Partnership Toward Making a Difference in Global Health

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• Partnership Toward Making a Difference in Global
  Health

Sylvie Stachenko (Canada) Global
Vice-President Institutional Affairs
Partnerships, IUHPE
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Global Partnerships to Address Public Health
Challenges

• Growing inequalities within and between countries
• Impacts of globalization including climate
  change, migration, disasters, wars, disease
  outbreak, poverty, economic challenges, food
  availability, security

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INTERNATIONAL UNION FOR HEALTH PROMOTION AND
EDUCATION
More than 50 years working to advance health
promotion and to achieve equity in health globally
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Contents of the Presentation
1. Description, structure and functioning of the
IUHPE 2. Work of the IUHPE As a global
professional network As a dissemination
exchange hub As a facilitating agency of
technical expertise
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Description, structure and functioning of the
IUHPE
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Created in 1951 Gathers professionals from
across the world in different disciplines ?
Institutional members ? Individual
members Encourages and facilitates exchange ?
Conferences ? Journals Provides technical
expertise ?Education ?Research ?Practice

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The Mission of the IUHPE
Promote global health and wellbeing Contribute
to the achievement of equity in health between
and within countries of the world
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Strategies
Advocacy partnership building Knowledge
development, translation, exchange
dissemination Professional technical
development
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Types of Membership
Trustee Organisations of national scope which
are responsible for organising health
promotion and health education in their country
Institutional Organisations whose main purposes
is to undertake, teach, research, or promote
one or more aspects of health promotion and
health education, which focus on specific themes,
target groups, or settings
Regional Scope
National Scope
Individual who support IUHPEs mission, goals
and objectives Student have a special
membership rate and are able to enter a global
network of other students and young
professionals that want to influence the future
of health promotion- www.isecn.org
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Structure
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PRESIDENT- David V. McQueen (U. S. A.) GLOBAL
VICE-PRESIDENTS Advocacy- Anne Bunde-Birouste
(Australia) Coordination, Administration and
Membership Services- Pierre Arwidson (France)
Capacity-Building, Education Training-
Margaret Barry (Ireland) Communications and
Immediate Past President- Maurice B. Mittelmark
(Norway) Conferences- Maggie Davies (United
Kingdom) Finance- Graham Robertson (Scotland,
U.K.) Scientific Affairs- Vivian Lin (Australia)
Strategy and Governance- Michael Sparks
(Australia) Institutional Affairs
Partnerships- Sylvie Stachenko (Canada) World
Conference- Thomas Mattig (Switzerland)
REGIONAL VICE-PRESIDENTS/ REGIONAL
DIRECTORS Latin America (ORLA)- Dora Cardaci
(Mexico) / Hiram Arroyo (Porto Rico) Northern
Part of the Western Pacific (NPWP)- Toshitaka
Nakahara (Japan) / Masaki Moriyama (Japan) North
America (NARO)- Marilyn Rice (U. S. A.) / Claudia
Coggin (U. S. A.) Fran Perkins
(Canada)Southwest Pacific (SWP)- Donald Stewart
(Australia) / Jan Ritchie (Australia) HEADQUARTE
RS STAFF Executive Director Marie-Claude
Lamarre Programme Officer- Claire Blanchard
Office  Manager- Janine Cadinu Programme
Officer- Sara BensaudeProgramme Director-
Catherine M. Jones Project Assistant- Aurélie de
GournayCommunications Officer- Martha W. Perry
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The work of the IUHPE as a dissemination
exchange hub
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Regional Conferences
Sharing Experiences, Efforts and Evidence July
18-20, 2009 Chiba-city, Japan http//www.dokkyomed
.ac.jp/dep-m/pub/apac.html
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Regional Conferences
4th IUHPE Latin American Conference on Health
Promotion November 5-7, 2009 Medellin, Colombia
http//fnsp.udea.edu.co/fnsp/Conferencia
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www.iuhpeconference.net
Health, equity sustainable development
The conference will explore how a health
promotion approach can support integrated agendas
for equity, health and sustainable development
within or across one or more of the sub-themes
? Territorial Change Urbanisation ?
Environmental Change  ? Social Cultural
Change ? Global economic challenges
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Healthy3 InitiativeHealthy People, Healthy
Societies, a Healthy Planet

• The Interdisciplinary Think-tank (ITT)
• Who? 10-15 thought leaders - from all sectors -
  far reaching expertise (SD and/or HP) - potential
  to influence opinions of decision/ policy makers.
• What? identifies, analyzes various issues -
  elaborates white paper on SD health (initial
  focus food) recommendations/ potential
  measures,
• The Platform for Opinion Leaders (POL)
• Who? key decision makers or their close advisors
  - from science, corporate, public,
  non-governmental sector
• What? challenges recommendations, checks
  feasibility of measures proposed in white paper -
  disseminates insights initiates/ facilitates
  joint action

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Global Health Promotion (formerly Promotion
Education)

• Scope
• GHP is a multilingual journal including
• authoritative peer-reviewed articles and
  practical information in health promotion and
  health education.
• Types of manuscripts published
• Original articles
• Commentaries
• Abstract translation
• Supplements
• Major themes
• International and interdisciplinary forum for
  dissemination and exchange of health promotion,
  health education and public health theory,
  research findings, practice and reviews,

http//ghp.sagepub.com
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The IUHPE Journal Family
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Thematic publications
Mental Health
Health systems
Shaping the Future of Health Promotion
Health Promotion Effectiveness
School Health
Physical Activity
Social Determinants of Health
Tobacco Control
School Health
The Ottawa Charter
Community Health
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Online Presence
Views of Health Promotion Online Online Dialogue
of the IUHPE www.vhpo.net
Global IUHPE website www.iuhpe.org
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The work of the IUHPE as a facilitating agency of
technical expertise
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Global Network of Expertise
Institutions Individuals
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Scientific Agenda
Global Working Groups - Healthy Settings -
Salutogenesis - Surveillance - Health Impact
Assessment - Social Determinants of Health
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Global Working Group on Social Determinants of
Health (SDH)

• Raise awareness, advocate and develop capacities
  for action.
• Develop activities at global, regional, national,
  and community levels that advance policy and
  action on (health) equity.
• Consolidate and build the evidence base for
  health promotion effectiveness on equity through
  action on the SDH (including surveillance,
  measurement/monitoring and evaluation
  methodologies).
• Support alliances and dialogue with other
  networks in relation to SDH issues that seek to
  bring forward the outcomes of the CSDH.

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Building on existing global collaborative
platforms
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The Global Programme on Health Promotion
Effectiveness
A knowledge translation platform that links the
differents components of the scientific agenda
partner initiatives. From evidence to influence!
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Collecting the evidence Volume I
A vital source of frontline knowledge for
researchers and students of health promotion.
Global Perspectives on Health Promotion
Effectiveness (ISBN 978-0-387-70973-4)
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Volume II in 2 parts
Focus on the how to? From evidence to
influence
6 sections - the development agenda - the
social determinants of health - community
political empowerment - health system
strengthening - health promotion capacity and -
further debates about evidence and effectiveness.
Framing document
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Focus on the how to? Examples of moving from
evidence to influence
Volume II in 2 parts
Workbook document

• Global Call for Case studies
• Seeking examples of how evidence is used to
  implement inter-sectoral action.
• Submissions accepted in English, French or
  Spanish
• September 15, 2009.
• Call is online at www.iuhpe.org

Objective To build capacity of practitioners to
be reflexive about how they use and integrate
evaluation results into the planning
implementation of actions addressing SDH.
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Partnerships on Social Determinants and
Inequalities in Health

• Health promotion strategies to reduce social
  inequalities in health (IUHPE/Inpes)
• Determine EU Consortium on Social Economic
  Determinants of Health (IUHPE/EuroHealthNet and
  30 other partners )
• International Francophone meeting on social
  inequalities in health (IUHPE/INSPQ)
• Taking forward collaboration on the social
  determinants of health and on non-communicable
  diseases (NCDs) (IUHPE/DoH, England)

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Major Collaborative Capacity Building Activities

• Developing Competencies and Professional
  Standards for Health Promotion Capacity Building
  in Europe (IUHPE / European Commission and other
  European partners)
• The Galway Consensus Statement International
  collaboration on the development of core
  competencies for health promotion and health
  education (IUHPE / SOPHE / CDC)
• Building capacity of developing countries to
  prevent non-communicable diseases (IUHPE/CDC)
• Inventory of tools for health promotion practice
  that aim to reduce social inequalities in health
  (IUHPE/Chair, Community Approaches and Health
  Inequalities)

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Existing Links to Global Networks

• Cochrane Public Health Review Group (PHRG)-
  http//www.ph.cochrane.org/
• Global Alliance for Physical Activity (GAPA)-
  http//www.globalpa.org.uk/
• Global Consortium for the Advancement of
  Promotion and Prevention in Mental Health
  (G-CAPP)- http//www.charityadvantage.com/GCAPPMH/
  Home.asp
• HP-Source.net- http//www.hp-source.net/

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Existing Links to Networks

• International Collaboration on Teacher
  Training/Education (TT/E)
• International Francophone Network for Health
  Promotion (RéFIPS)- http//www.refips.org/
• International Network of Health Promotion
  Foundations (INHPF) http//www.hp-foundations.n
  et/
• International School Health Network (ISHN) -
  http//www.internationalschoolhealth.org/
• Schools for Health in Europe (SHE)-
  http//www.schoolsforhealth.eu/

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Toward a IUHPE Partnership Development
Strategy

• Identify leverage strategic partnerships
  between the IUHPE appropriate institutions to
  expand its action and impact on health
  inequities
• Leading towards a formalized mechanism in the
  form of an IUHPE Partnership Platform to be
  convened at the 20th IUHPE World Conference on
  Health Promotion (Geneva July 11 15, 2010).

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Opportunities for syngergies
Finding common ground Health promotion as an
essential public health function gtWith a strong
focus on the SDH agenda

• Building on each others regional and global
  conferences create space for dialogue
• Sharing of knowledge translation efforts and
  exchange of tools and resources in field of HP
  SDH
• HP Competencies as part of a broader public
  health capacity building and professional
  development effort
• Expanding our communication platform to the
  public health community

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Thank you ! Tesekkur Ederim !
Advancing health promotion achieving equity in
health globally