Synergy Online -- November 7, 2002
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In this issue:
-9TH CANADIAN CONFERENCE ON INTERNATIONAL HEALTH: SEE YOU AT THE 10TH
CCIH!
-GLOBAL HEALTH CHALLENGES: POVERTY ERADICATION, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
AND TRADE
-SEVENTEEN CANADIANS NAMED PUBLIC HEALTH HEROES
-DOCUMENTARY WORLD PREMIERE ON A CANADIAN PAHO HEALTH HERO
-WORLD HEALTH REPORT 2002: REDUCING RISKS, PROMOTING HEALTHY LIFE
-CANADA TO PROTECT STREET KIDS AND FIGHT HIV/AIDS IN HAITI
-INTEGRATING INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE IN PROJECT PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTATION
-TWO UPCOMING EVENTS IN TORONTO
-CV NETWORK: THE LATEST ISSUE IS NOW AVAILABLE!
-CERTIFICATE PROGRAM IN MANAGING DISASTERS AND COMPLEX HUMANITARIAN
EMERGENCIES
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9TH CANADIAN CONFERENCE ON INTERNATIONAL HEALTH: SEE YOU AT THE 10TH
CCIH!
The 9th Canadian Conference on International Health wrapped up last
Wednesday with a final thank you to conference Chair Pam Thompson,
Alliance Group, CSIH conference-liaison Adrienne Potter, Janet Hatcher
Roberts, the CSIH office, and all conference participants. The previous
evening, International Night celebrations included the honoring of
Canada's PAHO Health Heroes, a delicious meal, and some energetic conga
lines and limbo. Of CSIH staffers, the South Caucasus Health Information
Project officers were unofficially declared the best dancers. If
participants missed the documentary "Condoms, Fish and Circus Tricks"
that was shown at various times in the conference video room, it will be
shown on Vision TV Thursday, December 5, at 8:00pm and 11:00pm. The
conference also featured Josh Kertzer, winner of CIDA's Butterfly
Project, who gave an engaging speech on youth involvement in
international development. Art Jenkins, founder of Operation Eyesight
Universal, was awarded the CSIH Lifetime Achievement Award. Nisha
Thampi from McMaster University won the Hillman Award for Best Student
Research in International Health for her presentation on the Impact of
Orphanhood on Zambian Children. At the closing plenary, Janet Hatcher
Roberts announced that next year's conference will be held October
26-30, 2003 also in Ottawa at the Crowne Plaza Hotel.
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GLOBAL HEALTH CHALLENGES: POVERTY ERADICATION, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
AND TRADE
Gerry Barr, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian
Council for International Cooperation (CCIC), gave a speech entitled
"Global Health Challenges: Poverty Eradication, Sustainable Development
and Trade" last week during the 9th Canadian Conference of International
Health. He began: "In Alexandra, a slum of Johannesburg, there’s a
woman whose name is Knowledge. Two friends of mine, Amelia and Angela,
met her when they took a wrong turn. They were at the World Summit for
Sustainable Development, looking for the march organized by landless
peasant groups, from Alexandra to the exclusive enclave of Sandton,
where the Summit was being held. Knowledge started shouting at them,
challenging them to look poverty in the face." The full text of the
speech is available at the CCIC website: http://www.ccic.ca/.
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SEVENTEEN CANADIANS NAMED PUBLIC HEALTH HEROES
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), celebrating its centennial
this year, has named 17 Canadian Health Heroes who have made substantial
contributions to Public Health. The heroes were honoured October 29 as
part of the 9th Canadian Conference on International Health. The PAHO
Health Heroes in Canada are: Dr. John Blatherwick (Vancouver); Cathy
Crowe, R.N. (Toronto); Dr. Henry Friesen (Winnipeg); Drs. Don & Liz
Hillman (Ottawa); Margaret Hilson, R.N (Ottawa); Dr. Maureen Law
(Ottawa); Dr. John Last (Ottawa); Dr. David R. MacLean
(Halifax/Vancouver); Berna Moss, R.N. (Bassano, Alberta); Dr. Victor
Neufeld (Hamilton); Dr. James Orbinski (Toronto); Dr. Andrew Pipe
(Ottawa); Dr. David Sackett (Markdale, Ontario); David Sweanor (Ottawa);
Dr. Mark Wainberg (Montreal); and, Dr. Pierre Viens (Quebec City).
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DOCUMENTARY WORLD PREMIERE ON A CANADIAN PAHO HEALTH HERO
The Women's Network presents the world premiere of Street Nurse, Sunday,
November 17, at 8:00 p.m. This powerful point-of-view documentary
explores the streets of Toronto through the eyes of Cathy Crowe, who
last week was named a Canadian Health Hero by the Pan American Health
Association. Cathy calls herself a "street nurse" because her patients
live there. Crowe is a nurse, an activist and an artist who has made
fighting homelessness her life's mission. This one-hour documentary will
take viewers inside Crowe's world, and her fight to raise consciousness
that every person deserves a place to live in a country that can well
afford it. Street Nurse was directed, written and produced by Shelley
Saywell (A Child's Century of War, Crimes of Honor, Out of the Fire) and
airs only days before National Housing Day, which takes place on Friday,
November 22.
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WORLD HEALTH REPORT 2002 - REDUCING RISKS, PROMOTING HEALTHY LIFE
Worldwide, healthy life expectancy can be increased by five to ten years
if governments and individuals work together to reduce major health
risks in each region. The WHO World Health Report 2002 breaks new ground
by identifying some major principal global risks to disease, disability
and death in the world today, quantifying their actual impact from
region to region, and then providing examples of cost-effective ways to
reduce those risks, applicable even in poor countries. For more
information on the Report, visit:
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/releases/pr84/en/.
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CANADA TO PROTECT STREET KIDS AND FIGHT HIV/AIDS IN HAITI
Minister for International Cooperation Susan Whelan has announced that
Canada will contribute $10.5 million to reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS
and to help street children in Haiti. For more information on this
initiative, see the press release at:
http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/cida_ind.nsf/dccfe1952450f552852568db00555b47
/5c2c67bf1c75618585256c64005c7101?OpenDocument.
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INTEGRATING INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE IN PROJECT PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTATION
The handbook "Integrating Indigenous Knowledge in Project Planning and
Implementation" is designed to assist governments, industry,
non-government organizations and Indigenous groups to work better with
each other when traditional knowledge is central to a development
objective. The guidelines, developed in part by CIDA, are not meant to
be prescriptive; rather they should be seen as a template from which
various stakeholders can develop their own collaborative partnerships.
The handbook is available in PDF format at:
http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/cida_ind.nsf/852562900065549a85256250006cbb1a
/57ed1d990f2ac9be85256b21004b12de?OpenDocument.
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TWO UPCOMING EVENTS IN TORONTO
The Canadian Liver Foundation and The Canadian Association for the Study
of the Liver present "The ABCs of Liver Disease: A National Conference
on Viral Hepatitis." The Conference takes place November 15-16, 2002, at
the Delta Chelsea Hotel in Toronto. For more information regarding
conference details and registration, contact Réanne Bélisle at (416)
847-0053 or [log in to unmask]
The Ontario Healthy Communities Coalition 2002 Conference "Engage,
Ignite, Declare…the Strength of Communities!" will be held November
21-23, 2002 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. For more
information, visit: www.healthycommunities.on.ca.
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CV NETWORK: THE LATEST ISSUE IS NOW AVAILABLE!
The 4th issue of the International Academy of Cardiovascular Sciences'
newsletter "CV Network" has articles describing research in Africa and
recent events in the Slovak Republic and in Japan. The newsletter is
available at the Academy's website: http://www.heartacademy.org/.
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CERTIFICATE PROGRAM IN MANAGING DISASTERS AND COMPLEX HUMANITARIAN
EMERGENCIES
Boston University's Center for International Health will be offering a
certificate program in Managing Disasters and Complex Humanitarian
Emergencies (CHEs) from February 10 to May 2, 2003. The course will
cover the causes and consequences of CHEs, including the initial
response and the meeting of basic needs such as food, water, health care
and shelter. Specific attention will be paid to potential public health
problems and interventions. The application deadline for the course is
January 13, 2003. For more information, visit: www.bumc.bu.edu/ih.
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