Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs) in Children and Adolescents in the Context of COVID-19
You are invited to attend:
The Global Leadership Series
Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs) in Children and Adolescents in the Context of COVID-19
Hosted by the SickKids Centre for Global Child Health, the Global Leadership Series is designed to cultivate discussion on topical and timely global child health issues.
Tuesday, November 17, 2020
Agenda:
12:00 – 1:00 PM – GLS Lecture
1:00 – 1:30 PM – Audience Q & A
Location:
Zoom: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VKatapxpT92ECQQ5Xu-QiA
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Keynote Speakers
Dr. Marie Hauerslev, Chair, NCD Child, will present:
Youth and the NCD Movement
Dr. Gene Bukhman, Co-Chair, Lancet NCDI Poverty Commission, will present:
Reframing the NCD agenda for children and adolescents: findings and recommendations from the Lancet NCDI Poverty Commission
Dr. Catherine Birken, Senior Scientist, SickKids, will present:
Addressing childhood obesity in the context of COVID-19
Speaker Biographies
Marie Hauerslev, MD, is a Danish physician and the Chair of NCD Child. Dr. Hauerslev is the Chair of the WHO GCM/NCD Lab on Youth and the Next Generation and a Commissioner on the Lancet Commission on Gender-Based Violence and Maltreatment of Young People. Alongside her global advocacy and research work, Marie is currently in her formal training in paediatrics at Herlev Hospital, Copenhagen. Previously, as Vice-President for External Affairs and Liaison Officer to WHO of the International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations (IFMSA), Dr. Hauerslev was the global leader of IFMSA’s external work, collaborating with the UN, WHO, World Medical Association and more. Marie was the driving force behind IFMSA’s leadership in the youth and NCDs movement in 2017. Dr. Hauerslev has worked at WHO Global Coordination Mechanism for NCDs focusing on children and youth.
Gene Bukhman, MD, PhD is a cardiologist and medical anthropologist who heads the Program on Global Noncommunicable Disease (NCDs) and Social Change at Harvard Medical School. He is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and an Assistant Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine. He is also the Senior Health and Policy Advisor on NCDs at Partners In Health (PIH) where he directs the NCD Synergies project. He is an attending cardiologist in the Cardiovascular Division and the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is Director of the BWH Fellowship in Cardiovascular Disease and Global Health Equity and the BWH Fellowship in Type 1 Diabetes and Global Health Equity. He is also the Co- Chair of the Lancet Commission on Reframing NCDs and Injuries for the Poorest Billion (NCDI Poverty Commission).
Catherine Birken MD, MSc, is a general paediatrician in the division of Paediatric Medicine, Professor, University of Toronto (U of T), and a Senior Scientist, Child Health Evaluative Sciences, Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute. Her clinical care activities include attending paediatrician in inpatient paediatrics, and paediatrician in the outpatient SickKids Obesity Management Program for children with complex obesity. Her research is in prevention of childhood overweight and obesity in early childhood, and is co-leader of TARGet Kids! primary care practice based research network to advance child health research. Dr. Birken is funded by CIHR for the study of obesity and cardiometabolic risk and early childhood development in school, 2 randomized controlled trials in obesity prevention and treatment with public health nurse led parenting and home visiting intervention, and a population evaluation of the Healthy Kids Community Challenge in Ontario.
Moderator: Dr. Zulfiqar Bhutta, Co-Director, SickKids Centre for Global Child Health
