COMMUNITY UPDATE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Newsletter Date: July 2017
Secretary General Henry Campos Vice-Secretary General Elsie Kiguli-Malwadde Former Secretary General Jan De Maeseneer Executive Director Angele Russell Regional Representatives Geraldine Beaujean (Europe) Godwin Aja (Africa) Khalifa Elmusharaf (Med. & Mid. East) Dimity Pond (Western Pacific) Kamayani Mahabal (Southeast Asia) David Marsh (North America) Paulo M. Carvalho Jr (Latin Am.) At-Large Members Francisco Lamus Bjorg Palsdottir Klaus von Pressentin Paul Woorley
2017 WORLD SUMMIT ON SOCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY Dear Network: TUFH Community, It was great to see so many of you at The Network: TUFH World Summit on Social Accountability in Hammamet, Tunisia in April. Our local host, committees, and volunteers helped orchestrate an outstanding conference! With the many workshops, oral thematic presentations and TUFH Talks that took place during the event, there were many opportunities for open discussion and collaborating ideas. Read what some said in the articles listed inside. Special thanks go out to our keynote speakers, presenters, moderators and attendees. It was your participation that made the program a success. And although the conference has ended the synergistic energy is still keeping momentum. We hope you have shared this energy with your institution, colleagues, students, stakeholders, family and friends. We want to hear about it. Please contact us at newsletter@thenetworktufh.org and let us know what you are doDr. Henry Campos ing! You may be featured in a Community Update. Secretary General Opening Ceremony Speech Alberta Steans-Parsons Editor-in-Chief
Education for Health
Michael Glasser Student Network Org. Alejandro Avelino Bonilla Newsletter Editor in Chief Alberta Steans-Parsons
Inside the Issue: A Conversation with‌ Bob Woollard Secrets to Successful Fundraising with Gustaaf Wolvaardt Regional Highlights...Latin America
2018 CONFERENCE VENUE ANNOUNCED! We are thrilled to announce the University of Limerick as the host for the 2018 Network: TUFH Conference! The theme of the conference will center around civic engagement in health and will debut new conference features, including Master Classes and skills-building pre-conference workshops. The post-conference will take place in Maastricht and will expand on health professions education. We look forward to seeing you August 16-20, 2018 in Limerick, Ireland! Website and Abstract Submission launching soon! NEW NETWORK: TUFH BOARD MEMBERS Paul Woorley Bjorg Palsdottir Klaus von Pressentin Francisco Lamus Geraldine Beaujean
At the Board of Directors meeting in Tunisia, the membership elected five new members to The Network: TUFH Board of Directors. Please join us in congratulating the new directors and let them know how they can best serve you!
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Community Update
A Conversation with...Robert (Bob) Woollard Author: Aricia de Kempeneer As one of the lead organizers for the 2017 World Summit on Social Accountability, presented by The Network: TUFH, Dr. Robert (Bob) Woollard has lived and breathed social accountability throughout his career. From developing medical institutions based on socially accountable principles to co-chairing the Global Consensus on Social Accountability for Medical Schools (GCSA), Dr. Woollard has been instrumental in championing the cause around the globe. We caught up with Dr. Woollard after the World Summit to get his thoughts on the work that took place during the Summit and on what the future holds. Dr. Robert (Bob) Woollard
Why is this topic of social accountability so important in 2017 and why was it well placed in Tunisia? The fundamental base for social accountability is social justice. The world has become increasing inequitable and the social determinants of health are key in the health of a population. This World Summit provided a nice framework indicating how we can do something about that. Medical schools are most of the times wealthy, no matter the economic state of the country, and fairly influential. If we want to have an impact, we need to do it through medical schools. For more, click here.
How Does Social Accountability Align with the WHO Social Development Goals? - An Interview with Jim Campbell, Executive produce a workforce Director of the Global Health Workforce Alliance, WHO (click on photo) “We want to
that believes in social justice, universal access to health coverage and quality healthcare.� Jim Campbell (WHO)
Network: TUFH Conference First Timer - Aufia Espressivo Aufia Espressivo is a dental student at the Universitas Gadjah Mada in Indonesia. She attended the World Summit on Social Accountability in Hammamet Tunisia this April 2017. She was the only Indonesian student and it was her first international conference. The Student Network Organization asked her for feedback and to describe the experience. For more, click here.
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Secrets of Successful Fundraising… An Interview with Gustaaf Wolvaardt Author: Alberta Steans-Parsons and Faith Nawagi Secrets of Successful Fundraising - Fostering Social Accountability through Implementing Donor-Funded Projects How have you successfully raised funds? Give some points about - fostering social accountability through implementing donor funded projects? Fundraising is now an integral part of the work of all the senior managers in FPD, we actively develop the competency of selected managers, those are good writers, in proposal writing through a 12 month proposal writing fellowship, they are supported by a proposal support unit that continuously scan the environment for calls for proposals. We now annually submit around 200 proposals and have progressively increased our success rate to above 50%. To date we have raised in excess of US$ 350 million from more than 200 donors and funders.
Dr. Gustaaf Wolvaardt
Foundation for Professional Development
We have reinterpreted the three scholarships of higher education to entrench social accountability across all or work, teaching and learning is interpreted as "developing people” and most of our training programs are aimed at improving the ability of the health workforce to respond to priority health needs in our society. Click here to read more.
REGIONAL HIGHLIGHTS - LATIN AMERICA
Each community update will feature a different region Paulo Marcondes is the regional representative of Latin America. He is a faculty member in Ararangua. Read more of his experience here.
Francisco Lamus Lemus is an At -Large Board Member. He is a pediatrician and leads a research group in family and community medicine in Colombia. Read more of his experience here.
to get a feeling of what it’s like to live, study, and work there as a health professional.
Alejandro Avelino is the president of the Student Network Organization (SNO). Born in Colombia, he is a fifth year medical student. Read more of his experience here.
Eduarda Felsky is the SNO Regional Representative for Latin America. A third year medical student, she resides in Blumenau. Read more of her experience here.
Board of Director’s Corner Greetings Network: TUFH Community, For close to 40 years, the Network: TUFH has been instrumental in the areas of community health and health professions education and policy. When I began this journey as Executive Director two years ago, one of my goals was (and still is) to help usher the organization into a new era and, through the Board of Directors, we are doing just that. From operating under a new governance structure to strengthening the organization’s relationship with the World Health Organization (WHO), the Network: TUFH is better poised to tackle the critical challenges in our field and make our communities healthier and safer. But, the work of the Board is far from complete and we need your help—join a task force, help plan our 40th Anniversary Celebration, reach out to old members, or simply contact our office –we can surly use your help and expertise. Onward and upward!
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The Newsletter Team has Grown in the Last Year!
Alberta Steans-Parsons
Aricia de Kempeneer
Samridhi Mittal
Editor-In-Chief
Associate Editor
Associate Editor
Myron Godinho Journalist
Raymond Yuan Volunteer
Julian Hirschbaum
Katia Lundell
Journalist
Drexel Student Co-Op
Samson Wakibi
Faith Nawagi
SNO Public Relations Manager
Journalist
IDEAS FOR FEATURES? Any ideas for stories/features for our newsletter? Feel free to share them by contacting us at newsletter@thenetworktufh.org; with your story or idea could be featured in our next edition!