[ANU Pacific.Institute] Pacific Health Governance workshop

[Samuel Bashfield]

Please find attached information and travel scholarship application for a workshop we are hosting at UQ in February 2018. I was hoping you could circulate it to you colleagues and students.

This collaborative event aims to invigorate a new health research community from Australia and the Pacific islands region in the context of the unfolding UN Sustainable Development agenda. The workshop will be the first in a series of events designed to broker networks and partnerships for research and innovation for health in the region.

Workshop organisers and sponsors have set out to organise an event that is deliberately different from standard conferences. An emphasis has been placed on seeking funding for travel scholarships to bring Pacific voices, scholars and practitioners to the event in order to construct research agendas that are Pacific-driven, respond to needs and create agendas for joint research and action.

The 4 thematic streams that are wide ranging and reflect the diverse challenges and opportunities for health and policy in the region all in the context of the unfolding SDG agenda.  These will be co-chaired by Australian and Pacific Island researchers and practitioners who will provide lead inputs to kick start a conversation that is designed to address key questions/issues such as where are the capacity and research needs and how can we best provide research to help Pacific health under the SDG agenda . This will use a modified talanoa method with a facilitator calling on key people in the room to provide a short (5 minutes) input to help the conversation develop further.

Thursday 15th of February 2018

5:00pm - 7:00pm

Registration and Opening Reception
Includes Guest Speaker: Jo Chandler

Friday 16th of February 2018

8:00am

Registration

8:30am - 10:30am

Opening Session: Welcome to Country and Keynote Address
Dr  Colin Tukuitonga, Director General of the SPC

11:00 am - 3:00pm
(includes lunch break)

Thematic Breakout Sessions
Each theme session will run concurrently.
Theme 1: Health and Security and the Region
Includes pandemics, biosecurity, preparedness, International Health Regulations, gender-based violence, trauma and poverty, emergencies and catastrophic events.
Theme 2: Health Systems and Universal Health
Encompassing workforce, training, mobility and health seeking, urban health, coverage and capacities, health rights.
Theme 3: Climate Change and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
Analyses of fresh water, sanitation, zoonotic disease, One Health, climate change and threats to health, health security, climate change and mobility.
Theme 4: Non-Communicable Disease
Including trade and health, food security, access to medicines, cancer, mental health, unhealthy commodities.

3:30pm - 5:00pm

Closing Session:
Reporting Back and Closing Address




Dr Owain Williams
Senior Research Fellow
Room 019
School of Public Health
University of Queensland
288 Herston Road
HERSTON 4006
T: 07 3346 4681
E: o.william at uq.edu.au<mailto:o.william at uq.edu.au>
W: ww.public-health.uq.edu.au

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