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UN HLM side-events

Below is a selective list of side-events being held before, during and after the UN High-level Meeting held in New York on 19 and 20 September. (A more complete list can be downloaded from the NCD Alliance’s website.)

C3’s report of the UN HLM includes information about 20 side-events: click here to download the report.

Friday 16 September

Time Event Venue Organizers Contacts and Other Information
12:00-15:00 Launch of the New York Wellness Week Harlem State Office Building Plaza New York Academy of Medicine, WEF, PAHO Jo Ivey Boufford jboufford@nyam.org

More information here >>
14:00-16:30 Text and Social Media Campaign Uris Auditorium, Weill Cornell Medical College Healthy Caribbean Coalition Trevor Hassell thassell@caribsurf.com

Saturday 17 September

Time Event Venue Organizers Contacts and Other  Information
09:00-17:00 NCD Alliance and Partners Side Event: UN Summit Civil Society Briefing NY Academy of Medicine NCD Alliance Kiti Kajana

Kiti.Kajana@cancer.org
9:30-16:00 Strategy session for stakeholders and leaders in global mental health to compare notes on their ongoing advocacy efforts Weill Cornell Medical College Faculty Room A-126 at 1300 York Ave
13:00-14:00 Multisectorial Challenges New York Academy of Medicine New York Academy of medicine and PAHO Jo Ivey Boufford

jboufford@nyam.org

Sunday 18 September

Time Event Venue Organizers Contacts and Other Information
11:00-14:00 Physical Activity and NCDs Millenium Plaza Hotel American College of Sports Medicine, CDC, PAHO James Hospedales hospedaj@paho.org
12:00-18:00 Unite for a Healthy Future New York Academy of Medicine NCD Alliance Isabella Platon Isabella.Platon@idf.org
14:00-17:00 Tackling NCDs: How can existing platforms be leveraged? Desmond Tutu Center Global Health Council, American Society for Clinical Pathology, Livestrong Foundation, Medtronic, MSH, Novo Nordisk, PATH, Pfizer, PSI Caitlin Holliday cholliday@globalhealth.org
14:00-20:00 Global Diabetes Symposium Geraldine Schottenstein Cultural Center Albert Einstein College of Medicine Jill Raufmann jill.raufmann@einstein.vu.edu
13:00-20:00 Wellness Weeks events TBC PAHO and WEF Karen Sealey sealeyka@paho.org
17:30-19:00 Scalling up action to curb NCDs: How much will it cost and what is the cost of inaction? New York Academy of Medicine, Room 20 WEF and WHO Eva Llopis Eva.Jane-Llopis@weforum.org
19:00-21:00 Mounting an effective response in the changing health landscape (remark at 19:45) Helmsley Hotel World Bank Mary Liu mliu2@worldbank.org

Monday 19 September

Time Event Venue Organizers Contacts and Other Information
08:00-10:00 Exploring the intersection of Agriculture, Nutrition and Health UN Dining Room PepsiCO, UN Foundation, Business Council for United Nations Ryan Travers rtravers@apcoworldwide.com
08:15-09:45 Gender roles and NCDs Conference Room C Mexico, Nicaragua, Trinidad & Tobago, PAHO Genevieve Grabman grabman@paho.org
08:00-10:00 Youth Rally for Action on NCDs Bellevue Hospital Center Global Health Online ncdnycrall@gmail.com
09:30-14:30 First ladies Connect for Health Waldorf Astoria Advanced Development for Africa
10:00-13:00 Round Table 1 – The rising incidence, development and other challenges and the socio-economic impact on NCSs UN ECOSOC Chamber UN Department of General Assembly and Conference Management, president of the General Assembly, WHO
10:30-19:30 Global Diet and Physical Activity Communications Summit Union League Club International Food Information Council Foundation Kimberley Reed reed@ifc.org
10:00-12:00 Making the Commitment to implement Global Corporate Smoke-free Work spaces Institute of International Education ACS, J&J, Mayo Clinic, DHHS/USA Alessandra Durstine Alessandra.Durstine@cancer.org
13:00-15:00 All together: Collaborating to Fight NCDs Millennium Plaza International Food and Beverages Alliance Donna Hrinak donna.hrinak@pepsico.com
13:15-14:30 What gets measured, gets done – targets an indicators for NCDs UN Conference Room 3 WHO Ala Alwan alwana@who.int
13:15-14:30 Community-based prevention of NCDs – Success and challenges UN Conference Room 5 IFRC and IFPMA Sandia Kaenzig sandia@kaenzig@ifrc.org
13:15-14:30 Addressing NCDs – It takes a workforce UN Conference Room C Japan and Global Health Workforce Alliance Robert Hewitt Robert.Hewitt@dn.mofa.go.jp

Sonali Reddy reddys@who.int
13:15-14:30 Burden of Disease on Woman and Smoking UN Dining Room Global Alliance for Women’s Health, Pfizer
13:15-14:00 CARICOM taking stock Concierge Conference Center PAHO and CARICOM Karen Sealey sealeyka@paho.org
13:15-14:00 Preventing rising chronic diseases in sub-Saharan Africa Permanent Mission of Uganda Permanent Mission of Uganda, USC Institute for Global Health, NCD Alliance Heather Wipfli hwipfli@usc.edu
14:45-17:45 CEO Symposium on Digital Health for Digital Development Waldorf Astoria Antigua & Barbuda, Bangladesh, Dominica, Rwanda, Tajikistan
15:00-18:00 Round table 2 – Strengthening national capacities, as well as appropriate policies UN ECOSOC Chamber UN Department of General Assembly and Conference Management, president of the General Assembly, WHO
15:30-18:30 Integrating NCDs: The next frontier in women’s health The Institute of International Education American Cancer Society, The GAVI Alliance, PATH, UNFPA, Women Deliver, World Health Federation Deshawn Jenkins deshawn.jenkins@cancer.org
16:30-18:00 Safe access to cooking fuel: a critical link in preventing NCDs and desertification UN Conference Room 7 Women’s Refugee Commission, Liechtenstein, and Switzerland Permanent Mission of Liechtenstein advisor5@nyc.llv.li
17:00-19:00 Oral Health – Putting teeth into NCDs NYU College of Dentistry Tanzania, Australia, Sweden Khalid Elachi events@miraclecorners.org
18:00-19:30 Climate Change and NCDs: Creating  a Climate for NCDs UN Church Center The Public Health Institute RSVP by 9/14 to globalhealth@phi.org
18:30-20:30 What’s next? How countries can lead the way and engage cross-sectoral partners in the control of NCDs? Grand Hyatt Hotel Institute of Medicine and FHI360 David DeVaughn DDeVaughn@fhi360.org
18:00-19:30 Private sector’s role in the fight against NCDs (Release of the IFPMA White Paper) British Consul-General’s residence IFPMA and AstraZeneca
18:30-21:30 South-South Awards 2011

Digital Health Awards

 Waldorf Astoria ITU, UNECA, and Anigua & Barbuda
18:30-20:30 UN Decade to Roll Back malaria: Celebrating the Progress in Malaria Control to Save Lives InterContinental Barclay Hotel RBM Roll Back Malaria partnership gso@whoun.org
18:00-20:00 Universal Health Coverage Millennium Plaza Hotel Rockefeller Foundation and WHO Carissa Etienne etiennec@who.int

Tuesday 20 September

Time Event Venue Organizers Contacts and Other Information
08:00-09:30 Patients as catalyst for change UK Mission to the UN Bupa and The George Institute William Brocklehurst

william.brocklehurst@bupa.com
08:15-09:45 Gender responsive approaches to NCDs UN Conference Room 7

NLB

 Commonwealth Secretariat, International Diabetes Federation, PAHO, Partnership for maternal and Newborn Health, Samoa Genevieve Grabman grabmang@paho.org
08:30-09:30 Launch of The Sania Nishtar Health Fund to support Heartfile Health Financing The Rockefeller Foundation Rockefeller Foundation, Partners for a New Beginning, American Pakistan Foundation, World Economic Forum, World Heart Federation info@heartfile.org
10:00-11:30 Opening – Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting 2011 Sheraton Hotel & Towers CGI
10:00-13:00 Round table 3 – International cooperation and coordination UN ECOSOC Chamber UN Department of General Assembly and Conference Management, president of the General Assembly, WHO
10:00-12:00 BRICS Meeting TBD Brazil, China, India, Russian Federation, South Africa
11:00-13:00 Under- and over- nutrition UN Conference Room 2 Indonesia, USA, WHO David Nabarro david.nabarro@who.int
13:15-14:30 Winning the fight against NCDs: successful methods and initiatives Permanent Mission of Sweden to the United Nations Swedish National Institute of Public Health, Swedish National Food Administration, and the Swedish Permanent Mission to the UN
13:15-14:30 HIV, NCDs and Health Systems UN Conference Room 3 UNAIDS and WHO Carissa Etienne etiennec@who.int
13:15-14:45 School meals: Investment in learning and health Consulate General of Finland Finland Anna Vitie

anna.vitie@formin.fi
13:15-14:45 Promotin access to essenatial drugs at home and in the global south: Policy approaches and south-south cooperation event UN Conference Room C UNDP Kayla Keenan kayla.keenan@undp.org
16:00-18:00 SG’s High-level Event on Every Woman and Every Child UN ECOSOC Chamber
18:15-20:15 Launch of the Americas partners Forum: The beginning of the end of NCDs in the Americas The Grand Hyatt Hotel PAHO, GRULAC, Canada, WEF James Hospedales hospedaj@paho.org
18:15-20:00 Legal capacity building for the prevention and control of NCDs: essential to the response UN Conference Room 7 IDLO, UNDP, Australia, O’Neill Institute, Sydney University David Patterson dpatterson@idlo.int
19:00-20:00 Reception – Every Women and Every Child The Grand Hyatt Hotel
20:15-21:00 Reception – Americas partners Forum The Grand Hyatt Hotel PAHO, GRULAC, Canada, USA, WEF James Hospedales hospedaj@paho.org

Wednesday 21 September

Time Event Venue Organizers Contacts and Other Information
15:00-17:00 High Level Colloquium for Women as agents of Change in the Global Fight of Poverty (TBC) Republic of Trinidad and Tobago