Satellite Meetings

We are happy to announce that pursuing the paths of preceding Summits several Satellite Meetings will accompany the World Health Summit 2012. The following events will supplement the thematic radius of the World Health Summit:

“Berlin meets Beijing”

Open to all
October 23rd, 12 – 15h
Hosts: GTAI, Berliner Wirtschaftsgespräche, World Health Summit
Location: Taubenstr. 7-9, 10117 Berlin

Honoring the close partnership of Berlin with the Chinese capital Peking, a Satellite Symposium is being organized for October 23rd. The aim of this Symposium is to discuss the fruitful cooperation of these two cities regarding health care, health economy and health systems; to share experiences and to create new synergies.

The fast urbanization of Chinese cities causes many medical problems. To alleviate the consequences of the demographic change, a health care reform was initiated in 2009 with the main objective to ensure public access to health care. With more than 200,000 people involved in health care, medical and biological research, Berlin might be able to offer additional help. The Charité comes with the potential of various research institutions, academia and start-ups in the field of health care; interdisciplinary collaboration; and cooperation in all health related fields.

Host of this special event are the Berliner Wirtschaftsgespräche e.V., Germany Trade and Invest, and the World Health Summit. About 200 international participants from Academia, Politic, Health Care and Economy are expected.

Registration: Berliner Wirtschaftsgespräche and on site

IAMP Young Physician Leaders Meeting

By invitation only
October 19th – 20th
Hosts: InterAcademy Medical Panel (IAMP)
Location: Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (BBWA), Jägerstr. 22/23, 10117 Berlin

The IAMP Young Physician Leaders Meeting is a satellite meeting which will take place from October 19th to 20th. Together with the M8 Alliance of Academic Health Centers and Medical Universities worldwide, the InterAcademy Medical Panel (IAMP) will on this occasion establish a “Young Physician Leadership Program”: 20 outstanding young physician leaders are selected and nominated by IAMP members for a specific workshop to develop their leadership skills during mentoring sessions with an international group of physician leaders. The program includes participation in the World Health Summit (October 21st – 24th 2012), which will provide an outstanding scientific and policy program and networking opportunities with a global group of medical and scientific professionals, government officials, business leaders and health related organizations.

Eligible physicians for the Leadership Program are under 40 years of age, have demonstrated outstanding accomplishments in clinical medicine, medical education, public health or health policy and show significant promise for leadership in their fields in the future.

The Co-Chairs of the IAMP, Jo Ivey Boufford and Looi Lai-Meng, will be chairing this program in Berlin.

ZEIT Campus Dialog

Open to all
October 23rd, 18:30 – 20h
Hosts: ZEIT Campus, World Health Summit
Location: Langenbeck-Virchow-Haus, Luisenstraße 59, 10117 Berlin

ZEIT Campus is a highly regarded German magazine for students and young professionals. It is being issued by one of the most important German newspapers: DIE ZEIT. The symposium on Tuesday, October 23rd, discusses the topic “Science as a Job: Which Chances and Perspectives do Young Scientists in Germany have?” and will be held in German exclusively. Prof. Detlev Ganten, Founding President of the World Health Summit, Dr. Katrin Paeschke, researcher and biochemist at University Würzburg, and Prof. Dr. Margret Wintermantel, President of the German Academic Exchange Service, will discuss possibilities and recommendable steps for students and alumni to take in order to successfully start an academic career. Simon Kerbusk, Chief Editor of ZEIT Campus, will moderate the discussion.

Interested participants will have the additional opportunity to enjoy an exclusive inside look at the World Health Summit as they will be able to visit the Summit on Tuesday, October 23rd, from 4pm on, free of charge.

Registration: on site at the World Health Summit
Further information: ZEIT Campus Dialog

health_y: food|media|innovation|education

Open to all
October 16th, 19:30 - 21:00
Hosts: Stiftung Brandenburger Tor, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin,
World Health Summit, Helmholtz Association
Location: Max Liebermann Haus, Pariser Platz 7, 10117 Berlin

Health and the access to health care are universal rights. They define a public affair (res publica) in the most classical sense, comparable to social needs, public transportation or the right for education

The new event series “health_y: why healthy?” will offer a forum to address, present and discuss pressing health challenges. It will gather Academia, Research and Civil Society to help establishing new ideas as well as multi-disciplinary and global approaches for the future state of health.

This opening session as Satellite for the World Health Summit will focus on “The Value of Good Food: Healthy cooking, its prizing, and equity for all”. Markus Heidmeier (DRadio Wissen) will moderate the discussion.

Registration: Stiftung Brandenburger Tor and on site

Rethinking Global Health – A Student Perspective

Invitation Only
October 19^th - 24^th
Host: Arranged by Representatives of Several International Student Organisations (bvmd, IFMSA, UAEM and others)
Location: tba.

Several international student organizations will arrange a workshop from October 19^th – 24^th 2012 to accompany the World Health Summit. The workshop will be designed as a series of activities, emphasizing the important role of students in the vast area of global health. The concept has been specifically created for the World Health Summit – for students, by students.

Encouraged by the success of the „BVMD Week of Global Health Education“, which accompanied the World Health Summit 2011, the organizers implement the idea of a workshop-week on Global Health again, supported by several international student organizations. The workshop’s activities will enable participants to explore the multi-facetted world of Global Health via discussing topics as Patient and Community Health; the leading role of physicians in this context; the role of international institutions and governments; the access of reliable information on Global Health issues.

The workshop will be both theoretical and practical. Through short interactive lectures, trainings and exercises, students will learn to use the theoretical knowledge in practice. Daily briefings, discussions and reflections on the day will be part of the workshop routine.

Application deadline: September 16^th 2012. Applications are to include a CV (max. 2 pages) + letter of motivation (max. 1/2 page)

Further information at BVMD or preWHS(at)bvmd.de

Pan-African Satellite Symposium on Respiratory Infection AIDS, TB and Rheumatic Fever: A Triple Challenge

Open to all
October 20th, 9 – 18.15h
Hosts: African Cultural Institute, e.V., Pan-African Society for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery e.V., Berlin Medical Society, German Heart Institute Berlin, Koch-Metschnikow-Forum, University of the Free State, South Africa
Location: German Heart Institute Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, D-13353 Berlin

Main objective of this Satellite Symposium is to interact with distinguished clinicians and scientists from Africa, Asia, Europe and USA who are specialized in HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis associated cardio-respiratory co-infections, streptococcal infections and rheumatic fever, rheumatic heart valve disease and public health. Furthermore, it aims to provide cutting-edge education and holistic approaches that improve diagnostics, medical and surgical therapy and to improve the scientific basis of follow-up and population. About 100 high-ranking participants from Science and health care as well as political decision makers are expected to attend this first Symposium of its kind. The Satellite Symposium will be highlighted by a 3-hour multi-site video teleconference (1st German–African Telemedicine Forum) from 15-18.00 hrs.

Read more on the program >>>

Registration: Afrika Kulturinstitut e.V. >>>

Paris-Berlin Center of Public Health – a bilateral cooperation

October 20th, 14.30 - 16.30 pm
Co-Hosts: Deutsches Ärzteblatt
Location: Friedrich-Kopsch-Hörsaal, Institut für Anatomie, Campus Charité Mitte, Philippstr. 12, 10115, Berlin

Upcoming challenges for public health include the reduction of social inequalities in health, the development and evaluation of effective prevention and health promotion programs, the organization of health services in the context of an ageing society and new technologies, and the assessment of the impact of an increasing globalization on health. A bilateral cooperation such as the Paris-Berlin Center of Public Health allows for a more efficient use of available resources in addressing those issues in both research and education. As public health challenges are increasingly global, solutions can only be achieved in the long term in bilateral and international cooperation.

Moderation: Prof. Ulrich Frei (Charité)

Speakers:
Jean-François Girard, President, PRES Sorbonne Paris Cité
Annette Grüters-Kieslich, Dean, Charité

Including Panel and Open Discussion 

Research for Health and Sustainable Development
Human Rights - Nutrition – Governance

October 20th, (from 16.30 pm; coffee) 17.00 – 18.30 pm
Co-Hosts: Deutsches Ärzteblatt
Location: Kopsch Hörsaal, Philippstraße 12, 10117 Berlin

This year, world leaders have met for the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development. Although health and research are the basis for development, these issues do not figure prominently in the agenda for Rio. And health for all can only be established if we include other very important factors, like nutrition, education, empowerment and governance into our agendas. The objective of this panel discussion is to find links between all these health-related sectors in order to reach a healthy and sustainable development for all.

Introduction: Vera Zylka-Menhorn, Deutsches Ärzteblatt, Germany

Moderation: Jean-François Girard, President of Sorbonne Paris Cité, France

Speakers:
Monika Hauser, Founder and Executive Member of the Board of Medica Mondiale, Germany
Hans Rudolf Herren, Founder and President of the Biovision Foundation, Switzerland
Mphu Ramatlapeng, Board Member FIND (Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics), Lesotho (tbc)

The 10th International Dialogue on Population and Sustainable Development

Open to all
October 24th, 18.30 – 20.30h
Host: BMZ
Location: Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ),
Stresemannstraße 92, 10963 Berlin

In 2015, the world’s most dominant development framework, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), will come to an end. It is hard to judge the impact of the MDGs, but they have been successful in focusing advocacy and resource mobilization efforts around the eight sectors included in the framework. In 2015, the world will endorse a new framework for poverty alleviation and improving development outcomes.

Since 2000, there has been clear aggregate progress on all of the MDG targets, although some regions and countries have lagged behind. Population dynamics – growth, aging, urbanization, migration – are having a huge impact on the ability to meet the MDGs and will continue to impact future development frameworks, debates and outcomes. By 2015, the world population is expected to reach 7.3 billion and exceed 10 billion by the end of the century. Population dynamics are too important to ignore, and will determine the scale and shape of the development challenges we face. Population dynamics are a cross cutting issue which affects environmental degradation, climate change, food and water scarcity, employment, conflict and instability, all of which put pressure on the political, economic, health and education systems of many developing countries. Dialogues about equity, sustainability, gender and human rights need to consider population dynamics.

The time for experts in population dynamics to analyze the political landscape is now – to ensure that the next framework considers population dynamics and their impact on a nation’s sustainable human and economic growth outcomes.

Moderator: Melinda Crane (DW-TV)

Registration: on site

20:30 Reception on invitation by the Federal Ministry for Economic Development and Cooperation (BMZ)

European ESTHER-Alliance Meeting

Invitation Only
October 24th -25th
Hosts: European ESTHER-Alliance (EEA) and Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
Location: Langenbeck-Virchow-Haus, Luisenstraße 59, 10117 Berlin
 
The ESTHER Initiative (Ensemble pour une Solidarité Thérapeutique Hospitalière en Réseau) was launched in 2002 by France with the main goal to strengthen the capacity of Southern countries to respond to the challenges of introducing antiretroviral treatment for people living with HIV, but has meanwhile extended its focus to other health and health systems problems such as tuberculosis, maternal and infant mortality, patient safety, quality management and others.
By establishing twinnings between universities and institution of 12 European countries and 40 countries in the South, the Alliance´s member states have mobilized a global North-South network of health professionals, improving capacity and health systems in partnership.

The representatives of member states will take the tenth anniversary of the Alliance and the occasion of the World Health Summit as an opportunity to illustrate lessons learnt from implementation of university and hospital partnerships in the framework of the European ESTHER-Alliance, to discuss joint projects, common challenges as well as the way forward.

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