PHA-Exchange> PHM participate in international debate on WHO election

[g_upham at club-internet.fr]

We will send you further information on how to participate in countries
later today.

FIRST EVER DEBATE BETWEEN WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION DIRECTOR GENERAL
CANDIDATES

Sunday 19th January 2003, 15:00 – 17:00 Geneva Time
Venue: Geneva International Conference Centre, CICG, 15 rue de Varembé,
1211 Geneva

with global teleconference links including Brazil, Ethiopia, India,
Japan, United Kingdom, New Zealand, South Africa, and the USA.

Candidates for the top post in world health – the Director General of
the World Health Organisation (WHO) - will participate in a two hour
world-wide question and answer session open to the public and linked
across the world via video and teleconferencing.

This is a unique opportunity for health ministers, non-governmental
organizations, and other leaders in the healthcare sector to ask
candidates to address publicly the most critical issues in global health
today.

The nine candidates for the position, in alphabetical order, include:
(1) Awa Marie Coll-Seck, Health Minister of Senegal. She is a medical
professor and former policy director at UNAIDS; (2 ) Djamil Fareed, an
internationally acclaimed heart specialist from Mauritius and advisor to
his country’s Minster of Health. (3) Julio Frenk, Health Minister of
Mexico and a public health expert. He was centrally involved in
developing a tool for measuring the global burden of disease. (4) Karam
Karam a former Health Minister of Lebanon. (5) Jong Wook Lee, a doctor
from South Korea, head of WHO’s programme to stop tuberculosis. (6)
Pascoal Manuel Mocumbi, Prime Minister of Mozambique and formerly his
country’s Minister of Health. (7) Peter Piot head of UNAIDS, a Belgian
epidemiologist and microbiologist who originally made his name as one of
the doctors who helped isolate the Ebola virus. (8) Ismail Sallam, a
professor of cardiac surgery who was until recently Egypt’s Minster of
Health and Population. (9) Joseph Williams is a medical doctor and
parliamentarian and formerly was Prime Minister of the Cook Islands.

Candidates will answer questions from participants located in Geneva and
from other locations around the world. The event will be broadcast
globally via the WorldSpace satellite system. WorldSpace offers a unique
technology which makes available digital audio, data and multimedia
throughout Africa, the Middle East, Europe, Asia and the Pacific, and
even to remote areas of the world with no internet access, expensive
satellite equipment or telecommunications infrastructure. The event will
also be broadcast via the internet, television and ISDN networks.

The WHO Executive Board meets the week following the debate. The Board
will nominate a single candidate for approval by vote of all the WHO’s
192 member states at its assembly in May 2003.

The organising NGO’s include the People’s Health Movement, the NGO Forum
for Health, the Interactive Health Network’s World Health Channel and
Exchange. Commercial sponsors include World Space and Direct Visual.
Supporting NGO’s include the International eHealth Association, Canal
Saude, Brazil’s health channel, The Academy of International Health
Philanthropy, the Global Health Council and the International Hospital
Federation.

For more information please contact: Dr. Harry McConnell harry at ihn.info;
to register for this event, please email events at ihn.info.


The Interactive Health Network is a non-profit organization using online
technology to combat health inequities. It focuses on seeking to make
medical information, training and support available to health care
workers in developing countries and is supported by the UK Department
for International Development (DFID). See http://www.ihn.info or e-mail
brigid at ihn.info.

Exchange works to improve the health and quality of life of poor people
by encouraging the exchange of relevant knowledge, information and
experience. The Exchange programme is hosted by Healthlink Worldwide and
supported by the UK Department for International Development (DFID).

The International eHealth Association is a non-profit organization
promoting the use of technology in healthcare to improve patient care
globally. It is a professional society offering educational events and a
peer reviewed journal on critical issues in healthcare technology. For
more information, see www.ieha.info and www.ehealthinternational.org.

In Geneva:
The NGO Forum for Health is an network of multisectoral NGOs committed
to promoting equity and justice in health care and wish to establish
partnership with others in making health a reality for millions around
the world.
The President is Dr Manoj Kurian, head of  Health Division, World
Council of Churches (mku at wcc-coe.org)

Le People’s Health Movement- Geneva International is the Swiss platform
of support for the People’s Health Movement which was launched in 2000
in Bangladesh with the participation of 120 NGOs from 96 countries, on
the principles of Alma Ata, “Health for All.” The PHM is participating
in the preparation for the 25th anniversary of Alma Ata, during the
World Health Assembly, in May 2003.  www.phmovement.org
The president of the PHM-GI is Ms Nance Upham, g_upham at club-internet.fr



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