Symposium on Health and Education Sectors Together for Children’s Health Today and Tomorrow: An International Dialogue
Date: | 12 November 2016 (Sat) |
Venue: | Lecture Theatre 2, G/F, Yasumoto International Academic Park, The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
Goal: | Educate professional teams (Schools heads, teachers, health professionals or social, experts) from Hong Kong and bring them concrete elements to feed their thinking and practice. |
Target participants: | Teachers, parents, students, social workers, headmasters, nurses and health professionals. |
Morning Session |
9:15am – 9:45am | Opening Address Officiating guest: Mr Sheridan Sha-lun Lee, Principal Assistant Secretary (Curriculum Development), Education Bureau, Hong Kong SAR Government. |
9:45am – 11:15am | Keynote: Health and Education Sectors Together for an effective health promotion and disease prevention for school children: main obstacles, main advantages for the actual Society, main challenges?
Speakers: |
• | Dr. Souhaïl Latrèche1 / Mrs Julie Jourdheuil-Roy2, Head1 and Deputy-head2 of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. * |
• | Professor Didier Jourdan, Professor in Sciences of Education, Blaise Pascal University, Clermont-Ferrand II, France. Vice-president of the Committee specialist in Prevention, Education and Promotion of Health (CSPEPS). ** |
• | Professor Lawrence St Leger, Honorary Professor and Former Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Health, Nursing and Behavioural Science, Deakin University, Australia. ** |
Moderator: |
• | Professor Albert Lee, Clinical Professor in Public Health and Primary Care and Director of Centre for Health Education and Health Promotion, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. |
Simultaneous interpretation from French to English* and English to Cantonese** will be provided.
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11:15am – 11:45am | Tea break and networking |
11:45am – 1:15pm | Plenary Session: Case studies from different countries
Canada | • | Mr. Douglas McCall, Executive Director, International School Health Network, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. |
France | • | Mr. Thierry Weishaupt, International cooperation director, Mutuelle Generale de l’Education Nationale (MGEN). |
| • | Mr. Christian Soulard, Head of the French International School in Hong Kong. |
Taiwan | • | Professor Fu-Li Chen, Department of Public Health, Fujen University, Taiwan. |
Macao | • | Dr. Walter Ho King Yan, Faculty of Education, University of Macau. |
Hong Kong | • | Dr. Robin Cheung Man Biu, Centre for Health Education and Health Promotion and Department of Education Policy and Administration of Faculty of Education, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. |
Moderator: |
• | Professor Didier Jourdan, Professor in Sciences of Education, Blaise Pascal University, Clermont-Ferrand II, France. Vice-president of the Committee specialist in Prevention, Education and Promotion of Health (CSPEPS). |
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Simultaneous interpretation from English to Cantonese will be provided.
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Afternoon Session |
2:15pm – 3:15pm | Plenary Session: Prevention and Promotion of Health for school children
• | Health risk of travelling students Dr. Ahmed Fahmy, Regional Medical Director, Assistance, North Asia, International SOS. |
• | How to improve health literacy of school children in cervical cancer prevention and improving uptake rate of HPV vaccination Professor Albert Lee, Clinical Professor in Public Health and Primary Care and Director of Centre for Health Education and Health Promotion, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. |
• | How should we prevent childhood infectious diseases? Professor Chun-bong Chow, Honorary Associate Clinical Professor, Centre for Health Education and Health Promotion, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Honorary Professor of Department of Paediatrics and Adolescents, University of Hong Kong. |
• | Emotional Health Promotion Ms. Mariela Galli, M. Galli & Co, Psychologist and Consultant in health promotion, France. |
Simultaneous interpretation from English to Cantonese will be provided.
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3:15pm – 3:45pm | Tea break and networking |
3:45pm – 5:00pm | Free Paper Session To share school based health promotion programmes based on abstracts submitted and invited. (This session will be conducted in English or Cantonese)
- Dr. Vincent Wong, Senior Lecturer, Hong Kong Baptist University
- Ms. Suria Kong, PhD Candidate, University of Hong Kong
- Other presenters from awardee schools
- Open discussion
Simultaneous interpretation from Cantonese to English will be provided.
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