South-South Dialogue on Sustainability: Traditional Medicine in the Global South
In order to build a common agenda towards Health For All, to protect Mother Earth and ensure the present and future health and sustainability of our common home, the People's Health Movement (PHM), the Global University for Sustainability, CCRD-CS, Lingnan University from China organized a series of webinars to address the different dimensions of ancestral and popular knowledge for native peoples from around the world, their meaning, scope and implications for the right to health in the world today.
Spanish - English interpretation available
Zoom Registration Link: https://lingnan.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VuNTJ5usRzOgyvT905dtZQ
Webinar 1
Date: 15 November 2024 (Friday)
Time: Mexico: 7-9 am; Colombia: 8-10 am; Bolivia: 9-11 am; Brazil: 10-12 noon; South Africa:
3-5 pm; India: 6:30-8:30 pm; China: 9-11 pm
Speakers
Professor Sit Tsui, Southwest University, China
Cultural Resilience of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Dr Vivian Camacho, People’s Health Movement, Latin America
"Ancestral Wisdom for Health" From Abya Yala
Moderator
Dr. Roman Vega, People's Health Movement Global Coordinator. Colombia
Webinar 2
Date: 16 November 2024 (Saturday)
Time: Mexico: 7-9 am; Colombia: 8-10 am; Bolivia: 9-11 am; Brazil: 10-12 noon; South Africa:
3-5 pm; India: 6:30-8:30 pm; China: 9-11 pm
Speakers
Professor Unnikrishnan Payyappallimana
University of Trans-Disciplinary Health Sciences and Technology, India
Traditional medicine, biodiversity and health, public health, and sustainable development.
Hombakazi Mercy Nqandeka
Stellenbosch University, South Africa
how the suppression law of South
Africa prevented the indigenous healers (Traditional Healers) from practising their vocation and how despite this they were resilient and persisted.
Emeritus Professor Gubela Mji
Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Case study of indigenous healers of kwaBomvane and their struggle to work closer with the local hospitals and clinics.
Dr Rosemary Chimbala-Kalenga
Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa
On the Zambian situation of indigenous healers who never experienced a suppression law in their country
Moderator:
Professor Li Jialin, University of Wisconsin La Crosse, USA
