Call For Papers (English Version)

ACCELERATE THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF GOALS COMPLIANCE

In 2015, the General Assembly of the United Nations Organization (GA-UN) defined 17 interconnected global objectives designed “to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all” and particularly “to end poverty”. These objectives were integrated into 179 targets and formalized in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Goal N° 3

“Guarantee a healthy life and promote well-being for all at all ages”.

• Goal N° 5

“Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.”

• Goal N° 9

“Build resilient infrastructures, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation”.

• Goal N° 10

“Reduce inequality within and among countries”.

• Goal N° 12

“Guarantee sustainable consumption and production patterns”.

• Goal Nº 13

“Adopt urgent measures to fight climate change and its effects”.

• Goal Nº 17

Which stands out for its “alliances for the achievement of the objectives”, represents a strategy to generate assistance and cooperation dynamics, particularly in issues such as science, technology, innovation and competence development, including, among others, the exchange of successful initiatives that help the countries with the most lags to improve, measure and evaluate progress.

To this day, we have covered half of the 2030 Agenda, and we have only seven years left to meet the deadline we set ourselves to achieve these goals.

In the coming years, in addition to striving to meet the SDGs, the world population will increase by approximately 500 million new inhabitants. This new population, along with the already existing, will demand better health systems that have adequate personnel, equitable financing, competent care models, adequate equipment, and sufficient infrastructure.

This represents a great challenge that motivates and occupies us. A challenge with the horizon getting closer and more visible, which we will reach thanks to commitment of everyone.

TRANSVERSALITY AS A VEHICLE

We are currently witnessing important processes of social transformation that occur, among other circumstances, due to the accelerated expansion of digitization and technological innovations, which opens the possibility of better knowledge about the world in almost real time and from multiple disciplinary approaches.

However, the conditions that characterize postmodernity often decouple the theoretical, the technical, and the specialized knowledge of the disciplines of architecture and engineering, from the awareness that makes it possible to apply values to solve problems of seriousness and importance for the future of our societies, such as climate change, violence, inequality due to gender conditions, ethnicity, disability , identity for access to healthcare understood from the integral well-being and not because of the disease.

Transversal thinking entails two actions: that of “crossing” and that of “linking”; In other words, from “deconstructing” to “construct”.

It is a paradigm shift based on critical thinking, the product of the interaction of different axes around a goal: in this case, the creation of health infrastructure in line with everyday realities that provide answers to needs and the current problems of humanity that are not yet included in the disciplinary areas.

The application of transversal axes in health infrastructure has been permeating little by little for some time and while for some societies it is considered a novel paradigm shift in thought, others have been advancing in this production and application of ideas with novel results.

“Transversality is a way that allows the different actors to become aware and reflect beyond the disciplinary categories to create spaces that promote the health and well-being of the individual, the community and their environment.”

ANNOUNCEMENT

The Mexican Society of Healthcare Specialized Architects (SMAES) and the Mexican Association of Healthcare Engineers (AMIESAC), within the framework of the 56th Council Meeting of the International Federation of Healthcare Engineering (IFHE), in coordination with prestigious institutions and allies, invite specialists, architectural and engineering designers, builders, managers, authorities and the general public to participate in the 19th International Congress Transversality in Infrastructure for Health, whose objective is to critically explore how practitioners of architecture, engineering, medical sciences, among others, by crossing their respective disciplinary limits, contribute to the generation of infrastructure for health care and well-being with the application of a more human approach, according to the needs of our time.

CONGRESS ORGNAIZATION

The Mexican Society of Healthcare Specialized Architects A.C. (SMAES) and the Mexican Association of Healthcare Engineers A.C. (AMIESAC) are associated with the purpose of taking the Transversality in Healthcare Infrastructure International Congress forward, with Headquarters in Mexico City, which besides it is honored to receive the International Federation of Healthcare Engineering (IFHE), to accomplish its annual Directors Board meeting and the Executive Committee, likewise, it is convenient to mention that Mexico was selected as the Host Country by IFHE, during the Congress held in Brazil in 2017 which SMAES and AMIESAC are currently belonging organizations.

ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE

Organizing Committee and Scientific Committee is manned by notable people who join efforts to take forward the Transversality in Healthcare Infrastructure 19th International Congress, combining wills to create synergies in search of reflections for the future infrastructure for healthcare.

Ramón Aguirre President of Mexican Society of Healthcare Specialized Architects (SMAES).

Jessica Juárez General Congress Coordinator.

Eduardo Medina President of Mexican Association of Healthcare Engineers (AMIESAC)

Iván Chávez Communication Commission Coordinator of Mexican Association of Healthcare Engineers (AMIESAC).

Steve Rees President of International Federation of Healthcare Engineering (IFHE).

Briseyda Reséndiz Congress President.

Rubén González CEO of the Mexican Association of Healthcare Engineers (AMIESAC).

SCIENTIFIC COMITTEE

The Scientific Committee includes 15 National and International members, all of them with vast experience and recognized leadership within their respective organizations and healthcare fields, involved in planning development, design, construction, operation, administration and research, among others.

The honorable consultative group’s main function is to advise and coordinate content and topics that will be offered at the 19th Transversality in Healthcare Infrastructure International Congress.

SMAES AMIESAC Mexico

Fabio Bitencourt Postgraduate Professor in different courses and Universities in Brazil and LATAM member of Executive Council (IFHE).

Daniela Pedrini Former President and Member of the Executive Committee of (IFHE), President of S.I.A.I.S.

Josefina Rivas Associate Director of Adagio Arquitectos, Professor at the Architecture and Design School of Universidad de Mérida.

Francisco Ortiz Professor of the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Honorary (SMAES) Member.

Enrique López Cardiel Executive Coordinator of Mexican Committee for Architecture International Practice (FCARM), Honorary Member of the Mexican Society of Healthcare Specialized Architects (SMAES).

Academic Community Mexico

World Health Organization

María González Professor and Researcher of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

Michel Di Marco Téchne Coordinator, Architect and Disaster Risk Reduction Specialist.

Mandana Banadej-Schafii CEO of the Mandhamerr Institute of Environment and Health, Germany.

Douwe Kiestra CEO of Kiestra DM Consultancy, former president of the International Federation of Healthcare Engineering (IFHE).

Edgar Hernández Director of Study Center of the Mexican Society of Healthcare Specialized Architects (SMAES) and Professor at Escuela Superior de Ingeniería y Arquitectura del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN).

Boris Tapia Researcher and Professor “A” of Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo (UAEH), National Researcher Candidate 2023 – 2027.

Jaime Latapí Emeritus Member of the Architecture National Academy Honorary Member of (SMAES).

Israel García Electrical Engineering Committee Coordinator of the Mexican Association of Healthcare Engineers (AMIESAC).

Áxel Ramos Training Commission Coordinator of the Mexican Association of Healthcare Engineers (AMIESAC).

Rubén González CEO of the Mexican Association of Healthcare Engineers (AMIESAC).

SUBJECT FIELDS

For a subject to be transversal should impact in a political, economic, social and cultural manner and this may affect in a personal level of a community and the environment.

With the application of a transversal approach from the planning, design, construction, operation, administration and investigation of infrastructure for health, it is intended to contribute to the solution of the aforementioned problems.

The foregoing, aimed to fulfilling the Sustainable Development Goals proposed by the General Assembly of the UNITED Nations (AG - UN) in 2015 and formalized in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

GOAL 1 SUSTAINABILITY

A sustainable future for all MASTER CONFERENCE

Pollution - Contaminant reduction and regenerative design.

Resource exploitation - Sustainable use of natural resources and energy efficiency.

Zero carbon - Application of technologies.

GOAL 2 INCLUSION

Gender - Sexual and reproductive health - family planning.

Racial and cultural discrimination - InterculturalityEthnology - Anthropology.

People with disabilities - Accessibility.

GOAL 3 EQUITY

Deficit - Accessibility and universal coverage.

Community exclusion - Social justice - Participatory design.

Regional cross-cutting issues. How do we contribute to their mitigation?

ANALYSIS PANEL

Infrastructure for Health

Infrastructure

Health

Reflections towards the integration of the transversal approach ANALYSIS PANEL

Natural Disasters (Earthquakes, floods, tsunamis)Resilient design.

Social Phenomena (migration and violence)Temporary and/or itinerant installations.

Health Emergencies (epidemics and pandemics)Reconversion hospital expansion.

Morbidity and mortality - Attention to new typologies. Material resources - Administration, maintenance, Heritage.

Obsolescence - New technologies (AI).

GOAL 4 RESILIENCE

GOAL 5 FEASIBILITY

Environmental design. Acoustics. Lightning. Hygrothermal comfort. Air quality.

Health in everything MASTER CONFERENCE

GOAL 6 SPACES TO HEAL

SPEAKERS AND PANELISTS

Number of participants and blocks

2 Master lectures (2 speakers)

28 Speakers

Key dates to present papers

30 August, 2023

Deadline to submit abstracts.

General information for submitting proposals

6 Thematic blocks (26 speakers)

2 Coordinators

18 September 2023

Date for confirmation of papers.

• Works may be written in English or Spanish and present yourself through a synopsis of 250 words. PDF.

• A 150-word curriculum resemblance shall be attached as well as a photograph (300dpi).

• We kindly request to notify if sent documents are part of another conference, magazine or publication.

• Tha authors accept that the works presented will be part of the congress memories.

• Authors that send articles with images shall provide those images in high quality resolution and also be the authors of the images.

• Works shall be sent to the next e-mail comitecientifico@smaes-ifhe2023.mx and the website smaes-ifhe 2023.mx

Location or lecture presentations

Hotel Presidente InterContinental Polanco Campos Elíseos 218, Polanco, Col. Chapultepec, Miguel Hidalgo, 11560, Ciudad de México, CDMX.

General notices

Dates for lectures presentations

Congress admission, nourishment during the event and technical visits, will be covered by the hosts organizers.

Attendance mode

On site.