Health and Human Security in The Americas

September 6–7, 2012
Lima, Peru
On September 6–7, 2012, JCIE organized a public seminar and workshop on “Health and Human Security in the Americas” in Lima, Peru, in partnership with the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO). The meetings, which were meant to build on the discussions at JCIE’s “Health and Human Security in Africa” seminar organized in May 2011 in Dakar, Senegal, also follow PAHO’s 2010 resolution to integrate the human security concept into member countries’ national health plans. Participants in the Lima seminar will share preliminary findings from case studies in Latin America and Africa, with the goals of identifying the added value of human security to the health field and of developing guidelines for implementing human security approaches for policymakers and practitioners, particularly those working at the community level. For a brief profile of all case study presentations, please click here.

OPENING SESSION

Fernando Leanes, Pan–American Health Organization/World Health Organization Representative
(PWR) in Peru

Keizo Takemi, Chair, Global Health and Human Security Program, Japan Center for International
Exchange (JCIE)

Masahiro Fukukawa, Ambassador of Japan to Peru
Rebeca Arias, Resident Coordinator of United Nations in Peru

OPENING ADDRESS AND OFFICIAL INAUGURATION
Dr. José Carlos Del Carmen Sara, Vice Minister of Health, Peru

 

INTEGRATION OF HUMAN SECURITY INTO PUBLIC POLICIES 

Moderator: Fernando Leanes, PWR in Peru

Keizo Takemi, Chair, Global Health and Human Security Program, JCIE: Health and Human
Security in Japan
 
 [PDF 1.11MB]
Carlos Santos-Burgoa, Senior Advisor, Human Security, Coordinator, Occupational and
Environmental Risks, Sustainable Development and Environmental Health Area
PAHO/WHO: Presentation of the PAHO Report “Health and Human Security, Implications for Public
Health 2012
 [PDF 1.42MB – spanish only]
Mehrnaz Mostafavi, Officer-in-Charge, Human Security Unit, Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), United Nations: Presentation of the 2012 United Nations Secretary General’s Report on Human Security [PDF 527.2KB]

 

PRESENTATION OF CASES: EXPERIENCES INTEGRATING HEALTH AND HUMAN SECURITY

Moderator: Masamine Jimba, Professor and Director, Department of Community and Global Health, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Japan

Guillermo Orozco, SDE PAHO/WHO: Guatemala: Reduciton of vulnerabilities to Contribute to Rural
Development in Five Municipalities in the Watersheds of Rivers in the Department of San Marcos
 [PDF 3.95MB – Spanish only]
Rodolfo Gomez Ponce de León: Brazil: Human Security Project in Sao Paulo
 [PDF 5.63MB]
MARIPOSA: Mexico: Education oriented intervention to improve resilience and empowerment of
children and adolescents and their families
 [PDF 3MB – spanish only]
Masamine Jimba: Africa: Human Security Approach for Global Health [PDF 142.87KB]
JICA: JICA experiences in Health and Human Security [PDF 960.31KB]
Lola Dare, Chief Executive Officer, Centre for Health Sciences Training, Research and Development
(CHESTRAD): Africa: Update on Case Studies in Africa: Enabling African Action for Better Health
 [PDF 1.5MB]
PERU: Peru: Alliance for Nutrition in Cajamarca [PDF 1.38MB – spanish only]

 

HOW CAN WE PROMOTE HUMAN SECURITY IN PERU AND THE AMERICAS?

Moderator: Susan Hubbard, Senior Associate, JCIE

Panel Members:
Martha Hijar, Researcher, Fundación Entornos, Mexico
Ernesto Gozzer, Associate Professor, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
Dr. Bernardo Ostos, Health Mromotion Director Representing the Minister of Health, Peru
Flavio Mirela, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Representative in Peru and
Ecuador: Alternative Development Model in the San Martín Region: A Case Study in Local
Economic Development
 [PDF 2.71MB]
Dr. Ariel Frisancho, Coordinator of National ForoSalud, Peru
Mr. Artur Custodio M. De Sousa, MORHAN, Brazil: Human Security and Hansen’s Disease
 
[PDF 6.81MB – portuguese only]

 

CONCLUDING REMARKS

Luiz Augusto Galvão, Manager, Sustainable Development and Environmental Health Area,
PAHO/WHO

Keizo Takemi, Director, Global Health and Human Security Program, JCIE