Education &Health Education &Health Promotion Bill Brieger | 11 Sep 2024 08:00 am
Health Promotion and Education Alumni Conference 2024, Ibadan
The Health Promotion and Education Alumni Association of the University of Ibadan College of Medicine (HPEAAICM) is hosting its Second Annual General Meeting & Scientific Conference from September 24 to 26, 2024. The association represents graduates of the first African graduate level professional and academic Master of Public Health program, which started at the University of Ibadan in 1975 as the African Regional Health Education Center (ARHEC) within the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine. At the beginning of this century ARHEC became the Department of Health Promotion and Education within the first ever Faculty of Public Health in Nigeria.
The association aims to keep members up to date on new knowledge and practices that have arisen since they obtained their MPH. In addition, the association arranges seminars, conferences, and symposia on issues of public health concerns and provides a link between the health promotion specialists and the public.
The main theme of this year’s Conference is “Artificial Intelligence and Innovations In Public Health Promotion Practice.” Sub-Themes include the following:
Digital Health Technologies: Implication for Health Promotion Strategies in community Engagement.- Artificial Intelligence application in Disease Surveillance, Outbreak, Prediction and prevention
- Use of Artificial Intelligence in addressing Health Equity and Social Determinants of Health
- Enhancing the implementation of Health Promotion Policy through digital Health Technologies
- Health Promotion: A Key Strategy for Reproductive, maternal, Newborn, Child, Adolescent Elderly Health plus Nutrition (RMNCAEH+N) intervention.
- Current trends in the use of health promotion principle for climate change environmental health promotion
- Addressing Global Health challenges of Communicable and Non-communicable diseases through Health Promotion Initiatives.
For more information and inquiries send a mail to: abstract@hpeaaicm.org