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Agenda
| November
30 Tuesday |
Opening
session
George A. O. Alleyne, Director PAHO
Mirta Roses, Assistant Director PAHO
Juan Antonio Casas, Director HDP/PAHO
Abel Laerte Packer, Director BIREME/PAHO |
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Key Conference
The VHL and the democratization
of knowledge and health information
Alberto Pellegrini Filho, Coordinator HDR/HDP/PAHO
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| Coffee
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Plenary Session 1
Coordinator: Juan Antonio Casas, Director HDP/PAHO
Secretary: Stella Launy, Uruguay |
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The VHL in perspective
Abel Laerte Packer, Director BIREME/PAHO |
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Model of the VHL site
Julio Takayama and Silvia de Medeiros Cabral, BIREME/PAHO |
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Announcement of CRICS
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Jeremias Hernández Ojito, Cuba |
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Invitation to the 8 ICML: Converge
on London
Tony McSean, British Medical Association, Chair, 8 ICML Organizing
Committee |
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| Lunch |
Plenary Session 2
Coordinator: Abel Laerte Packer, Director BIREME/PAHO
Secretary: Virginia Siles, Costa Rica |
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Cooperative services of the VHL: SCAD,
Portal and Consortia
Carmen Veronica Abdala, BIREME/PAHO |
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Scientific literature in the VHL: LILACS
System
Regina C. Figueiredo Castro, BIREME/PAHO |
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The VHL integrating components: DeCS
and LIS
Elenice de Castro, BIREME/PAHO |
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| Coffee
break |
Plenary Session 3
Coordinator: Virgilio Bosch, Venezuela
Secretary: Salvador Octavio Montes, El Salvador |
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The SciELO Model
Mariana Rocha Biojone, BIREME/PAHO |
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Epidemiological Bulletin / Boletin
Epidemiologico (Colombia)
Carlos Hernández, Instituto Nacional de Salud / MS, Colombia |
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Model for the evaluation of scientific
journals
Gladys Faba de Beaumont, CCN, México |
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| December
01 Wednesday |
Plenary Session 4
Coordinator: Juan Antonio Casas, Director HDP/PAHO
Secretary: Gladys Faba de Beaumont, Mexico |
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VHL
- Health Legislation
Marcelo D'Agostino, INPPAZ/PAHO, Argentina and Ana
Lucia Ruggiero, HDP/PAHO |
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VHL- Food and Nutrition Surveillance
Juan Carlos Cabrera, INCAP/PAHO, Guatemala
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VHL
- Disasters
Ricardo Perez, PED/PAHO |
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VHL -
Toxicology
Diego Gonzalez, CEPIS/PAHO, Peru |
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VHL - Environmental Health
Martha Bryce, CEPIS/PAHO, Peru
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| VHL - Adolec: Regional, Brazil and
Mexico |
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| Katherine Weaver y Silvia Singleton, HPP/HPF/PAHO |
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| José Domingues Junior, Ministério
da Saúde |
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| Miriam Piazza, BIREME/PAHO, ADOLEC
Brazil |
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| Alfredo Hidalgo, IMSS, ADOLEC Mexico |
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| Coffee
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Inauguration of SciELO - Public Health
President: George A. O. Alleyne, Director PAHO
Coordinator: Juan Antonio Casas, Director HDP/PAHO
Secretary: Mariana Rocha Biojone, BIREME/PAHO
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The SciELO Public Health
Abel Laerte Packer, Director BIREME/PAHO |
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Presentation of the editors:
Pan American Public Health Journal
María Luisa Clark, HBI/PAHO |
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Revista de Saúde Pública
Moisés Goldbaum, Brazil |
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Cadernos de Saúde Pública
Carlos E. A. Coimbra, Brazil |
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Salud
Pública de México
Carlos Oropeza Abundez, Mexico |
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Revista
Española de Salud Publica
Cristina Perez Andrés, Spain |
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| Lunch |
| Parallel meetings |
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Meeting of the Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences
Information System
Restricted to representatives of National Coordinating Centers
and/or VHL National Committees, PWR Offices Documentation Centers,
PAHO Specialized Centers, PAHO Headquarters Library and PAHO/HQ
Programs
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Meeting of the PWR Offices Documentation
Centers and PAHO
Restricted to PWR Offices Documentation Centers, PAHO Specialized
Centers, PAHO Headquarters Library and PAHO/HQ Programs |
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| Meeting of the Committee for Recommendations
of the I Regional Coordination Meeting of the VHL |
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Exhibition OF VHL products and services
Open to all participants |
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| December
02 - Thursday |
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Conference
Coordinator: Abel Laerte Packer, Director BIREME/PAHO
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Quality of Health Information on the Internet
David Rodbard, American Institutes for Research, USA
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Plenary Session 5: Development of the VHL in the countries
Coordinator: Abel Laerte Packer, Director BIREME/PAHO
Secretary: Marilin Sanches Rada, Bolivia and Tania Ardón,
Guatemala
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VHL
- Costa Rica
Virginia Siles, CCN, Costa Rica |
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VHL
- Cuba
Jeremias Hernández Ojito y Pedro Urra, CCN, Cuba |
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VHL - Argentina
Susana Catalina Ianello, CCN, Argentina
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VHL - Mexico
Gladys Faba de Beaumont, CCN, México |
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| Coffee
break |
VHL
- Venezuela
Virgilio Bosch y Alecia Freitas de Acosta, CCN/SINADIB, Venezuela |
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| Scielo Venezuela |
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VHL - Ecuador
Victoria de Garcia, CCN, Ecuador |
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VHL - Uruguay
Stella Launy, CCN, Uruguay
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VHL
- Bolivia
Marilin Sanches Rada, CCN, Bolivia |
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VHL
- El Salvador
Salvador Octavio Montes, CCN, El Salvador |
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PAHO Headquarters Library and the VHL:
implementing the challenge
Maria Tereza Astrosa, Library, HBI-L/PAHO |
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| Lunch
offered by PAHO/HQ Library |
Plenary Session 6
Coordinator: Abel Laerte Packer, BIREME/PAHO
Secretary: Jeremias Hernández Ojito, Cuba and Aurora
Scavini, Argentina |
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VHL - Guatemala
Tania Ardón, CCN, Guatemala |
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VHL
- Perú
Miguel Saravia Rojas, CCN, Perú |
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VHL
- Jamaica
Laxmi Mansingh, CCN, MEDCARIB, Jamaica |
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VHL - Barbados
Michael Gill, CCN, Barbados |
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VHL - Trinidad y Tobago
Ernesta Greenidge, CCN, Trinidad y Tobago |
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VHL
- Honduras
Orfilia Piriel, CCN, Honduras |
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VHL
- Nicaragua
Susana Quiroz de Morales, Consulting
Committee VHL Nicaragua |
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SciELO
Colombia
Alexander R. Rodriguez, CCN, Colombia |
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VHL - Public Health - Brazil
National Consulting Committee of the VHL - Public Health - Brazil
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| Coffee
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SciELO Chile
Ana Maria Pratt, CONICYT, Chile |
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Perspectives for the development of
the Iberoamerican Health Sciences Information System
Jorge Veiga de Cabo, Biblioteca Nacional de Ciencias de la
Salud, Spain |
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| Discussion of national VHL reports |
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| Celebration
Dinner |

| December
03 - Friday |
Conferences
Coordinator: Alberto Pelegrini Filho, Coordinator, HDR/HDP/PAHO
Secretary: Jocelyn Polanco, República Dominicana and
Carmen Lowenstein, Chile |
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Telemedicine
Daniel Sigulem, CIS/UNIFESP, Brazil |
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Evidence
Based Medicine
Fernando Althabe, CLAP/PAHO, Uruguay |
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The VHL and equity in health
Juan Antonio Casas, Director HDP/PAHO |
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| Coffee
break |
Plenary Session 7
Coordinator: Regina C. Figueiredo Castro, BIREME/PAHO
Secretary: Elenice de Castro, BIREME/PAHO |
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Guidelines
for the implementation of the VHL
Abel Laerte Packer, Director BIREME/PAHO |
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Recommendations
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Closure Session
George A. O. Alleyne, Director PAHO
Mirta Roses, Assistant Director PAHO
Juan Antonio Casas, Director HDP/PAHO
Abel Laerte Packer, Director BIREME/PAHO |
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| Lunch |
| Parallel meetings |
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Visit to
the National Library of Medicine
Open to participants of the Meeting |
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Meeting of the Scientific Technical
Committee of CRICS V
Restricted to members of the Committee |
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