PANAMA 2016

moderators

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Dr. Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati
Director, Center for Health Equity in the Americas, Tenured Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of USC, USA, Vice-Chair of the National Alliance for Hispanic Health.
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Dra. Arlene Calvo

Research Assistant Professor USF Health Panama
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Dr. Bernardo Nuche-Berenguer
Specialist, Noncommunicable Diseases Prevention and Control at Pan-American Health Organization PAHO/WHO
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Keynote Lectures

  • Overview of HPV-Related Cancers and Other Diseases - Status in the Americas - Bernardo Nuche-Berenguer, PhD - Specialist, Noncommunicable Diseases Prevention and Control - Pan American Health Organization - U.S.A.
  • A Decade of Prevention - Impact of HPV vaccination in the U.S.A. - Denise Duran, MPH, U.S.A., Health Services Officer, Office of International Cancer Control, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
  • Primary Prevention and Control of Cervical Cancer and HPV-Related Diseases in Panama through Vaccination  - Itzel Yolanda Slocum Hewitt, RN – Coordinator of the Panamanian National Immunization Program  -Ministry of Health  - Panama

National Policies and Impact at the Community Level

  • Argentina – Argentina's Successful Implementation of A National Human Papillomavirus Vaccination Program - Carla Vizzotti, MD Head of the National Immunization Program - Ministry of Health Argentina
  • Brazil – Lessons from the National Immunizations program and the HPV vaccine – Carla Magda S. Domingues, PhD, Brazil, Coordinator of the National Immunization Program, Ministry of Health.
  • Puerto Rico – Challenges in HPV vaccine policy:  Accelerating HPV Vaccine Uptake in PR - Iris Cardona, MD – Clinical Advisor - National Immunization Program, Health Department

Our Work at the Community Level

  • Peru – Dialogues on the Right to Immunization for Children and Adolescents – How to work with government? - Pilar Collantes, President & Edson Aguilar, Vice President of Voces Ciudadanas
  • Panama – Social Aspects of Cervical Cancer Research in Panama – Indigenous Communities - Arlene Calvo, USF & Lourdes Alguero, Universidad de Panamá
  • Puerto Rico – “Voces de Rhaiza” – Working with Coalitions in Puerto Rico - Brenda Padilla, Coalition Director - Voces: Coalicion de Vacunación de Puerto Rico
  • United States – Nuestras Voces – Our Voices – National Hispanic Network to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities - Paul Baker, Director for Programs – National Alliance for Hispanic Health, U.S.A.

organizations attending