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  Objective of the Prince Mahidol Award Conference


General objective
To organize an annual Prince Mahidol Award Conference to discuss high priority global health issues and propose solutions that will have a global impact.


Specific objectives
1.To organize, on an annual basis, an international health conference on priority
   health issues that are of global significance.

2.
To promote participation of leading scientists and public health leaders from    around the world.

3.
To organize the Conference based on a systematic and participatory approach    that ensures recommendations from the Conference will have a global health
   impact.

4.
To provide an opportunity for networking, capacity strengthening and leadership
   development, among leading scientists, public health leaders and administrators
   in international public health.




  PMA Conference 2008 : Speakers' Presentation
Session Speakers
   
Keynote speech:  
Thirty Years of PHC: Discern the Past, Understand the Present and the Way Forward Anarfi Asamoa-Baah
Joy Phumaphi
Sanduk Ruit
Panel Session  
Primary Health Care: Past Achievement, Future Challenges and Responses: Five Country Case Studies Toomas Palu
Parallel Session 1  
Who Services Primary Health Care and How They Can Be Effectively and Equitably Created, Motivated and Maintained to Provide Good PHC Services? Manuel Dayrit
Srinath Reddy
Miriam Were
Sultana Khanum
Badara Samb
Parallel Session 2  
PHC and Public Health Surveillance and Response Stella Chungong
Hamid Jafari
Holly Ladd, JD
Ahmed Tayeh
Terence Taylor
Parallel Session 3  
Impact of Global Health Initiatives on PHC and their Contribution to Strengthening Health Systems Prerna Banati
Badara Samb
David Sanders
Parallel Session 4  
International Trade, Trade Agreements and Health: Implications on Primary Health Care Pierre Sauve
Bounpheng Philavong
Choy Lup Bong
Elisabeth Tuerk
Sripen Tantivess
David Vivas-Eugui
Frederick Abbott
Parallel Session 5  
Financing PHC: Allocating Resources for Improved Effectiveness and Equity Pablo Gottret
Rifat Atun
Ahmad Jan Naeem
Amanda Glassman
Parallel Session 6  
Evidence, Information for Health Systems Strengthening in Support of PHC Crispinita Valdez
Clifford W. Kamara
Lo Veasnakiry
Pepela Wanjala
Hani Serag
Thomas Inui
Carla AbouZahr
Conference Synthesis  
Summary, Conclusion and Policy Recommendations Rapporteur Team
Conference Proceedings 2008
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Theme song of 2008 PMA Conference

 
 


Links to Conference Partners
The Prince Mahidol Award 
Foundation
Ministry of Public Health
Mahidol University
World Health Organization
The World Bank
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