2009 Regional Ministerial Meeting
on “Promoting Health Literacy”
29-30 April 2009
Beijing, China
STATEMENTS
| 29 April 2009 |
Welcoming remarks: |
| H.E. Chen Zhu, Minister of Health, China |
Opening remarks: |
H.E. Ms. Sylvie Lucas, President of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) |
| Mr. Sha Zukang, Under-Secretary-General, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) |
| Dr. Ala Alwan, Assistant Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO) |
Plenary Panel: “The challenges of health literacy in Asia and the Pacific: Where do we stand?” |
Prof. Don Nutbeam – Deputy Vice Chancellor, Head of the College of Health Sciences, The University of Sydney, Australia |
| Dr. Elmer G. Punzalan, Assistant Secretary of Health, Philippines |
| Dr. Zafrullah Chowdhury, Founder and Project Coordinator of Gonoshasthaya Kendra, Bangladesh |
| Mr. Li Xinhua, Director of Division of Health Promotion and Education, Department of Maternal, Child and Community Health, Ministry of Health, China |
| Dialogue Session 1: “Promoting multisectoral actions” |
Dr. Liming Li, Vice President, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences/PUMC, China |
| Dr. Scott Ratzan, Vice President, Global Health, Johnson & Johnson and Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Health Communication: International Perspectives |
| Dr. Bernhard Schwartländer, Country Coordinator, UNAIDS China |
| Dr. Fiona Adshead, Director, Department of Chronic Diseases and Health Promotion, World Health Organization, WHO |
Dialogue Session 2: “Promoting health literacy through the media and empowerment” |
Ms. Melinda G. Frost, US CDC’s National Center for Health Marketing, Beijing |
| Dr. Li Xiguang, Director of Tsinghua International Center for Communication Studies, China (Presentation |
| H.E. Munshi Faiz Ahmad, Ambassador of Bangladesh to China |
30 April 2009 |
Dialogue Session 3: “Building capacity to increase health literacy” |
Dr. Wang Ruotao, China Center of Diseases Control and Prevention, China
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| Dr. Kwok Cho Tang, WHO |
| H.E. Dr. Nadera H. Burhani, Deputy Minister of Public Health, Afghanistan |
Plenary Panel: Presentations of best practices and new initiatives on health literacy
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Plenary Panel: Reports from the NGO meeting the Dialogues |
Mr. Cui Jianjun, Secretary-General of the China NGO Network for International Exchanges (CNIE)
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Plenary Session - Mr. Nikhil Seth (UNDESA)
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Closing Session |
H.E. Ms. Sylvie Lucas, President of ECOSOC |
| Dr. Fiona Adshead, Director, Department of Chronic Diseases and Health Promotion, World Health Organization, WHO |
| Dr. Qing Yang, Director General, Ministry of Health, China |
| Mr. Sha Zukang, Under-Secretary-General, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) |