PHM
Global Steering Group Meeting
The Annual Global Steering
Group meeting of the People’s Health Movement was held in Bangalore from
10th to 13th April 2005, at the St. John’s Institute
for Population Research and the PHM Global Secretariat.
The participants included
representatives of the networks: Maria Hamlin Zuniga (International
People’s Health Council); Prem John (Asian Community Health Action Network
and Health Action International - Asia Pacific); Evelyne Hong (Third World
Network); Sarojini (representing Women’s Global Network for Reproductive
Rights); Zafrullah Chowdhury (Gonoshasthya Kendra); and representatives of
regions – Bridget Lloyd (Southern Africa); Mwajuma Masaiganah (East and
Central Africa); Hani Serag (Middle East); Patricia Morton and Andy
Rutherford (Europe); Sarah Shannon and Lanny Smith (North America); David
Legge (Australia); Edelina de la Paz (South East Asia); Qasem Chowdhury
(ex-coordinator and South Asia); B. Ekbal, Mira Shiva and Abhay Shukla
(India region) and Ravi Narayan (Global Secretariat Coordinator) and
members of the PHM Secretariat Team.
The meeting had a packed
agenda, which included an organizational review including the need for
greater regional coordination; a review of the planning and programme of
the Second People’s Health Assembly at Cuenca – Ecuador in July 2005;
report from all the regions; the International People’s Health University
and its first course at Cuenca in July 2005; PHM participation in the WHO
Commission on Social Determinants; Regional events like the JSA Kolkatta
meeting (April 2005); HAI – AP Penang Asia Social Health Forum in April
2005; PHM at AHED anniversary in Cairo in May 2005; the Call for Women’s
Access to Health Care Campaign in May 2005; a review of some PHM
Communication challenges, including website; a review of PHM / PHA 2
funding strategy and management and many other issues.
The PHM Steering group
also visited the Global Secretariat and Community Health Cell (the host of
the secretariat in India) and also attended a special meeting on the
‘Patents Laws’ on 13th, organized by PHM Karnataka and local
networks.
A more detailed strategic
plan will be featured in the special next issue of the New brief No. 16,
to be released at the Second People’s Health Assembly in Cuenca, Ecuador
in July 2005. It will be entitled ‘From Savar to Cuenca and beyond’.
Please keep track of it !
