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Session Programme

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MONDAY, 19 April 2010, UPDATED PROGRAMME AND FICHES

Plenary
9:00 10:30	Globalization and Health Systems: Regional Perspectives
10:30 11:00	Coffee Break
Parallel Sessions
11:00 12:30	Pandemic Preparedness and Response: Lessons Learned from H1N1		Health Systems Strengthening: What Are We Talking About?	Health Biotechnology: The World as a Playing Field	Health Workforce Distribution and Retention Strategies
12:30 14:00	Lunch Session / Media 21 Café / Official Opening of the Marketplace
	The Global Health Challenge of Malnutrition: Can it be Defeated?
Parallel Sessions
14:00 15:30	Global Mental Health: Challenges and Opportunities in a Changing World	Media21 session: Counterfeit Medicine: Cheap on The Web or in The Street, Very Costly at The End	Are GHIs Moving Towards Effective Health Systems Strengthening?		Merged: see below
15:30 16:00	Coffee Break / Marketplace
Parallel Sessions
16:00 17:30	Partnering Globally for Safer Care	Strengthening Family Medicine Networks in Eastern Europe	HIV/AIDS Programmes: Access, Care & Funding	Foreign Policy, Trade and Health: Finding The Right Balance	Accountability and Access to Essential Medicines: Global Perspectives
17:30 17:45	Break
Opening ceremony
17:45 19:15	Official Opening Ceremony of the Geneva Health Forum 2010

Plenary
9:00 10:30	Crisis as Catalyst for Health Reform: Quick Fixes or Sustainable Solutions?
10:30 11:00	Coffee Break / Poster presentations
Parallel Sessions
11:00 12:30	Emergency and Essential Surgery: Where Do We Stand?		Shared Responsibility and Concerted Responses to Antibiotic Resistance	Participatory Tools Influencing Health Systems	Migrant Access to Health in Switzerland: From Policy to Practice
12:30 14:00	Lunch Session / Media 21 Café / Marketplace
	The Wake of the Haiti Crisis: Lessons To Be Learned
Parallel Sessions
14:00 15:30	Access to Health for Refugees and Displaced Populations in Urban Settings	Neglecting Neglected Diseases: More of the Same?	Improving Patient-Provider Communication in the Context of Chronic Disease		Developing Youth Friendly Health Services: Do It Yourself!
15:30 16:00	Coffee Break / Poster presentations
Parallel Sessions
16:00 17:30	Rebuilding Post-Conflict Health Systems: Challenges and Opportunities	WHO and Global Health Governance	Participatory Approaches to Health: Case Studies from around the World		Improving Migrant Health in Europe
17:30 17:45	Break
17:45 19:15	Global Health Governance: Lost in Translation?

Plenary
9:00 10:30	Global Access to Health: The High's and Low's of Technology
10:30 11:00	Coffee Break / Poster presentations
Parallel Sessions
11:00 12:30	The Challenges of Working with Corruption	ICT: Improving Access for Health Professionals in Remote Settings	Ethics in Biomedical Research: Who is in Charge?		Training for Humanitarian Assistance	Globalization Reshaping Medical Education: Case Studies
12:30 14:00	Lunch Sessions / Media 21 Café / Marketplace
	Geneva Innovation Network: Improving Access to Medicines			World Alliance for Wound and Lymphoedema Care (WAWLC)
Parallel Sessions
14:00 15:30	Innovative Strategies for Chronic Disease Management	Human Rights in Health: Good Wishes and Practical Tools	Web-Based Health Communities: What's Behind the Hype?		International Hospital Partnerships: Key To Capacity Development	Mobilizing Students for Change: The Medsin Campaign
15:30 16:00	Coffee Break / Poster presentations
Closing ceremony
16:00 17:30	Resilience, Ownership, and Political Space: Getting Access to Health in the Mainstream

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It is my aspiration that health will finally be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for.

- Kofi Annan