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Speakers
Moderator
Prof. Dr. Martin Zemel is a dentist, holds a Master’s degree in dental education, a PhD and a post-doctorate in dentistry. His experience has focused on health promotion and health equity from an intercultural and intersectoral perspective based on human rights.
He is Director of the School of Dentistry at FASTA University (Mar del Plata, Argentina) where he also serves as Professor of Community Health. In addition, he is Professor of Bioethics at the National University of La Plata, Researcher Category I SICADI-UNLP, Full Member of the National Academy of Dentistry, member of Committees of different Doctoral Degrees, and Visiting Professor at different Universities in Argentina and other countries.
In the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE) he is the current regional Vice-President for Latin America, coordinates the Spanish subcommittee of the World Conference on Health Promotion and is a member of the Academic Committee of the Latin American Network for Health Education. In addition, he represents the IUHPE in the WHO Civil Society Commission, and is a member of the WHO Working Group on Non-communicable Diseases.
Prof. Blanca Patricia Mantilla Uribe has a Master’s degree in pedagogy, is a specialist in health services administration, university teaching and is a nurse. She has experience in early childhood and community-based primary health care programmes. She is an expert in health education and communication programmes, having participated in the creation and consolidation of the Latin American Network of Health Promoting Schools (Red Latinoamericana de Escuelas Promotoras de Salud).
She is Director of the PROINAPSA Institute, Collaborating Centre of the World Health Organisation in Health Promotion and Sexual and Reproductive Health, belonging to the Faculty of Health of the Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia, since 1997 to date.
Patricia Isabel Zamora Valdés is a Sociologist and Master in Management and Public Policy. She has been working at the Ministry of Health of Chile since 2012. She initially worked in the Department of Nutrition and Food, and is currently the Head of the Department of Health Promotion and Participation. She has been a University Professor and has several publications and presentations in her field.
Dr. Hayda Alves is a Nurse, Master in Nursing and Doctor in Public Health. She holds a postdoctoral degree with orientation of Popular Educator Professor Carlos Rodrigues Brandão. She is a member of the Popular Health Education Network, Edpop Network, a member of the Brazilian Association of Black Researchers (ABPN) and a member of the International Collaboration for Participatory Health Research (ICPHR).
She is an Associate Professor at the Universidad Federal Fluminense (UFF) Rio das Ostras campus; and a collaborator in the Postgraduate Programme in Collective Health at the Instituto de Salud Colectiva (ISC) of the same University.
Summary
Our Network promotes the strengthening of education in the field of health in Latin America. This is why we consider it essential to review the strategies implemented, as well as to recognise the pedagogical perspective that underpins them. This implies transcending the biomedical and instrumental approach and promoting an education that not only transmits knowledge, but also fosters critical thinking, active participation and the emancipation of communities.
We propose an education for health that is transdisciplinary and dialogical, and that integrates both academic knowledge and popular and ancestral knowledge. It is not only about providing information, but also about generating learning spaces that empower people and enable them to actively participate in the transformation of their communities, strongly marked in the Latin American context by the presence of the Social Determinants of Health and their consequent health inequities.
Reviewing current strategies in Latin America will be key to promoting Health Education that responds to the real needs of communities and increases their collective participation in health.
The questions that we will address during the webinar are:
- What are the experiences that are being carried out in the field of Health Education in different countries in Latin America?
- What are the strengths and opportunities for Health Education?
Our speaker’s contributions
The recording of the webinar:
Latin American Network for the Revitalisation of Health Education
This webinar is a part of the “Latin American Network for the Revitalisation of Health Education”. This initiative is being promoted with the participation of the UNESCO Chair on Global Health and Education, the Inter-American Consortium of Universities and Training Centers for Health Education and Health Promotion (CIUEPS), the Brazilian Network of Popular Health Education, the Colombian Network of Health Education and the Regional Office for Latin America of the International Union of Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE/ORLA), with the following objectives:
- Promote health education at national and international levels, as a fundamental dimension of the health disciplines, the educational sciences and the social and human sciences.
- To recuperate the Latin American production and position it in the regional level, which implies promoting its critical and decolonial approaches. A health education that advocates for social transformation towards a more just and equitable society that guarantees well-being and a life with dignity.
- Promote the articulation of the education and health sectors to strengthen the actions of each of these sectors to promote health education, by recognizing education and health as two inalienable, synergistic and interdependent human rights.
- Strengthen the theoretical, political and ethical foundations of health education as a requirement for a responsible, productive and ethical pedagogical practice.
- To generate a setting for the articulation of academia and civil society that allows Latin American integration in order to share experiences, knowledge and aspirations framed in a collective purpose.
- To promote national and international integration with respect to health education as a means for mutual learning and solidarity, and to facilitate cooperative actions in the development of academic-scientific events, research and training processes.
The webinars, open to all interested stakeholders, are a component of the program. They are experiential sessions, lasting 60-90 minutes, with guest speakers who present their reflections on two or three problematic questions to encourage audience participation. Five webinars have been scheduled for this first stage of the program, with an interval of 2 months between each one.
Watch the recordings of previous webinars:
- 26 November 2024 – The invisibilization of health education and how it can be revitalized, also recovering Latin American experiences and productions
- 17 September 2024 – Theoretical and political debates on Health Education in Latin America
