Geneva Health Forum 19-21 April 2010

This year's theme is Globalization, Crisis, and Health Systems: Confronting Regional Perspectives. Future Health Systems will be playing a big role at this years Geneva Health Forum.

• FHS has the opening plenary at the GHF on 19th April.

Globalization and Health Systems: Regional Innovations
Chair: Gerald Bloom, Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, United Kingdom

• FHS also is has a parallel session on 19 April:

The Spread of Health-Related Markets: New Opportunities and Regulatory Challenges
Chairs: Gerald Bloom, Senior Researcher, Institute of Development Studies, United Kingdom
Barun Kanjilal, Professor of Health Economics, Indian Institute of Health Management Research, India

• FHS and STEPS have a parallel session on 20 April

Epidemics, Emerging Infectious Diseases and Non-Traditional Surveillance
Chairs: Melissa Leach, Professorial Fellow and leader of the Knowledge, Technology and Society Team (KNOTS), Institute of Development Studies, United Kingdom
Sarah Dry, Research Officer, STEPS Centre, Institute of Development Studies, United Kingdom

• FHS involved in parallel session on 20 April

Participatory Approaches to Health: Case Studies from around the World
Abbas Bhuiya, ICDDR,B, Bangladesh is presenting FHS research at this session

Global health TV will be reporting on conference sessions and activities which you will be able to see online. The plenary sessions will be streamed live.

Meeting the public
Future Health Systems will have a stand in the market place. Come and visit us and find out more about what we do.

Communicating our work
A blog on the STEPS website and this dedicated webpage will keep colleagues informed about the conference, our activities and reflections on sessions.

Roundtable on Beyond Scaling Up jointly organised with FHS, STEPS Centre and the Global Forum for Health Research (Geneva, April 22)
Participants will include 18-20 experts representing Geneva-based organizations including the WHO, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, GAVI, MSF, COHRED and senior researchers from the Future Health Systems Research Programme Consortium and the STEPS Centre, including senior health system researchers from Bangladesh, Brazil, China, India and Nigeria.