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OSI Public Health Program Partners Meeting

May 16 - 20

Geneva, Switzerland

Meeting agenda [word version]

Friday, May 16

Facilitator: Daniel Wolfe

9:00

Registration [participants list]

9:30

Welcome and Overview of Agenda, Meeting Goals and Introductions

Françoise Girard, Director, Public Health Program, OSI-NY

10:00

Opening Activity and Discussion

Shari Turitz, Director of Programs, Public Health Program, OSI-NY

10:40

Break

11:00

Strategic Planning for the Public Health Program – PHP Strategic Framework

Françoise Girard, Director, Public Health Program, OSI-NY [view presentation]

15m               Present the draft vision, mission, goals and strategies

45m               Small group discussion (6 groups with about 8 people per group; count off)

·          How does your work align with the Strategic Framework?

·          Give a possible (or actual) example of success in advancing each of the PHP goals, based on your own work

30m      Whole group discussion

12:30

Lunch

State of the Public Health Program

Françoise Girard, Director, Public Health Program, OSI-NY

14:00

Health Media

Louise Swan, Senior Program Officer, OSI-NY [view presentation]

14:15

Q & A

14:40

Break

15:00

The 10-Year Perspective of Building Advocacy

Movements Through Effective Grantmaking

Roxana Bonnell, Consultant, OSI-NY

16:30

Convene at the hotel lobby to depart for the reception

17:00

Reception for meeting participants and OSI partners

Intercontinental Hotel Café Mezzo

19:00

Dinner in small groups downtown

Saturday, May 17

Facilitator: Jonathan Cohen

9:00

Morning Announcements / Preview of the Day

Jonathan Cohen, Project Director, Law and Health Initiative

9:10

Strategic Planning for National Foundations

Shari Turitz, Director of Programs, Public Health Program, OSI-NY

20m               Present template

60m      Working in country groups with a PHP staff “consultants,” walk through completing the template, paying particular attention to sections II, III and IV; Reserve last 10 minutes to focus on template feedback questions below.

10:30

Coffee Break

11:00

Discussion: Feedback on the Strategic Planning Template

·          What do you like?

·          What needs to be clarified?

·          What should be changed?

11:30

Access to Medicines

Roxana Bonnell, Consultant, OSI-NY

11:45

Q &A

12:15

Lunch

13:45

Preparation for the World Health Assembly – Overview of agenda and actionable items/resolutions/proposals

Françoise Girard, Director, Public Health Program, OSI-NY

Shannon Kowalski-Morton, Program Officer, Public Health Program, OSI-NY

 

Provisional Agenda for the WHA is accessible at:

http://www.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/A61/A61_1-en.pdf

14:30

Discussion

15:00

Coffee Break

15:30

Preparation for the World Health Assembly – Interacting with Health Ministers and Delegates

Françoise Girard, Director, Public Health Program, OSI-NY

Shannon Kowalski-Morton, Program Officer, Public Health Program, OSI-NY

16:45

Wrap-up

18:00

Dinner in small groups downtown

Sunday, May 18

Working group sessions and individual meetings (to be scheduled by participants) should be scheduled around the following confirmed meetings below.  Please consult the schedule that will be displayed for details on the location of these meetings.

8:00

Breakfast Meeting on the HIV UNGASS (Le Jardin)

9:15

Meeting on the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

10:45

Françoise Girard and Shari Turitz with the Law and Health Initiative staff and Anne Gathumbi

11:30

Françoise Girard and Shari Turitz with OSISA staff

12:30

Lunch

14:00

Françoise Girard and Shari Turitz with IRF staff

14:45

Françoise Girard and Shari Turitz with OSGF staff

15:30

Françoise Girard and Shari Turitz with Liliana Gherman

16:15

Françoise Girard and Shari Turitz with Aisuluu Bolotbaeva

18:00

Dinner in small groups downtown

Monday, May 19

Information on the World Health Assembly is available at: http://www.who.int/gb/e/e_wha61.html

8:00

Convene at hotel lobby to leave for the World Health Assembly

Obtaining accreditation for the WHA

10:00

Attendance at the World Health Assembly

17:00

Convene at the UN Building to return to Ramada Park Hotel Geneve

17:30

Debrief

18:30

Dinner in small groups downtown

Tuesday, May 20

Site visits with UN agencies and partners

19:00

Depart from hotel lobby for group dinner

19:30

Dinner at Café des Négociants

Additional material

OSI PHP Strategic Framework [view document]

PHP Project Guidelines [view document]

PHP Planning Template [view document]

PHP Planning Template Worksheet [view document]

WHO: SIXTY-FIRST WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY (Provisional agenda) [view document]

WHO: Guide for delegates to the World Health Assembly [view document]

WHO: Recomendation (on Health of migrants) [view document]

Draft Resolution on Drug Dependence Treatment [view document]

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