AMREP Global Health Forum 2009

Global Health & Global Crises

The 3rd Annual AMREP Global Health Forum which took place on 7 April 2009 (World Health Day) was a success with over 250 participants attending and substantive media coverage for both TV and radio.  The theme for this year was "Global Health and Global Crises".

A photo exhibition was also held where by students could submit photos depicting images relevant to the theme of the Forum.  This exhibition was organised by IGNITE, a student body made up of mostly medical students who have a keen interest in global health.  A competition was held at the Forum to pick the winning photo out of the shortlisted 21 photos on display.  The winning photo was submitted by Daniel Mason, entitled 'Mother and Child'.

You are able to download the materials and presentation slides below:

Media Release

Program Booklet (contains presentation summaries and biographies of speakers)

Key Note Presentations

Dan Ncayiyana - Challenges of access, equity and quality in healthcare in Africa: the South African case study

Mark McGillivray - Health inequality and deprivation among countries

Susan Ivatts - Changes in Aid Architecture

Stream 1: Nutrition and the global food crisis

Bebe Loff - Agri-Business and the state

Sandy Ross - Food crisis as a global problem: Seeing the forest and the tree

Inong Gunanti - Indonesian food security, food and nutrition transition and health implication

Joel Negin - Food, nutrition and health in Africa: Achieving the MDGs through multi-sectoral development

Stream 2: Health aid and financing in times of economic crisis

Krishna Hort - Payment for performance (P4P)

Anthony Scott - Paying providers to improve quality of care

Rohan Sweeney and Jean Spinks - Costs of primary health care in PNG

Jennifer Gersbeck - Vision 2020: Effective partnerships for health financing

Jiangang Nie - New forms of partnerships in Australian health aid: An example from China