Seventh Annual CUGH Conference
 
 
PROGRAM
Join us in spring 2016 for 3 days of global health panels, workshops and activities!



THE CORE PROGRAM WILL HIGHLIGHT 7 MAJOR TRACKS:

GOVERNANCE
• Autocracy, Democracy and Health 
• Improving Health in Failed States 
• Health Security and Governance - Implications for the architecture of global health

MDGs and SDGs
• SDGs: Implications for academic global health 
• MDGS: Learning from their successes and failures

HUMAN RESOURCES and WORKFORCE
• Advancing Global Health Education: Innovations in technology and pedagogy 
• Key skills gaps in the global health workforce 
• Training and Capacity Building

PLANETARY HEALTH / GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH / ONE HEALTH
• Water, Air and Health 
• Animal Health and Human Health 
• Food and Nutrition 
• Environmental Sustainability 
• Oceans and Coastal Health

TECHNOLOGY and INNOVATION
• Lessons from successful (and failed) technology development in global health 
• Innovating for low resource settings

NEW and EMERGING PRIORITIES FOR GLOBAL HEALTH
• Emerging Non Communicable Diseases Issues 
• Emerging Maternal Child Health Issues 
• Emerging Injury and Violence Issues

FINANCIAL and OPERATIONAL SUSTAINABILITY
• Improving relationships between funders and academic health 
• Enabling Systems and Administrative Support 
• Global Health Funding


WITH ADDITIONAL FOCUS ON:

GLOBAL MENTAL HEALTH
Global mental health is an important source of the burden of disease, and has received much less attention than infectious diseases and other NCDs. 

GLOBAL HEALTH SECURITY
The ebola crisis, MERS, and WHO reform efforts have brought significant attention and funding to the topic of health security. However, the definition of health security and the progress made against this emerging problem remain unclear. We will explore the current state of affairs in health security and the implications for academic global health.

URBAN HEALTH
As the megatrend toward urbanization continues, the world will increasingly live in cities which have their own distinctive health challenges. The battle for sustainability in health will be fought in cities. We will discuss what makes urgan health unique, how it changes the cost and access equation for health, and what it means for universities.

VACCINES
Vaccination remains one of the most effective and sustainable interventions in public health. Yet efforts to expand vaccination rates and incorporate new vaccines face funding and other challenges. We will discuss the possible limits of vaccination and steps that can be taken to further expand and extend the impact of this intervention

ERADICATION
Eradication of disease is the single most effective way to achieve sustainability - once a disease is eradicated, it no longer demands resources from health systems. We are on the cusp of eliminating or eradicating several infectious diseases. We will discuss what it takes to eradicate a disease, what can be learned from the experiences of different vertical programs, and what the future holds.

HIV
Progress against the HIV epidemics is one of the best examples of successes in global health, and the Bay Area has played a key role in that fight. And yet, sustaining the progress made is proving to be challenging and expensive. We will explore the lessons we can learn from fighting the HIV epidemic and discuss the challenges we face going forward to achieve a sustainable  future and to get to zero.