Health Within and Beyond Welsh Borders December 2016
Celebrating 30 Years of the Ottawa Charter More on Page 3
Welcome Welcome to the December issue of the IHCC International e-bulletin. This month’s issue will provide you with information on the 30th Anniversary of the Ottawa Charter, World AIDS Day 2016 and activity within And beyond Welsh borders, in addition to new publications and opportunities. Follow the IHCC on Twitter for regular updates #IHCCWales and on the IHCC website.
Contents In Focus - Beyond Wales 3 In Focus - Within Wales 5 Opportunities 9 International Organisations and Newsletters
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InBeyond Focus Wales Celebrating 30 Years of the Ottawa Charter The Ottawa Charter was launched in 1986, creating a series of actions for international health organisations, national governments and local communities to achieve the goal of ‘Health for All’ by the year 2000. It aimed to do this through better health promotion in five key areas: building healthy public policy, creating supportive environments, strengthening community actions, developing personal skills and reorienting health services. On the anniversary, health ministers, policy makers and health professionals reiterated their support to the principles and goals of the Charter on several occasions. Participants at the European Public Health Conference (EPH), Vienna, called on the public health community, in Europe and beyond, to recognise the multi-tiered determinants of health and opportunities for action in the Vienna Declaration. In Shanghai, world leaders attending the 9th World Health Organization (WHO) Global Conference discussed how health was central to the achievement of the SDG and provided guidance on how health promotion and the development of healthy populations, communities and environments could be integrated into national and international responses to the international goals. The conclusions of the conference are presented in the Shanghai Declaration on promoting health in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which highlights the role of policy, governance and health literacy in making people able to control their own health. To find out more about the 30 years of the Ottawa Charter in the context of the 2030 Agenda, read about the EUPHA/EuroHealthNet plenary session “From Ottawa to Vienna: 30 years of the Ottawa Charter” in Vienna or read the EuroHealthNet report “Taking the Ottawa Charter forward in the context of the UN Sustainable Development Agenda 2030”.
Working Together for Better Health and Well-Being The Welsh Government presented Wales’ approach to health and wellbeing at the conference “Promoting intersectoral and interagency action for health and wellbeing in the WHO European Region” organised by the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe (WHO-EURO) in Paris on the 7-8th December 2016. During these two days, European policy-makers discussed how to strengthen intersectoral cooperation between the health, education and social sectors in the European Region, for better, more equal health and social outcomes for children and adolescents and their families. Go to the WHO-EURO website to find out more about the conference.
World AIDS Day 2016 The world celebrated World AIDS Day on the 1st December 2016. The World Health Organization (WHO) launched new guidelines on HIV self-testing to encourage countries to promote self-testing and for more people to get tested. There are almost 37 million people living with HIV worldwide, with a total number of HIV cases in the WHO European Region going over 2 million for the first time in 2015, a record year for the number of new cases. Yet, 40% ignore their HIV status, and only 40% are receiving antiretroviral therapy according to WHO. To address the epidemic, the WHO Regional Office for Europe (WHO EURO) has adopted an Action plan for the health sector response to HIV, which highlights three ambitious targets for 2020: for 90% of people living with HIV to know their HIV status, for 90% of diagnosed people living with HIV to receive treatment and for 90% of people on treatment to achieve viral suppression. Go to the WHO website to find out more about self-testing or to the FriskyWales website to learn about HIV testing in Wales.
InWithin Focus Wales
This section highlights recent examples of Welsh activity within our borders. This could take the form of collaborations, events and other work related to improving health and wellbeing and reducing inequalities in Wales. If you are a Welsh health or other health professional involved in international work and would like to share your work, please email international.health@wales.nhs.uk.
Welcome to the Team! The international team welcomes, Project Support Officer Andrea Hennessey, and Public Health Practitioner Anna Stielke, who have joined recently. Andrea is joining the team developing the Public Health Wales Global/ International Strategy. This project is now managed by Senior Project Manager Lauren Ellis and led by Consultant Lead Mariana Dyakova, from the international team. It also receives the support from Principal Health Promotion Specialist Malcolm Ward from the international team as well as Research and Development Manager Mark Griffiths, and Senior Research Assistant Charlotte Grey from the Public Health Wales Research and Development Division. Anna is joining the IHCC team and is supporting various projects related to the Charter for International Health Partnerships.
“Hello—my name is Andrea, my hometown is Abergavenny, in Monmouthshire, South East Wales. I am happy to be a new member of the team working on the initial stages of a Global/International Health Strategy for Public Health Wales. What an exciting project! Working and volunteering in social and healthcare-related projects in the United States and also living and working in Japan has helped me appreciate the rights, responsibilities and benefits of global citizenship. It is truly a privilege, therefore, to be supporting the IHD in enabling Welsh global/international health engagement and collaboration. In my Project Support capacity, I look forward to helping the team further the aims of Public Health Wales in creating a strategy that achieves a real change within and beyond Welsh borders.” Andrea Hennessey, Project Support Officer, Public Health Wales
“I am very excited and delighted to work with and contribute to the IHCC from now on to sustain its work within Wales and abroad. I just left my home country of Germany to start working at Public Health Wales where I did an internship during my bachelor period. I am a recent postgraduate from Maastricht University and look forward to be in the UK again. I have been back and forth during my studies between the Netherlands and the UK and have enjoyed working in an international context.”
Anna Stielke, Public Health Practitioner
Growing International Recognition for Public Health Wales Dr Quentin Sandifer, Executive Director of Public Health Services and Medical Director, Public Health Wales welcomed a delegation from the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) on behalf of Public Health Wales. During the two day visit, representatives from RIVM learned about the Well-being of Future Generation (Wales) Act (WFGA) as well as key Public Health Wales international collaborations and pieces of work such as the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) research, the Making a Difference report, as well as the development of the Public Health Wales Global/ International Health Strategy. The visit occurred just a few weeks after Public Health Wales obtained full membership to become the second national member of the International Association of National Public Health Institutions (IANPHI) for the UK.
International Highlights from the Welsh Public Health Conference The 2016 Welsh Public Health Conference benefited from a growing international presence with participants from across Europe and the UK, strengthening Wales’ contribution to global/international health. On the first day, Dr Piroska Östlin, Director of the Division of Policy and Governance for Health and Well-being at the World Health Organization (WHO), recognised Wales’ unique and advanced work on sustainable development and health with the adoption of the WFGA. A few days after the end of the Welsh Public Health Conference, Wales’ approach to sustainable development and health was presented at the European Public Health Conference in Vienna during a round table organised by Public Health Wales, the Welsh Government and the WHO Regions for Health Network.
IHCC Supports Capacity Building for the ARCH Programme ARCH (A Regional Collaboration for Health) is a collaboration project between Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board, Hywel Dda University Health Board and Swansea University. It spans the six local authority areas of Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire, Bridgend, Neath Port Talbot and Swansea. The ARCH programme aims to improve health and health care in South West Wales, drive investment and boost the local economy through innovation and collaboration. To support these objectives, the ARCH programme, the Welsh Government and the IHCC held a workshop to explore funding and collaboration opportunities for health and innovation in Wales. This workshop followed on from the ‘European Funding and Collaboration for Health and Wellbeing in Wales’ event held in February 2016 and aimed to provide a more local focus on available funding and collaboration opportunities to individual Health Boards/Trusts or programme. Go to the ARCH website to learn more about the programme.
Opportunities
For general information on European funding, read the IHCC European Funding Catalogue Part 1 on Horizon 2020 and the Third Health Programme, and Part 2 on Regional Funding.
Funding Hub Cymru Africa Grants Medical Research Council (MRC) Keywords: early stage research, public health, global health Deadline: 12th January 2017 Go to the MRC website for further information.
Global Health Research Units and Groups National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Keywords: research, global health, metrics, low and middle income countries, social science, economics Deadline: 26th January 2017 Find out more on the NIHR website.
UK Aid Match Department for International Development (DFID) Keywords: international development, civil society organisations, funding Deadline: 31st January 2017 Visit the DFID website for further information.
Open Calls Frontier Technology Livestreaming Department for International Development (DFID) Keywords: international development, technology, funding, expertise Visit the DFID website for further information.
ECHO Funds The European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection Department (ECHO) Keywords: grants, public procurement, humanitarian aid,volunteering overseas, third sector, Europe Visit ECHO’s website for further information.
Publications European Funding Catalogue – Regional Funding IHCC Keywords: funding, Europe, regions, innovation Visit the IHCC website for further information.
Scaling up Projects and Initiatives for Better Health: from Concepts to Practice World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe (WHO-EURO) Keywords: public health, innovation, Europe, regions, disease prevention, health promotion Find out more on the WHO-EURO website.
Towards Environmentally Sustainable Health Systems in Europe World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe (WHO-EURO) Keywords: sustainable development, health systems, Europe, evidence Find out more on the WHO-EURO website.
Global Report on Urban Health World Health Organization (WHO); United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) Keywords: urban health, international, sustainable development Find out more on the WHO website.
World Cities Report 2016 United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) Keywords: urban health, governance, international Go to the UN-Habitat website to find out more.
Sustainable Development: EU sets out its Priorities European Commission (EC) Keywords: Europe, policy, sustainable development Find out more on the EC website.
Health at a Glance: Europe 2016 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), European Commission (EC) Keywords: health statistics, Europe, labour market, risk factors, chronic diseases, primary care Visit the EC website for further information.
Tools and Resources Brexit and the NHS NHS European Office Keywords: Europe, Brexit, health system, UK Go to the NHS European Office website to find out more.
European Health Interview Survey: New Data Eurostat Keywords: obesity, Europe, statistics, UK Find out more on the Eurostat website.
Upcoming Conferences and Events International Health Policy Conference London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) London, 16-19th February 2017 Keywords: policy, international health, health systems, social care, mental health, health technologies, behaviour, population studies Find out more on the LSE website.
Other Expertise Opportunities Placement Improving Global Health through Leadership Development Thames Valley and Wessex Leadership Academy (TVWLA) Keywords: volunteer, international, NHS staff, fellowship Deadline: 31st March 2017 Find out more on the TVWLA website.
Training Applying for and Managing DFID Funds BOND London, 23rd January 2017, 6th March 2017 Keywords: funding, Department for International Development (DFID) Find out more on the BOND website.
Health in All Policies: Making it Work in Practice Durham University, World Health Organization (WHO) Durham City, 30th January – 1st February 2017 Keywords: policy, governance, social determinants, international, health inequalities Find out more on the Durham University website.
Health in Humanitarian Crises London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine On-line course, 6-26th February 2017 Keywords: health, international, humanitarian, emergency Find out more on the Find out more on the Future Learn website.
Introduction to International Development BOND London, 8-9th February 2017 Keywords: international development Find out more on the BOND website.
International Organisations and Newsletters Wales for Africa Health Links Network The Wales for Africa Health Links Network (WAHLN) aims to facilitate a co-ordinated and effective approach to promoting and supporting the development of health links between Wales and Sub-Saharan Africa. To subscribe to the WAHLN newsletter and read about the Network’s latest news, contact Buddug Nelson at the WAHLN Secretariat.
Connect Cymru Find out about International Youth on the new Connect Cymru website.
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Sustain Wales Get up to date on events, training and consultancy from Sustain Wales by subscribing to their newsletter.
Wessex Global Health Newsletter To keep in touch with the Wessex Global Health Network and receive regular updates, read their weekly update or sign up to their newsletter on their website.
WHO Europe Get up to date with public health news from around the WHO European Region by subscribing to the WHO Europe’s e-bulletin.
WHO Regions for Health Network This bulletin provides up to date information on the work developed by WHO’s RHN network, read the latest issue on the RHN website.
WHO Panorama Public Health Panorama provides a platform to scientists and public health practitioners for the publication of lessons learned from the field, as well as original research work, to facilitate the use of evidence and good practice for public health action.
EuroHealthNet Through the publication of its magazine, EuroHealthNet aims to explain its projects, its objectives and its ways of working. Go to the EuroHealthNet magazine website to find out more.
European Regional and Local Health Authorities (EUREGHA) EUREGHA is a network of 14 Europeen Regional and Local Health Authorities focused on public health and health care. Read the latest news on the EUREGHA website.
European Commission: SANTE Health-EU View the SANTE Health EU newsletter on the European Commission website for information on, News from the EU, EU Press Releases, EU Health Award for NGOs, Forthcoming events, New publications and Reporting from across Europe.
European Public Health Association (EUPHA) The latest issue of EUPHA’s newsletter, available on their webite, provides the latest updates in Public Health, including upcoming events, opportunities and news from it’s members.
European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing Read the latest newsletter on Active and Healthy Ageing on the European Commission website.
NHS Confederation NHS confederation offers a variety of newsletters that can be subscribed to by registering on their website.
NHS Confederation Europe The NHS Confederation European Office e-bulletin lets you know about policy, funding and the sharing of knowledge.
WEFO Horizon 2020 Put together for you by the Welsh Government’s Horizon 2020 Unit, the Horizon 2020 e-News is a regular digest of useful information for the Horizon 2020 community in Wales, to subscribe please email the Horizon 2020 mailbox or for more information visit the WEFO Horizon 2020 website.
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