Program

Wednesday, 7th November 2018

12:30     Reception & buffet lunch

13:30     Opening

• Ursula Zybach, President Public Health Schweiz, member of the Great Council of Canton Bern
  

• Dominique Sprumont, Vice Director Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+) and Deputy Director of the Institute for Health Law, University of Neuchâtel

14:00     Nothing is as practical as a good theory

• The health gap: the challenge of an unequal world - Sir Michael Marmot, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London

• Die Wichtigkeit der Nachhaltigkeit für die Gesundheitsförderung in der Schweiz - Andrea Arz de Falco, Vice Director State Secretariat for Public Helath, Bern
  

• Making healthy options easier options - L. Suzanne Suggs, Professor of Social Marketing, Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano

15:15     Break

15:45     Parallel sessions

17:15     Welcome words

• Laurent Kurth, State Councilor and Chief of the Finance and Health Departement, Neuchâtel

17:30     SSPH+ ScienceFlashTalk: A public health science competition of innovative digital natives

18:15  Aperitif, Opening through
           Anne-François Loup, Comunal Concilor, City of Neuchâtel

20:00  Evening programme - Hotel Alpes et Lac, Neuchâtel
           Menu

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Thursday, 8th November 2018

​08:00     Reception

​08:45     Welcome words

• ​Kilian Stoffel, Rector University of Neuchâtel
  
• Scott Burris, Professor of Law at Temple Law School and Temple’s School of Public Health, Philadelphia USA

​09:15     Advocacy & Governance

• ​Gesundheitspolitik. Wer gewinnt: wissenschaftliche Evidenz oder mächtige Interessengruppen? - Thomas Zeltner, Special Ambassador of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Geneva (2012 - 2014)

• Lobbys et politique de la santé en Suisse: l’exemple du tabac - Rebecca Ruiz, National Counsilor, member of the Social Security and Health Committees SSHC, Lausanne

​10:00     Parallel sessions 

10:00     Round table: Advocacy & Governance (to exemplify tobacco)   

• Thomas Zeltner, Special Ambassador of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Geneva
  

• Alexia Fournier Fall, Coordinator of the Commission for Prevention and Health Promotion of GRSP, Lausanne​
  

• Andreas Balthasar, Professor of Political Sciences, University of Lucerne

• Dominique de Buman, President of the National Council, Fribourg

• Dominique Sprumont, Vice Director Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+) and Deputy Directeur of the Institute for Health Law, University of Neuchâtel

• ANIMATION: Isabelle Moncada, Journalist, 36.9, Radio Télévision Suisse RTS

​11:15     Break

​11:45     What's the key to success?

• La stratégie de promotion de la santé en Suisse latine - Claude-François Robert, Cantonal doctor, Neuchâtel

• Promouvoir la santé mentale nous concerne tous - Alexia Fournier Fall, Coordinator of the Commission for Prevention and Health Promotion of GRSP, Lausanne​

12:25     Final remarks

• Corina Wirth, Director Public Health Schweiz, Bern

• ​Nino Künzli, Director Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+) et Deputy Director of the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (SwissTPH), Basel

​12:45     End of the conference & buffet lunch

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