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From the Global Health Office blog:

By Shawna O’Hearn, Director, Global Health Office Dalhousie University
 

US Capital Building, Washington DC
The Consortium of Universities for Global Health’s (CUGH’s) Fourth Annual Meeting was held in Washington, DC from March 14 to 16, 2013.  As a Canadian university representative, the conference had many highlights that will guide our current and future work.
The conference was attended by 1400 committed leaders, professionals, educators, and students from diverse fields of study including engineering, business, law, policy, chemistry, biology, communications, nursing, public health, medicine, oral health, and environmental studies to explore, discuss, and critically assess the global health landscape. Throughout the three days, participants were given an action plan to identify new partners, have one clear innovation to take home and to work with individuals from institutions and countries that you did not know.  The cutting edge thematic areas throughout the conference included:

• Innovations and interventions to improve health conditions
• Global Health Justice: Human Rights, ethics, governance and policy
• Interactions and interconnectedness of government policy on health outcomes
• Partnerships and capacity-building for education and research in global health
• Role of the private sector: Embrace, engage, avoid conflicts of interest
• Determinants of culture change in education of practice
• Training the global health workforce
• Technology: Advancements, set-backs, implications and outcomes

Revolutions towards Health Equity

The opening plenary was led by Julio Frenk, Dean, Harvard School of Public Health and Minister of Health of Mexico from 2000-2006.  Dr Frenk reminded us that “global” refers to the processes that affect the entire globe and in order to achieve health equity in our local and global communities, there must be revolutions from various disciplines.

Read the rest of this post at the Global Health Office blog.