Organizer 1
Wendy Kwong
Multicultural Health Consultant
Toronto Public Health
Planning & Policy Section 277 Victoria Street 6th Floor Toronto, Ontario Canada M5B 1W2

Tel: (416) 392-7451
Fax: (416) 392-1483
Email:wkwong@city.toronto.on.ca


Organizer 2
Douglas W. MacPherson
Director
Office for Public Health Security
Centre for Emergency Preparedness and Response Population and Public Health Branch Health Canada Brooke Claxton Building PL 0900 B Ottawa, Ontario Canada K1A 0K9

Tel: (613) 954-3236
Fax: (613) 952-8286
Email:doug_macpherson@hs-sc.gc.ca


Organizer 3
Nora Sveaass
PhD
Psychosocial Centre for Refugees
University of Oslo Olav M. Troviksvei 4 N-0864 Oslo Norway

Tel: +47-22-84 11 40
Fax: +47-22-84 11 41
Email:norasv@ulrik.uio.no



Workshop description:
The growth and sustainability of globalization is as much about increased mobility of people or global migration as it is about increased trade. Global migration is however, not only about movement of people, but includes goods, conveyances and intangibles such as language, culture, health beliefs and potentially health hazards. All have health implications for the migrants as well as the host population and health systems in the receiving countries. Traditionally, global migrants have been considered in terms of their immigration status; such as refugee, immigrant and visitor. Little attention has been paid to the different backgrounds and experiences of the newcomer. Often, conclusions and recommendations for health interventions have been without consideration of the health determinants of their place of origin and their migratory journey; pre-departure, the migratory journey itself, and the arrival and integration into the country of settlement. Solutions must therefore go beyond traditional approaches of inspection, containment and exclusion to encompass new paradigms in health promotion and disease prevention that is based on an understanding of migrants’ health history, risks, practices and each phase of the migratory journey. The presentations and discussions will centre on three areas of interest: sustainable community health, communicable and non-communicable health conditions and health systems due to migration. Participants will be drawn from North America and Europe and will be represented by the community/NGO, academic and policy-makers. It our hope that through these discussions, there will be sharing of lessons learned and ongoing policy research to mitigate any adverse health effects due to the mobility of people.





Presenters / participants /other information
Proposed Participants:(confirmed)

Reidun Brunvatne, MD
General Practitioner
Skovlyvn 24
N-3160 Stokke
Norway
Phone: 33 33 6335
Fax: 33 33 8205
E-mail: rbrunvat@online.no

Brian D. Gushulak, MD
Director General
Medical Services Branch
Citizenship and Immigration Canada
14th Floor, South Tower
Jean Edmonds Building
365 Laurier Avenue West
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada
K1A 1L1
Phone: (613) 946-5597
Fax: (613) 941-2179
E-mail: brian.gushulak@cic.x40.gc.ca


Danielle Grondin, MD, FRCPC
Director
Medical Services Branch Migration Health Services
International Organization for Migration
17 Route Des Morillons
P.O. Box 71
CH - 1211 Geneva 19
Switzerland
Phone: 41 22 717 9358
Fax: 41 22 798 6150
Email: dgrondin@iom.int


Nora Sveaass, PhD
Psychosocial Centre for Refugees
University of Oslo
Olav M. Troviksvei 4
N-0864 Oslo
Norway
Phone: +47-22-84 11 40
Fax: +47-22-84 11 41
E-mail: norasv@ulrik.uio.no





Summary:
Mobility of people or global migration is not only about movement of people, but also movement of goods and intangibles such as language, culture, health beliefs and potential health hazards. Recommendations for health interventions will incorporate the migrants’ health history and the migratory journey: pre-departure, the journey itself, arrival and integration into the country of settlement.



Date: 10 September


(1 session is 3 hours)
Number of sessions: 1

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