AMREP World Health Day Conference - 7 April 2010
Date: Wednesday 7 April 2010
Location: Ormond Hall, Moubray St, Prahran
Melbourne, Australia
Time: 8:30am – 5:00pm
Cost: Free, attendance by registration only
International speakers, panelists and participants will converge in Melbourne for the fourth annual Alfred Medical Research & Education Precinct (AMREP) World Health Day Conference, Health and the City on Wednesday 7 April 2010. The Conference will be followed by an Urbanisation and Health Workshop the next day.Details below.
Reflecting the World Health Organization’s (WHO) theme for the day, Urbanisation and Health, the conference will focus on both the implications of urbanisation for the health of poor and disadvantaged populations and approaches to improving maternal health in low-income settings.
According to WHO, more than half of the world's population lives in cities, and this proportion continues to grow. More than one billion people live in urban slums and the World Bank forecasts that by 2035, cities will become the predominant sites of poverty. Urbanisation affects people’s health in many complex ways by influencing infectious disease transmission, people's living environments, and the rapidly increasing prevalence of chronic non-communicable diseases.
In particular, the urban poor not only suffer disproportionately from these health issues, but also from poor water and sanitation and inequitable access to health services and resources. Women and children are among those particularly vulnerable.
Keynote Speakers
Professor Guo Yan from the School of Public Health, Peking University Health Science Center, an active advocate of health policy, primary health care, and rural health in China;
Padma Shri Dr Kiran Martin, founder and director of Asha a non-government organisation (NGO) working to improve the health, living conditions and prospects of slum dwellers in Delhi, India;
Professor K R Thankappan, Professor and Head of the Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies of the Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medial Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum, India, whose research interest is in chronic non-communicable diseases and their risk factors,
Associate Professor Sharon Friel, an inaugural recipient of an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship and project director of the Rockefeller Foundation Global Research Network on Urban Health Equity in Low and Middle Income Countries , Canberra, Australia.
Mr Murray Proctor, Deputy Director-General, Program Enabling Division, AusAID, Canberra, Australia.
The Conference and Workshop are organised by partners of the AMREP Global Health Research Consortium, which include the Burnet Institute, Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, The Alfred and Monash University.
For more information please contact: Emma Frean, Emma.Frean@med.monash.edu.au
PDF of Workshop Program - 8 April 2010
Map of Ormond Hall