supports, and Elders to provide community informed health recommendations. Data were analyzed thematically, and four overarching themes were identified to address: 1) celebrating strengths and visions; 2) intergenerational impacts on maternal child health and wellness; 3) healthcare and interactions with colonial systems; and 4) services, supports and access to culturally safe care. This research advances Indigenous knowledge(s), experiences, and methodologies in population and public health research in Canada by addressing longstanding scientific issues of inclusion, representation and the advancement of Indigenous women’s maternal health and wellness. 

Event Type: Seminar/Webinar

Event Format: Virtual

Language(s): English

Organiser(s):

How to Attend In-person: N/A

How to Attend Virtually: Zoom

Registration: N/A

GPHW2023: Pequeños Cambios, Grandes Transformaciones

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

Date and Time: 05 April 2023 | 19:00 – 20:00 (CEST)

Event Description: The Trauma and Global Mental Health Lab at the New School for Social Research in New York City, in partnership with HIAS Colombia, Universidad del Norte, and Columbia University, with the support of Laser Pulse and USAID, is pleased to announce the international launch of “Pequeños Cambios, Grandes Transformaciones”, a documentary film directed by Marianne Amelinckx, featuring the lived experiences of Venezuelan migrant women and Colombian women from the host community in Barranquilla, Colombia.

Group Problem Management Plus (Group PM+) is a five session intervention for individuals experiencing distress that can be delivered by persons without a mental health background. With the aim of improving mental health access for both Venezuelan migrant and Colombian women at risk of gender-based violence in Barranquilla, they were trained to become facilitators and deliver PM+ to other members of the community holding the same identities.

‘Pequeños Cambios, Grandes Transformaciones’  is a heart-felt, short documentary film that shares and makes the stories of community and personal transformation, from this research study, accessible to wider audiences, and that often do not come across in research papers.

The viewing of the film will be immediately followed by a panel discussion and Q&A session featuring the directors, as well as members from HIAS, Laser Pulse and the World Health Organization.

Event Type: Panel Discussion & Round Table

Event Format: Virtual

Language(s): English and Spanish

Organiser(s):

How to Attend In-person: N/A

How to Attend Virtually: Zoom

Registration: https://newschool.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYoceuqqjwjHtwFkbVdiVwrjW_6sOrqr95u 

GPHW2023: Populations on the Move

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

Date and Time: 05 April 2023 | 16:00 – 17:30 (CEST)

Event Description: The event will be in the form of a session on determinants of health and their impact on minorities and the most vulnerable, in addition to open discussions on how to improve the health of the populations on the move.

Event Type: Seminar/Webinar

Event Format: Virtual

Language(s): English

Organiser(s): The International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations (IFMSA)

How to Attend In-person: N/A

How to Attend Virtually: Zoom

Registration: https://ifmsa.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIlc-CrrT8uE9KX9GHFvRwHJ4dhuhaUL66s