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: How to Put Planetary Health at the Core of Medical Curricula?

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

Date and Time: 03 April 2023 | 11:00 – 13:00 (CEST)

Event Description: We are living in the Anthropocene, the era in which the earth is being shaped by human activity. We are facing not only climate change, but also declining of biodiversity, shortages of fertile land and fresh water, changing in biogeochemical cycles, increased risk of infectious diseases, and the accumulation of new entities not previously present in nature. Education plays a key role in addressing this situation. In particular, the education of future doctors must provide the knowledge to interpret the complexity of the global situation and must provide the tools to think of the health of humanity as inextricably linked to the health of the planet. The question that must therefore be asked is: how should Planetary health be incorporated into medical curricula?

Event Type: Seminar/Webinar

Event Format: Virtual

Language(s): English

Organiser(s):

How to Attend In-person: N/A

How to Attend Virtually: https://instagram.com/ii4ph?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= 

Registration: N/A

GPHW2023: Active Breaks during the Workday

Theme: 5 Themes

Date and Time: 03 – 07 April 2023 | 11:00 – 15:30 (CEST)

Event Description: The Municipality of Lisbon (CML) has around 10,000 workers. Being a large and stable population, part of the biggest city in Portugal, it is good setting for the development of health promotion activities for capacity building of the population aiming at empowering our communities with health literacy.

The Department of Health, Hygiene and Safety (DSHS) has an extensive team of health and occupational safety technicians and occupational physicians, nurses, nutritionists, cardiopneumologists, and occupational psychologists. This department collaborates closely with Lisbon Universities to further develop research on the wellbeing of their employees and subsequently of the population of the municipality.

To celebrate the Global Public Health Week, the DSHS and NOVA Medical School will together enhance and promote one of their regular activities: the practice of physical activity, mobility and stretches during working hours. This initiative, named active pauses during the day is part of a bigger project “100% Health and Wellbeing”, which is aligned with the view of the Municipality Great Plan Options 2022-2026, following the Sustainable Development Goals. This Public Health Campaign, aligned with your initiative from WFPHA will help the workers population to understand how important it is to care for their own health, aiming to recall the population’s attention for their overall health and wellbeing. Chi Kung classes are offered at diverse locations, 17 times per week, at several locations of the institution. Its practice is proven to minimize posture bad habits, to prevent fatigue, to prevent low back pain, to improve wellbeing and joyful emotions.

Event Type: Public Health Campaign

Event Format: In-person and Virtual

Language(s): Portuguese

Organiser(s): The Department of Health, Hygiene and Safety (DSHS) and NOVA Medical School

How to Attend In-person: Lisbon Municipality, Paços do Concelho (headquarters)

How to Attend Virtually: Livestream

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

GPHW2023: Slovenski dnevi sanitarnega inženirstva 2023 [Slovenian Days of Public and Environmental Health Profession 2023]

Theme: 5 Themes

Date and Time: 03 – 07 April 2023 | 10:00 – 16:00 (CEST)

Event Description: The only event in Slovenia inviting academic and industry researchers, public and environmental health experts, as well as students in the field of public and environmental health to address the issue of public and environmental health. The main purpose of the professional event is to connect participants and promote the profession of public and environmental health. Strengthening and promotion is a future-oriented process that requires a lot of knowledge, excellence, and, above all, self-initiative of public and environmental health professionals in the work environment.

Event Type: Seminar/Webinar

Event Format: In-person

Language(s): Slovenian

Organiser(s): Slovenian Public and Environmental Health Professionals

How to Attend In-person: Mestni muzej Ljubljana, Slovenia

How to Attend Virtually: N/A

Registration: www.sanitarc.si

GPHW2023: Pharmacists: Key Partners Towards Equitable, Sustainable, and Resilient Health Systems

Theme: 5 Themes

Date and Time: 03 – 07 April 2023 | 10:00 – 00:00 (CEST)

Event Description: This social media campaign will highlight a variety of ways in which pharmacists contribute to public health, by sharing and putting a spotlight on FIP initiatives and existing resources that are aligned with the topics of each day of the campaign.

Event Type: Social Media Campaign

Event Format: Virtual

Language(s): English

Organiser(s): The International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP)

How to Attend In-person: N/A

How to Attend Virtually: Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn

Registration: N/A

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 

Registration: N/A