Speakers
Plenary Topics and Speakers – Daily Schedule
(subject to change)
Monday, July 6, 2009
Venue
World Health Organization (WHO) (English)/Organisation mondiale de la Santé (OMS) (French)*
20 Avenue Appia, Ch 1211, Geneva 27, Switzerland
Phone: 41 22 791 21 11
*If asking for directions in Geneva, use the French name, OMS
Meeting at WHO on Monday July 6
We are very sorry but the meeting at WHO and the Reception meal are fully booked. The first 300 who have already registered will receive a notice of their status. Anyone who has paid for the reception meal and is not among the 300 will receive a refund. Please give us a few weeks to accomplish this refund.
Importance Notice
The primary meetings from July 7-11 will be held at the University of Geneva Unimail Building and we have plenty of room for new Registrations. But do not wait too long to Register and book your Hotel.
3:00- 3:30 Pick badges at WHO
3:30 – 4:00 Welcome and Introductions
Namita Pradhan and Kathleen Kuntaraf .
4:00-4:25 Goals and Objectives
Stoy Proctor
Plenary Sessions
4:30 to 5:15 pm
Moderator: Peter Landless, Executive Director, International Commission for the Prevention of Alcoholism and Drug Dependency
Keynote Address: The Sum Exceeds the Parts: The importance of partnerships with faith-based organizations in the delivery of healthcare
Anarfi Asamoa-Baah, Deputy Director General, WHO/ONM
5:20 to 6:00 pm
Plenary Address: Pathways to Reform
Namita Pradhan, Assistant Director-General for Partnerships and UN Reform
6:05 to 6:45 pm
Plenary Address: Driving Values: Core values that drive the mission, work and objectives of public health, faith-based, community, and health organizations
Allan Handysides, Director, Department of Health Ministries, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
7:15 to 7:45 pm / WHO Dining Room
Admission by ticket only.
Reception Dinner Presentation: Experience of Faith-based Organizations in Healthcare Delivery
Manoj Kurian, Health Director, World Council of Churches
7:45 to 8:45 pm / WHO Dining Room
Admission by ticket only.
Reception meal
Entertainment by the Per de Lange family
July 7 and 8, 2009
Venue
University of Geneva, UNIMAIL Building
40 Blvd. du Pont d’Arve, 1201 Geneva 4, Switzerland
Phone: 41 22 379 80 82
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
7:30 am to 6:00 pm
Plenary Sessions
Moderator: Allan Handysides, Director, Department of Health Ministries, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
7:30 to 8:30 am
On-site late registration
8:30 to 8:45 am
Welcome and Prayer
Bruno Vertalier, President, Euro-Africa Division of Seventh-day Adventists
8:50 to 9:15 am
Keynote Address: Rhetoric or Reality: How does a faith-based organization wish to be seen to show the need to progress beyond rhetoric to reality?
Jan Paulsen, President, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
9:25 to 9:55 am
Plenary Address: Spirituality – A Neglected Component of Lifestyle in Primary Health: An exploration of spirituality as a factor in health a healthcare.
Ted Karpf, Officer, Department of Partnership and UN Reform, WHO
10:00 to 10:30 am
Plenary Address: Winners Score Goals: Strategy and visioning in global healthcare (UN Millennium Development Goals, WHO Alma Ata Declaration, Middle-term Strategic Plans, and USA Healthy People 2010)
William Robertson, CEO Adventist Health Care Inc.
11:00 to 11:30 am
Plenary Address: Roadblocks and Detours: Cultural and religious impediments to health in lifestyle in primary healthcare, stigma, prejudice, traditions, and dogmas
Gerald Winslow, Director of Ethics, Vice President for Mission and Culture, Loma Linda University
11:30 to 12:05 pm
Plenary Address: Healthcare Dissonance: Disparities of access to public health institutions – what are some of the solutions and social determinants?
David Williams, Professor of Public Health, Harvard University
12:10 to 12:40 pm
Plenary Address: The Unrecognized Element in Primary Care: Lifestyle is primary healthcare – the evidence to show lifestyle effectively reduces the burden of disease, impacting all facets of healthcare.
Gary Fraser, Principal Investigator - Adventist Health Study 2; Professor of Epidemiology, Loma Linda University.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
8:30 to 8:45 am
Moderator: Stoy Proctor, Associate Director, Department of Health Ministries, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
Welcome and Announcements
8:50 to 9:20 am
Plenary Address: Harnessing the Power of Partnerships in Primary Care
Alex Ross, Director, Programme on Partnerships and United Nations Reform Director-General's Office, World Health Organization
9:25 to 9:55 am
Plenary Address: The Gathering Storm: Today’s lifestyle, tomorrow’s epidemic
Albert Reece, Dean, School of Medicine, University of Maryland
10:00 to 10:30 am
Plenary Address: Lifestyle in the City
Gwen Foster, Retired Health Czar, Philadelphia, PA U.S.A.
11:00 to 11:30 am
Plenary Address: National Government’s New Model: National, state, and local governments’ pivotal role in lifestyle and primary care.
Christopher Drasbek, Regional Advisor –Pan American Health Organization.
11:35 to 12:05 pm
Plenary Address: NGOs’ Challenge: The role of non-government organizations as change agents in primary care
Charles Sandefur, President, ADRA International
July 9 to 11, 2009
Venue
University of Geneva
40 Blvd. du Pont d’Arve, 1201 Geneva 4, Switzerland
Phone: 41 22 379 80 82
Thursday, July 9, 2009
8:30 to 8:40 am
Welcome, Announcements, Opening Prayer
Moderator: Abe Carpena, Director, Department of Health Ministries, South-Asia Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventist
8:45 to 10:00 am
Panel Discussion: Re-Creating the Health Mission
Panel Moderator: Peter Landless, Executive Director,
Panel Members: Gerald Winslow, Richard Hart, Richard Willis, Virato Ferriera, Lyn Behrens
10:30 to 11:00 am
Plenary Address: The Biblical Foundations of Health Ministry
Gerald Winslow, Director of Ethics, Vice President for Mission and Culture, Loma Linda University
11:05 to 11:30 am
Plenary Address: Ensuring Environmental Sustainability
Per de Lange, Consultant to the Regional Office of Health, Norway
11:40 to 12:10 pm
Plenary Address: The Relevancy of International Boards to the Health Mission of the Church
Neils-Erik Andreasen, President, Andrews University
1:45 to 3:00 pm
Panel Discussion: Faith-based Organizations’ Response to Global Health Goals
Panel Moderator: David Dyjack, Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine, Loma Linda School of Medicine; Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health, Loma Linda School of Public Health; Professor of Global Health, Loma Linda School of Public Health
Panel Members: Martine Polycarp (ADRA International Health Director), Eradicating Extreme Poverty; Hudson Kibuuka (Director, Department of Education, East Central Africa Division), Achieving Universal Primary Education; Lisa Beardsley (Associate Director, Department of Education, General Conference), Promoting Gender Equality – Empowering Women; Fesaha Tsegaye (Director, Department of Health Ministries, East Central Africa Division), Reducing Child Mortality; Elie Honoré (Director, Department of Health Ministries, Inter-American Division), Improving Maternal Health; Oscar Giordano (AIDS Ministries Director, Africa), Combating HIV/AIDS and Malaria; Per de Lange (teacher, consultant to Norwegian Public Health Service), Partnering with Governments; Abraham Carpena (Director, Department of Health Ministries, Southern Asia-Pacific Division), Mobilizing Churches.
6:05 to 6:30 pm
Devotional, Closing Prayer: Name of Presentation
Bruno Vertalier, President, Euro-Africa Division
Friday, July 11, 2009
8:30 am to 6:00 pm
Plenary Sessions
Moderator: Barbara Choi, Director, Department of Health Ministries, Northern Asia-Pacific Division
8:30 to 8:45 am
Welcome, Announcements, Opening Prayer
8:45 to 9:15 am
Keynote Address: Developing Health Ministry Leadership for the Local Church
DeWitt Williams, Director, Department of Health Ministries, North American Division
9:30-12:45 Interactive Tracts
2:00 to 4:00 pm
Plenary Workshop: Crafting the Response to WHO Goals and Objectives
GC Health Team, Ted Wilson, Charles Drasbek, James Hill, Ted Karpf
6:00 to 6:30 pm
Plenary Address: Integrity of Health Ministry
Paul Clee, Director, Department of Health Ministries, Trans-European Division
8:00 to 9:00 pm
Sacred Concert
The Per de Lange family
Sabbath, July 11, 2009
9:00 am to 4:30 pm
9:00 to 9:30 am
Musical Treats
Moderators: Elie Honore - Director, Department of Health Ministries Inter-American Division and
Viriato Ferreira, Director, Department of Health Ministries, Euro-Africa Division
9:30 to 10:30 am
Panel Discussion: Values
Panel Moderator: Kevin Price, Director, Department of Health Ministries, South Pacific Division
Panel Members: Alex Llaguno, Joy Butler, Gerald Winslow, Lowell Cooper, Raquel Arias, Frank Perez, Geoffrey Mbwana
11:00 am to 12:15 pm
Plenary Address: The Church’s Responsibility to Society
Ted Wilson, Vice President, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
2:00 to 3:55 pm
Panel Discussion: The Importance of Relationships and Networking
Panel Moderator: Jonathan Duffy, ADRA Director, South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists
Panel Members: Gary Hopkins (Assistant Director, Department of Health Ministries, General Conference), The Importance of Relationships; Per de Lange, In Relationship with Governments; John Graz (Director, Department of Public Affairs and Religious Liberty, General Conference), In Relationship with FBOs; Geoffrey Mbwana (President, East Central Africa Division), In Relationship with Cultural Diversity; Abraham Carpena (Director, Department of Health Ministries, Southern Asia-Pacific Division), In Relationship with Secular Society; Charles Sandefur (President, ADRA International), In Relationship with Marginalized Society; Corrado Cozzi (Youth Director, Euro-Africa Division), In Relationship Across the Generations.
4:30 to 6:00 pm: Music and Original Experiences
7:15 to 7:45 pm
Devotional, Closing Prayer: So Send I You
Bertil Wiklander, President, Trans-European Division
This page has been updated on 25.03.2009.