Day One: Evaluating the State of Women’s Health
The first day will set the scene and lay the foundation for the next phase of the European Action Plan for Women’s Health by exploring the existing evidence base and central issues in women’s health across the lifespan.
10:30-11:00 Registration with tea and coffee
11:00-12:30 Welcome, Conference Objectives and EIWH History
Hildrun Sundseth, President of the Board, European Institute of Women’s Health (EIWH)
Peggy Maguire, Director General, European Institute of Women’s Health (EIWH)
Setting the Scene: EU Gender Equality Policy
Greet Vermeylen, Gender Equality Unit, Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers
How Has Gender Equality Progressed Over the Past Ten Years?
Dr. Marre Karu, European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE)
Right from the Start: Early Intervention in Maternal and Child Health Panel
Co-Chairs:
Prof. Dr. Alexandra Kautzky-Willer, Professor of Gender Medicine, Deputy head of the Department of Internal Medicine III, Medical University of Vienna, President of the International Society for Gender Medicine and the Austrian Diabetes Association
and
Hildrun Sundseth, President of the Board of the EIWH
Professor Corinne de Vries, European Medicines Agency
Professor Dr. Roland Devlieger, UZ Leuven and European Board and College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (EBCOG)
Dr. Nico Hartwig, Franciscus Gasthuis & Vlietland
12:30-13:30 LUNCH
13:30-13:40 The Importance of Women’s Health Internationally
Madi Sharma, Section for Employment, Social Affairs and Citizenship (SOC), Employment, Social Affairs and Citizenship, European Economic and Social Committee (EESC)
13:40-14:40 A Life-Course Approach to the Health in Women and Families Panel
Co-Chairs:
Peggy Maguire, Director General of the EIWH and Kristin Semancik, Public Health Manager at the EIWH
Dr. Isabel de la Mata, DG SANTE
Dr. Paul De Raeve, Secretary General of the European Federation of Nurses Associations
Professor Marc Bardou, CHU de Dijon, INSERM
Paula Mee, Consultant Dietitian
14:40-14:50 Tea/coffee
14:50-16:30 Active and Healthy Ageing Panel:
Promoting Brain Health and Combating Cancer
Co-Chairs:
Dr. Mercè Boada, Founder and Medical Director of Fundació ACE at the Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades and
Maeve Cusack, Cancer Control Unit at the HSE in Ireland and EIWH Board Member
Alojz Peterle, MEPs Against Cancer and Member of the European Parliament from Slovenia
Dr. Nicoletta Iacobacci, European Brain Project and Hyperloop Transportation Technologies
Dr. Wendy Yared, European Cancer Leagues
Stecy Yghemonos, Executive Director of Eurocarers
Day One Closing: The State of Play on Women’s Health in Europe
Next Steps
Sinead Hewson, Managing Director TpEBO and EIWH Board Member
19:00-21:00 Evening Dinner for Conference Participants
Leopold Hotel Brussels EU, Rue du Luxembourg 35, 1050 Ixelles, Belgium (TBC)
Day Two:
Resetting the Agenda in Women’s Health
Throughout the session, the multidisciplinary group expert delegates will work together to develop the European Action Plan for Women’s Health, a blueprint for the future action. Day Two focuses on four central policy topics related to Women’s Health.
09:00-09:15 Welcome
Dr. Maria Merce Rovira Regas, EIWH Board Member
Day 2 Keynote Address
Angelica Salvi Del Pero, Senior Advisor, OECD
09:15-10:15 Resetting the Agenda: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Chair: Nina Renshaw, Secretary General of the European Public Health Alliance
Peggy Maguire, European Institute of Women’s Health (EIWH)
Isabel Yordi, World Health Organization (WHO)
Susanne Løgstrup, Director, European Heart Network
Caroline Costongs, Director, EuroHealthNet
Dr. Maria Teresa Ferretti, Women’s Brain Project
10:15-10:30 Tea/coffee
10:30-11:30 Resetting the Agenda: Research and Personalised Medicine
Chair: Prof. Dr. Ineke Klinge, Chair of the H2020 Advisory Group for Gender at European Commission
Dr. Gesa Hansen, Senior Expert in the Health Strategy unit, DG RTD
Prof. Orla Sheils, Director of the Trinity Translational Medicine Institute, Professor in Molecular Pathology and Director of Medical Ethics at the School of Medicine at Trinity College Dublin
Prof. Dr. Marco Stramba-Badiale, Director, Department of Geriatrics and Cardiovascular Medicine, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan, Italy
Nathalie Moll, Director General of European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA)
11:30-12:30 Resetting the Agenda: Access, Treatment, Care and Responsive Health Care
Chair: Dr. Katrín Fjeldsted, Standing Committee of European Doctors (CPME)
Kenneth Johannesson, Representative for Equal Opportunities in the Committee on Social Policy & Public Health, Assembly of European Regions; County Councillor, Värmland (SE)
Prof. Bharati Shivalkar, Director of Cardiac Imaging, Professor of Cardiology, Antwerp University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, University of Antwerp
Dr. Meryam Schouler-Ocak, Universitätsklinik der Charité
Ber Oomen, European Specialist Nurses Organisations
Katie Gallagher, European Patients’ Forum
12:30-13:30 LUNCH
13:30-14:30 Resetting the Agenda: Education, Training and Health Literacy
Chair: Dr. Janusz Janczukowicz, AMEE—An International Association for Medical Education and Medical University, Lodz, Poland
Dr. Heidi Siller, Gender Medicine, Medical University of Innsbruck
Mervi Jokinen, President of the European Midwives Association (EMA)
Jūratė Švarcaitė, Secretary General of the Pharmaceutical Group of the European Union (PGEU)
Kathi Apostolidis, Vice President of ECPC-European Cancer Patient Coalition (ECPC)
Dr. Teuta Azizi, President of the European Medical Students’ Association (EMSA)
14:30-14:45 Tea/coffee
15:00-16:00 Putting it All Together: Creating an European Action Plan for Women’s Health
Keynote: Mr. Xavier Prats Monné, Director General of DG for Health and Food Safety
Closing Remarks and Conclusions:
Peggy Maguire, Director General of the EIWH and
Sinead Hewson, Managing Director TpEBO and EIWH Board Member
Rapporteur: Vanessa Moore, Senior Researcher at the European Institute of Women’s Health
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