Liberia Events

Health Promotion in the Sustainable Development Goals

Date: 21–24 November 2016
Place: Shanghai, China

The 9th Global Conference on Health Promotion (9GCHP) will be co-organized by WHO and the National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC) of the People's Republic of China.

• 9th Global Conference on Health Promotion (9GCHP)

The conference will provide an unprecedented opportunity to reassert the significance of health promotion in improving health and health equity at the historical moment of 30 years anniversary of Ottawa Charter, and the first year of implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It will direct and guide Member States on the practical application of evidence-based health promotion concepts, approaches and mechanisms for achieving SDGs.

Goals

Goals of the conference are to:

• Raise awareness about the importance and potential of health promotion as a transformative strategic approach to deliver for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
• Highlight the need for reflecting health promotion in national SDG responses.
• Showcase how health promotion can accelerate progress on specific SDG targets.

Participants

750 invited participants representing different levels of Member State governments, UN and international organizations, civil society and international financial institutions and foundations.

Representatives from health and other sectors relevant for health determinants, such as education, environment, employment, agriculture, trade, transportation, housing, finance, foreign and development policy.

Objectives and format

For detailed information on the conference, including background documentation, policy briefs and circular letters please see:

• Objectives, format, and structure

Official website and registration

The government of China is hosting the official website for the conference:

• Conference website
• Registration

Representatives of Health Ministries of 10 African countries (Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinee Bissau, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, DRC, and Togo) will meet in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, from 9-11 November 2016, in the context of the workshop of the Regional Noma Control programme.

The overall objective of this intercountry workshop, organized by the WHO Regional Office for Africa, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health of Burkina Faso and with the support of the Hilfsaktion noma e.V. NGO, is to scale up prevention and control in the affected countries through the sharing of the experiences and the harmonization of intervention strategies at the subregional level. 

The specific objectives are to:

1. present the new WHO African Regional oral health strategy 2016 – 2025 and the manual, “Promoting oral health in Africa” in the context of noma prevention and control
2. stimulates the sharing of best practices through two cas studies: Niger and Senegal
3. discuss Countries’ progress reports on the implementation of their 2015-2017 three-year noma control action plans
4. develop a common strategy for efficient use of brochures and posters produced by WHO to improve early diagnosis and management of noma cases at primary health care level
5. discuss the issue of including noma in the list of  Negleted tropical diseases.