Foundation event of the First European – American Migration Health Platform (FEAMHP)
Program Overview
Date: Oct 19 – 20, 2017
Venue, Location: University of Pécs Medical School (UP-MS), Hotel Palatinus, Pécs
18 October (Wednesday)
20:00 Dinner / Coming Together (self-financed) at Nana Restaurant
19 October (Thursday)
Venue: Dean’s Conference Room and Conference Room II (University of Pécs Medical School)
9:00 – 9:15 Opening ceremony
Christopher S. Machin – Acting Counsellor for Public Affairs, US Embassy
Attila MISETA – Dean of the University of Pécs Medical School
Lajos BOGAR – Vice president of HLMDI, Head of the University Department of Operational Medicine
9:15 – 10:45 1st Plenary session: introductory speeches
Moderator: Lajos BOGAR
David INGLEBY – EUPHA, University of Amsterdam
Jutta LINDERT – EUPHA, Protestant University of Ludwigsburg
Harald SIEM – NAKMI
Istvan SZILARD – University of Pecs
Christopher D. INGERSOLL – University of Toledo
Gillian ICE – Ohio University
Jozef BARTOVIC – WHO Europe
Joe CIMPERMAN – Global Cleveland
Kia GOOLESORKHI – HLMDI
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee break & Meeting the Press
11:15 – 12:45 Parallel session A, C
Session A (Migration Health and Integration) – Dean’s Conference Room
Moderator: David INGLEBY
Keynote speakers:
Szandra FEKETE – Hungarian Baptist Aid
Joe CIMPERMAN – Global Cleveland
John LIPINSKI – Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Rapporteur: (TBC)
Session C (Trafficking in Human Beings, its health implications and prevention)
Conference Room II
Moderator: Istvan SZILARD
Keynote speakers:
Sandor HORVATH – Hungarian Baptist Aid
Rapporteur: Erika MAREK – University of Pécs
12:45 – 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 – 16:00 2nd Plenary session: Feedback from the parallel sessions A and C, discussion of the specific platform related needs
Dean’s Conference Room
Moderator: Joseph A DAKE – University of Toledo
16:00 – 17:00 Drafting committee meeting – Dean’s Conference Room
David INGLEBY
Harald SIEM
Joe CIMPERMAN
20:00 – Dinner (self-financed) at Tettye Restaurant
20 October (Friday)
Venue: Bartók Hall, Nádor Room I (Hotel Palatinus)
9:00 – 10:30 Parallel session B, D
Session B (Human Resource Capacity Building Programs on the field of migration health)
Nádor Room I
Moderator: Gillian ICE – Ohio University
Keynote speakers:
Istvan SZILARD
Klara K PAPP – Case Western Reserve University
Eugenia CANAAN – WellShare International
Meredith GARTIN – Ohio University
Rapporteur: Debra MCBRIDE – Ohio University
Session D (Mental health aspects of migration) – Bartók Hall
Moderator: Jutta LINDERT
Keynote speakers:
Arpad BARATH – University of Pécs
Amy COREN, Northern Virginia Community College
Anna KANGSTROM – National Institute of Mental Health, Prague
Rapporteur: Andrew LEE – University of Pécs
10:30 – 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 – 11:30 Drafting committee meeting, Parallel session E
Drafting committee meeting – Nádor Room I
Session E (Technicalities of the First European – American Migration Health Platform)
Bartók Hall
Moderator: Kia GOOLESORKHI
Keynote speaker: Szabolcs FEKETE – University of Pécs
Rapporteur: Zoltan KATZ – University of Pécs
11:30 – 12:30 3rd Plenary session: Feedback from the parallel sessions B and D, discussion of the specific platform related needs
Moderator: Harald SIEM
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 – 16:00 4th Plenary session:
- Introduction of the ‘Declaration on the Establishment of the First European – American Migration Health Platform’
- Roles of the founding members in the post formation phase
- The charter: future member screening and invitation processes and governing body
- Proposed future events
- Action plan, Operational issues
Moderator: Randy LEITE – Ohio University
16:00 – 16:30 5th Plenary session: Closing ceremony
Moderator: Kia GOOLESORKHI
David J KOSTELANCIK – Charge d’Affaires, US Embassy in Hungary
David INGLEBY
20:00 – Dinner (self-financed) at Pezsgőház Restaurant
Sessions
- Migration Health and Integration: with a separate focus on innovative solutions in the field of prevention and mass vaccination. The importance of data sharing, joint resource sharing and ideation across key sectors.
- Human Resource Capacity Building Programs on the field of migration health: need for accredited academic programs specifically designed to address empowerment, research and training needs, as well as structural and managerial aspects of the ‘Migrant Sensitive Health Care System’. Advances in Participatory and Community Based Action Research methods for training inter-professional stakeholders involved in the field of migration and its health outcomes.
- Trafficking in Human Beings, its health implications and prevention: with a separate focus on best practices in building Multi-stakeholder, Multi-sectoral and Inter-professional Collaboration for data sharing, designing and implementing prevention and rehabilitation programs.
- Mental health aspects of migration with a separate focus on the most vulnerable groups especially women and children. The role of NGOs, Cities and Diaspora.
- Technicalities of the First European – American Migration Health Platform