Sir/Professor Michael Marmot visits PAHO
On June 6, 2012 The Pan American Health Organization will welcome Sir/Professor Michael Marmot for a 2-day visit.
Michael Marmot is a Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at UCL Institute of Health Equity/ Research Department of Epidemiology and Public Health,
While at PAHO, Sir/Professor Marmot will be a key note speaker during the 18th seminar in the SDE Seminar Series towards
Attendance is welcome to in-person participation or by virtual participation, through online attendance.
In person:
PAHO/WHO
Online: via Elluminate link:
- Spanish room: www.paho.org/virtual/SeminariosSDE
- English room www.paho.org/virtual/SDESeminars
Moving the Agenda of the Social Determinants of Health towards
Wednesday June 6th 2012 - In English with simultaneous translation to Spanish
Time: 12:00 am - 1:30 pm - EDT (
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Agenda
12:00: Welcome Remarks - Jon Andrus, Deputy Director, PAHO/WHO.
Moderator: Kira Fortune, Regional Advisor, Determinants of Health, PAHO/WHO
12:05 Moving the Agenda of the Social Determinants of Health towards
Professor Sir Michael Marmot,
Director of the
12:35 The Brazilian perspective on
Paulo Buss, Director Global
12:55 Comments:
Sofia-Leticia Morales, Senior Adviser and Team Coordinator for Health Promotion and Social Determinants of Health PAHO/WHO
13:05 Questions & Answers
13:25 Concluding Remarks: Jose Romero Teruel, Acting Assistant Director, PAHO/WHO
KMC/2012/SDE
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1 comment:
If we agree to “think globally”, it becomes evident that riveting attention on GROWTH could be a grave mistake because we are denying how economic and population growth in the communities in which we live cannot continue as it has until now. Each village's resources are being dissipated, each town's environment degraded and every city's fitness as place for our children to inhabit is being threatened. To proclaim something like, 'the meat of any community plan for the future is, of course, growth' fails to acknowledge that many villages, towns and cities are already ‘built out’, and also ‘filled in’ with people. If the quality of life we enjoy now is to be maintained for the children, then limits on economic and population growth will have to be set. By so doing, we choose to “act locally" and sustainably.
More economic and population growth are no longer sustainable in many too many places on the surface of Earth because biological constraints and physical limitations are immutably imposed upon ever increasing human consumption, production and population activities of people in many communities where most of us reside. Inasmuch as the Earth is finite with frangible environs, there comes a point at which GROWTH is unsustainable. There is much work to done locally. But that effort cannot reasonably begin without sensibly limiting economic and population growth.
To quote another source, “We face a wide-open opportunity to break with the old ways of doing the town’s business…..” That is a true statement. But the necessary “break with the old ways” of continous economic and population growth is not what is occurring. There is a call for a break with the old ways, but the required changes in behavior are not what is being proposed as we plan for the future. What is being proposed and continues to occur is more of the same, old business-as-usual overconsumption, overproduction and overpopulation activities, the very activities that appear to be growing unsustainbly. More business-as-usual could soon become patently unsustainable, both locally and globally. A finite planet with the size, composition and environs of the Earth and a community with the boundaries, limited resources and wondrous climate of villages, towns and cities where we live may not be able to sustain much longer the economic and population growth that is occurring on our watch. Perhaps necessary changes away from UNSUSTAINABLE GROWTH and toward sustainable lifestyles and right-sized corporate enterprises are in the offing.
Think globally while there is still time and act locally before it is too late for human action to make any difference in the clear and presently dangerous course of unfolding human-induced ecological events, both in our planetary home and in our villages, towns and cities.
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