A plan of action to teach and advocate global health

Padua, 3-4 April 2009, conference organized by Doctors with Africa Cuamm together with 29 relevant partners and associates within the project “Equal opportunities for health: action for development”. 150 international participants representative of the health community attended the conference with the aim of elaborating a common plan of action to promote and teach global health, therefore focussing on concrete proposals and actions. Elaborated by four different working groups (namely: teaching global health at schools of health and human sciences; life-long learning of health professionals on global health; the role of international health cooperation in advocating, teaching and implementing global health; strategies for mobilising and sustaining financial and human resources to advocate and teach global health), such proposals have been collected in a final commitment paper which is the base for future action for global health advocacy and teaching.

The conference proceedings (PDF, 2MB) include the conference programme and list of participants, plenary session presentations, background papers prepared for the working groups, and the final commitment paper.