• Linking health, equity and sustainability while building capacity for change
  (May 18, 9:00-Washington, 15:00-Geneva, 21:00-Singapore time) (~60 minutes)
  (Note: This session has been recorded and can be viewed at this link.)
  
  Blake Poland, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
  This session will introduce all of the key concepts of the symposium, showing why these three aspects of human and sustainable development need to be addressed in a coherent way. The complexities of ecological and systems-based approaches to settings such as schools will also be discussed in order to show how specific programs and practical actions are more powerful when they are situated within long-term plans based on deep understandings about the local situations and forces blocking progress.
  
  

• Health & Equity: A context for more equity: Low income communities
  (May 27. 9:00-Washington, 15:00-Geneva, 21:00-Singapore time) (~60 minutes)
  
  Charles Basch, Richard March Hoe Professor of Health & Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, USA
  The WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health has identified the need for the health and other sectors to address poverty and disadvantage. A WHO Technical Committee meeting in 2007 called for action to address disadvantage in several contexts, including low income countries, aboriginal communities, communities disrupted by war and low income communities in high and middle income countries. This webinar will examine an agenda of issues and relevant programs for low income countries in these more affluent countries. (Note: There is similar work undertaken by indigenous nations on school health programs that will be discussed at the Geneva symposium.)
  
  (Note: This session has been recorded and can be viewed at this link. The slides from the presentation are also available as a separate file in the ISHN collection on www.slideshare.net.)
  
  
• Human Health and Environmental Sustainability: UNESCO Efforts
  (June 3, 11:00-Washington, 17:00-Geneva, 23:00-Singapore time) (~60 minutes)
  
  Bernard Combes, UN Education for Sustainable Development Program, UNESCO

The United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014), for which UNESCO is the lead agency, seeks to integrate the principles, values, and practices of sustainable development into all aspects of education and learning, in order to address the social, economic, cultural and environmental problems we face in the 21st century. This webinar will describe the activities of the UNESCO Associated Schools program. In particular, the webinar will focus on UNESCO's 2009 Collection of Best Practices in Education for Sustainable Development and the similar 2009 UNESCO advice for policy-makers on education for sustainable development.

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• Linking Sustainability & Health: Some Selected Innovative Programs
  (June 10, 9:00-Washington, 15:00-Geneva, 21:00-Singapore Time) (~60 minutes)
  
  Daniel Fisher, UNESCO Chair Environmental Sustainability, Leuphana University of Lueneburg, Germany
  
  This session will highlight specific programs, policies and practices that have simultaneous impacts on human health and environmental sustainability. The focus will be on the nature of the program, how it developed and how partnerships were established with the different advocates and sectors promoting health, economic development, environmental sustainability and other aspects of human development.
  
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• Reducing Disparities, Promoting Health: Initiatives in the United States and Canada
  (Day TBD, 9:00-Washington, 15:00-Geneva, 21:00-Singapore Time) (~60 minutes)
  

Speakers to be confirmed

This webinar will highlight US plans for “Full Service Community Schools” and Canadian provincial plans for integrating “healthy schools”, “schools plus” and other similar strategies. The discussion will include school level models but also discuss how states/provinces and federal agencies are and can re-organize and focus their efforts to support local schools and their communities.