WUN Public Health Global Challenge Conference 2015 ‘Healthy Ageing – Researching a Lifecourse Approach’ Monday, 27 April 2015 LT6, 2/F, Cheng Yu Tung Building The Chinese University of

(Preliminary Programme as at 25 February 2015)

Time Programme 8:30am- Registration 9:00am

Opening Ceremony  Remarks by Prof. Joseph Sung, Vice-Chancellor & President, CUHK 9:00am –  Remarks by Prof. John Hearn, Executive Director of WUN 9:15am  Remarks by Prof. Sophia Chan, Under Secretary for Food & Health of the HKSAR Government  Group photo

Keynote Address 9:15am –  Dr. John Beard, Director, Department of Ageing & Life Course, World Health 9:30am Organization (via video)

Plenary 1: Developmental Factors Influencing Healthy Ageing

Co-Chairs:  Prof. Jane Harding, Deputy-Vice Chancellor (Research), The University of Auckland & Chair, WUN Public Health Global Challenge Steering Group  Prof. Tai-fai Fok, Professor of Paediatrics & Pro-Vice-Chancellor, CUHK

Speakers: 1. Developmental Perspective on Healthy Ageing Prof. Mark Hanson, Director, Academic Unit of Human Development Health, University of Southampton 9:30am – 2. Theme/Title 11:00am Prof. YAN Guo, Vice President, Health Science Center, Peking University 3. Life course trajectories: development and decline Prof. Rebecca Hardy, Scientific Programme Leader, MRC Unit for Lifelong Health & Ageing, University College London

Panel:  Prof. Ronald Ma, Professor, Division of Endocrinology & Diabetes, Department of Medicine & Therapeutics, CUHK  Prof. Hengjin Dong, Executive Director, Center for Health Policy & Management Studies, University  Prof. Stewart Mercer, Chair in Primary Care Research, Institute of Health & Wellbeing, University of Glasgow

11:00am – Coffee break & group photo (CYT main staircase) 11:30am

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Time Programme

Breakout Meetings – Discussion for Collaborative WUN projects

Theme 1 - Mechanisms & Biomarkers (CYT 201)  Prof. Mark Hanson, Director, Academic Unit of Human Development Health, University of Southampton (WUN PH rep)  Prof. Ronald Ma, Professor, Division of Endocrinology & Diabetes, Department of Medicine & Therapeutics, CUHK

11:30am – Theme 2 – Interventions (CYT 211) 12:30pm  TBC (WUN PH rep)  Prof. YAN Guo, Vice President, Health Science Center, Peking University

Theme 3 – Economic & Policy Implications (CYT 212)  Prof. Sian Griffiths, Emeritus Professor, Jockey Club School of Public Health & Primary Care, CUHK (WUN PH rep)  Prof. Hengjin Dong, Executive Director, Center for Health Policy & Management Studies, Zhejiang University

12:30pm – Lunch (The Stage, CYT 3/F) 1:30pm

Plenary 2: Promoting Healthy Ageing in Adults

Co-Chairs:  Prof. Alfred Chan, Chairman, HKSAR Elderly Commission & Chair Professor of Social Gerontology, Department of Sociology & Social Policy, Lingnan University  Prof. Yoav Ben-Shlomo, Professor, School of Social & Community Medicine, University of Bristol

Speakers: 1. Theme/Title Prof. Leon Flicker, Winthrop Professor of Geriatric Medicine, Centre for Medical Research, The University of Western Australia 1:30pm – 2. Theme/Title 3:00pm Prof. Timothy Kwok, Professor, Division of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine & Therapeutics, CUHK 3. Theme/Title Dr. Enrique Vega Garcia, Regional Advisor on Healthy Ageing, Pan American Health Organization / World Health Organization

Panel:  Dr. Helen Elsey, Lecturer in Public Health, Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds  Dr. Rebecca Hardy, Scientific Programme Leader, MRC Unit for Lifelong Health & Ageing, University College London  Prof. Elaine Dennison, Professor of Musculoskeletal Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton

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Time Programme 3:00pm – Coffee break 3:30pm

Breakout Meetings – Discussion for Collaborative WUN projects

Theme 1 – Social & Wider Factors (CYT 201)  Dr. Kue Young, Professor and Dean, School of Public Health, (WUN PH rep)  Dr. Rebecca Hardy, Scientific Programme Leader, MRC Unit for Lifelong Health & Ageing, University College London

Theme 2 – Interventions (CYT 211) 3:30pm –  Prof. Nanne de Vries, Professor of Health Promotion, CAPHRI School of Public 4:30pm Health & Primary Care, Maastricht University (WUN PH rep)  Dr. Helen Elsey, Lecturer in Public Health, Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds

Theme 3 – Economic & Policy Implications (CYT 212)  Prof. Sian Griffiths, Emeritus Professor, Jockey Club School of Public Health & Primary Care, CUHK (WUN PH rep)  Prof. Anne Christine Johannessen, Professor of Oral Pathology & Vice-Rector for International Affairs, University of Bergen (WUN PH rep)

Public Health Global Challenge Plenary led by Prof. Jane Harding, Chair, WUN Public Health Global Challenge Steering Group 4:30pm – 5:35pm  Sharing discussion outcomes from breakout meetings (report by WUN PH reps in the breakout meetings)  Next steps agreed

6:30pm Coach pick-up at hotel main entrance

7:00pm – Conference dinner at the Hong Kong Jockey Club, Shatin Clubhouse 9:00pm

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