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Dear Colleagues We Are Delighted to Welcome You All to Yerevan Dear Colleagues We are delighted to welcome you all to Yerevan, Armenia, and the American University of Armenia. This Annual Meeting of ASPHER will be unusual for a number of reasons: For the first time it is being held in one of the countries of the Newly Independent States In addition to the membership of ASPHER, we have invited to the conference participants from the schools of public health of the Eastern Mediterranean Region as well as Africa For the first time, we are holding a major public health conference of this size in Yerevan We hope that beyond its business and regular sessions, this Meeting will provide us an opportunity to Share some common concerns in public health and the education of future generations of health professionals, Learn from each other’s experiences, and Know each other better. The Organizing as well as the Scientific Committee will do their utmost to facilitate the Conference proceedings as well as help you with your individual needs. We would also like to help you spend more time in discovering Armenia and make this visit a most positive and unusual experience. An experience that you hopefully will repeat in the future. Haroutune K. Armenian, MD, DrPH Dean, College of Health Sciences President, American University of Armenia Keynote Speakers DONALD A. HENDERSON, MD, MPH D.A. Henderson is Professor of Public Health and Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh and Resident Fellow of the Center for Biosecurity of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He is Dean Emeritus of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and a Founding Director (1998) of the Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense Strategies. From November 2001 through April 2003, he served as Director of the Office of Public Health Emergency Preparedness and, later, as Principal Science Advisor, in the Office of Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. Henderson’s previous positions include: Associate Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President (1990-93); Dean of the Faculty of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health (1977-90); and Director of the World Health Organization’s global smallpox eradication campaign (1966-77). In 2002, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. He is the recipient also of the National Medal of Science; the National Academy of Sciences’ Public Welfare Medal; and the Japan Prize, shared with two colleagues. He has received honorary degrees from 16 universities and special awards from 19 countries. Dr. Henderson serves as an advisor to many organizations in the United States and abroad. His roles in this capacity include: Chairman of the Technical Advisory Group on Vaccines of the Pan American Health Organization; Chairman of the National Advisory Council on Public Health Emergency Preparedness; Chairman of the WHO ad hoc Orthopoxvirus Advisory Committee. He is a Member of the Institute of Medicine; a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; an Honorary Fellow of the National Academy of Medicine of Mexico; an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London; an Honorary Member of the Royal Society of Medicine; and is a Fellow of a number of professional medical and public health societies. Dr. Henderson is a member of the editorial board for the peer-reviewed journal, Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Biodefense Strategy, Practice and Science. Additionally, he has authored more than 200 articles and scientific papers, 31 book chapters, and is coauthor of the renowned Smallpox and Its Eradication (Fenner F, Henderson DA, Arita I, Jezek A, and Ladnyi ID. 1988. Geneva: World Health Organization), the authoritative history of the disease and its ultimate demise. Dr. Henderson, a Lakewood, Ohio native, graduated from Oberlin College, from the University of Rochester School of Medicine, and the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. He served as medical resident at the Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown, New York. HUDA C. ZURAYK, MA, PhD Dr. Huda Zurayk is presently the Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the American University of Beirut, in Lebanon, a position she has held since September of 1998. Dr. Zurayk earned her undergraduate degree in Statistics from the American University of Beirut in 1965, received an MA in Statistics from Harvard University in 1966, and completed her PhD in Biostatistics from The Johns Hopkins University in 1974. Dr. Zurayk joined the American University of Beirut as Assistant Professor in 1974, progressing to Professor in 1985. In 1987 she joined the Population Council Regional Office for West Asia and North Africa in Cairo, as Senior Representative and then as Senior Research Associate. During her eleven years tenure at the Population Council, Dr. Zurayk established the Regional Reproductive Health Working Group that continues today as a multi-disciplinary network of researchers throughout the Region examining issues critical to reproductive health. Dr. Zurayk has participated in a number of advisory boards and professional organizations throughout the world. Most recently, she was a member of the International Scientific Advisory Board of the Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies in South Africa from 2002-2005. She was member of the Scientific and Ethical Review Group (1991-93) and of the Social Science Task Force (1994-99) of the Special Program of Research Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction of the World Health Organization, Geneva. She was also a member of the Reproductive Health Panel of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences from 1994 until 1995. She served two terms as an elected member of the Council of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population from 1993 to 2001. Andrija Stampar Award Each year, during its Annual Conference, the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER) awards the prestigious Andrija Stampar Medal to a distinguished person for excellence in the field of Public Health. The medal itself is named after Doctor Andrija Stampar from Croatia. "Doctor Andrija Stampar was born in the Croatian countryside 100 years ago. His parents were schoolteachers and moved around the country a lot. This gave him many opportunities to observe the daily life of the people. He qualified in medicine in Graz during the period of the Habsburg Empire. There was no medical school in Croatia at that time. In the 1920s he worked in a senior position in the newly created Ministry of Health in Belgrade. Apparently at this time he was very outspoken about what needed to be done. In the period 1927/8 he founded the School of Public Health in Zagreb, with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. From this base he began to develop the public health system for the whole of Yugoslavia. As a result of these successful activities he was invited by the King to take up the cabinet post of Minister of the Interior. He accepted subject to certain conditions, which the King did not accept. Subsequently he went to China as an official of the League of Nations, and set up a fledgling public health system under its auspices. He spent the period of the Second World War in prison, but in 1945 was appointed as Professor of Social Medicine in Zagreb. He also served as Dean of the Medical School and as President of the Academy of Arts and Sciences of Croatia. In 1946 he was president of the Interim Committee of WHO, charged with setting up its structures and constitution. It also drew up the famous definition of health. Professor Stampar was chairman of the first WHO General Assembly in 1948. He died in 1958, tragically early, from a stroke." Speech by Professor Richard Madeley, Aspher Annual Conference, Torino, Italy, October 10-14, 1998. This year the recipient is George Soros. On 18 September 2005, ASPHER will award its 13th Stampar Medal to Mr. George Soros of Open Society Institute (OSI), in recognition of OSI’s support to the development and improvement of public health training in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. George Soros is chairman of the Open Society Institute and founder of a network of philanthropic organizations that are active in more than 50 countries. Based primarily in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union - but also in Africa, Latin America, Asia, and the United States - these foundations are dedicated to building and maintaining the infrastructure and institutions of an open society. They work closely with OSI to develop and implement a range of programs focusing on civil society, education, media, public health, and human rights as well as social, legal, and economic reform. Mr Michael Borowitz, Director of Open Society Institute’s Public Health Programs, will accept the award on behalf of OSI’s Public Health Programs. Introduction A strong public health infrastructure provides the capacity to prepare for and respond to emerging and long standing public health challenges. Such an infrastructure serves as the foundation for planning, delivering, and evaluating public health and requires a well-educated and well-trained professional public health workforce. Assuring a competent public health workforce is vital to managing the health of a population. In light of recent emerging threats such as bio-terrorism, the development and expansion of public health training programs are now receiving renewed interest from governmental and non- governmental public health agencies. Yet, these programs themselves have a major and indispensable role in developing new insights and innovative solutions to public health training, including the introduction of new educational formats and modalities, contemporary technologies and managerial/organizational options. The process of globalization and accompanying scientific and technological changes requires the schools to design programs corresponding to global and Western standards of excellence, at the same time responding to more pressing country-specific, local needs, which is often logistically and methodologically burdensome process.
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