International Workshop Innovation and development in health: Integration of complementary and traditional medicine in public health systems 28 – 31 October 2008 Florence, Italy Istituto Agronomico per l’Oltremare Via A. Cocchi, 4 Participants From the countries AFGHANISTAN. Mohammad Ali – Eshan, Director of Esteqlal Hospital ALBANIA. Edi Tushe, Maternal Hospital of Tirana ALBANIA. Rubena Moisiu, Director Obstetrician Services BOLIVIA. Daly Santa Maria Aguirre, PROHISABA (Programme for Support to Hygiene and General Health Sector), Potosí CHILE. Barbara Bustos B., Unity of Health and Indigenous People, Sub-Secretary of Welfare Network, Ministry of Health CUBA. Martha Herminia Pérez Viñas, Responsible of the National Department of Natural and Traditional Medicine CUBA. Lourdes Alicia Acosta Martinez, Deputy Director of Tenure and Investigation, Traditional and Natural Medicine’s Center, Ministry of Health CUBA. William Díaz. MINVEC (Ministry for Foreings Investment and Economic Collaborations) DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. Onofre Rojas Ministry of Health of Dominican Republic ECUADOR. Doctora Caroline Chang Campos, Minister of Health ECUADOR. Edgar Godoy, Consultant of the Ministry of Health ECUADOR. Luis Calderon, General Director of the Ministry of Intercultural Health EL SALVADOR. Patricia Martínez Aparicio, Director of Unity for Medicine and Medical Supplies Regulation, Ministry of Public Health and Welfare 1 GABON. Pascal Massandé, Chief Cabinet, Ministry of Development Planning and Programming GUATEMALA. Marco Antonio Bernabé Vásquez, Director of the Department for Attention to the Community, CDRO Association, Totonicapán GUATEMALA. Williams Alexander Chuc Norato, Director of the Unity for Monitoring, Planning and Evaluation, CDRO Association, Totonicapán IRAN. Majid Avijgan, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan LEBANON. Colette Raidy, Head of Pharmaceutical Inspection Department, Ministry of Public Health LEBANON. Rasha Hamra, Director of Public Relations & Health Education Departments, Ministry of Public Health LEBANON. Amal Karaki, Council for Development and Reconstruction, Republic of Lebanon, Social Development Senior Expert MALI. Mamadou Namory Traoré, General Secretary of the Ministry of Health MALI. Pakuy Pierre Mounkoro, Director of the Traditional Medicine Center of Bandiagara MOZAMBIQUE. Prof. Dr. Adelaide Bela Agostinho, Director Center of Investigation and Development in Ethnobotany, Ministry of Science and Technology MOZAMBIQUE. Jorge Fernado Manuel Tomo, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health MOZAMBIQUE. Joana Augusto, Provincial Direction of Health of Cabo Delgado MOZAMBIQUE. Ana Cristina Fernandes, Maputo Central Hospital SERBIA. Ms. Vinka Kojadinovic, Adviser of Minister of Health for legal issues SERBIA. Vuk Stambolovic, Association of public Health of Serbia SERBIA. Embassy of Serbia. Dragana Vukovic-Ljubojevic, First Secretary SYRIA. Iyad Elsayed, Doctor of Clinical Studies, Ministry of Health SYRIA. Hazar Faroun, Manager of Rational Drug Use, Ministry of Health SRI LANKA. Dr. H.R.U. Indrasiri, Deputy Director General (Education, Training and Research), Ministry of Health SRI LANKA. Ms. C. A. Wimalawathie, Medical Director of Aparakka Hospital SOUTH AFRICA. Professor Indres Moodley, Director Health Outcomes Research Unit, School of Family & Public Health, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal VENEZUELA. Julio Cesar Uzcatequi, Officer of the Ministry of Health Special guest Edgar Morin, Paris ART and UN Organizations Malebona Precious Matsoso, Director of WHO Secretariat on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual property, WHO Geneva Giorgio Grussu, UNEP Luciano Carrino, ART Scientific Commitee Marta Guglielmetti, UN Millennium Campaign Helmut Olesko, Austrian Commission for UNESCO Rita Cassisi, Regional Office UNIFEM, Mexico Luigi Cafiero, Chief Technical Advisor, ART GOLD Lebanon Giovanni Camilleri, ART International, Hub for Innovative Partnerships, UNDP Geneva Piero D’Onofrio, Chief Technical Advisor, ART GOLD Albania Maria del Huerto Delgado, Assistant Coordinator, Programme of Local Development ART Uruguay-UNDP 2 Asangha Ranasinghe, Project Unit UNDP ART GOLD Sri Lanka Programme Ornella Benardelli, Manager PROC Operations centre UNOPS Milena Verrié-Biosca, Assistant to the Chief Technical Advisor, ART GOLD Maroc Programme – UNDP Myrieme Zniber Sefrioui, Senior Programme Adviser, Governance and Local Development, ART GOLD Programme, UNDP, Rabat, Morocco Giancarlo Canzanelli. Coordinator ILS-LEDA (International Liaison Services for Local Economic Development Agencies) Sara Swartz, Coordinator of the Universitas Programme Cecilia Di Francesco Marino UNOPS ART UNIVERSITAS Giacomo Negrotto UNDP ART Programme Fernando Nicolas Bravo. ART SIP Decentralized Cooperation Paolo Tartaglia. Hub for Innovative Partnerships, UNDP Geneva Sabina Kasumovic. Hub for Innovative Partnerships, UNDP Geneva Attilio Aleotti. ART GOLD Coordinator in Bolivia Sauro Gori, Coordinator of the ART-Tuscany programme Teresa Vieri, ART-Tuscany programme Stefano Squaglia, ART-Tuscany programme Donatella Marranini, ART-Tuscany programme Luciano Gonnella, UNDP UNOPS ART SERVICES for Decentralized Cooperation Giulia Dario, Coordinator of the IDEASS Programme International cooperation Luca Citarella, Delegation of the European Commission, Bolivia Noly Coromoto Fernandez, President of the Andean Commission of Intercultural Health - Organismo Andino de Salud (ORAS CONHU); Ministry of Health of Venezuela Nila Heredia, Coordinator of the Andean Project of Intercultural Health - Organismo Andino de Salud Stefan N. Willich, Director of the Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics Chairman, Charité Center for Humanities and Health Sciences, Charité University Medical Center, Berlin Judith Wieser, European Academy for Traditional Medicine, Vienna Pietro Coppo, President of ORISS Pisa Giuseppe Paolini, COOPI NGO Simonetta Martorelli, Interregional Observatory on Development Cooperation (OICS) Sergio Bassoli, International Cooperation Committee, SOLIDAR Stefania Carrara, UCODEP, Desk Andean America Pascal Bourgier, Director BIC Thesame, France Olivier Dervaux, SOLAREF, France Pasquale Campo, UNV - Seniores NGO Isabelle Lorre, Scientific Coordinator, French Society of Ethnopharmacology Klaus Seeland, Professor, ETH Zurich Patrick Véret, Professor, Nice, France Cristina Cuomo, Psychologist, Nice, France Roberta Rododendro, Anthropologist, Italian Development Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Toscana Region Enrico Rossi, Regional Ministry of Health, Tuscany Region Massimo Toschi, Regional Ministry for International Cooperation Alessia Ballini, Adviser for Social Affairs, Equal Opportunity, International Cooperation and Sport, Province of Florence Alessio Azzini, Department of Social Affairs, Equal Opportunity, International Cooperation and Sport, Province of Florence Maria José Caldés, Responsible of Health Cooperation of the Tuscany Region Sonia Baccetti, Tuscany Network of Complementary Medicine Fabio Firenzuoli, Tuscany Network of Complementary Medicine Fabio Roggiolani, President of the Health Commission of the Tuscany Region Alice Perlini, Director of the Istituto Agronomico per L’Oltremare (IAO) – MAE (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) Marco Verdone, Association Lycopodium Homeopathia Europea 3 Fabio Salbitano, University of Florence Elio Rossi, Tuscany Network of Complementary Medicine Decentralized cooperation Norberto Cau, Responsible, International relations for cooperation in health of the Lazio Region Eugenio Scorpio, Administrative Director, Local Health’s Agency Salerno2 Giuseppe Antonucci, Doctor, Hospital of Prato Gaddo Flego, Responsible S.C. Medical Direction of the Hospital Guard - Local Health’s Agency 4 “Chiavarese” Marcello Farinelli, Technical Referent for the MC for the Regional Health’s Plan of Liguria Stefania Florindi, Regional Health’s Agency, Emilia Romagna Region Franco Bonanni, Director of Regional Health’s Services Agency, Liguria Region Roberto Della Lena, Medical Doctor, Meyer Hospital, Florence Maria Valeria Monechi, Doctor acupuncturist, MTC “Fior di Prugna” Center, Local Health’s Agency 10, Florence Alfred Koenig, Director of the Health’s Districts Office, Autonomous Province of Bolzano Susanna Taccola, Operator “Fior di Prugna” Center, ORISS, MTC Guendalina Allodi, Department of Public Health, MD Alfredo Pagliaro, Adviser for Hygiene, Health, Quality of Life, Strays Animal of the Municipality of Lecce Rosario Pennacchio, Coordinator of the Integrated Pharmacies Project of the Campania Region, Pharmacology Faculty, University of Naples Fabio Burigana, President of AMEC (Medicine and Complexity Association), Friuli - Venezia Giulia Region Rossella Garzia, Responsible of the Clinic of Homeopathy and non-traditional medicine, Universitary Hospital of Siena Andrea Rapisardi, Administrator “Lama Development & Cooperation Agency”, Florence Renato Libanora, Professor of Development Anthropology, University of Florence Letizia Pedersani, Istituto Agronomico per l’Oltremare (IAO) – MAE (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) Alessia Muccio, Researcher, Laboratory of Human Ecology, University of Florence Piero Mannucci, Researcher, Laboratory of Human Ecology, University of Florence Silvano Granchi, Provincial Councillor, Province of Pisa; Coordinator of the Africa Table of the Tuscany Region Domenico Abbate, ICEI - International Institute for Economic Cooperation, Desk Africa Merav Bat Gil, Are Universitas, Rome Claudia Avitabile, Deputy President of the American