Spring School of Global Health
Geneva, June 1-6, 2015
Spring School of Global Health
Geneva, June 1-6, 2015
Provisionnal agenda
8 x 3 day-courses are delivered:
Monday June 1rst to Wednesday June 3rd
GH-1 : Stewardship in Global Health
Ilona Kickbusch, Marcel Tanner and Gaudenz Silberschmidt
GH-2 : Preparing a national delegate for debates during the World Health Assembly
Yves Charpak
GH-3 : Fighting Health Inequalities, from contemplation to implementation
Johannes Siegriest and Silvia Stringhini
GH-4 : Health Promotion, Prevention as cobenefits of fighting Climate Change
Stefanie Schütte and Thomas Mattig
Thursday June 4rth to Saturday June 6th
GH-5 : Policy and Technical Briefs in the agenda of the WHA
Antoine Flahault, Ilona Kickbusch and Michaela Told with the participation of the
World Federation of Academic Institutions of Global Health (WFAIGH)
GH-6 : Mental health and the Global Health Agenda – the Tree, the Forest, and the
low-hanging fruit.
Emiliano Albanese and Benedetto Saraceno
GH-7 : Non-communicable disease control: Public Health and Health Service
Approaches
Pascal Bovet and Kaspar Wyss
GH-8 : Implementing control of nosocomial infections : a European case study
Walter Zingg and Didier Pittet
Venue : Campus Biotech, Chemin des Mines 9, 1202 Genève
Public : Priority is given to PhD students registered at SSPH+, other PhD students, and any
other professionnals or students equipped with master degrees in the (various) fields of Global
Health.
Fees : Each course is charged 900 CHF (academics) or 1'800 CHF (industry), waivers for
SSPH+ students.
Credits : Each course is granted 1 ECTS, corresponding to 25-30 hrs of student work
All applications must be done online on http://...
Deadlines for applications : March 31, 2015
Spring School of Global Health
GH-1 : Stewardship in Global Health
Course coordinators
Prof. Ilona Kickbusch, Graduate Institute Geneva
Prof. Marcel Tanner, Swiss TPH, Basel
Prof. Gaudenz Silberschmidt, WHO, Geneva
Themes
1. How global governance for health influences policies?
2. Who to reform aid, cooperation and partnership for global health development
3. How to reform WHO?
In this module, during the first two days and half, after three plenary talks from the speakers,
and a general presentation of the module, its rules, and expectations, students are grouped by
groups of three to five persons. Each group is asked to answer one of the proposed questions.
Participants will have access to readings and group discussions. Each group is expected to
provide diagnosis and recommendations and to present their conclusions in a final plenary
session chaired by the three Coordinators.
Venue : Campus Biotech, Chemin des Mines 9, 1202 Genève
Dates : June, Monday 1 to Wednesday 3, 2015
Limited number of participants : 12 participants
Fees : 900 CHF(academics) or 1'800 CHF (industry), waivers for SSPH+ PhD students
Credits : 1 ECTS, corresponding to 25-30 hrs of student work
All applications must be done online on http://...
Deadlines for applications : March 31, 2015
Spring School of Global Health
GH-2 : Preparing as national delegate for debates during the World Health
Assembly, Yves Charpak
Course coordinator
Dr. Yves Charpak, French Public Health Association (SFSP), vice-president and coordinator
International Commission, member of the Board in EUPHA (European Public Health
Association), Former Senior Policy Advisor to WHO Regional Office for Europe’s Director
Themes
1. Reading the World Health Assembly (WHA) agenda. Reading back the Executive board
agenda and resolutions, as well as the previous WHA resolutions.
2. Identifying the history of each item, the stakeholders, the working parties behind the
texts, the implications of other UN and other Organisations in the same area.
3. Collecting information and comments at national level from experts, either involved with
WHO on the subject or recognised experts and expert organisations within the country.
4. Identifying and/or defining a “national position” or goal to achieve in the debates and
negotiations at WHA.
5. Interacting with WHO secretariat, before and during the conference, including regional
offices, press and media offices.
6. Interaction with other supranational authorities, e.g. EU coordination representative for
the EU members.
This module will provide understanding of the practical functioning of WHO, and of the
meanings and “behind the scenes” activities of the formal events that are the World Health
Assemblies (WHA) and the Executive Boards (EB).
It intends to propose exercises and “games” to the participants, simulating the situation of a new
national delegate at WHO, through selected examples from the agenda of the next 2015 EB
and WHA.
Venue : Campus Biotech, Chemin des Mines 9, 1202 Genève
Dates : June, Monday 1 to Wednesday 3, 2015
Limited number of participants : 12 participants
Fees : 900 CHF (academics) or 1'800 CHF (industry), waivers for SSPH+ PhD students
Credits : 1 ECTS, corresponding to 25-30 hrs of student work
All applications must be done online on http://...
Deadlines for applications : March 31, 2015
Spring School of Global Health
GH-3 : Understanding health inequalities in modern societies, from contemplation
to implementation,
Course coordinators
Prof. Johannes Siegrist, Senior Professor of Work Stress Research, Faculty of Medicine,
University of Duesseldorf, Germany
Dr. Silvia Stringhini, CHUV Lausanne, Switzerland
Themes and aims
1. To describe major trends of health inequalities, based on evidence from cross-country
studies, and to critically discuss underlying concepts and methods
2. To provide major explanations of these inequalities, applying a trans-disciplinary lifecourse perspective
3. To elaborate policy implications of the research evidence, with a special focus on
preventive public health measures at local, national and international levels.
The teaching format will include a mixture of lectures and discussions. In addition, at least twice
during the seminar, specific tasks will be prepared for small-group work with group input to the
plenary.
Venue : Campus Biotech, Chemin des Mines 9, 1202 Genève
Dates : June, Monday 1 to Wednesday 3, 2015
Limited number of participants : 12 participants
Fees : 900 CHF (academics) or 1'800 CHF (industry), waivers for SSPH+ PhD students
Credits : 1 ECTS, corresponding to 25-30 hrs of student work
All applications must be done online on http://...
Deadlines for applications : March 31, 2015
Spring School of Global Health
GH-4 : Health Promotion, Prevention as cobenefits of fighting Climate Change
Stefanie Schütte and Thomas Mattig
Course coordinators
Themes
Venue : Campus Biotech, Chemin des Mines 9, 1202 Genève
Dates : June, Monday 1 to Wednesday 3, 2015
Limited number of participants : 12 participants
Fees : 900 CHF(academics) or 1'800 CHF (industry), waivers for SSPH+ PhD students
Credits : 1 ECTS, corresponding to 25-30 hrs of student work
All applications must be done online on http://...
Deadlines for applications : March 31, 2015
Spring School of Global Health
GH-5 : Policy & Technical Briefs in the agenda of the WHA
Course coordinators
Prof. Antoine Flahault, Institute of Global Health, University of Geneva
Prof. Ilona Kickbusch, Graduate Institute Geneva
Dr. Michaela Told, Graduate Institute Geneva
In collaboration with the World Federation of Academic Institutions of Global Health (WFAIGH)
Themes
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Climate Change and Health, (Jonathan Patz, Univ. Wisconsin)
Universal Health Coverage, (expert from WFAIGH)
International Health Regulations, (Isabelle Nuttall, WHO)
Anti-Microbial Resistances, (Stephan Harbarth, HUG)
Health Inequalities, (Silvia Stringhini, CHUV, Lausanne)
After a plenary presentation of the module, its rules, and expectations, participants are grouped
by groups of three to five. They are proposed to understand the challenges posed by one of five
selected issues. Participants are then asked to draft a 2 pages technical brief with the help of an
expert on technical aspects of these issues. Participants are then asked to draft a 2 pages
policy brief with the help and supervision of a specialist in health diplomacy and health policy.
Finally, participant are expected to present both of these Technical and Policy Briefs, with their
supervisors, to a larger public (e.g. permanent UN representations from LMICs).
Venue : Campus Biotech, Chemin des Mines 9, 1202 Genève
Dates : June, Thursday 4 to Saturday 6, 2015
Limited number of participants : 12 participants
Fees : 900 CHF (academics) or 1'800 CHF (industry), waivers for SSPH+ PhD students
Credits : 1 ECTS, corresponding to 25-30 hrs of student work
All applications must be done online on http://...
Deadlines for applications : March 31, 2015
Spring School of Global Health
GH-6 : Mental health and the Global Health Agenda – the Tree, the Forest, and the
low-hanging fruit.
Course coordinators
Prof. Benedetto Saraceno, Professor of Global Health at the NOVA Medical School (Faculdade
de Ciências Médicas), and Coordinator of the Gulbenkian Global Mental Health Platform.
Prof. Emiliano Albanese , SSPH+ assistant Professor of Public Mental Health, Department of
Psychiatry and Global Health Institute of the School of Medicine, University of Geneva.
Themes
1. The Tree: The Global Mental Health Movement, a new kid on the block in Global Health.
2. The Forest: Issues and challenges in Global Mental Health.
3. The low-hanging fruit: Strategies and solutions to strengthen mental health policy
influence, lessons from other areas of global health.
“There is no health without mental health”. In two plenary sessions, this module will explain what
is the substance to this slogan, and will critically discuss why substantial progress in the field of
public mental health still lags behind on a global scale. Key concepts and principles will be
illustrated through a historical prospective on the rapid development of the Global Mental Health
movement in recent years, and a number of case studies drawn from all world regions will be
used to illustrate the issues and challenges faced by the Global Mental Health movement.
Working in small groups, participants will be asked to use one example each from other areas of
global health to illustrate what the Global Mental Health movement can learn from each of these
successful experiences, making specific reference to how the key components of mental health
as a global policy issue may be tackled.
Venue : Campus Biotech, Chemin des Mines 9, 1202 Genève
Dates : June, Thursday 4 to Saturday 6, 2015
Limited number of participants : 12 participants
Fees : 900 CHF (academics) or 1'800 (industry), waivers for SSPH+ PhD students
Credits : 1 ECTS, corresponding to 25-30 hrs of student work
All applications must be done online on http://...
Deadlines for applications : March 31, 2015
Spring School of Global Health
GH-7 : Non-communicable disease control: Public Health and Health Service
Approaches
Course coordinators
Prof. Pascal Bovet, University Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine & Lausanne
University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
Prof. Kaspar Wyss, Deputy Head of Department of Swiss Centre for International Development
at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (affiliated to University of Basel)
Themes
1. Effective, efficient, equitable and sustainable approaches for non communicable
diseases (NCD) prevention and control in middle- and low-income countries
2. Cost-effective and affordable public health interventions for the prevention and control of
NCDs
3. Critical elements needed to strengthen health care services for the delivery of cost
effective management of NCDs
4. Rationale, benefits and resources needed to implement the “public health” approach
This module addresses public health strategies to curb non-communicable diseases (NCD), and
changes needed in the health care system, with a particular regard to the most effective,
affordable and scalable (“best buys”) interventions. The contributions of the priority multisectoral
public health approaches vs. the main changes needed within the health care system are
identified and discussed through lectures and group work. The focus of the module is on health
information systems, multisectoral interventions targeting the entire population, and costeffective health care for individuals with or at risk of NCDs.
Pre-request include basic knowledge and experience in a medical or public health field, and
interest for prevention and control in NCD in low and middle income countries. The course can
also be of interest to persons involved in development programs in low and middle income
countries that have a health component.
Venue : Campus Biotech, Chemin des Mines 9, 1202 Genève
Dates : June, Thursday 4 to Saturday 6, 2015
Limited number of participants : 12 participants
Fees : 900 CHF (academics) or 1'800 CHF (industry), waivers for SSPH+ PhD students
Credits : 1 ECTS, corresponding to 25-30 hrs of student work
All applications must be done online on http://...
Deadlines for applications : March 31, 2015
Spring School of Global Health
GH-8 : Implementing control of nosocomial infections : a European case study,
by Walter Zingg and Didier Pittet
Course coordinators
Dr. Walter Zingg, HUG, Geneva
Prof Didier Pittet, HUG, Geneva
Themes
1. Implementation is research: Theories in implementation research
2. PROHIBIT/Explaining Michigan: quantitative and qualitative research – how qualitative
research provides context
3. How to do interviews: a practical exercise
4. How to make a questionnaire
5. PROHIBIT case discussion 1: An Irish hospital
6. PROHIBIT case discussion 2: A Hungarian hospital
The module provides knowledge on how to perform qualitative research either to explain
quantitative results, or to be used as a standalone. The focus is on “implementation research”,
which means how to explore barriers and facilitators of implementing a strategy in a hospital.
The module also offers a practical exercise where participants can test their skills in performing
interviews and in designing a questionnaire – the two main tools in qualitative research.
Venue : Campus Biotech, Chemin des Mines 9, 1202 Genève
Dates : June, Thursday 4 to Saturday 6, 2015
Limited number of participants : 12 participants
Fees : 900 CHF (academics) or 1'800 CHF (industry), waivers for SSPH+ PhD students
Credits : 1 ECTS, corresponding to 25-30 hrs of student work
All applications must be done online on http://...
Deadlines for applications : March 31, 2015