AWARDS
The 2011 IH Section award winners have been announced!
§ Lifetime Achievement Award: Henry Mosley
§ Mid-Career Award: Neil Arya
§ Service to Section Award: Donna Barry
§ Gordon Wyon Award: John Bryant
Congratulations to this year’s awardees! They will be honored at the Section social on Monday night of this year’s Annual Meeting, so don’t miss it!
CBPHC
Community-Based Primary Health Care Working Group
13th Annual Pre-APHA Annual Conference Workshop
Washington DC Convention Center Room WCC 204A
Saturday, Oct. 29, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Community Health Workers: What needs to be done to help these vital workers to be most effective and sustainable?
Currently there is an emphasis on mobilizing community health workers as part of strengthening health services in developing countries in an attempt to help them better meet their health Millennium Development Goals. However, the mobilization of CHWs is not a new approach in itself. Anyone who has worked in developing countries for several years can relate stories about projects that included CHWs that did not motivate CHWs to practice well enough for long enough to produce sustained outcomes. What can we do now so that we can maximize the possibility of success of current projects in this regard?
This workshop is being facilitated through the collaboration of John Snow Incorporated and the CBPHC Working group. Through presentations from current experts from MCHIP and other experienced health practitioners, we will deal with the focal question of this workshop and grapple with current solutions. Workshop presentations will cover key interventions underway through the USAID Health Care Improvement Project, recommendations coming from the Earth Institute One Million Community Health Workers Technical Advisory Committee, recent findings concerning worker motivation and experience from a good cross section of JSI and NGO field practitioners.
Key presenters include Steve Hodgins, Serge Raharison, Ram Shestra and Leban Tsuma from MCHIP; Mary Carnell from JSI; Mary Anne Mercer from University of Washington; and Dory Storms and Henry Perry from Johns Hopkins University. The CORE group and NGOs are well represented through presentations by experienced experts such as Karen LeBan, Judy Lewis, Tom Davis, Damaris Batista, Laura Altobelli and Connie Gates. Discussion and dialogue both in small and large group sessions specifically designed to stimulate input from participants will be a key part of our program. So please join us for a day of interesting, informative and enlivening discussion. REGISTER EARLY to not miss out.
To register contact: Sandy Hoar, Assistant Clinical Professor of Healthcare Sciences and Global Health, George Washington University. Please put “CBPHC” in your e-mail heading. The only fee is $25 ($20 for students), payable at the door. To facilitate planning, please register ASAP (the deadline is Oct. 22) and indicate if you will be joining us for dinner afterwards at your own expense. For further information contact: Sandy Hoar or Paul Freeman, Chairman of the IH Section’s CBPHC-WG.
GHCC
The Global Health Connections Committee will be holding its annual business meeting at APHA's Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. The meeting will be held on Sunday, Oct. 30 from 11:00 a.m. to noon. The venue is TBA, so please check back with the meeting program to see when it is posted. All are cordially invited to attend.
The Committee will also be hosting the Welcome Booth for Overseas Participants. Section members are encouraged to sign up for a time slot to provide information to overseas attendees about the meeting and the section activities. Please contact Gopal Sankaran at gsankaran@wcupa.edu for more information or to sign up to staff the booth.
POLICY/ADVOCACY
The Advocacy/Policy Committee would like to invite you to participate in our first Advocacy Day, led in partnership with the Global Health Council. The day, scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011, will be an opportunity for us to voice support for a continued focus on international health to our elected officials. With the intense Congressional pressure to cut the budget, our voices can make a real difference. As a participant during this exciting day, you will be provided with training materials on effective advocacy techniques to ensure your message is clearly heard. Even if you do not have advocacy experience, you need not hesitate to sign up because you will be teamed with others. Please consider joining your fellow International Health Section members on Thursday, November 3rd, 2011 on Capitol Hill to advocate for a healthy globe. Interested parties should contact Peter Freeman, Advocacy/Policy Committee Chair, at pffreeman@gmail.com or (773) 318.4842 with their name, phone number and email address. A registration link for the Advocacy Day will be sent out to the Section by mid-September; please be on the lookout for it.