University of Hawai'i Cancer Center Connection: Improving public health across the Pacific: a retrospective of the 2012 Pacific Global Health Conference.
Year: 2013
Type: article
Abstract: One year ago this month, the Hawai‘i Public Health Association (HPHA) hosted its 5th Pacific Global Health Conference (PGHC), Transforming Public Health in the Pacific, held in Honolulu, Hawai‘i, October 8–10, 2012. Like the previous HPHA-sponsored global public health conferences held in 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2007, the October 2012 PGHC brought together a diverse mix of public health practitioners, academics and policymakers from across the Pacific to address public health issues unique to the region. The HPHA, as the only American Public Health Association (APHA) affiliate in the region, remains committed to supporting the aims of a regional public health conference recognizing that communities in Hawai‘i and the larger Pacific region face common threats to public health, such as food insecurity, natural disasters, global warming, and among others, non-communicable diseases of epidemic proportions. HPHA also recognizes that opportunities for networking, training and knowledge exchange are relatively limited in our geographically dispersed and isolated region. While HPHA's 2002 and 2003 conferences attracted participants from as far away as Africa and Australia, HPHA began tailoring its PGHC program in 2005 to directly address the needs and interests of public health professionals in Hawai‘i and neighboring US-affiliated Pacific Islands (USAPI), namely the US flag territories of Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and American Samoa, and the independent nations in free association with the United States, including the Republic of Palau, Republic of the Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia (Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei and Kosrae). PGHC 2012, likewise designed for public health practitioners, academics and policymakers from Hawai‘i and the USAPI, offered a two and a half day program that featured local, regional and national speakers invested in improving the health of communities in the Hawai‘i-Pacific region.
Source: PubMed
Author: Hali Robinett
Institutions: University of Hawaii Cancer Center, University of Guam
Language: English
Subfield: General Health Professions
Field: Health Professions
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W292452114