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  • AUA: XXVII Annual ASPHER Conf. hosted by the College of Health Sci.

    PRESS RELEASE
    September 17-20, 2005

    AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA
    40 Marshal Baghramian
    Yerevan 375019 ARMENIA
    Telephone: (37410) 512-522
    Fax: (37410) 270-859; 512-512

    Contact: Diana Manukyan
    E-mail: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>

    XXVII Annual ASPHER Conference hosted by the College of Health Sciences at
    the American University of Armenia

    Yerevan- The College of Health Sciences (CHS) at the American University of
    Armenia hosted the XXVII Annual ASPHER (Association of Schools of Public
    Health in The European Region) Conference entitled `Educating the Public
    Health Workforce: Development Perspectives for the European and
    Mediterranean Regions' from 17-20 September 2005.

    The conference addressed development perspectives of Public Health schools
    in the European and Mediterranean regions of the World Health Organization,
    revealing possible barriers and catalysts to the process of development. For
    the first time this exclusive conference hosted about 130 participants from
    the Public Health Schools of the European, Mediterranean, and African
    regions. Delegates came from 5 continents and over 50 countries, ranging
    from South Africa to Finland and from the United States to Mongolia.

    The conference was opened by AUA graduate (MBA and MPH) and Honorary Chair
    of the Scientific Committee Dr. Tatul Hakopyan Vice Minister of Health,
    Armenia, along with, Dr. Haroutune Armenian, AUA President (Chair,
    Scientific Committee) and Dr. Michael E. Thompson, Director of the AUA
    Center for Health Services Research and Development (Chair, Organizing
    Committee).

    `Beyond all the assistance from international donors and agencies, the
    health care system of Armenia has been running primarily on a capital of
    dignity invested by the health care professionals. A dignity that has become
    second nature when your history is pot marked by generations of repression
    and destruction and you have that continuing urge to survive and move
    forward,' said Haroutune Armenian, AUA President.

    Keynote speakers were Dr. Huda Zurayk, Dean, and Faculty of Health Sciences,
    American University of Beirut and Dr. Donald A. Henderson, Dean Emeritus,
    Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Henderson led the
    World Health Organization program leading to the eradication of smallpox.

    `It seems to me that there is not only a need but an important opportunity
    for a fuller mature development of Schools of Public Health that are
    professional schools; that work closely with those who are dealing with real
    world problems... and that define and actively advocate for needed public
    policy. The need is international', pointed out Dr.Henderson, professor of
    Public Health and Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh and Resident
    Fellow of the Center for Biosecurity of the University of Pittsburgh Medical
    Center.

    During the conference the Association of Schools of Public Health in the
    European Region (ASPHER) awarded its 13th Stampar Medal to Mr. George Soros
    of Open Society Institute (OSI), in recognition of OSI's support to the
    development and improvement of public health training in Central and Eastern
    Europe and the former Soviet Union. Mr Michael Borowitz, Director of Open
    Society Institute's Public Health Programs, accepted the award on behalf of
    OSI's Public Health Programs.

    According to Dr. Anders Folsprang, ASPHER President, `We were delighted to
    have the first time the conference is held in a former Soviet Republic
    coincide with the College of Health Sciences' 10th Anniversary. The
    Scientific and Organizing Committees did a superb job in preparing a well
    organized, stimulating scientific and cultural program.'

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    The American University of Armenia is registered as a non-profit educational
    organization in both Armenia and the United States and is affiliated with
    the Regents of the University of California. Receiving major support from
    the AGBU, AUA offers instruction leading to the Masters Degree in eight
    graduate programs. For more information about AUA, visit www.aua.am
    <http://www.aua.am/> .
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