1st Latin American and Caribbean Global Health Meeting &
19th Annual GHEC Conference
Alliances for Global Health Education: Learning from South-South Collaboration
Hosted at: The National Institute of Public Health of Mexico
Dates: April 9 - 11, 2010
Location: Cuernavaca, Mexico
The process of globalization has been felt in all countries and the recent events surrounding the outbreak of the new Influenza A H1N1 virus exemplify the vital role that cross-country and regional co-operation play in ensuring global health. Recent years have seen a renewed effort at regional collaboration, the characteristics of which have evolved from traditional North-South collaborations, characterized by the one-way transfer of technological and financial resources from developed to developing countries, to a model of regional collaboration, especially among (low- and middle-income) countries that tends to be closer and more dynamic. The numerous examples of these new regional networks include:
- Ibero-American Ministerial Network for Health Research and Education (RIMAIS)
- Mesoamerican Institute of Public Health
- Belice, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Nicaragua
- Brazil - African lusophone countries health collaboration
- Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, Mozambique, Sao Tome and Principe
- Andean Integration System
- Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador y Peru
- South Cone Network for Health Systems and Services Research
- Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentina
- Amazonian Cooperation Treaty Organization
- Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana and Suriname
This conference will capitalize on the INSP’s strategic location linking Anglophone North American countries and the regions of Latin America and the Caribbean to bring together faculty and students from institutions throughout the Americas to share experiences of creating and fostering alliances for global health education. This 2010 conference will also serve as the First Latin American and Caribbean Global Health Conference, which aims to foster the global health discourse in the region.
To fulfill the mandate of this initiative, the conference aims to develop a program which reflects the vibrancy and variety of Global Health programs throughout the region, while highlighting the South-South experience in fostering new collaborative mechanisms. We will use, as a starting point, the lessons learned from the emerging A H1N1 pandemic as well as other case studies in the area of other infectious diesases, maternal health, vaccine-preventable disease, and nutrition (from both perspectives of malnutrition and the growing epidemic of obesity and chronic health problems). This Conference will analyze how South-South collaborations differ from traditional North-South alliances, examine successes and obstacles to effective functioning of these collaborations and cull lessons that can be learned and adopted by the North.
The themes that we plan to address in this 2010 conference include:
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Interdisciplinary Approaches to Global Health Education: Beyond the traditional medical model
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Lessons Learned from A(H1N1) Virus
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Role of Institutional Alliances in Advancing Global Health Education
- Ethics and Equity Issues of Collaborations for Global Health
- Social Determinants of Health
- Global Health Diplomacy
- Public Policy and Global Health
- Social Issues and Global Health
- Clincal Practices and Research in Global Health
- Education and Human Resources Development
- Current Issues in Global Health (HIV/AIDS; Teaching and Learning; Nursing)