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PL02

Opening Ceremony	Monday, 19 April 2010 Session PL02/room 2
17:45 19:15	Official Opening Ceremony of the Geneva Health Forum 2010
	Chairs: Prof. Louis Loutan, President of the Organizing Committee, Geneva Health Forum & Head, Division of International and Humanitarian Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, Switzerland Prof. Brigitte Pittet-Cuenod, Vice-Dean, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland

	Welcome addresses
	Mr Bernard Gruson, Chief Executive Officer, Geneva University Hospitals
	Prof. Jean-Louis Carpentier, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva
	Mr Rémy Pagani, Mayor of Geneva
	Mr Pierre-François Unger, State Councillor in charge of the Department of Regional Affairs, Economy and Health (DARES), Republic and State of Geneva
	Mr Martin Dahinden, Director-General of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation

	Keynote addresses
	Rebuilding Lives in Afghanistan
	Dr Alberto Cairo, Head of the Physical Rehabilitation Programme, International Committee of the Red Cross, Afghanistan
	Women Against TB: My Personal Battle
	Ms Gerry Elsdon, Founder and CEO of Cinnamon Communications and global TB advocate, South Africa

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The way health systems are designed, managed and financed affects people's lives and livelihoods. The difference between a well-performing health system and one that is failing can bemeasured in death, disability, impoverishment, humiliation and despair.

- Dr Gro Brundtland, World Health Report 2000