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Prof. Dr. Fernando Peñaranda Correa is a medical doctor. Master’s in public health, master’s in education and social development and doctor in Social Sciences, Childhood and Youth. He is a professor and senior researcher of the Health and Society Research Group of the National School of Public Health of the University of Antioquia. He is the coordinator of emphasis in health education of the master’s in public health. He has been a professor in the undergraduate and graduate programs of the Faculty and in other universities in the country, in the following topics: epistemology, qualitative research, ethics and social justice, public health, health promotion and health education. He has written numerous articles, book chapters and books in the areas of health education, qualitative research, ethics and public health and social justice.
Dr. Pilar Campos is Regional Health Promotion Advisor at the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Department of Family, Health Promotion and Life Course, Unit for Health Promotion and Social Determinants.
Dr. Aurinés Torres Sánchez is a Popular Educator, public health educator and doctor in education with more than 30 years of experience in community health programmes with vulnerable populations. Her work is characterised by the exploration and practice of theoretical and practical foundations for liberating and decolonising methodologies and curricula, and by promoting transdisciplinary approaches inspired by Buen Vivir. Its community and academic practice in decolonising public health aims to achieve collective health with dignity for all, guided by the defence of human rights and social, racial and gender justice. Among her diverse contributions, she co-created the first Boricua Model for the Training of Community Health Promoters that uses Popular Education to promote community development and empowerment towards a dignified and decolonial collective health. In 2019, she founded ‘Aula Comunitaria PR’ which provides formative and investigative accompaniment in decolonial health to individuals and groups that assume community leadership in the archipelago of Puerto Rico. Aurinés is a university professor of courses in public health, popular health education, community health, participatory action research and curriculum design at the University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences, Cayey and Río Piedras campuses. She is currently president of the Board of Directors of La Colmena Cimarrona in Vieques and a member of the Puerto Rico Agroecology Trust. Dr. Torres Sánchez has presented her work at scientific conferences and community-based meetings in the local and international community and participates in social justice movements in Latin America, Puerto Rico and the USA.
Dr. Dora Irma Cardaci Rodríguez graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, from the Master’s Degree in Social Medicine, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco and from the PhD in Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, National School of Anthropology and History, Mexico. She is currently a Full-Time Professor-Researcher in the Department of Health Care, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Xochimilco, Mexico. She has been appointed as a National Researcher Level 2, by the National System of Researchers. In 2007 she was elected Vice-President for Latin America of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE), a position she held until 2010. She was deputy editor of the journal Global Health Promotion, and a member of the Editorial Board of Review of Health Promotion and Education on Line. She has served as a temporary consultant to UNICEF, PAHO, UNESCO and UNFPA on health education and promotion, medical education and health and gender.
Summary
The questions that will be addressed during the webinar are:
- What is the relevance and role that has been given to health education in health systems, in academia and in the activities of the civil society/community?
- What actions are being taken at the level of health systems, academia and civil society/community to revitalize health education?
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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.
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