Wednesday, 7 April 2010, 8.30am-5pm
Ormond Hall, 557 St Kilda Road Melbourne, VIC Australia
(entry via Moubray Street)
The focus of the 2010 World Health Organization's World Health Day is 'Urbanisation and Health'. In reflection of this the theme of the fourth annual AMREP World Health Day Conference is 'Health and the City'.The conference will be held on World Health Day, Wednesday 7 April 2010 and will have two inter-related themes:
- Implications of urbanisation for the health of poor and disadvantaged population
- Multi-faceted approaches to improving maternal health in low-income settings
Speakers, panellists and participants from South Africa, China, India and around Australia will discuss and exchange ideas about how urbanisation affects the health and wellbeing of vulnerable populations, particularly women and children. According to the World Health Organisation, more than 50% of the world's population is living in cities, and this proportion continues to grow.
Urbanisation affects the health of people in many complex ways in terms of infectious disease transmission, the role of people's living environments, and the rapidly increasing prevalence of chronic non-communicable diseases and their associated risk factors. At present, more than one billion people live in urban slums and the World Bank forecasts that by 2035, cities will become the predominant sites of poverty.
Keynote speakers include: Professor Guo Yan, Peking University and former WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health; Dr Kiran Martin, Asha, India; Mr Murray Proctor, AusAID; and Professor KR Thankappan, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, India. Other speakers will include Ms Jill Gallagher, Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation; Ms Sue Ndwala, World Vision; Mr Todd Harper, VicHealth; and Professor Geoffrey Setswe, School of Health Sciences, Monash South Africa, and Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa.
This conference is organised by Monash University and the Burnet Institute, on behalf of the AMREP Global Health Consortium, with support from 'Compass' the AusAID-funded Women's and Children's Health Knowledge Hub and VicHealth. The conference is free to all participants, please register your details with
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The AMREP World Health Day Conference is an annual event held on World Health Day, 7 April , that aims to bring together students, researchers, practitioners and policy makers from academia, research institutes, government agencies, and non-government agencies (NGOs) to exchange ideas and discuss relevant current issues pertaining to global health.
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