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This Forum offers a unique opportunity to pool ideas and exchange experiences relating to Ecohealth, with a focus on key themes of health and the environment, a participatory program and innovative discussion sessions.

The Forum’s program will feature plenary discussion sessions with a number of outstanding speakers, including Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, Director General of the World Health Organization, Johanne Gélinas, Canada’s Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development, Maureen O’Neil, President of IDRC, the Honourable Gilbert Parent, Canada’s Ambassador for the Environment, the Honourable Ola Ullsten, former Prime Minister of Sweden and Co-Chair of the World Commission on Forests and Sustainable Development, and Dr Richard Massé, President and CEO of the Institut national de santé publique, Quebec.

In addition, a number of experts from the North and the South will also be present, including: Dr. Clifford Mutero, with the CGIAR’s Systemwide Initiative on Malaria and Agriculture (SIMA), Pretoria, South Africa, Dr. Ligia Noronha, Tata Energy Research Institute, Panaji, Goa, India, Prof. Rami Zurayk, American University of Beirut, Lebanon, Prof. Jonathan Patz, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA, Prof. Marc Lucotte, Université du Québec à Montréal, Dr. Rachel Nugent, Fogarty International Center, National Institute of Health, Dr. May Yacoob, United Nations Foundation, Dr. Carlos Santos Burgoa, Ministry of Health, Federal Government of Mexico, Dr. Mario Henry Rodriguez, National Institute of Public Health, Mexico, and others.

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