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OPEN MEDICAL INSTITUTE ROMA HEALTH SEMINAR REPORT 2019 Table of Contents 1. Faculty & Group Photo 2. Schedule 3. Faculty Biographies 4. Fellows Contact Information 5. Diaries a Program of the ™ SALZBURG OMI SEMINAR ROMA HEALTH March 24 - 30, 2019 7 faculty, 6 OSF staff members and 34 fellows from 14 different countries and regions 11 lectures, 2 panel discussions, 1 performance lecture given by Alina Serban and several interesting case presentations by fellows Faculty Photo Group Photo of Faculty and Fellows 2019 Salzburg OMI Seminar in Roma Health Sunday 24 March – Saturday 30 March 2019 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 24 March 25 March 26 March 27 March 28 March 29 March 30 March 07:00 – 08:45 BREAKFAST BREAKFAST BREAKFAST BREAKFAST BREAKFAST DEPARTURES On Social Accountability and Legal Empowerment On Ethnicity and On Genetic Determinism Borjan Pavlovski Introduction Human Migration and Different Treatment and Roma Susceptibility Zoran Bikovski 09:00 – 10:00 Marek Szilvasi NCDs in Harm Reduction to NCDs Maja Saitovic Charles Agyemang Marian Ursan Roza Adany Discussion Denise Tomasini-Joshi Mariana Berbec-Rostas 10:00 – 10:30 COFFEE BREAK COFFEE BREAK COFFEE BREAK COFFEE BREAK COFFEE BREAK Public Policies and the On Ethnically Challenges to Human Health of Roma Roma Health and EU On Environmental Disaggregated Data and Rights-Based Public Communities – Lessons 10:30 – 12:00 Policy Advocacy Justice and Roma Social Science Research in Health Learned by Romanian Sascha Marschang Richard Filcak Public Health Dineke Zeegers-Paget Authorities Iulius Rostas Daniel Radulescu 12:00 – 12:30 Discussion Discussion Discussion Discussion Discussion 12:30 – 14:00 LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH Health Mediation vs. Community Advocacy: On Narrative Change From an Ameliorative to a and Ethnic Health On Roma in Medical On Health Mediation and 14:00 – 15:30 Transformative Approach Inequities Professions Outreach Professions in Overcoming Roma Brett Davidson Panel Discussion Panel Discussion Health Inequities Katarzyna Pabijanek Manuel Garcia Ramirez 15:30 – 16:00 COFFEE BREAK COFFEE BREAK Free Afternoon COFFEE BREAK COFFEE BREAK Workshop Workshop Evaluation & Discussion 16:00 – 17:30 Fellows´ Case Presentations Fellows’ Case Presentations Marek Szilvasi Performative Lecture Alina Serban Discussion & Closing Discussion & Closing 17:30 – 18:00 Remarks Remarks Faculty Only 18:00 – 19:00 Meeting to FAREWELL RECEPTION Review the Week GRADUATION DINNER 19:00 – 20:00 DINNER DINNER DINNER DINNER WELCOME Certificates Awarded RECEPTION & 20:30 – 21:30 20:00 – 21:00 DINNER CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT OMI SEMINAR in SALZBURG "Roma Health" March 24 – 30, 2019 FACULTY Wolfgang Aulitzky, MD is the Medical Director of the American Austrian Foundation. He is Associate Dean for International Medicine and Distance Learning, Adjunct Prof. of Clinical Urology and Adjunct Prof. of Clinical Reproductive Medicine at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University/New York Presbyterian Hospital. In 2016, he was appointed Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics in the Associated Faculty of the Perelman School of Medicine at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He is also Associate Prof. of Urology at the Medical University of Innsbruck and Visiting Professor at the Medical University of Vienna. Amongst others he is a member of the American, German and Austrian Societies of Urology and was awarded the Zuckerkandlpreis of the Austrian Society of Urology in 1989. In 1995 he received the Silver Medal, in 2007 the Golden Medal for Merits to the Republic of Austria and in 2014 the cross of honor of the Land Salzburg. As Director of the Medical Program of the American Austrian Foundation he has initiated the Open Medical Institute, a scientific and educational collaboration of Weill Cornell and the NewYork Presbyterian Hospital, the Children Hospital of Philadelphia, Duke University, Columbia University, the Cleveland Clinic and leading hospitals in Austria. Dr. Aulitzky earned his medical degree at the University of Innsbruck in 1977, was a research associate at the University of Uppsala, Sweden and the Rockefeller University, New York. He received his training as an urologist at the University of Innsbruck and the General Hospital of Salzburg. He is the author of more than 140 publications on Urology, Andrology and Health Care issues and is co-author of books on basic and clinical urology/andrology. Wolfgang Aulitzky, MD Director, Open Medical Institute American Austrian Foundation Associate Dean and Gerhard Andlinger Professor for International Medicine & Distance Learning Adjunct Professor of Clinical Urology Adjunct Professor of Clinical Reproductive Medicine Weill Medical College of Cornell University Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics Perelman School of Medicine at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Associate Professor of Urology Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria Kärntner Straße 51/II/Top 4 1010 Vienna Austria Phone: +43-1-533-8658 Fax: +43-1-533-8658-10 Email: [email protected] Marek Szilvasi (Course Director) is a Program Officer with the Public Health Program of the Open Society Foundations, where he focuses on ethnicity and health equality and Roma health. He has more than ten years of professional experience in developing and implementing social justice and anti- discrimination advocacy, research, education and awareness- raising campaigns, and public litigation support strategies targeting national and international authorities across Europe. Marek has worked on policy change in the areas of public health, environmental justice, access to education, housing, criminal justice, migration and free movement, access to identity documents, and placement of children in care systems. He supported development and advocated for implementation of more than 15 discriminations (national and international jurisdiction) cases. Marek been a lecturer in sociology and philosophy at universities in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia, and a visiting researcher at universities in Croatia, India, and Italy. In 2017, he was awarded the Martin Alexandersson Research Scholarship of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute and the CAS-SEE/University of Rijeka Fellowship for his work on environmental justice and access to water for Roma in Europe. He holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom, where the Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society, and Rule of Law sponsored his research on contradictions of European inclusion policies. Dr Szilvasi’s most recent publications can be accessed online. Marek Szilvasi Program Officer Health Law and Equality Division Public Health Program Open Society Foundations Orbi Tower, Thomas Klestil Platz 13 1030 Vienna Austria Phone: +49-174-4029726 Email: [email protected] Roza Adany (Faculty) is a medical doctor having specialization in the field of preventive medicine and public health. She is Professor of public health at the University of Debrecen, Hungary, founding Dean of the Faculty of Public Health, leader of the Public Health Research Group funded by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, head of the WHO Collaborating Centre on Vulnerability and Health, President of the Public Health Genomics Section of the European Public Health Association. She also acts as president of the Hungarian Association of Public Health Training and Research Institutes, chief editor of the journal ‘Népegészségügy’ (Public Health), editorial member of the European Journal of Public Health, associate editor of the Frontiers in Public Health journal, Vice-Chair of the European Advisory Committee on Health Research for WHO European Region. She was chairperson of the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER) between 2001-2003. Her scientific research in the past decades achieved international significance regarding the identification of susceptibility biomarkers of neoplastic and cardiovascular diseases; investigation of the structure and causes of premature mortality in Europe especially among Roma; and evaluation of interventions aiming at the improved efficiency of prevention. The number of her scientific publications is 345 with a cumulative impact factor more than 490, her studies have been cited more than 6000 times in the international literature. She contributed as expert adviser to the development of the revised version of the Health for All and the draft of the Health 2020 strategies of the WHO Europe. She received several prestigious Hungarian and international awards in acknowledgement of her work like the “For Hungarian Higher Education” medal, Széchenyi fellowship, Szent-Györgyi Albert prize, Semmelweis prize, Hőgyes Endre prize, Szilárd Leó fellowship, Pro Urbe award of the city of Debrecen, “Award for Budapest” and the “Distinguished Scientist Award” of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science. Roza Adany Professor of Public Health Leader of the Public Health Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Head of the WHO Collaborating Centre on Vulnerability and Health Department of Preventive Medicine Faculty of Public Health University of Debrecen Kassai Str 26 4028 Debrecen Hungary Phone: +36-52-512-764/+36-30-9676-558 Email: [email protected] Charles Agyemang (Faculty) is a Professor of Global Migration, Ethnicity and Health at Amsterdam University Medical Centres, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. His research is focused on ethnicity, migration and health and NCDs in low- and middle-income countries. He