Brussels 2013 - Plenary sessions details
Brussels 2013
Plenary sessions
Find out more about the keynote speakers, moderators and panellists
Opening session of the 6th European Public Health Conference
Thursday 14 November 2013, 12:00-13:00
Moderator: Guido van Hal, Belgian Association of Public Health
Welcome address:
Laurette Onkelinx, Federal Minister of Health, Belgium
Tonio Borg, EU Commissioner for Health and Consumers
Walter Ricciardi, EUPHA president
Helmut Brand, ASPHER president
Entr'acte Filip Van den Abeele (clik here for presentation)
Plenary 1: Are we there yet? Learning from the past, building the future
Thursday 14 November 2013, 13:00-14:00, organised by EUPHA
Moderator: Walter Ricciardi, EUPHA
Speakers:
Zsuzsanna Jakab, WHO Regional Office for Europe (presentation)
Sir Muir Gray, National Knowledge Service, United Kingdom (presentation)
Plenary 2: Hurtling towards the edge? Population dynamics and public health
Thursday 14 November 2013, 17:40-18:40, organised by EPHA
Moderator: Monika Kosinska, EPHA
Speaker: Johan Mackenbach, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands (presentation)
Panellist: Robert Johnstone, European Patients Forum
Plenary 3: No limits for public health! Using evidence for policy changes
Friday 15 November 2013, 09:00-10:00, organised by EuroHealthNet, European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
Moderator: Josep Figueras, European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
Panellists:
Tomaz Gantar, Minister of Health, Slovenia
Miklos Szocska, Minister of Health, Hungary
Antonio Correia de Campos, Member European Parliament, Portugal
Dominique Polton, National Health Insurance, France
Clive Needle, EuroHealthNet
Plenary 4: How to make it happen! On the development of people and institutions in public health
Friday 15 November 2013, 16:40-17:50, organised by ASPHER
Moderator: Helmut Brand, University of Maastricht, Netherlands
Panellists:
Peter Piot, Dean, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom
Julio Frenk, Harvard School of Public Health, United States
Marianne Olsson, President EHMA
Late breaker session: Health in all policies @ the European Commission
Saturday 16 November 2013, 13:00-14:00
Moderator: Kieran Walshe, Manchester Business School, United Kingdom
Speakers:
Katja de Sadeleer, European Commission, DG Enlargement (presentation)
Barbara Kerstiëns, European Commission, DG Research (presentation)
Plenary 5: Investing in Health: good practices from the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing
Saturday 16 November 2013, 14:00-15:00, organised by European Commission, Executive Agency for Health and Consumers
Moderator: Andrzej Rys, European Commission, DG Health and Consumers
Speakers:
Bernadette Hannigan, Department of Health, Northern Ireland (presentation)
Jean Bousquet, Chairman of the WHO Global Alliance against Chronic Respiratory Diseases (presentation)
Closing ceremony of the 6th European Public Health Conference
Saturday 16 November 2013, 15:00-15:45
EPH Conferences prizes ceremony awarded by Walter Ricciardi, Chair of the 6th European Public Health Conference 2013
Summary of the conference presented by Martin McKee, Chair of the International Scientific Committee 2013
Glasgow 2014 presented by Alastair Leyland, Chair of the 7th European Public Health Conference 2014 (presentation)