ISSOP Hosting Webinars on Child and Youth Health Rights as Part of HIFA2015 Initiative

The International Society for Social Pediatrics and Child Health (ISSOP) will be hosting two fascinating FREE webinars on child health and rights and youth health rights as part of the Health Information for All (HIFA2015) initiative.  The webinars will be available to anyone interested on June 13 and June 28 respectively.  Pre-registration is necessary - see below.

1. Child Health and Child Rights

Wed 13th June 1700 British summer time, 1800  European time, 1200 Eastern daylight time, 0900 Pacific daylight time

Speaker: Tony Waterston, co moderator of CHILD2015
Duration 45 mins (talk 30 mins, discussion 15 mins)
The webinar will cover the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the relevance of child rights to child health, and using the articles in the convention to improve children’s health care. The topic will be of relevance to all countries globally.

Tony Waterston is a retired consultant paediatrician who worked mainly in the community in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. He spent 6 years working in Zambia and Zimbabwe and currently directs the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Diploma in Palestinian Child Health teaching programme in the occupied Palestinian territories. He is an Editor of the Journal of Tropical Paediatrics and is on the Executive Committee of the International Society for Social Pediatrics. His academic interests are child poverty, advocacy for child health and children's rights.

2. Adolescent Health Rights

Thurs 28th June
1500 British summer time, 1600 European time, 1700 Turkish time1000 Eastern daylight time, 0700 Pacific daylight time

Speakers: Gonca Yilmz, Ayesha Kadir
Duration 45 mins (talk 30 mins, discussion 15 mins)
The webinar will cover the application of the UN Convention to adolescent health and using the convention to improve the health and health care of teenagers.

Gonca Yilmaz is a member of the executive committee of the European Society for Social Paediatrics and Child Health. She is a social pediatrician in a training hospital in Ankara, Turkey, and has a postgraduate degree in social pediatrics. Her interests include child rights, child abuse and neglect management, well child baby care, and infant nutrition.

Ayesha Kadir has been a Pediatric AIDS Corps Physician at the Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative, USA. She has an interest in human rights (especially child rights), HIV infection and malnutrition. She is currently organising an effort in the US to make human rights training a standard part of medical education, as a means to promote a rights-based approach to care and would like to expand this to an international level. She would welcome contact from others with a similar interest in order to work collaboratively.

Registration (free) is encouraged so that we can better meet your needs. To register, send an email with your name, position/job title, institution, country of residence, and brief description of professional interests, to: webinars@hifa2015.org

Please indicate whether you would like to attend:
1. Child Health and Child Rights
and/or
2. Adolescent Health Rights

How to prepare for the webinar
We shall use the web conferencing tool Blackboard Collaborate (formerly called Elluminate), graciously provided to HIFA2015 by the University of Iowa. If you are using the system for the first time, it is recommended that you set up your computer now. This will ensure you do not face technical problems on the day of the webinar. The HIFA2015 virtual room is open 24/7.