GPHW2023: Government Response to the Reform of Disease Prevention and Control and Lessons Learned from the Pandemic

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

Date and Time: 03 April 2023 | 10:00 – 14:00 (CEST)

Event Description: To address the challenges facing public health in the post-COVID-19 era, further explore public health reforms in different countries and share experiences and lessons brought about by the pandemic, the APRLO (CPMA) plans hold a webinar during the GPHW. On this webinar, experts will exchange opinions through theme report and panel discussion. The proposed topics include lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic and the biggest challenges of establishing a strong and resilient health system. We will invite experts from WFPHA, New Zealand, Singapore, Vietnam, Australia, US, UK, Japan, Korea, China, etc.

Event Type: Seminar/Webinar

Event Format: Virtual

Language(s): English (simultaneous translation is provided.)

Organiser(s): Chinese Preventive Medicine Association

How to Attend In-person: N/A

How to Attend Virtually: http://h5.live.gmw.cn/cloud/h5/1679901154686076 

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GPHW2023: Health Policies and Public Health During the Pandemic Crisis in Latin America: The Use of Politics to Reject the Global Consensus Against COVID-19

Theme: Tackling the Climate Crisis

Date and Time: 04 April 2023 | 15:30 (CEST)

Event Description: In Latin America, politics has historically been claimed as a fundamental dimension for the identification of the context, design, and implementation of public health policies. Politics should illuminate the technical debate by contributing to the understanding of the interests and agendas that mobilize actors to facilitate or obstruct public health policy. However, a contemporary trend gained momentum during the COVID-19 pandemic: some relevant political leaders in the region used political instruments and mechanisms to forge false narratives against scientific evidence, promoting hesitation regarding preventive methods, and the dissemination of misguided alternatives for disease prevention and treatment. The combination of vocal leaders and new ways of disseminating these alternative narratives has caused serious damage to efforts to combat the disease in the region. The panel will cover the experiences of Brazil, Mexico, Panama, and the Dominican Republic, exploring similarities and differences in political narratives and strategies towards pandemics. Panelists will be encouraged to analyze the contemporary roles of politics in relation to health policy and public health.

Event Type: Panel Discussion & Round Table

Event Format: Virtual

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Organiser(s): Associação Brasileira de Saúde Coletiva

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GPHW2023: Essential Public Health Functions

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

Date and Time: 05 April 2023 | 12:00 – 13:30 (CEST)

Event Description: The webinar on Essential Public Health Functions (EPHF) will focus on the core responsibilities of public health systems and their contribution to improving population health. It explores the different EPHF areas, including health monitoring and surveillance, disease prevention and control, health promotion, and emergency preparedness and response. The webinar will highlight the critical role of public health in mitigating and responding to health threats, including infectious diseases, natural disasters, and social determinants of health. The session will also discuss the challenges and opportunities in strengthening public health systems and achieving health for all. Overall, the webinar will provide insights into the EPHF framework and its relevance for public health practitioners, policymakers, and researchers.

Event Type: Seminar/Webinar

Event Format: Virtual

Language(s): English

Organiser(s): WFPHA

How to Attend In-person: N/A

How to Attend Virtually: Zoom

Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/essential-public-health-functions-tickets-575786160907 

GPHW2023: Closing Ceremony

The closing ceremony of Global Public Health Week 2023 (GPHW) will see the participation of the presidents of three prestigious societies in the field of public health: Prof. Luis Eugenio de Souza, President of the World Federation of Public Health Associations (WFPHA); Prof. Roberta Siliquini, President of the Italian Society of Hygiene and Preventive Medicine (SITI); and Prof. Carlo Signorelli, President of the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER).

The ceremony will be a platform for the Presidents to discuss the state of global public health and the challenges that still persist in this world in turmoil, as well as to present the upcoming 17th World Congress on Public Health, jointly organized by the three societies.

The event will be held on April 7, 2023, at 13:00 (CEST). It will be chaired by Prof. Walter Ricciardi, Immediate Past President of the WFPHA and Chair of the congress organizing committees.

The Use of Chemical or Nuclear Weapons in Ukraine or Anywhere Is Unacceptable!

The World Federation of Public Health Associations (WFPHA) and International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) acknowledge the profound adverse effects of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons on the health and well-being of all people on the planet. The World Health Organization (WHO) recognizes the immense public health threat these weapons pose. This threat exists independent of actual use.

The war in Ukraine, even only as a conventional war, is destroying the lives and livelihoods of the people of Ukraine, their economy and importantly their environment. This produces a massive, multi-generational public health disaster.

The use of nuclear or chemical weapons in this conflict will magnify that public health disaster by orders of magnitude, causing causalities at a scale rendering any medical and humanitarian responses totally inadequate. The suffering resulting would constitute a clear crime against humanity. Even the threat to use such weapons causes needless extra trauma to already severely traumatized people.

Accordingly, the WFPHA and IPPNW demand that all combatants immediately and explicitly rule out the use of weapons of mass destruction in Ukraine.

GPHW2023: Sustainable Dentistry

Theme: Tackling the Climate Crisis

Date and Time: 04 April 2023 | 18:00 (CEST)

Event Description: This event will firstly examine sustainability, the impact of dentistry on planetary health and ask how we as dental professionals can embed sustainability into the modern delivery of dentistry. Secondly, we will examine the sustainability of health care systems, particularly in the most marginalized areas of the world, asking how we can create a sustainable system of care when infrastructure and workforce capacity is suboptimal? How can we overcome significant financial and social barriers to accessing oral health care worldwide?

The event invites all dental and healthcare students and professionals to start a journey producing concrete actions locally to make oral health sustainable. We hope to catalyze our young professionals to take the next steps towards enacting change.

Event Type: Seminar/Webinar

Event Format: Virtual

Language(s): English

Organiser(s): WFPHA Oral Health Working Group & Youth for Sustainable Oral Health

How to Attend In-person: N/A

How to Attend Virtually: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ropPTYctSayjQXoeI57_Gg

Registration: https://forms.gle/8Y97ZsGXCuG5guUb7