Opening Ceremony

Keynote Speech 1

"Global Efforts on DRR through ISDR System(TBC)"

Moderator:

Dr. Hiroko Minami
President, University of Kochi, Japan

Speaker:

Ms. Margareta Wahlström
United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR)
Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction(TBC)

Relay Presentation 1

Moderator:

Dr. Il Young Yoo
Yonsei University, Korea

Speaker:

"Current Health Issues Facing by Nurses and Midwives in the WPR"

Dr. Kathleen Fritsch

Regional Adviser in Nursing, WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific (WPRO)

"Current Health Issues Facing by Nurses and Midwives in the SEARO"

Dr. Prakin Suchaxaya

Regional Adviser for Nursing and Midwifery, WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia (SEARO)

"WHO Collaborating Centre for Nursing & Midwifery, and Global Network of WHOCCs:, vision, mission, challenges and strengths."

Dr. Isabel, Amélia Costa Mendes

Secretary General, Global Network of WHOCC for Nursing and Midwifery

"Competing ethical obligation in disaster nursing"

Dr. Samantha Pang

Director of WHOCC for Community Health Services, Head of School of Nursing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Relay Presentation 2

"Topic related to the Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster"

Moderator:

Dr. Noriko Katada

Chair of Disaster Committee of Japan Association of Nursing Programs in University, Dean of College of Nursing Art & Science, University of Hyogo, Japan

Speaker:

Dr. Toshiko Yoshida

Dean of School of Nursing, Miyagi University, Japan

Ms. Yoshiko S.Leibowitz

President of Aomori Health University, Japan

Dr. Aiko Yamamoto

Executive Director of Research Institute of Nursing Care for People and Community (WHOCC), University of Hyogo, Japan

Relay Presentation 3

Moderator:

Dr. Kim Usher

Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Nursing and Midwifery Education and Research Capacity Building

Speaker:

"Urbanization, Climate Change and Disasters"

Dr. Arturo Pesigan

WHO Kobe Centre, Japan

"2012 World Health Day Campaign on Ageing and Health: Good Health Adds Life to Years"

Dr. Megumi Kano

WHO Kobe Centre, Japan

Keynote Speech 2

"Transforming Nursing Education: Implications of the Carnegie National Nursing Education Study (USA)"

Moderator:

Dr. Silvia Helena De Bortoli Cassiani

Vice-Director, WHOCC for Nursing Research Development, Brazil

Speaker:

Dr. Patricia E. Benner
Professor Emerita in the School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, USA