International Society for Social
Pediatrics & Child Health,
2019 Annual Meeting.
Children inArmed Conflict: Rights, Health andWell-being.
American University of Beirut, Lebanon,
Saint Joseph University in Beirut,
25 - 27 de Septiembre.
In
collaboration with
The
American University of Beirut, The Lebanese Pediatric Society, The
International Pediatric Association and The International Society for the
Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, and Saint Joseph University
Open to ALL
professionals committed to the rights, health and well-being of children in
armed conflict
PRE-CONFERENCE: WEDNESDAY ,SEPTEMBER 25TH
Child Protection and
Promotion in Armed Conflicts:
Every child - All
children!
VENUE:ST JOSEPH UNIVERSITY,FACULTY OF MEDICINE
08:30-09:00 Registration
09:00-09:30 Opening Ceremony
Opening Statements
§ The leadership of Saint Joseph University in Beirut in child
protection within emergent conditions. Speaker: Salim Daccache
§ The Faculty of Medicine engagement in the Humanitarian
aspects of the Global Partnership to end Violence against Children Speaker: Roland Tomb
§ The LPS position statement against Violence on uprooted
Children. Speaker: Joseph Haddad
§ The Leadership of ISSOP in Child safeguarding, Speaker: Jeff Goldhagen
§ The LOP position statement against Violence on uprooted
Children, Speaker: Charaf Abou Charaf
09:30-10:15 Plenary
Moderator:
Gaby Fallakha
Rapporteur:
Wassim Bitar
§ ISPCAN and the WHO INSPIRE strategies: The example of Child
Protection Teams (CPT) in Lebanon and
the Arab region within the UN Global Partnership to #EndViolence and the SDGs 3
and 16.2
Speaker: Bernard Gerbaka
§ ISSOP and the Position Statement on Ending Violence against
Children: What can Paediatricians do?
Speaker: Shanti
Raman
10:15-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-12:00 Session 1: Response and Child Protection Teams
Moderator: Pamela
Zgheib
Rapporteur:
Miryan Amm-AbiGhosn
§
From case-management to policies;
Tertiary Prevention, emergent protection and CPT intervention
Speakers: Leila Akoury-Dirani, Serop Ohanian, Sister Antoinette Assaf, and
Robert Sacy
12:00-13:15 Session 2: Strategies of Child Protection
WHO
INSPIRE adapted to children in armed conflict
Moderator: Rita
Karam-Faheb
Rapporteur:
Dalal Mawad
§
WHO
frame for child protection in armed conflicts
Speaker: Alissar
Rady
§ Child Protection in
emergent human settlements
Speaker: UNHCR
§ Woman and Family
Protection
Speaker: Ghida Anani
§ Child and Youth
Protection
Speaker: Amira Sukkar
13:14-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00 Session 3: Skill Building for Health
Professionals
Moderator: Khalil Osta, Khalil
Mhaydli
Rapporteur: Hanane Masri
§ Tools for psychosocial
assessment of children exposed to conflict
Speakers: Saleh Al Salehi and Karen Zwi
§ Early identification
of children with developmental disabilities
Speaker: Joseph Haddad
15:00-16:00 Session 4: Skill Building for Health
Professionals
Moderator: Ahmad Mazraani and Nemr Gharzeddin
Rapporteur: Juliana Souaiby
§ Early identification
of children with developmental disabilities
Speakers: Joseph Haddad
16:00-16:45 Session 5: Afternoon tea and case discussion
Moderator: Shanti Raman
16:45-17:45 Session 6
Moderators: Haytham Serhal, Ali Ghrayyeb
Rapporteur: Zeina Reda
§ Clinical assessment of
gender-based violence and sexual assault using a trauma-focused lens
Speakers: Barbara Rubio and Shanti Raman
17:45-18:00 Closing of Pre-Conference
Speakers: Shanti Raman, David Atallah, and Bernard Gerbaka
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LIVE STREAMING https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDchSdXKyty9eOcdLr6sLCQ/liv
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CONFERENCE DAY 1: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26TH
VENUE:
ISSAM FARES HALL, AUB.
08:00-8:45 REGISTRATION.
08:45-09:30 OPENING REMARKS.
§ Iman Nuwayhid, M.D., Ph.D., Dean of Faculty of Health
Sciences at AUB
§ Miguel Abboud, M.D., Chair of Pediatrics, AUB Medical Center
§ Jeff Goldhagen M.D., MPH, President of ISSOP
09:30-10:30 KEYNOTE ADDRESSES.
Determinants of armed conflict. Can war and its impact on
children be prevented? .
Chair: Tony
Waterston
Speaker: His
Royal Highness Prince El Hassan bin Talal
Protecting
Children in Conflict Zones
Chair: Jean Bowyer
Speaker: Bill Forbes,
Global Sector Lead, Child Protection and Participation
VENUE: ISSAM FARES HALL – UPPER LOBBY.
10:30-11:00 COFFEE BREAK.
VENUE:
ISSAM FARES HALL
THEME 1. Understanding the Effects of Armed Conflict on Children.
11:00-11:15 Introductory Keynote: Joop de Jong
Introduction:
Jeff Goldhagen
11:15-12:30 PLENARY 1 - Physical Health of Children Exposed to Armed Conflict
Chairs: Margaret Lynch & Miguel Abboud
Direct and indirect effects of armed
violence on children
Speaker:
Ayesha
Kadir
Children with chronic and disabling
conditions
Speaker: Nahla
Ghandour
Care of Children with Cancer in
Conflict Zones
Speaker:
Raya Saab
12:30-13:45 PLENARY 2 - Mental Health of Children Exposed to Armed Conflict Chair: Joop
de Jong
Prevalence of mental health problems
in conflict zones
Speakers: Mina
Fazel
Strengthening Mental Health
Systems
Speaker: Rabih El Chammay
•Resistance and Resilience Speaker: Bernard Gerbaka
VENUE:
ISSAM FARES HALL – UPPER LOBBY
13:45-14:45 LUNCH
VENUE:
ISSAM FARES HALL
THEME 2. Child Rights-Based Approach to Ending Violence Against Children
14:45-15:45 PLENARY 3: Child Rights:
Principles, Standards and Norms
Chair: Gonca
Yilmaz
§
Armed Conflict as a Violation of Child Rights
Speaker: Gerison
Lansdown
§ Rights of refugee & unaccompanied
children under the CRC and through the eyes of children(GlobalChild)
Speaker:Ziba Vaghri
15:45 -17:15 PARALLEL SESSIONS
VENUE:
WEST HALL – AUDITORIUM C
1. Humanitarian Responses in Conflict Zones: Médecins Sans Frontiers
Chair: Ayesha Kadir
§ Speakers: Médecins
Sans Frontiers (MSF)
VENUE: WEST HALL –
AUDITORIUM A
2. Psychosocial Assessments: Innovative global tools for health
professionals
§ Chair: Joop De Jong
§ Speakers: Marit
Sijbrandij and Kelly McBride (Save the Children)
VENUE: WEST HALL –
AUDITORIUM B
3.
Engaging the Voice of Children:
Generating Resilience and Resistance
Chairs: Aimee Shalan & Gerison Lansdown
§ Speakers: Youth Peer
Educators for Beit Atfal As Somoudi (MAP
program in Lebanon –Director of Programmes: Dr Ali Dakwar)
VENUE: WEST HALL -BATHISH
TERRACE
17:15-17:30 TEA BREAK
VENUE: WEST HALL – Session
A: Auditorium A, Session B: Auditorium B
WEST HALL – Session C: Bathish Auditorium, Session D: TBD
17:30- 18:45 PARALLEL FREE PAPER SESSIONS (ORAL)
Chairs: Gulbin Gokcay, Yvon Heller, MarieKöhler, Nick Spencer
§ Salman Mroueh (AUBMC): The environment and lung health in
children.
§ Klaudia Cenda
Miedzińska, PH.D. The Impact of the armed conflict on Children’s Safety during and after
the withdrawal of international security in Afghanistan
See Listings of Presentations in Oral Presentation Section
of the Program Booklet
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CONFERENCE DAY 2:
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27TH
VENUE:
WEST HALL – BATHISH AUDITORIUM, AUB
08:00-09:15 KEYNOTE ADDRESSES
§ Personal & Professional Reflections: Living and
Practicing Pediatrics in a Conflict Zone
Chair. Joseph Haddad
Speaker:
Motee Ashhab Palestinian Paediatric Society
§ Reducing the Threat of War
Chair: Tony Waterston
Speakers:
Sam Perlo-Freeman (Campaign Against
Arms Trade - CAAT)
Tilman
Ruff (International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons- ICAN)
THEME 3. Conducting Research in Conflict Zones: Challenges, Methods and Ethics
09:15-09:30 Introductory Keynote: Elif N. Özmert
Introduction:
Barbara Rubio
09:30-11:00: PLENARY
4: Research in Conflict Zones
Chair: Nick Spencer
§
Ethics of research:
Involving youth, families, the community & community researchers. Speaker: Anna
Chiumento
§ Challenges and barriers:
Access/identifying respondents & populations/consent (issues of fear of
speaking out) & safety of researchers
Speaker: Fouad M. Fouad
§
3. TBD
VENUE: WEST HALL –
BATHISH TERRACE
11:00-11:30 COFFEE BREAK
11:30-13:00 PARALLEL SESSIONS
VENUE: WEST HALL –
AUDITORIUM A
Research Methods in Conflict Zones
Chair:
Karen Zwi
§ EASE an RCT in progress funded by War Child
Speaker:May Aoun
§ Multi-Family approach and Education
Speaker: Trudy
Mooren:
VENUE: WEST HALL –
AUDITORIUM B
Pilot Study in Yemen. Save the Children
Chair:
Stella Tsitoura
§ Understanding direct impact and coping mechanisms of
children to inform MHPSS program interventions
Speaker: Kelly
McBride
§ Development and evaluation process of a crisis modifier
framework in southern Yemen
Speaker: Andrew Clark
VENUE: WEST HALL – AUDITORIUM C
Identifying
Torture and Abuse Among Children in Conflict Zones (Part 1)
Chair: Jeff Goldhagen
Speaker: Coleen Kivlahan
VENUE: WEST HALL –
BATHISH AUDITORIUM
Public Health Response in Conflict
Zones
Chairs:
Shanti Raman & Fouad M. Fouad
§
Addressing
Vaccine Hesitancy in conflict zones - IPA Vaccine Trust Project
Speaker: Naveen
Thacker (IPA)
§ Dealing with infectious diseases
epidemics in humanitarian settings
Speaker:
Daniel Martinez (MSF)
Speaker:
Egmond Evers (WHO)
VENUE: WEST HALL –
COMMON ROOM
13:00-14:00 LUNCH
VENUE: WEST HALL – BATHISH
AUDITORIUM
THEME 4. Systems, Education and Advocacy
14:00-14:15 Introductory Keynote: Margaret Lynch
Introduction:
Nick
Spencer
14:15-16:00 PLENARY 5: International Advocacy
Chair: Nick Spencer
§ The role of UN agencies and
NGOs: Panel Discussion
•
MAP: Aimee Shalan
•
MSF: Florencia Romero
•
Save the Children: Kelly McBride/Andrew Clarke
•
World Vision International: Carine Le Borgne/Lyndsay Hockin
•
War Child: May Aoun
•
UNICEF: TBA
•
WHO: TBA
§ The Role of international Pediatric
Organizations. Panel Discussion
• IPA:Naveen Thacker
• AAP: Coleen Kraft
• RCPCH: Russell Viner
• ISSOP: Jeff Goldhagen
• ISPCAN: Bernard Gerbaka
16:00-17:30
PARALLEL Sessions
VENUE: WEST HALL –
AUDITORIUM A
1.
Protecting the most vulnerable
children in Lebanon from Abuse and Exploitation
Chair: Geir
Gunnlaugsonn
Speakers: Sanaa
Maalouf, External Engagement Director, World Vision Internationaland
Local Community Partners
§ Child Protection interventions and psychosocial needs of
children affected by armed conflict in Lebanon
Speaker: Pamela
Daoud
of violence and abuse: learning around case management of
§ Cases of violence and abuse: learning around case management
of abuse cases of children affected by armed conflict
Speaker: Bassima
Roumani from Himaya
§ Role of faith actors in the
protection of children from abuse and exploitation especially children
engaged in armed conflict
Speaker:Sheikh Mohamad Ben Zaid
Speaker:Sheikh Mohamad Ben Zaid
§ Violent child discipline amongst most vulnerable children
and overview of WV's research on the perceptions of parents on VCD.
Speaker: Sanaa Maalouf
Speaker: Sanaa Maalouf
VENUE: WEST HALL –
BATHISH AUDITORIUM
2.
Regional Issues
from a Public Health Perspective:
Chair: Barbara Rubio
§ The Balkans
Experience:
Speaker:Milivoj Jovancovic
§ The Syrian Experience:
§ Syrian Refugee Child Labour amongst Syrian Refugees
Speaker: Rima Habib
§ Refugee research on
the ground: Lessons from AMENAH project
to reduce
early marriage among Syrian adolescent girls in Lebanon
Speaker:Sawsan Abdulrahim
§ Maternal health and prematurity in
conflict settings
Speaker: Khalid Yunis
VENUE: WEST HALL – AUDITORIUM
C
3.
Preparing Pediatricians to Respond
to Humanitarian Emergencies
Chair: Shanti Raman
Speaker: Dr
Saleh al Salahi
VENUE: WEST HALL – AUDITORIUM B
4.
Identifying
Torture and Abuse Among Children in Conflict Zones (Part 2)
Chair: Luis Martin
Speaker: Coleen Kivlahan
VENUE: WEST HALL –
BATHISH TERRACE
17:30-19:00 TEA BREAK + AGM (WEST HALL – AUDITORIUM
A)
19:30 EVENING
– CONFERENCE DINNER
Gefinor
Rotana Hotel
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CONFERENCE DAY 3:SATURDAY,
SEPTEMBER 28TH
VENUE: WEST HALL – BATHISH
AUDITORIUM, AUB
VENUE: WEST HALL –
Session A: Auditorium A, Session B: Auditorium B
WEST HALL – Session C: Bathish
Auditorium
08:00-09:15 PARALLEL FREE PAPER SESSIONS
Chairs: Anna Battersby, Giovanna Armano, Liv Lynga von Folsach
See Listings of Presentations in Oral Presentation Section
of the Program Booklet
VENUE: WEST HALL – BATHISH AUDITORIUM
09:15-10:15 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
The
mental health of children affected by arm conflict:Perspectives from a 15- year
intergenerational study of war
Chair: Joop
de Jong
Speaker: Theresa Betancourt
VENUE: WEST HALL – BATHISH TERRACE
10:15-10:35 COFFEE BREAK
VENUE: WEST HALL – BATHISH AUDITORIUM
THEME 5. Engaging Pediatricians in the Global Response to the Impact of Violence and Armed Conflict on Children
10:35-13:00 PLENARY 6
Chair: Jeff Goldhagen
Strategic
Planning Panel Discussion
WHO,
UNICEF,IPA,ISPCAN,UNRWA, MSF,World Vision, Save the Children, War Child, AAP, MAP
13:00-13:30 CLOSING REMARKS
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Preconference (Sept.25) and Conference (Sept. 26-28)
Live Streaming at aub.edu.lb/live.
Dear
friends and colleagues. The ISSOP annual
meeting is rapidly approaching. There is
still time to register and come! Hope to see you there.
The link for registration is: https://partnershipforchildhealth.org/issop-registration/
For
those who will not be able to make it, the entire main conference will be live
streamed. Please share with your
network of colleagues. The Program is
attached.
The link for
the streaming is: aub.edu.lb/live.
As
you can see from the Program, we have engaged an amazing group of presenters,
which reflects the importance of the issues that will be addressed at the
meeting. This is coming at a significant
expense. We would like to ask those of
you who can, to consider making a donation to ISSOP to help us cover some of
these expenses. We have an anonymous
donor who has committed to match your donation.
Your support will contribute much to the success of the meeting and our
work after the conference.
The link for donations is: https://issop.multiregistration.com/donate/step1
While
we are committed to continue our work in the domain of violence against
children, we will be launching a multi-year endeavor related to the impact of
climate change on children. Please
consider joining ISSOP in support of our global agenda to advance the rights of
children.
The link for membership is: https://www.issop.org/membership/
On
behalf of our Scientific Committee that has worked hard to make this meeting the success it will
be, thank-you for your consideration and for all you do for children and
families.
Warm
regards.
Jeff
Goldhagen, MD
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