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New! - The “Unofficial” World Health Communication Associates (WHCA) Action Guide to the: WHO – 65th World Health Assembly
21–26 May 2012, Geneva - New!
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Workshop on Wellbeing and Happiness
Columbia University, New York City
Sunday, April 1st, 2012
WHCA participated in the Workshop on Wellbeing and Happiness which aims to reframe the way the world looks at and works for development.
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Annual meeting STI and HIV in EU/EEA
15-17 February 2012
Elite Hotel Marina Tower & ECDC
Stockholm
WHCA supplies facilitation and rapporteur services in this annual meeting that is meant to provide a platform for expert discussion amongst the nominated contact points for STI and HIV with respect to the recent STI and HIV surveillance reports to better understand the spread of disease and differences across EU/EEA Member States, and with respect to several ongoing projects in these disease areas initiated by ECDC.
[Read programme] ECDC website
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The European Health Literacy Conference
Museum of Natural Science, Brussels November 22 -23, 2011
WHCA introduced system scorecard approach concepts to the meeting and will help with report finding dissemination. 150 people from more than 20 countries took part in the conference and discussed the developments and policy impacts of the health literacy survey results, which were launched. European Commissioner for health John Dalli opened the conference which was endorsed by several members of the European Parliament: Christofer Fjellner, Karin Kadenbach, Pat the Cope Gallagher and Antoniya Parvanova. [read more...]
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9th International Dialogue on Population and Sustainable Development
Education Matters: Empowering Young People for a Healthy Future
Berlin, KfW, October 19 – 20, 2011
WHCA staff engaged small group activities in the Market place and World Café sessions aimed at capturing their collective wisdom and experience in advocating, implementing, sustaining and strengthening human rights approaches to sexual and reproductive health.
[read more...]
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Risk Communication Training Course Development
Focus on Measles
Stockholm 10-11 May, 2012
WHCA facilitated the meeting of the Pedagogical Team and ECDC to agree upon reference curriculum for a pilot course on Risk communication to be held at the end of the year in Stockholm.
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Free thinkers for measles
Stockholm, 23-24 April 2012
WHCA supplied facilitation and rapporteur services in this ECDC meeting of public health experts and successful professionals with experience in management, marketing, campaigning and behaviour change. The purpose of the event was to generate new ideas for promoting measles vaccination in Europe. [read more]
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United Nations Conference on Well-being and Happiness
New York City, April 2-4 2012
WHCA participated in the planning and communications group charged with creating an overall road map and action plan for forward movement towards the new economy, including a special event at Rio + 20, plans to communicate the vision of the new economy widely, and development of short and medium-term policies that governments can be urged to adopt to make concrete moves towards the new economy.
[read more]
Press release
Statement of spiritual leaders
Plenary presentation, communication group
Pictures of the meetings (Credit, Sabrina Cecconi-WHCA)
Watch Bhutan´s Hon. Prime Minister talks
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IAPO 5th Global Patients Congress
London, UK - 17-19 March 2012
WHCA moderated the panel session on Tools of Empowerment. In this session participants explored different approaches to enhancing the action competence of people and patients in the management of their health and disease conditions. In another session , Franklin Apfel, managing director of WHCA, gave a presentation on "Evaluating health(care) systems" as a tool for advocacy.
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Communicable disease prevention among Roma
28-29 November 2011, Rainers hotel, Vienna (Austria)
WHCA supplied background research paper, planning, facilitation and rapporteur services in this international conversational conference whose scope was two-fold:
- to share best practices and lessons learned in improving access of Roma population to public health programs to prevent communicable diseases, by bringing together key stakeholders from Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia and Spain with experience in working with and for Roma.
- to provide an opportunity of identifying ways of improving health seeking behaviour and empowering Roma people to take part in the processes affecting their health considering the social, historical, cultural and behavioural context.
Thus the overall aim of the meeting was to provide a forum for discussion on how knowledge and experiences could be used to stimulate the use of preventive services in the area of communicable diseases. [read more about ECDC]
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Facilitating training workshops and meetings: an in-house communication workshop
11-12 October 2011, ECDC, Stockholm - Sweden
WHCA has organised and conducted a 2-day workshop at ECDC.
The aims of workshop:
1. To explore the role of facilitators in training workshops and meetings.
2. To review current, and introduce alternative ways to organise and run training workshops and meetings.
3. To gain practical experience in using different facilitation and meeting organisational approaches.
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Tackling seasonal flu in Europe: Success stories from European countries
13 October 2011, ECDC, Stockholm - Sweden
WHCA moderated discussions at the ECDC 2nd influenza immunisation behavioural and communication workshop that intended to identify, analyse and discuss various communication actions that — in some countries — have contributed to enhanced influenza vaccination coverage.