PHM in New South Wales

Successful People's Health Movement NSW Workshop

35 people attended a very successful Launch and Planning Workshop for PHM NSW on March 21, from 9.30am - 4pm in the historic Claffey Lecture Theatre, Sydney Hospital.

The workshop participants were welcomed to country by Aunty Ally Golden and the workshop was launched by H.E. Prof. Marie Bashir AC, Governor of NSW.

Ron Labonte provided the big picture background with an analysis of globalisation and health focusing on ways in which the global economic regime damages people's health (and possible remedies).

Fran Baum, newly appointed Commissioner with the WHO Commission on the Social Determinants of Health, spoke about the origins of the PHM and some of its early projects. She pointed out that PHM had urged the establishment of such a Commission and showed a photo of Ravi Narayan speaking at the Lauch of the Commission in Chile

Objectives of the workshop:

• Develop a proposal for the structure of PHM NSW
• Identify local issues to be included in the PHM NSW chapter
• Identify local issues that would be taken to PHA II
• Identify local issues to be addressed in the Global Health Watch Report for 2005

The workshop will be inaugurated by

Prof. Ron Labonte, Canada Research Chair, Global Equity of University of Ottawa will be a keynote speaker at this workshop. Other speakers include Prof. Fran Baum, Head of Dept of Public Health of Flinders University and A/Prof David Legge of School of Public Health of La Trobe University.

More information will be posted here soon. Please email PHM NSW for more information and/or to express your interest in participating in the workshop or to be included in the mailing list.