Marseille 2019 - Plenary sessions

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Opening Ceremony of the 12th European Public Health Conference

Thursday 21 November 2019, 11:40 – 12:25

Moderator: Yves Charpak, Chair of the 12th European Public Health Conference

Speakers:

• Jérôme Salomon, General Director for Health, French Ministry of Health
• Hans Kluge, Regional Director Nominee WHO Regional Office for Europe
• Sophie Beau, Co-founder and General Director of the European Civil Rescue Association SOS Méditerranée, France - Presentation

 

Plenary 1 - Bridging for an interdisciplinary approach to public health to implement the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Thursday 21 November, 13:40 – 14:40

Organisers: WHO Regional Office for Europe, EUPHA

Moderators: Natasha Azzopardi Muscat, President EUPHA, and Anna Cichowska Myrup (Presentation), Programme Manager Public Health Services, WHO Regional Office for Europe

Keynote speakers/Panellists:

• Hans Kluge, Regional Director Nominee WHO Regional Office for Europe
• Otto Scharmer, Senior Lecturer, MIT Management Sloan School, Cambridge, United States - Presentation
• Miklós Szócska, Director Health Services Management Training Center, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
• Paula Vassallo, President European Dental Public Health Association (EADPH)
• Ricardo Baptista Leite, Member of Parliament, Head of Public Health at Católica University of Portugal, and former Deputy Mayor of Cascais, Portugal

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Plenary 2 – Building bridges for migration in a planetary context

Thursday 21 November, 16:50 – 17:50

Organisers: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), EUPHA Section Infectious diseases control (IDC)

Moderators: Karl Ekdahl, ECDC, and Michael Edelstein, EUPHA IDC

Keynote speaker

• Sally Hargreaves, Lecturer in Global Health, St George's University of London, United Kingdom - Presentation

Panellists:

• Nada Ghosn, Head of Epidemiological Surveillance Unit, Ministry of Public Health, Lebanon
• Neha Pathak, UCL Institute of Health Informatics, United Kingdon
• Isabel de la Mata, Principal Adviser for Health and Crisis Management, DG SANTE, European Commission

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Plenary 3 - Bridging towards the future of public health in Europe (I). Where can and should we go from here? 

Friday 22 November, 09:40 – 10:40

Organisers: European Commission, EUPHA

Moderators:  Isabel de la Mata, Principal Adviser for Health and Crisis Management, DG SANTE, European Commission, and Natasha Azzopardi Muscat, President EUPHA

Speakers/Panellists:

• Anne Bucher, Director-General, Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE), European Commission
• Liisa-Maria Voipio-Pulkki, Director General Strategic Affairs and Chief Medical Officer, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, Finland
• Dineke Zeegers Paget, Executive Director EUPHA - Presentation
• Sara McQuinn, Co-ordinator EUPHAnxt - Presentation
  

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Plenary 4 – Bridging towards the future of public health in Europe (II). Can we and how do we ensure Health in All EU Policies? 

Friday 22 November, 13:40 – 14:40

Organisers: European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, ASPHER

Moderator: Josep Figueras, Director European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies 

Keynote speaker/Panellists:

• Anne Bucher, Director-General, Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE), European Commission
• Scott L Greer, Professor Health Management and Policy, University of Michigan, United States
• John Middleton, President Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER)
• Marian Harkin, Chair of All Policies for a Healthy Europe, Former Member of the European Parliament

Andrija Stampar medal ceremony:

• Gaetano Maria Fara, Professor Emeritus of Public Health, Sapienza University of Rome

Newsroom:

• Dorli Kahr-Gottlieb, Secretary General of the European Health Forum Gastein
• Naomi Nathan, ASPHER Fellow

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Plenary 5 -  Migrant inequalities in urban settings and changing public health practice

Saturday 23 November, 09:40 – 10:40

Organiser: EuroHealthNet

Moderator: Caroline Costongs, Director EuroHealthNet

Speakers/Panellists:

• Santino Severoni, Coordinator Health and Migration, Division of Policy and Governance for Health and Well-being, WHO Regional Office for Europe
• Jean-Paul Moatti, Director Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement (IRD), France
• Lucinda Hiam, Honorary Research Fellow, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom
• Bernadette Nirmal Kumar, President EUPHA Section Migrant and ethnic minority health, Professor Empower School of Public Health, Haryana, India
• Maryam Gardisi, Deputy Director International psychosocial organisation (Ipso), Germany 

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Presentations:
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Closing Ceremony of the 12th European Public Health Conference

Saturday 23 November, 15:15 – 16:00

Moderator: Yves Charpak, Chair of the 12th European Public Health Conference

Keynote speakers:

• Laurence Auer, Director of Culture, Education and Research, Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, France
• Charlotte Marchandise, Elected member of the City Council of Rennes, France

Awards ceremony: Best Poster Prize, Best Abstract Prize, Ferenc Bojan Award

Welcome to the 13th EPH Conference/16th World Congress on Public Health, 12 -17 October 2020, Rome, Italy

• Walter Ricciardi, Co-chair of the 16th World Congress on Public Health, SItI
• Carlo Signorelli, Co-chair of the 16th World Congress on Public Health, SItI