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April
24th - Tuesday
07:30pm - 09:00pm Opening Ceremony |
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| Title |
Author |
| Opening conference |
George
A.O. Alleyne,
Director, PAHO/WHO
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April
25th - Wednesday
09:00am - 10:00am First Plenary Session |
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| Conference |
| Cyberdemocracy |
Pierre
Lévy, Professor, Dept. des
Sciences du Loisir et de la Communication Sociale, Université
du Quebéc à Troi-Rivières, Canada |
10:00am - 12:00pm Panel 1
Knowledge society and health equity |
Modern
Societies as Knowledge Societies: The Implications for Health
and Health Care
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Nico
Stehr, Professor,
Hanse-Center for Advanced Study, Germany |
Health
equity: what is it? why study it?
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Paula
Braveman,
Professor, Family and Community Medicine, University of
California, USA |
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Equity,
Health and Human development: the contribution of the Virtual
Health Library
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Juan
Antonio Casas,
Director, HDP/PAHO
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2:00pm - 5:00pm Panel 2
Knowledge management in different instances of the society
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The
promise and pitfalls of Internet health: can we and should we
close the digital divide?
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David
Gustafson,
Chair of The Science Panel on Interactive Communication and
Health, Professor of Industrial Engineering and Preventive
Medicine University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA |
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Health codes
of ethics: compliance in the real world
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John
Mack,
President Internet Healthcare Coalition, USA |
Consumer
health informatics: new paradigm in health sciences
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Gunther
Eysenbach,
Professor, Department of Clinical Social Medicine, University
of Heidelberg, Germany |
The
ethical challenge of information and knowledge management in
health
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Fernando
Lolas Stepke,
Director, Regional Program on Bioethics, PAHO, Chile |
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April 26th
- Thursday
09:00am Second Plenary Session |
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09:00am - 12:00pm Panel 3
Information, knowledge and health decision-making |
| Is
scientific knowledge useful for decision making? Public health
between research and action |
Gérard
de Pouvourville, Member, Centre
de Recherche d'Etude et Documentation en Economie de la Santé |
The Cochrane
Collaboration: improving clinical and sanitary decisions
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Xavier
Bonfill, Director, Centro Cochrane
Iberoamericano, Spain
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Knowledge
management in health systems: the experience in Cuba
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José
B. Jardines Méndez, President
Universidad Virtual de la Salud en Cuba, Chief Cátedra de
NTIC en Salud, Cuba |
...
the end of privileged knowledge?
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Barend
Mons,
Secretary, SHARED-NWO, Netherlands |
2:00pm - 5:00pm Panel 4
Scientific knowledge production and communication |
Textual
Information Clustering and visualization for Knowledge
Discovery and Management
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Xavier
Polanco, URI/INIST Centre National de la
Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France
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| How
freeing the refereed literature online will accelerate the
growth of knowledge |
Stevan
Harnad,
Proessor of Cognitive Science, Department of Electronics and
Computer Science, University of Southampton, United Kingdom |
| The
importance of journals to the scientific endeavor |
Carol
Tenopir, Professor, School of
Information Sciences, University of Tennessee, USA |
www.scielo.org:
lessons and challenges in publishing online Latin American and
Caribbean scientific publications
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Abel
L. Packer,
Director, BIREME/PAHO
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April 27th -
Friday
09:00am Third Plenary Session
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09:00am - 12:00pm
Panel 5
Building capacity in health |
| Leveling
the playing field: using the Internet and other information
technology to ensure equitable access to knowledge |
Alejandro
R. Jadad,
Director, Program in eHealth Innovation, University Health
Network, Faculty of Medicine and Rose Family Chair in
Supportive Care, University of Toronto, Canada |
Global
teaching without distance education: the Supercourse
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Ronald
E. Laporte, Director,
Disease monitoring and telecommunications, Professor of
Epydemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of
Pittsburg, USA |
Time
to upgrade the people: leadership in hybrid libraries
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Tony
McSéan, Director British Medical
Association Library, United Kingdom |
Change
is not made without inconvenience: becoming a knowledge
manager
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Lois
Ann Colaianni,
Former Director for Library Operations National Library of
Medicine, USA |
1:30pm - 4:00pm Panel 6
Information technologies and knowledge management |
Information
filtering and information brokering: revisiting the role of
the librarian
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Derek
Law,
Director of Information Strategy & Librarian University of
Strathclyde, United Kingdom |
From
health professionals to health consumers: new oportunities for
the Medical Library Network
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Becky
Lyon, Deputy Associate Director for
Library Operations, National Library of Medicine, USA |
Linking
public health and personal health information: a vision of
regional health information technology architectures
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Patricia
Flatley Brennan,
Moehlman Bascom Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
President of the American Medical Informatics Association, USA
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XML
and its family of standards - how to apply Web technology
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Bert
Bos,
User Interface Group, W3C, France |
| 4:00pm - 5:00pm Closure ceremony |
Jeremias Hernández Ojito, Director, CNICM, Ministerio de Salud Pública de Cuba
Antonio Casas, Director, HDP/PAHO
Abel Packer, Director, BIREME/PAHO
The Virtual Health Library improving the health knowledge base in Latin America and the Caribbean
Declaration of La Habana
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