WHO/Alliance panel at CSW54 on "Health systems and women", 3 March, New York
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research cordially invite you to a panel discussion at CSW54:
What would it take to make health systems work better for women?
The 54th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW54) will undertake a fifteen-year review of the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.
This panel discussion at CSW54 will take forward the evidence of the global WHO report "Women and health: today's evidence tomorrow's agenda" with a view to helping shape a shared agenda for women's health. In particular, it will focus on the need to strengthen health systems so that they are better geared to meet women's needs from birth to older age - in terms of access, coverage and responsiveness. You will hear about options forward, emerging from the evidence, and we look forward to your insights and inputs.
Date
3 March 2010, 10:50-12:30
Venue
Millennium UN Plaza Hotel, Manhattan Room, New York
Moderator
Ms Daisy Mafubelu, Assistant Director-General, Family and Community Health, WHO
10:50
Cheese and fruit refreshments
11:00-11:05
15 years after Beijing: where are we going from here with health systems?
Introductory remarks by Ms Daisy Mafubelu, Assistant Director-General, Family and Community Health, World Health Organization (WHO)
11:05-11:20
Women and health: today's evidence tomorrow's agenda
Dr Tonya Nyagiro, Director, Department of Gender, Women and Health, World Health Organization
11:20-11:40
Primary health care renewal: to be and what to be?
Dr Sundari Ravindran, Consultant and Honorary Professor, Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Sree Chitra Thirunal Institute of Medical Sciences and Technology, Kerala, India
11:40-11:55
A country perspective to health systems and women
Dr Irene Akua Agyepong, Regional Director of Health Services, Ghana Health Service, Greater Accra Regional Health Directorate and Professor Prince Claus Chair 2008 - 2010, University of Utrecht
11:55-12:30
Questions, answers and discussion
Contact: "genderhelpdesk" <genderhelpdesk@who.int>
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