National Convention & Exhibition Speaker Presentations

2006
2005
2004
2003

• Pediatric HIV/AIDS in Developing Countries - Laura Guay, MD
• International Health for the Pediatrician - David Norton, MD, FAAP
• Overseas Opportunities for Pediatricians With Health Volunteers Overseas - Caroline Dueger, MD, MPH, DTMH
  • What is Health Volunteer Overseas (ppt)
  • Overseas Programs
  • Cambodia

2004 ICH Program

• The Impact of Armed Conflict on Children - Everyone's Responsibility - Neil Boothby, PhD. Clinical Professor of Public Health and Program Director Center on Forced Migration and Health at the Mailman School Public Health, Columbia University.
• Access to Essential Medicines in Developing Countries - Ellen F.M. t'Hoen, LL.M., Director of Policy Advocacy for the Access to Essential Medicines Campaign of Doctors Without Borders, and is also on the WHO Expert Advisory Panel on Drugs Policy and Management.
• Innovations in the use of community mortality surveillance to improve child survival-Emmanuel D'Harourt, MD, MPH, Senior Technical Advisor to the International Rescue Committee Overseas Program in Sierra Leone, Rwanda, DR Congo, and South Sudan.
• Using Children's Rights as a framework for Advocacy: Pediatricians and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Jeff Goldhagen, MD, MPH is the Director of Florida's Duval County Health Department. Jane Schaller, MD is the Executive Director of the International Pediatric Association. Sophia Gruskin, JD is the Assistant Professor on Health and Human Rights at Harvard School of Public Health. Gerison Lansdown is from London and the author of "Children's Rights to the best possible health." The entire training curriculum can be obtained on CD from Dr Goldhagen.

2005 ICH Program

• Medical Missions for Children
• Effect of Political Turmoil on Pediatric Disease and Prevention in Port-au-Prince - Dr. Jessy Colimon Adrien
• Raising the Bar:An Equity and Community Based Approach to Pediatric HIV in Haiti - Joia S. Mukherjee, MD, MPH
• Partners in Health - Joia S. Mukherjee, MD, MPH

• APA International Health SIG Programs - Richard Garfield, MD

2006 ICH Program

• Relief work and infectious diseases: the IRC experience. - Richard Brennan, MD, Director of Health Programs for the International Rescue Committee.
• The top ten articles in international child health 05-06 by Linda Arnold, MD; Kevin Clarke, MD; Melanie Rosenburg, MD, and Karen Olness, MD
• Training village health workers and traditional midwives to reduce infant mortality in rural India: Search. Abhay Bang, MD, MPH
• Do we make a difference: Long term health programs in poor places. - Susan Emrich, MD
• Do we make a difference: Using soccer stars as role models in HIV preventive efforts - Grassroot Soccer - Tommy Clark, MD
• Do we make a difference: reflections and discussion regarding short and long term medical projects abroad - John Hammock, PhD