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Seminar on 20 January 2005
Nijmegen

Challenges in Global Public Health and
The People’s Health Movement

A broad range of factors, including public policies at the micro and macro 
levels, determine wellbeing and health of an individual, a community or 
society. Over the past decades, considerable gains have been made in health 
status. However, the benefits of our increasingly integrated world economy have 
not accrued to all. In step with increasing inequalities in income, wealth, 
economic power, inequalities in health within and among countries have also 
persisted and continue deepening at a global level. In this unbalanced context, 
traditional as well as newly emerging diseases further aggravate the current 
crisis in global public health. On the other hand, our mutual interdependence 
has been highlighted by the recent tsunami in Asia and Africa.
Participation in the policy- and decision making process that determines health 
and wellbeing is critical in particular if based upon a vision of hope and 
sustainable, equitable development for the future.

In December 2000 the first People’s health Assembly (PHA) took place in 
Bangladesh. This was the culmination of a series of local, (micro-) regional 
and national consultations organised to revive the spirit of Health for All by 
2000. This Assembly endorsed the People’s Health Charter 
(http://www.phmovement.org/charter/pch-english.html) that intends to set out a 
vision of hope for the future, the guiding principles and demands of the 
People’s Health Movement (PHM). Since then, this coalition of grassroots 
organisations, national and international NGOs, and international networks has 
developed into a global social movement with strong links to local communities 
combining both the capacity and legitimacy to participate in decision-making 
processes at the local and global level. Over the last years, the PHM has been 
playing an increasing role in official international health events. 



Programme Seminar


Venue		UMCN, KNO gebouw, Philips van Leydenlaan 15, KNO zaal 1e 
verdieping
Date		20 January 2005
Organisation	PHM, UMCN/Radboud University of Nijmegen, WEMOS, HAN, Women 
Global Network for Reproductive Rights 
Secretariat	niih-secretariaat at AIG.umcn.nl 
		Tel. nr. 024-3616980


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13.30	- 13.35		Welcome/Introduction of speakers 		UMCN 
(Dr FranVoise Barten) 

13.35	- 14.00		Globalisation and the Challenge of Health for All: 
A view from sub-Saharan Africa		Prof. David Sanders 
									(SOPH, 
UWC)
14.00 – 14.10		Questions

14.10 – 14.30 		Origin and perspective of the People’s Health Movement
			Dr Prem John, the Asian Community Health Action network 
and PHM

14.30 – 14.40 		Questions

14.40 – 15.00	Comments by Prof. Koos van der Velden, Public Health UMCN, Dr. 
Pol de Vos, ITG/Antwerpen, Dr Frans Schuurman, CIDIN
	
15.00 – 15.45		Debate						WEMOS 
(Jose Utrera)

15.45 – 15.55		The II People’s Health Assembly in Cuenca, Ecuador
									Andy 
Rutherford, 
One World Action

15.55 – 16.00		Concluding comments				HAN 
(Rob Schuurman)				

16.00 – 16.30		Tea/coffee break



Please confirm your participation before 15 January by e-mail via   
niih-secretariaat at AIG.umcn.nl as there is only limited number of places 
available. 


Professor David Sanders

David Sanders has since April 1993 been founding Director and Professor of the 
Public Health Programme at the University of the Western Cape which provides 
practice-oriented postgraduate and continuing education and undertakes research 
in public health and primary health care. He is author of "The Struggle for 
Health: Medicine and the Politics of Underdevelopment" and co-author 
of "Questioning the Solution: the Politics of Primary Health Care and Child 
Survival" and “Fatal Indifference: the G8, Africa and Global Health” and has 
researched and written in the areas of political economy of health, structural 
adjustment, child nutrition and health human resources development. He has been 
centrally involved in the development of the Peoples Health Movement and is a 
member of its Global Steering Group and its focal point for Southern Africa. 

Dr. Prem John

Prem John is a Steering group member of the PHM, representing the Asian 
Community Health Action Network, member of the PHM Funding group and PHA2 
International Organizing Committee.


Mr Andy Rutherford

Mr. Andy Rutherford is the Head of International Partnerships of the UK based 
development and policy agency One World Action.  He has worked with community 
based and people’s organisations in Asia, Africa and Central America over the 
last 25 years. He was active in the preparations and planning for the first 
People’s Health Assembly in 2000, has been the link person for the reflections 
on the structure of the People’s Health Movement.  Since 1999 One World Action 
he has been the focal organisation for the international funds for the PHA and 
PHM and he has been an active member of the Funding Circle. 


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