Program content and structure

 The final PHA3 program is now available online!

After an extensive consultation, many many hours of work, further suggestions and amendments and consultations, etc etc etc. And a lot of hard work by the programme committee pulling it all together! We are happy to share the most final programme for PHA!! There may however still be small changes.

Its good seeing old friends already here and we look forward to seeing everyone else soon.

CLICK HERE for the PHA3 FINAL PROGRAM

PROGRAM PRE PHA3

The Third Peoples Health Assembly (PHA3) is to be held in Cape Town, South Africa (6-11 July 2012) and will take place at the University of the Western Cape.

The Assembly will be preceded by:

• A 2-week training course ‘Struggle for Health’ (24 June – 4 July 2011). The course will be organized within the framework of the PHM's International People's Health University (IPHU) and it will accommodate around 50 young health activists from across the global with a majority drawn from Sub-Saharan Africa.

• A South African National Health Assembly (5-6 July 2012) which will focus on national issues and in particular the proposed national health insurance for South Africa. International participants will also be invited to participate in the national assembly. For more information contact southafrica.phm@gmail.com.

PHA3 PROGRAM

Following an extensive consultation we are happy to present the final draft of the program below and the draft program structure following this link. The programme committee has included many programme suggestions falling within the framework of the People's Charter for Health and taking into account the overall themes of the Assembly and a regional spread of themes and testimonies.

CLICK HERE FOR PROGRAM STRUCUTURE

CLICK HERE FOR LIST OF AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS

(The list of afternoon workshops is not final)

The programme committee would like to thank all the PHM activists for their valuable contributions, assisting to make the program reflect those issues determining people's health.

• 7th of July: P1: The global Political and Economic Context of Health
• 8th of July: P2: Social and Physical Environments that destroy or promote health
• 9th of July: Health for all NOW: Universal coverage and equity in integrated health systems
• 10th of July: Beyond the Curren Crissi: Mobilising for Health for Al

The programme will move from analysis to action, with sufficient time and process to facilitate strategy, future activities and movement building. There will be a balance between academic papers and grassroots case studies and testimonies falling under the following broad themes:

The main thematic axes of PHA-3 are:

1. The Global Political and Economic context of health

2. Social and Physical Environments that destroy or promote health

3. Universal coverage and equity in comprehensive and integrated health systems

4. Beyond the Crisis: Mobilizing for Health for All

The organization of the PHA-3 aims at providing the largest possible space for sharing experiences, mutual learning and strategizing for future action.

The program for PHA-3 will include:

-  Opening ceremony (6th July 2012), organized by PHM South Africa and designed as an interactive African cultural event.

-  Plenary sessions: A daily plenary session (7-10 July) which will focus on the major themes of the Assembly. Each plenary will include: testimonies, key-note speeches and space for open discussion. An additional plenary session on the last day (11 July) will debate and finalize the Assembly's Declaration.

-  Sub-plenary sessions: each plenary will be followed by 4-6 concurrent sub-plenary sessions designed to further deepen the discussions on each of the thematic axes.

-  Self-organized events: space will be provided for civil society organizations/networks and other stakeholders to organize workshops on topics related to their own priorities within the framework of the Assembly themes. The self-organized events were decided as a part of the Assembly format to widen the ownership of the Assembly and also to provide opportunities to the largest possible number of partners to build alliances from the large number of participants around their own priority and issues of concern. We expect to have around 10-15 concurrent self organized workshops every day, Call for Proposals for Self-organized Workshops

-  Cultural events and a film festival that will reflect the diversity of cultural traditions represented, in the Assembly, with a particular focus on Africa.

-  Display space: will provide an opportunity for participant organizations to promote their publications, products, etc.

-  Closing event that will reflect the resolve of the Assembly and the broader movements represented by the participants to take translate the deliberations in the Assembly into concrete actions for decisive change.

The presentations, discussions and debates in the Assembly, culminating in the Cape Town Declaration (Call to Action), will provide guidance and direction to the PHM to conduct a range of activities. These include the PHM’s global Right to Health Campaign (RTHC), policy dialogues and interventions to strengthen health systems, activities that address the social determinants of health and the PHM’s global initiative on ‘democratising governance for health’.