Events

36th Annual International Conference Global Health

Source: http://www.globalhealth.org

The Global Health Council’s 36th Annual Conference , New Technologies + Proven Strategies = Healthy Communities will take place in Washington, DC, USA at 26-30 May, 2009.

People and communities around the world find it difficult to access good, affordable health care and knowledge they can use to improve their health. How can the global health community use technologies successfully to address the needs that matter most, such as getting the right health workers with the right skills and the right tools to the right communities, improving health, and saving lives?

Advancing technology - particularly information and communication technology (ICT) - has been the hallmark of this new millennium. A message that once took two weeks by mail now takes mere seconds. A phone transmits not only voices, but music, text and video, evolving into one of the most important tools for social media, education and action. The evolving economies of technology - smarter phones, smaller and cheaper laptops - has allowed for more facile and cost-effective ways to share information, provide training and mobilize constituents instantly. Certainly, the global health community has taken advantage of and thus benefited tremendously from these developments in increasing access and providing better services to a broader audience. In short, ICT has and will continue to change the way we do business.