World Health Day 2010

PROGRAM
Wednesday, 7 April
Washington, DC - Room A

9:30 a.m. Marilyn Rice, Senior Advisor on Health

Promotion, Urban Health and
Determinants of Health Team,
Sustainable Development and
Environmental Health Area
Welcome and introduction
9:40 a.m. Mirta Roses Periago, Director, Pan
American Health Organization
Message on World Health Day
9:50 a.m. Nils Daulaire, Director of the Office of
Global Health Affairs Health and Human
Services
Message on Urban Health
10.00 Peter Grevatt, Director of Childrens’
a.m. Health, Environmental Protection Agency
Message on Urban and Environmental Health
10:10a.m David Vlahov, Senior Vice President for Research and Director of
. the Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies, New York Academy of
Medicine
Metrics in Urban Health Equity: The Challenge for Local Partners
10:40a.m Ralph Forquera – Executive Director, Seattle Indian Health Board,
. and Director of the Urban Indian Health Institute
Urban Indian Health Program
10:50a.m Ricardo Mena – Coordinator of International Strategy for Disaster
. Reduction (UNISDR), Secretariat, Regional Office for the Americas
Safe Cities Prepared for Disasters
RECOGNITION AND TESTIMONIES - HAITI’S EARTHQUAKE
11:10 Paul Weisenfeld – Haiti Task Team Leader, US Agency for
a.m. International Development (USAID)
Update on US support to Haiti after the earthquake
Ronald L. Mastin, Fire Chief, and the Virginia Task Force 1 team
(VATF-1), Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department, VA
Recognition for recovery efforts in Haiti
Rick Santos, Haiti’s Earthquake Survivor
Video Testimony
ROAD AHEAD
12:00 Howard Frumkin, Special Assistant to the Director, Centers for
p.m. Disease Control and Prevention
Launching of the Spanish version of the Book Environmental Health: From
Global to Local
12:20 Socorro Gross, Assistant Director, Pan American Health
p.m. Organization
Wrap up and Launching of the Regional Status Report on Road Safety
12:30
p.m. Light Lunch – Lobby

You can also link up to the ceremony in LiveStream: http://www.livestream.com/paho