Transcript Climate Change and Health - NGO Resource Centre Vietnam

The 4th Asia Pacific Conference of Public Health
"Climate Change - Population Health”
in Nha Trang City, Vietnam
November 21 – 22, 2013
Introduce on Asia Pacific Conference on
Public Health (APCPH)
• The first APCPH theme: “Preparing for the
challenges of public health ” in China,
October, 2009
• The second APCPH theme
“Urbanization and Public Health” in Japan,
October, 2010
• The third APCPH theme: “Health research
and Development to address health
inequity” in Indonesia, November 2011
• The forth APCPH theme: “Climate Change
and Population Health ” in Nha Trang,
Vietnam on 21 – 22 November 2013
WPHA and VPHA
• The Vietnam Public Health Association (VPHA)
founded on 6 June 2002, with network cover 11
provincial PHA in 3 regions of VN
• VPHA, as an active member of the World
Federation of Public Health Associations
• VPHA is the host of the 4th Asia-Pacific
Conference on Public Health (APCPH) will be
held in Nha Trang City
Conference objectives
• Network developing and strengthening.
• Sharing lessons learnt.
• Try to sort out specific/suitable solutions for
problems with Climate Change in VN.
Conference Date and place
• Date : Thursday-Friday, November
21-22, 2013
• Place: Nha Trang city, Viet Nam
Conference deadlines and dates
• January 15, 2013: Registration and abstract submission open
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June 30, 2013:
Abstract submission close
July 31, 2013:
Notification of accepted presentations
July 10, 2013:
Earlybird registration close
August 31, 2013: Notification of presentation schedule
October 15, 2013: PowerPoint presentation or Poster
submission deadline
• November 21 - 22, 2013: The 4th Asia Pacific Conference on
Public Health
The conference participants
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All PH and PH related professionals
Concerning Researchers
Policy makers
Other related agencies
PH and Related associations
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME (day 1)
Keynote 1: Perspective of climate
change and sustainability
Keynote 2: IRB issues in research
on Climate Change and its impact
on population health
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
• Thematic Session 1: Climate Change and
Population Health: Risks, Impacts and multi
- sectorial responses
o Session 1: Climate changes - Water,
sanitation, pollutants and health nexus
o Session 2: Climate change and emerging
and re-emerging diseases
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Thematic Session 1 (cont’)
o Session 3: Climate change, gender and
vulnerable groups
o Session 4: Responses of multi-sectors to
impacts of Climate change
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME (day 2)
Keynote 3: Global climate change:
Policy implementation
Keynote 4: Climate Change and Health:
Policy Priorities and Perspectives
• Thematic Session 2: Climate Change and
Health: Policy Priorities and Perspectives
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Thematic 2 (cont’)
o Session 5 : Country policy implementation
and lesson learnt
o Session 6: Research and training for climate
change
o Session 7: Policy and CSOs participation
o Session 8: (only Vietnam presentation)
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Keynote
5:
Community
Based
intervention on Climate change and
health
• Thematic Sessions 3: Model of
environmental
friendly
initiatives
intervention on climate change and
population health”
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Thematic Session 3
o Session 9: Awareness and Behavior Change
o Session10: Adaptation
o Session 11: Mitigation
o Session 12: Policy
Way to Apply the Conference
On-line registration and abstract submission
can be made through the Conference website:
http://apcphvn2013.com/index.php/en/
Requests and discussions
• Possible to participating to this conference?
• Technical contribution to this conference?
(preparation, presentation, publication etc.)
• Financial contribution to this conference?
• Other advices/suggestions to this conference.
• Further collaboration beyond this conference?
Thank you for your attention!