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April 8-9, 2010
United Nations Headquarters
New York City
Program Information:
Today, lack of access to safe water and adequate sanitation is one of the most important threats to human well-being throughout the world. Water-related diseases are a major contributor to the global burden of illness. No other single intervention is more likely to have a significant impact on global health than the provision of safe water. This timely conference at the United Nations seeks to show how to fully integrate safe water in countries' disease reduction strategies --- a pre-requisite to achieving the Millennium Development Goals. The conference also seeks to provide the basis for preventive action by leaders of governments, international organizations, and private sector, managing critical water resources and services for public health.
"Almost fifty per cent of the developing world's population ?2.5 billion people ?lack
improved sanitation facilities, and over 884 million people still use unsafe drinking
water sources. Inadequate access to safe water and sanitation services, coupled with
poor hygiene practices, kills and sickens thousands of children every day, and leads
to impoverishment and diminished opportunities for thousands more."
?UNICEF Website
"Diseases spread by unsafe water cause 3 million deaths a year. Young children are the
most likely to suffer and die from these diseases. Diarrhea, primarily a disease of dirty
water, is the biggest killer of children under five in poor countries, resulting in nearly
4,000 preventable deaths each day, 1.8 million per year. At any given time, almost half
of all people living in developing countries are suffering from a health problem caused
by lack of safe water and sanitation that undermines their ability to study or work. Every
year, children miss more than 443 million school days because of water-related illnesses."
?Partners in Health Website
:: SPEAKER BIOS ::
Sponsored by:
The Permanent Mission of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia to the United Nations
The City of Ankara, Republic of Turkey
April 8-9, 2010
United Nations Headquarters
New York City
Conference Room 2
| Thursday, April 8, 2010 |
| 9:00 AM |
Registration |
| 10:00-11:00 |
Conference Opening / Music
Presided by H.E. Amb. Waheed Waheedullah, Deputy Chairman, Executive Board
The World Water Organization
| WWO Welcome: |
Dr. Harold H. S. Oh
Chairman, Executive Board, The World Water Organization |
| Mission Address: |
Mr. Reta Alemu Nega
Charge d' affairs ad Interim,
The Permanent Mission of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia |
| Key Note Address: |
H. E. Amb. Cheick Sidi Diarra
United Nations Under Secretary General
and High Representative to the Secretary General
for the Least Developed Countries, Small Island Developing Countries
and Land-Locked Developing States
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| 11:00-11:15 |
Break |
| 11:15-1:00 |
Session 1: Water and Global Health Crisis
Presided by Dr. Elaine Valdov, Executive Director, The World Water Organization
Speakers:
Dr. Nichil Chandavarkar
Director, UN Water
Dr. Kellogg Schwab
Director, Center for Water and Health, Johns Hopkins University
Dr. Mike Magee
President, Healthy-Waters
Question and Answer Session
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| 1:00-3:00 |
Lunch |
| 3:00-4:20 |
Session 2: Water and Health in Developing Countries
Presided by Dr. Andrew Yager Officer in Charge, Water, Energy, and Strategies
Department of Sustainable Development, The United Nations
Member, Executive Board, The World Water Organization
Speakers:
Prof. Paul Sherlock
Sr. Humanitarian Rep., Oxfam GB
Former Sr.Advisor, Emergencies and IASC Global WASH Lead / UNICEF
Member, High Level Expert Panel on Water and Disasters
(Part of UN Secretary General’s Advisory Board on Water)
Mr. Ron Clemmerl
Director, World Vision U.S. WASH Program
WV International Global Water Initiative
Ms. Donna Barry
Director, Advocacy and Policy,
Partners in Health
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| 4:20-4:30 |
Break |
| 4:30-6:00 |
Session 3: Global Action in Water and Health
Presided by Ms. Shamina de Gonzaga, Director,
World Council of Peoples for the United Nations / Former Special Adviser on NGO Relations,
Office of the President of the General Assembly
Speakers:
Dr. Babar Kibir
Director, BRAC Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Programme (WASH)
and BRAC Disaster, Environment and Climate Change Programme (DECC)
Mr. Peter Karlen
Vice President, Earth Water Global
Dr. Paul Mankiewicz
Director, The Gaia Institute
Question and Answer Session
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| 4:30-6:00 |
Session 3: Global Action in Water and Health
Presided by Ms. Shamina de Gonzaga, ODirector, World Council of Peoples for the United Nations / Former Special Adviser on NGO Relations, Office of the President of the General Assembly
Speakersl:
Dr. Babar Kibir
Director, BRAC Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Programme (WASH) and BRAC Disaster,
Environment and Climate Change Programme (DECC)
Mr. Peter Karlen
Vice President, Earth Water Global
Dr. Paul Mankiewicz
Director, The Gaia Institute
Question and Answer Session
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RECEPTION
6:30-8:30 PM
Thursday, April 8, 2010
United Nations Delegates Dining Room
Hosted by:
H. E. Amb. Waheed Waheedullah, Deputy Chairman, Executive Board
The World Water Organization
WORLD WATER AWARD CEREMONY
Presided by Dr. Elaine Valdov, Executive Director, The World Water Organization
Dr. Harold H. S. Oh, Chairman, Executive Board, The World Water Organization
Music by AMS Quartet
Sponsored by The City of Ankara, Republic of Turkey
| Friday, April 9, 2010 |
| 9:30-11:00 |
Session 4: Water and Health in Disasters and Conflicts
Presided by Mr. George Assad, Managing Director, TSUNAMI Hospital Foundation
Speakers:
Ms. Theresa Bischoff
Director, American Red Cross of Greater New York
Dr. Patricia Meinhardt
Director, Center of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Arnot Health
Ms. Judith Kimerling, Esq.
Professor, Law and Political Science, City University of New York
Question and Answer Session
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| 11:00-11:10 |
Break |
| 11:10-11: 30 |
Special Session
Presided by H. E. Amb. Waheed Waheedullah,
Deputy Chairman, Executive Board
The World Water Organization
Special Address: Effective Governance and Capacity Building for Safe Water
Governor Christine Todd Whitman
Former Governor of New Jersey / Former Administrator,
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency / President,
The Whitman Strategy Group / Chair, Water Policy Institute
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| 11:30-1:00 |
Session 5: Capacity Building
Presided by Dr. Mostafa Analoui, Head of Healthcare and Life Science Division,
The Livingston Group / Adjunct Professor of Oral Medicine, Pathology and Radiology Indiana University School of Medicine
Speakers:
Mr. Kurt Soderlund
President, Safe Water Network
Dr. Sharon Nunes
Vice President, Big Green Innovations, IBM
Mr. Charles Gordon
President - CEO, Siemens Water Technologies Corp.
Question and Answer Session
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| 1:00-3:00 |
Lunch
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| 3:00-4:30 |
Session 6: Going Forward
Presided by Dr. Mourad Belguedj, Senior Energy Advisor, The World Bank
Deputy Chairman, Executive Board, The World Water Organization
Speakers:
Dr. Rita Colwell
Professor, University of Maryland / Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Winner, 2010 Stockholm Water Prize
Dr. Evan Thomas
NASA Aerospace Engineer
Executive Vice President, Manna Energy
Dr. Dickson D. Despommier
Professor, Infectious Disease Ecologist, Environmental Health Sciences
and Microbiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
Question and Answer Session
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| 4:30-4:45 |
Break |
| 4:45-6:00 |
Conference Closing
Presided by: Dr. Elaine Valdov, Executive Director, The World Water Organization
| Closing Address: |
Dr. Sonia Erlich Sachs
Senior Health Scientist, The Earth Institute, Columbia University
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Film Screening Running Dry: Beyond the Brink, directed and produced by Mr. Jim Thebaut |
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