Approaches to Universal Health Coverage and Occupational Health and Safety for the Informal Workforce in Developing Countries Workshop Summary (2016) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix B: Speaker Biographical Sketches
Appendix B: Speaker Biographical Sketches
Pages 107-122
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The award provided an opportunity to pilot ideas about the regulation of workplace health and safety in informal workplaces which were developed through the OHS Project and involved collaborations between informal worker organizations, local government institutions, urban planners, and health professionals. The project ran from January to December 2014 in the Warwick Junction informal trading area, which is in Durban, South Africa.
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Berman was a professor of the practice of population and international health economics, the founding director of the International Health Systems Program, and a principal investigator for two global projects at Harvard, the Data for Decision Making Project and the Partnerships for Health Reform. He also led a multiyear study to develop national health accounts with the Government of Turkey and numerous other international research collaborations.
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from Harvard University in history and science and a master's from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Martha Chen, Ph.D., is a lecturer in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and the international coordinator of the global research and policy action network Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Orga
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Somsak Chunharas, M.D., M.P.H., is the secretary general of the National Health Foundation, a Thai nongovernmental organization, working on knowledge-based health policy and system development. He is a medical doctor in preventive medicine with a master's degree in public health, and he has also received training in medical education and health financing.
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In addition, she is currently serving her second term as president of the Indonesian Public Health Union and as vice president of the Indonesian Professional Occupational Health Management Union. Besides her academic activities from 2006 to present, she has also been assigned as the main occupational health consultant for informal sectors with the Indonesian Ministry of Health.
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For 4 years he was director of international programs at the Association of University Programs in Health Administration, where he led a project to develop metrics to assess health program management in developing countries. Earlier he was a policy research specialist focusing on management information systems in U.S.
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She is board certified in pediatrics and licensed in New York State, with more than 20 years of experience in health care. Her broad experience provides a 360-degree view of medical care, total health management, strategic health care planning, and global health options.
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global action on workers' health and leads current projects on linking occupational health to primary health care, on the diagnosis of occupational diseases, and on addressing occupational risks for noncommunicable diseases, including cancer and chronic respiratory diseases. He carried out research on the delivery of essential interventions for workers' health at the primary care level in six countries and completed a global survey on country actions for workers' health.
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; the U.S. commitment to global health; sustainable surveillance for zoonotic infections; substandard, falsified, and counterfeit drugs; innovations in health professional education; cardiovascular disease prevention in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs)
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He served in the South African Department of Defense during the integration of the armed forces; was the deputy director-general and head of health, welfare, and environment in the Northern Cape province during the first term of the democratic government; and was the dean of the Nelson Mandela School of Medicine in Durban. He is the executive director of the Institute for Occupational Health and the National Cancer Registry as well as compensation commissioner for occupational diseases covering compensation for occupational diseases in the mines and works sector in South Africa, and he reports to the Minister of Health.
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She is engaged locally and globally in research and policy advocacy about informal workers, especially regarding local government intervention, and about the provision of social security, and occupational health and safety. An emerging research interest is occupational health and safety for informal workers.
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Holding several diplomas in social security, occupational epidemiology, distance education, and labor medicine and rehabilitation, she was awarded a research policy fellowship at the McGill University Institute of Health and Social Policy. During the past 24 years, her work has focused on formulating and assessing occupational health and workers' compensation systems, policies, and programs; supporting the development of worker's health promotion; and studying different working conditions in Colombia and other Latin American countries (heavy metals, violence at work, occupational cancer, respiratory diseases, ethics in occupational health practice, rural workers, and gender mainstreaming)
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From 2006 to 2010 she was the co-chair of the Knowledge Network on Employment Conditions and Health Inequalities (EMCONET) , a component of the World Health Organization's Commission on Social Determinants of Health, and she is responsible for the Case Brazil, Occupational Health Safety for Informal Workers, Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing.
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At present, she is a director of HomeNet Thailand, which is responsible for promoting and advocating for social protection policies and legislation covering informal workers in Thailand. HomeNet Thailand has continuously advocated for informal workers, universal health care coverage, social insurance, occupational health, safety and working environment, elderly pension, and child support allowance.
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She has served as a medical officer at several medical facilities, including the hospital of UOEH and the Japan Overseas Health Administration Center. As a certified occupational physician, she offered occupational safety and health services to both workers and employers in various settings.
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122 UHC AND OHS FOR INFORMAL WORKFORCE national and international agencies to strengthen the body of knowledge on occupational and environmental health. Her current projects focus on the development of occupational health services provided by hospitals and primary care units and the development of occupational services for health workers.
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