Global Health Live Web Conference: September 24-25, 2020
Global Health Live Web Conference: September 24-25, 2020
Healthy People on a Healthy Planet:
Five Years on from the SDGs in the COVID-19 era
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A live web conference on Global Health will take place on September 24-25, to replace the physical conference planned for this year in Queen’s University Belfast, which has been postponed till the Autumn of next year – 2021.
This September’s live web conference brings together a host of speakers working in global health and will take place over two days for a three-hour period from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm each day. A side event will also take place for young professionals on the 24th.
An auspicious date, September 24-25 marks the five-year anniversary of the United Nations summit in which the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development was ratified by global leaders and a political declaration was adopted for a decade of action on the Sustainable Development Goals.
The event is being held to reflect the varied activities of all partners working in global health on the island of Ireland. In the first cross-border collaboration of its kind, global health North-South partners are coming together to co-host the conference. Partners include: QUB Centre for Public Health (part of the School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences), Irish Global Health Network, QUB School of Nursing and Midwifery, the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health, the Department of Health, the Public Health Agency, the Coalition of Aid and Development Agencies (CADA) in Northern Ireland and more to be confirmed.
Partners include: QUB Centre for Public Health (part of the School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences), Irish Global Health Network, QUB School of Nursing and Midwifery, the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health, the Department of Health, the Public Health Agency, the Coalition of Aid and Development Agencies (CADA) in Northern Ireland and more to be confirmed.
In the context of major global health challenges, these partners have come together to track progress and examine significant areas of concern.
Thursday – September, 24 – Day One – SDGs Five Years On The first online session on September 24, will be convened under the theme SDG+5. The morning and afternoon panels will feature expert speakers from a range of disciplines and fields including Nursing and Midwifery (in the WHO designated International Year of the Nurse and Midwife), Migration, Environment, Eye Health and Non-Communicable Diseases. Topics addressed under these cross-cutting fields will be integrated under the overarching theme of the SDGs five years on.
Young Professionals: Side Event, September 24 at 5:00 pm
A young professionals side event will take place from 5-7 pm on the evening of September 24 to examine the impact of COVID-19 on students and future health professionals. The panel of international speakers will be moderated by Dr Chris Jenkins and followed by a careers networking session.
Download the Side Event poster here.
Friday – September, 25 – Day Two – COVID-19 Pandemic: Panels on the second day will turn their focus to the challenges of broader themes in global health as they relate to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Again, both sessions will feature speakers with a range of expertise on such areas as the Global Food Supply, Nutrition, Healthcare Response, Migration, Environment and Non-Communicable Diseases.
Global Health Photography Competition
What does working in global health look like? What are the realities on the ground? What are the challenges, and what are the impacts?
In partnership with the One World Festival 2020 with the Coalition of Aid and Development Agencies in Northern Ireland, Queen’s University Belfast, and the Irish Global Health Network, this competition will provide an opportunity to stimulate debate, encourage awareness, and promote learning about global health.
Global Health Challenge