That’s right! I’ll be in Calgary, Alberta, for the International Women’s Health Symposium and I’ll be live blogging a bunch of the sessions. It didn’t occur to me to explain what live blogging is before, so in case you’re unfamiliar, I’ll essentially be in the sessions, typing up what the speakers are saying and probably fitting in my own commentary, all live. So if you or another reader of this blog follows the link to a live blog session, you’d be able to comment, too! Exciting, right? I think it’s a great tool that greatly increases the accessibility of events like this. Even though you may not be able to attend, you can still catch what’s going on through a live blog. If you so wish, you could even ask me to ask a panelist a question and I just might do it on your behalf.
Anyway, I’ve compiled all the sessions I’ll (hopefully) be covering for your convenience. I’ll post them along with the links again on the day of (or maybe the night before).
Opening Plenary: Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights and Vulnerable Populations
8:15-9:15
Frank Kaharuza, MD, Kampala, Uganda
Laura Laski, MD, New York NY
Marie Skinnider, MD, Toronto, ON
Panel: Vulnerable Populations and Sexual Health Realities: Compromising Factors, Recommended Actions
9:15-10:00
Jaelene Mannerfeldt, MD, Okotoks, AB
Panel: Cervical Cancer in Low Resource Countries
13:00-14:00
Maureen McTeer, Brennan’s Hill, QC
Strengthening Indigenous Midwifery and Intercultural Health: A collaboration between Guatemalan and Canadian Aboriginal health organizations
14:00-14:30
Javier Mignone, PhD, Winnipeg, MB
Abortion in Latin America as a Public Health Problem and a Cause of Maternal Death
14:30-15:00
Sexual Assault Care Initiatives for Adolescent Women in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, and Question Period
15:15-16:00
Women’s Health as a Human Right: Meeting the U.N.’s Millennium Development Goals
16:00-16:30
Maureen McTeer, Brennan’s Hill, QC
Who’s Accountable for Women’s Deaths? Making a Promise for Mothers Lost
16:30-17:00
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