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Plenary/Keynote Presentations

Opening Ceremony

Dimanche, 10 June 2007, 1800-2000
Vancouver Convention and Exhibition Centre

Moderator: Joyce Resin, Director of Health Promotion and Communications, Healthy Heart Society, Vancouver, BC

Marcia Hills, Professor of Nursing, University of Victoria, Canada; Director, Centre for Community Health Promotion Research; President, Canadian Consortium for Health Promotion Research; Vice-President, IUHPE and Chair of the 19th IUHPE World Conference.

Stephen Lewis, former UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa (2001 – 2006), Commissioner for the World Health Organization’s Commission on the Social Determinants of Health, Senior Advisor to the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University and Senior Advisor for Health and Human Rights to the Harvard School of Public Health.

K1 - CREATING SUPPORTIVE ENVIRONMENTS FOR HEALTH

Monday, 11 June 2007, 0830-1030
Vancouver Convention and Exhibition Centre

Moderator: Sylvie Stachenko, Deputy Chief Public Health Officer of Canada; Public Health Agency of Canada

David McQueen, Senior Biomedical Research Scientist, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Jeff Reading, Scientific Director of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research - Institute of Aboriginal Peoples' Health

Sir Michael Marmot, Chair of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health

K2 - BUILDING HEALTHY PUBLIC POLICY

Tuesday, 12 June 2007, 0830-1030
Vancouver Convention and Exhibition Centre

Moderator: David Butler-Jones, Chief Public Health Officer of Canada, Public Health Agency of Canada

The Honourable Gordon Hogg, Minister of State for 'Act Now', Government of British Columbia, Canada

Michel Autès, Vice Président, Prévention et Santé, Région Nord-Pas de Calais, en France

Nadarajah Sivarajah, Coordinator, Jaffna Field Unit, World Health Organization, Jaffna, Sri Lanka

Paulo Buss, Physician and President of Fundação Oswaldo Cruz

K3 - STRENGTHENING COMMUNITY ACTION: DEVELOPING PERSONAL SKILLS

Mercredi, 13 June 2007, 0830-1030
Vancouver Convention and Exhibition Centre

Moderator: Michel O’Neill, Professor, Faof Nursing, Laval University, Canada; Co-director, Groupe de recherche et d’intervention en promotion de la santé de l’Université Laval; Co-director, Québec World Health Organisation Collaborating Center on the Development of Healthy Cities

Vivian Labrie, Coordinator and Spokesperson for the «Collectif pour un Québec sans pauvreté» (a collective for a Quebec free from poverty).

Maria Dolores Fernós, Bureau gouvernemental des Avocats pour la Protection des Droits des Femmes, Commonwealth de Porto Rico

Esau Kekeubata, Chairman of the Kwaio Fadanga (Kwaio council of chiefs) and Founding Health Worker at Kafurumu health centre in the mountains of Malaita, Solomon Islands

K4 - REORIENTING HEALTH SYSTEMS

Jeudi, 14 June 2007, 0830-1030
Vancouver Convention and Exhibition Centre

Moderator: Maurice Mittelmark, Director, Research Centre For Health Promotion, University of Bergen , Norway; President, IUHPE

Stephen Matlin, Executive Director, Global Forum for Health Research in Geneva

Monique Bégin, School of Management, University of Ottawa, Canada

Closing Ceremony

Vendredi, 15 June 2007, 1215-1330
Vancouver Convention and Exhibition Centre

Moderator: Joyce Resin, Director of Health Promotion and Communications, Healthy Heart Society, Vancouver, BC

David Butler-Jones, Chief Public Health Officer, Public Health Agency of Canada

Gauden Galea, Coordinator, Health Promotion, Chronic Diseases and Health Promotion Department, World Health Organization, Switzerland

Mary Amuyunzu-Nyamongo, Executive Director, African Institute for Health and Development

Ilona Kickbusch, Independent Global Health Consultant, Switzerland