PCF5:Health: Cross Border develpment of resources for public awareness of health issues

SESSION RAPPORTEURS’ REPORT¹

THEME: Health

TITLE OF SESSION: Cross Border Development of Resurces for public awareness of health issues

DATE: 17 july TIME: 2pm ROOM:Nunn

PAPERS PRESENTED TITLE OF THE PAPER (AND CODE NUMBER FROM PROGRAMME): MAIN AUTHOR 1. 253

Anderson ABSENT 2. 521

Bartley 3. 689

Martini 4. 588

Miner

KEY ISSUES THAT AROSE IN THE SESSION TO BE TAKEN FORWARD TO THEME AND PRESIDENT REPORTS AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO THE CORE THEME OF ACCESS TO LEARNING FOR DEVELOPMENT: These applied generically to all the papers

General- Value of IT systems across national borders/ divide to -create material -Involve several national and transnational collaborators within and across disciplines - enable other countries to benefit from material BUT -potential for feed back from economic south to north and interaction needs to be fully exploited - continuity of contact and interaction after the end of a ‘project’ period needs to be maintained for all to benefit fully

POINTS FOR FUTURE ACTION (POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS, COMMITMENTS)

Arising generically

1.	Foster cross border collaboration 2.	Build south north feedback into projectcs 3.	Build systems for continuity into projects