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Calendar of Events
Events in the United StatesMonday, 7 April 2003 PAHO Headquarters Event Kickoff event at PAHO Ceremony commemorating World Health Day Confirmed participants:
Invited dignitaries:
Tuesday, 8 April 2003 Children's Health Fair at the Humphrey Building HHS and EPA will hold a children's health fair in the Great Hall (10 am). Focus will be environmental health for children and related topics. There will be booths, games and activities for children. Guests to include: Dr. Mirta Roses, Director, PAHO, HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson, and dignitaries from USAID, State Department, Hispanic Caucus and other Latino Congressional representatives. Wednesday, 9 April 2003 Border Event - Proposed joint HHS-EPA-PAHO Activity HHS and EPA propose a joint event on the U.S.-Mexico Border in conjunction with the PAHO Field Office El Paso highlighting health and the environment themes. Field Office El Paso is already planning multiple events (a mayor's initiative with public schools, health symposium, Headstart kids drawing contest and bi-national health fair). HHS wants to involve the Border Health Commission. PAHO Headquarters Event Healthy Housing for Healthy Children - the Communicable Diseases and Environmental Health Units in cooperation with Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the American Mosquito Control Association are organizing a children's workshop from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. focusing on safety and health in the home environment. The objective is to teach young people about mosquitoes, their life cycles and habitats, the diseases they carry, and safe ways of keeping them out of the house. The workshop also will inform students of the many potential health risks in the home, and to go over fun, safe ways to minimize them. Mosquito control and prevention educational materials for kids and interactive exhibits, board games and CD-roms dealing with mosquito control will be available for the kids to look at, use and play. (Room B) Thursday, 10 April 2003 PAHO Headquarters Event Launch of the Virtual Public Health Campus - PAHO's Human Resources program will launch the Virtual Public Health Campus. The event will take place in Room A from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. The program will be webcast and the PAHO country office's staff and invited guests will be able to participate through video conferencing via satellite. Dr. Mirta Roses, two ministers of health and two deans of participating schools of public health have been invited to participate in this program that will be highlighted by the signing of the memorandum of understanding through the electronic signature system. (Room A) Friday, 11 April 2003 PAHO Headquarters Event Health Promotion and Health Education in the School Setting, will host from 9:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. a debate on integrated school health programs and the importance of the Health-Promoting School Regional Initiative. A panel of students, teachers, parents, and school administrators will discuss their concepts of integrated school health programs. The moderator (a teacher) will facilitate an open debate with the audience (students, teachers, administrators, parents, others). Rapporteurs (student-teacher team) will summarize the discussions, which will be placed on the PAHO World Health Day web site and noted in different publications. Before and after the debate, the children can look at different exhibits (i.e., videos, materials, etc.) Students, teachers, administrators, and parents of a Washington, D.C. public middle school will participate. (Room A) Saturday, 12 April 2003 PAHO Headquarters Event The annual World Health Day event at PAHO open to all PAHO staff, their families, friends, neighbors and anyone interested in celebrating World Health Day. Pre-registration is $5.00 for individuals and $10.00 for families. On the day of the walk, the registration fees are $10.00 for individuals and $15.00 for families. Monday, 14 April 2003 Organization of American States Event The OAS is planning a special conference on "Children, Health, and the Environment" from 2 p.m. - 4 p.m., following the morning Permanent Council meeting to celebrate Pan American Day. Among speakers at the conference will be Dr. Mirta Roses, Lic. Alejandro Bonasso, Director of the Interamerican Children's Institute, and Dr. Richard Meganck, Director of the Unit for Sustainable Development and Environment (USDE) at the Organization of American States. The conference will be web cast live and then placed for on-demand viewing on the OAS and the PAHO web sites. Events in CanadaMonday, April 7, 2003 -- 9 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. EST A workshop on "Children's Health and the Environment: Taking Action Through Public Policy" Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Summary: The workshop -- the first of 12 children's environmental workshops to be held across Canada in the next year under Environment Canada's Voluntary Sector Initiative -- is being sponsored by the Canadian Institute of Child Health, Health Canada, Environment Canada, and the Canadian Society for International Health, technical representative in Canada for the Pan American Health Organization/ World Health Organization. Guest speakers:
The chairperson, CICH executive director Dianne Bascombe, will speak about the Children's Environmental Health Project and the Voluntary Sector Initiative. Consultant Ian Hornby will lead the afternoon workshop session to determine appropriate action and advocacy as a result of the day's deliberations. There will be a lunchtime launch of the Healthy Space website, an interactive tool for parents and caregivers. For more information, contact: Shelly Callahan at purpledog@sympatico.ca or phone 798-8029 or Maureen Johnson at mjohnson@csih.org or ph: 241-5785, ext. 305. Events in BelizeThe PAHO/WHO Office in Belize will promote a series of activities related to World Health Day 2003. These activities, from April 7 to April 14, will focus on the safety of children and their social and physical environments. A national Child Safety campaign will be launched. For more events, please visit http://www.who.int/world-health-day/2003/activities/paho/en/ |
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