Welcome to WHCA Online
Welcome to the WHCA website. Our aim is to use this platform both to keep you informed about our activities and as a resource for health and environment communicators.
CURRENT WORK
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World Health Editors Network (WHEN)
Making Global Health News - Workshop, Geneva, 18-19 May 2008
Health leaders and experts from many governmental, NGO, private sector and international agencies are being invited to meet with us.
For more information, contact carinne@whcaonline.org or whca@onetel.net.
RECENT WHEN MEETINGS:
Climate Change and Health, Geneva, 23-24 January 2008
As part of WHO’s preparation for the day and beyond, WHEN held a workshop at WHO headquarters in Geneva. More...
WHEN HIV/AIDS Briefing Meeting, London, 23 November 2007
In coordination with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, WHEN held its first International Health Briefing in London, 23 November 2007, on HIV/AIDS in the run-up to World AIDS Day. Stephen Lewis - former UN Special Envoy for AIDS in Africa, current Co-Director of AIDS-Free World and Professor in Global Health at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada - gave the keynote speech, in which he was openly critical of the UNAIDS Report issued two days before the Briefing. Copies of Stephen Lewis' speech, as well as all presentations of the meeting and further HIV AIDS video material can be accessed through this link...
Slovenian and EU Chemical Safety Campaign
WHCA is working with staff of the Austria/Slovenia Transitional Facility "Chemical Safety 3" Project (No. SI 06 IB EC 02) to help provide for a public awareness raising process related to chemical safety. WHCA is helping to identify strengths and lessons learned from previous campaigns (2006 and 2007) and outline development steps for new initiatives.
The current vision for the campaign is the need to develop sustainable communication networks that will engage many partners/stakeholders and to link this process to synergistic European activities, e.g. REACH awareness campaigns by the new European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) in Helsinki.
Anyone interested in linking with this activity please contact franklin@whcaonline.org or Darja.Bostjancic@gov.si.
Click here to see the Mission Report.
Click here for information about the Exhibition.
International Council of Nurses (ICN)
WHCA is working with the International Council of Nurses (ICN) on the development of an advocacy toolkit. ICN has advocated on issues of importance to nursing, the general public and global health and human rights. Today, ICN undertakes its advocacy work on behalf of the more than 13 million nurses worldwide, and in collaboration with member associations and partner organisations. This work is accomplished through a number of mechanisms, including international policies, International Nurses Day kit, speeches, presentations, press releases and campaigns. Lobbying is an important mechanism to raise awareness and ultimately promote change – in regulations, legislation and convention as well as practices and behaviour. This may occur at all levels – international, national, local and individual.
A “generic” advocacy/lobbying toolkit is being developed whereby information targeting a specific issue (e.g. counterfeit medicines, gender equity, etc.) can be added and/or the generic material adapted.
Anyone interested in linking with this project please contact franklin@whcaonline.org
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HIV — Ask? & Act!
Following the latest meeting, in Estonia, of the HIV/AIDS Ask? & Act! – It’s Your Health! campaign, we are exploring further collaborative work with the WHO Healthy Cities Baltic Collaborating Centre, with a particular focus on training for media advocacy and working with the media for cities in the Russian Healthy Cities Network.
Publications
WHCA is in the process of writing a practical guide to organising international meetings as part of our action guide series, in collaboration with the Leeds Business School.
The book will have three sections. The first will contain information on the logistics of organising an international meeting; the second section will explore different approaches to running meetings, particularly focused on moving away from the traditional “serial death” type meetings. The third section will contain information on the environmental impacts of international meetings, and identify ways in which these can be reduced. In particular, it will focus on exploring ways in which organisers can measure the environmental “footprint” of their proposed meetings, and suggest ways to achieve objectives, perhaps without meetings (eg through Skype, conference calls, etc), or by holding more “environmentally-friendly” meetings, and it will look at everything from travel, through supplies, accommodation, to reporting.
For more information contact Franklin at franklin@whcaonline.org
FRANKLIN'S BLOG
The Bronx boy turned global health communicator will reflect on whatever comes to mind on the day… reader(s) are encouraged to pick up threads and add to the chat.
Why now? Franklin says at a certain stage it stops being about ego and reflective musing is the path into the sunset. Join the journey.
Click here for Frankie's Blog.