Shaping the global health agenda - women, children and society

Tuesday - Wednesday 27 - 28 March 2012

Venue: Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, LONDON, W1G 0AE

We are delighted to announce that HRH The Princess Royal will be attending this conference.

****Registration closes 20 March - book now to avoid disappointment****

A two day conference organised by the Royal Society of Medicine in association with the Royal Colleges of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH)

Background:
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) defined a series of challenges for all who are committed to improving the health of people in low and middle income countries. Although the MDGs cover only a part of the Global Health (GH) agenda, it appears likely that many of the targets therein will not be achieved by 2015. Current evidence supports the notion that improvements in the health of women and children promote social and economic stability within society. Yet, in many parts of the world, the human rights of women and children are consistently ignored or subjugated to other political and social imperatives. Our own society is not immune from similar shortcomings.

The UK has an enviable record of Global Aid at a time when many of our population, at a time of economic instability, question the value of this investment.

Where should we be progressing from here? How can we most appropriately deal with problems such as domestic violence, lack of access to healthcare and disregard of human rights - all of which compromise the weakest segments of society?

Aims
This international conference highlights the unacceptable inequality which prejudices stability in society with specific focus on issues pertaining to women and children. Some of this agenda is naturally controversial, distressing and difficult to discuss. This conference debates and discusses these challenging problems whilst, simultaneously, seeking to understand how international aid can be directed in the most effective way.

Audience:
Anyone working in the field of Global Health or hoping to pursue work in this area

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You may also be interested in attending a screening of the film "The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo" on Wednesday 28 March following this conference. Register here: www.rsm.ac.uk/academ/ghc06.php

Registration Details:
AHP/Nurse/Midwife - both days: £215
Consultant/GP - both days: £360
RSM Associate - both days: £200
RSM Fellow - both days: £260
RSM Retired Fellow - both days: £200
RSM Student - both days: £55
RSM Trainee - both days: £200
Student - both days: £65
Trainee - both days: £215
Consultant/GP - one day: £265
RSM Retired Fellow - one day: £115
RSM Student - one day: £30
RSM Trainee - one day: £115
RSM Associate - one day: £115
RSM Fellow - one day: £145
Student - one day: £40
Trainee - one day: £135
AHP/Nurse/Midwife - one day: £135
Charity/NGO worker - both days: £215
Charity/NGO worker - one day: £135
Workshop B: Free of charge
Workshop A: Free of charge
Workshop E: Free of charge
Workshop D: Free of charge
Workshop C: Free of charge
Dinner: £40

DAY ONE: Tuesday 27 March 2012
9.00 am	Registration with tea and coffee
9.30 am	Introduction and welcome note
	Mr Babulal Sethia Lead for Global Health Royal Society of Medicine Professor Parveen Kumar President Royal Society of Medicine
Session 1:
9.35 am	Keynote address The MDGs in 2012
	Dr David Osrin Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow & Reader, UCL Institute of Child Health
10.00 am	Discussion
Session 2: Global and domestic violence
Chair: Ms Gerri McHugh CEO, Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH)
10.10 am	Violence against women and children
	Dr Denis Mukwege Medical Director of Panzi Hospital, The Democratic Republic of the Congo
10.30 am	Education should be at the heart of addressing the four umbrella rights of children affected by war.
	Mr Robert Williams Chief Executive Officer War Child
10.50 am	Panel discussion
11.10 am	Coffee break
11.40 am	Debate: This house believes that Aid is not working
Chair: Professor Parveen Kumar President, Royal Society of Medicine
11.45 am	Proposer
	Professor Theodore Trefon Contemporary History Section of the Belgian Royal Museum for Central Africa and is Adjunct Professor of International Relations at Boston University Brussels
12.00 pm	Opposer
	Ms Nuria Molina Director of Policy & Research, Save the Children
12.15 pm	Panel discussion with questions from the floor
1.00 pm	Lunch and poster exhibition
Session 3: Parallel workshop Sessions
2.00 pm	Delegates may choose two of the following five workshops
	Obstetrics & Gynaecology workshops:
	Workshop A: Women at the centre of family health - a human rights approach
	Facilitators: Professor Lesley Regan, Head Obstetrics & Gynaecology Deputy Head Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College at St Mary's Campus, UK Professor Dorothy Shaw, Senior Associate Dean, Professional Affairs, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Canada
	Workshop B: Caesarean Section as a marker of women's healthcare
	Facilitators: Professor James J Walker, Senior Vice President, Royal Colleges of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG), UK
	Paediatrics workshops:
	Workshop C: Child protection in a global context
	Facilitator: Professor Ruth Gilbert Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, University College London - Institute of Child Health, UK
	Workshop D: Underweight in children: the leading risk factor for ill health in the world today
	Facilitator: Professor Steve Allen Professor of Paediatrics and International Health, Swansea University; International Officer / David Baum Fellow, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, UK Ms Emily Walton Paediatric Registrar (ST5), West Middlesex University Hospital, UK
	Workshop E: HIV and children
	Facilitator: Dr Ruth Bland Associate Professor of Paediatrics and Child Health, Africa Centre for Health & Population Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
2.45 pm	Workshops repeated
	Workshops from the first session will be repeated to allow delegates to attend two from the possible five.
3.30 pm	Tea break
Session 4: Hewitt Award Lecture
3.50 pm	Professor Anibal Faúndes Chair, International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics
4.50 pm	Discussion
5.00 pm	Presentation of the Hewitt Award
	Dr Craig Johnson The Royal Society of Medicine Foundation, USA
5.05 pm	Close of day one
7.00 pm	Optional dinner, for those who have pre-booked
DAY TWO: Wednesday 28 March 2012
9.00 am	Registration with tea and coffee
9.25 pm	Welcome note
Session 1: Rights-based approach to healthcare
9.30 am	Introduction and chair
	Professor Lesley Regan Head Obstetrics & Gynaecology Deputy Head Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College at St Mary's Campus, UK
9.35 am	How supporting women's rights is fundamental to society
	Professor Lesley Regan Head Obstetrics & Gynaecology Deputy Head Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College at St Mary's Campus, UK
10.05 am	Children's rights: the bedrock of global child health
	Dr Tony Waterston Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Palestinian programme
10.25 am	Panel discussion with questions from the floor
11.00 am	Coffee break
11.20 am	Rights of children with disabilities: Challenging discrimination, exclusion and violence
	Ms Gerison Lansdown Co-Director of Child Rights Education for Professionals (CRED-PRO), based in the International Institute for Child Rights and Development, Victoria, BC
11.40 pm	Discussion
12.10 pm	Women, climate change and health - the need for urgent action
	Professor Mala Rao Professor of International Health, University of East London
12.30 pm	Lunch
Session 2
Chair: Professor Sir Eldryd Parry, Tropical Health and Education Trust (THET)
1.30 pm	Partnerships from an Africa perspective
	Dr Olugbemiro Sodeinde Consultant Community Paediatrician North East London Foundation Trust St George's Hospital
1.50 pm	DFID priorities in results based financing
	Dr Jenny Amery Chief Professional Officer, Human Development (Health and Education), Department for International Development (DFID)
2.10 pm	Foot soldiers of change
	Arlene Samen President/Founder One Heart World-Wide
2.30 pm	Keynote address Shaping the global health agenda: women, children and society
	Sir Michael Marmot Director, UCL Institute for Society and Health
3.15 pm	Whole panel discussion - speakers from meeting
3.45 pm	Final thoughts
	Mr Babulal Sethia Lead for Global Health, Royal Society of Medicine
4.00 pm	Close of meeting
	Please remember to book two of the possible five workshops to avoid disappointment:
	If you are only attending one day of the conference, please indicate which day in the special requirements box of the registration form.
Meeting ref: EVC07 CPD: 5 credits

The Royal Society of Medicine

Shaping the global health agenda - women, children and society

DAY ONE: Tuesday 27 March 2012

DAY TWO: Wednesday 28 March 2012

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