October, 18, 2011: At the recent captioned meeting in Abu Dhabi, the Global Agenda Council on Health and Well-being 2011, which is one of the World Economic Forum’s 79 Councils, focused on making a case for positioning health and wellness, as the potential fourth bottom line of businesses. The understanding is that performance, social responsibility and commitment to environmental protection are the existing three. Our President, Sania Nishtar, is a member of the council and attended the meeting.
GLOBAL AGENDA COUNCIL, WORLD ECONOMIC...
October 14, 2011: Our recent paper, “Heartfile Health Financing: Striving to achieve Health Equity in Pakistan,” has just been published on a World Health Organization hosted website for the World Conference on Social Determinants of Health. The conference commences on October 19, 2011. The paper is part of a series of case studies that present successful examples of policy action aiming to reduce health inequities. The paper can be downloaded here and background details can be accessed...
October 05, 2011: a recent paper co-authored by Eva Jane Lopez of the World Economic Forum and Sania Nishtar from Heartfile outlines the imperative for creating an apex global coordinating mechanism for non-communicable diseases. This is the first publication after the release of the high level political declaration on NCDs, which reinforces one of the declaration’s key recommendations centered on furthering international collaboration on NCD. The paper can be accessed...
September 22, 2011: A special issue of 'The Journal of Health Communication' was launched at a side event to the UN high-level meeting on non-communicable diseases in New York on September 19. Both guest editors, Peter Anderson and Dr. Sania Nishtar, are members of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Agenda Council (GAC) on Chronic Disease and Wellness where at a meeting of this body in 2010 in Dubai, the idea for this special supplement was conceived. The authors of this 205-page journal have engaged in research and dialogue throughout the globe. The issue can be downloaded here and the authors’ introduction to the series can be viewed...
September 08, 2011: Seventh in the series, the captioned Congress, which was held in St Gallen in the last week of August, 2011 explored Demography’s intersections with other sectors. Our president Sania Nishtar was a plenary speaker in the session titled “Demography meets Health".
WORLD AGEING AND GENERATIONS CONGRESS...
September 07, 2011: Our final viewpoint on the devolution of the health portfolio from the standpoint of national roles has just been published in The News International (Click here to Download). You can also view the proposed national structure for health in the post devolution...
August 24, 2011: Democracy, politics, governance and accountability – historically misunderstood in theory and practice, these attributes of state governance need to be properly addressed in order to improve every aspect of the body politic, especially health systems performance. Our recent Independence Day Commemorative Viewpoint, which focuses on this can be downloaded here. View PDF...
August 19, 2011: In preparation for the UN High Level Meeting on September 19-20, 2011, the NCD Alliance has just released its Human Rights Brief. This has been prepared by its Human Rights Working Group, of which Dr. Sania Nishtar is a member. Ten key recommendations are outlined in the brief including inter alia, implementation for prevention of NCDs, the right to essential medicines and technologies and vulnerable populations,. Click here to view the four page summary and the in-depth paper can be downloaded...
August 12, 2011: the recently held debut meeting of the Aman ki Asha Health Committee in Delhi concluded with a declaration and an action plan for the way forward. The meeting was chaired by our President, Dr. Sania Nishtar and Dr. Naresh Trehan from India. The outputs of the meeting now serve as the framing context for pursuing mutual learning, sharing of experiences and exploring avenues for collaboration.
August 09, 2011: Hosted by Wafaa El-Sadr, Rifat Atun and Jean Paul Moatti, the above meeting included an afternoon Panel, which was chaired and moderated by our president, Dr. Sania Nishtar. Panelists included Ambassador Eric Goosby (United States Global AIDS Coordinator), Bart Janssen (Medicines Sans Frontiers), Gottfried Hirnschal (WHO) and Chewe Luo (UNICEF).
August 03, 2011: As part of its first annual Innovation Awards ceremony in New York held on July 7, 2011, the Rockefeller Foundation honored four Global Innovators, amongst them our president Dr. Sania Nishtar, who received the innovation award for her unique contributions to the field of global health. Other award recipients include President Bill Clinton, Jane Weru, executive director of the Akiba Mashinani Trust in Kenya and representatives from the microfinance organization Kiva in the Classroom. The press release from the event and video footages can be viewed.
ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATIONS AWARD INNOVATION
