Global Health Council 2008 Conference




Today's Highlights Special Session: Primary Health Care 8:30-10 am more > Leadership & Management Development Session 8:30-10 am more > Late-Breaking Luncheon Session: A Look at Kenya 12:30-2 pm more > Policy Series: International Initiatives: 10:15 am-12:15 pm Universal Access: 2:15-4:15 pm more > Panel Sessions: F Series 10:15 am-12:15 pm G Series: 2:15-4:15 pm more > NEW SESSION: Unlocking the Power of Social Norms: Empowering Communities to Lead Positive, Systemic Social Change 2:15-4:15 pm more > Film: A Walk to Beautiful 12:30-2 pm more > Plenary Session: 4:30-6 pm more > View Daily Schedule	Upcoming Attractions Sat., May 31 Breakfast with a Legend: Carl Taylor 8:30-10 am more > Forum: HIV/AIDS 9:30-11:30 am more > Forum: Panel Sessions: H Series 9:30-11:30 am more > Dialogue: Panel Sessions: Global Health Training Materials – What’s Needed 9:30-11:30 am more > Closing Session 11:45 am-1 pm more > Plenary News USAID Administrator Henrietta Fore to speak at today's afternoon plenary. Exhibition Hours Exhibition Open: 8 am-1 pm Cyber Cafe: 7:30 am-1 pm List of Exhibitors: By name \| view By booth # \| view Booth Map \| view	2008 Award Winners Gates Award for Global Health Dr. P. Namperumalsamy Aravind Eye Care System Jonathan Mann Award for Health and Human Rights Dr. Ilina Sen on behalf of Dr. Binayak Sen Award for Best Practices in Global Health Dr. Bette Gebrian Haitian Health Foundation Excellence in Media Award Category \| Newspaper, Magazine & Major Print Publication Peter Stein The Wall Street Journal Category \| Community Kerry Cullinan \| speech Health-e News Service Category \| Broadcast, TV and New Media Richard Wilson Rockhopper TV Photography Award Sarah Day	Quick Links People - Attendee List - Presenter List - Featured Speakers - New Investigators Daily Program - Sessions by Interest Area - Panel Sessions - Plenary Sessions - Policy Series@Conference - Poster Session - Roundtable Session - Forums - Workshops Special Events - Auxiliary Events - Awards Banquet - Career Connections - Film Series - New Forum Daily Update - View Today's Daily Update Future Conference Dates 2009 May 25-29 2010 June 14-18

Primary Health Care:
A New Vision for the Fourth Decade

8:30–10 am
Regency Ballroom

In 2008, we mark the 30th anniversary of the Alma Ata Declaration. The principles of equitable access to affordable health care, using primary health care (PHC) as the tool to turn these principles into practice, remain as valid today as they did in 1978.

In this session, we will create a new vision for PHC. What is the new template for reallocating resources to PHC, empowering the community, engaging the government, tracking health outcomes, and moving the principles of Alma Ata forward into the next decade?

Meeting along the Diagonal:
Where the First Mile and the Last Mile Connect

4:30–6 pm
Regency Ballroom

In the complex and congested environment of global initiatives that travel from the macro to the micro level and back again, whether we are standing at the first mile or the last mile is largely a matter of perspective. Susan Dentzer, Global Health Council board member and editor-in-chief of Health Affairs, moderates a panel of heavy-hitters including: Dr. Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization, Dr. Jaime Sepulveda, director of integrated health solutions development at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Victor Kamanga, acting executive director of the Malawi Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS, and Dr. Nils Daulaire, president of the Global Health Council.

Global Health TV Returns

Now in its third year, Global Health TV continues to be dedicated to documenting the complex issues surrounding global health.

Tune in to channel 16 in your Omni Hotel room, or to www.globalhealthtv.com to catch all of this year’s conference highlights. And tune in throughout the year for continuously updated video programming.

Webcast Sessions

Access webcasts, transcripts and related resources of select sessions from this conference at kaisernetwork.org, a free service of the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Visit here to view the sessions that have been taped.

2008 Sponsors

The Global Health Council wishes to thank the following organizations (Major Conference Underwriter, Sapphire, Platinum and Gold levels) for their provision of core funding support for this conference.

For more information on
sponsorship, please visit here.