FLACSO Argentina en el ADC Global Child Health Event

El Programa de Ciencias Sociales y Salud de FLACSO Argentina, coordinado por Raúl Mercer, participará en el evento de lanzamiento del Millennium Development Goals: Progress Reports, organizado por laRevista Archives of Diseases in Childhood, perteneciente al British Medical Journal. El Programa contribuirá además con un artículo en dicho suplemento especial.

El evento tendrá lugar el 26 de febrero en la British Medical Association, en Londres.

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Programme

•  Chairs -  Dr. Mark Beattie, Editor in Chief, ADC and Dr. Fiona Godlee, Editor in Chief, The BMJ

• Introduction – Dr. Nick Brown, Global Editor, ADC

• View from the DFID – Lindsay Patricia Northover, Baroness Northover
  
  Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for International Development

• MDGs: the background and progress to date – Mickey Chopra TBC, UNICEF

• Perinatal health in the MDG era – MD MS Gary Darmstadt, USA
  
  Associate Dean for Maternal and Child Health, Professor of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine

• Update from the WHO regions: Oceania – Dr. John Vince, Papua New Guinea
  
  Clinical Sciences Division, School of Medicine and Health Sciences

• The story from Sub-Saharan Africa -  Prof. Mike English, Kenya
  
  Prof. International Child Health & Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow, Head, Health Services Unit
  
  KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya & Nuffield Department of Medicine, Oxford University

• Update from the WHO regions: South America – MD Raul Mercer, Argentina
  
  Coordinator of the Program of Social Sciences and Health at FLACSO and Researcher at CISAP, FLACSO (Latin American School of Social Sciences) CISAP (Center for Research in Population Health)

• Next steps: the Sustainable Development Goals – Prof. Zulfiqar Bhutta
  
  Founding Director, Center of Excellence in Women and Child Health, the Aga Khan University (Pakistan and East Africa) and Robert Harding Chair in Global Child Health, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada