MedicsVoices

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MedicsVoices is an international multimedia platform where we interview key opinion leaders in health and medicine around the world. The aim is to create dialogue, discussion, and debate with particular insight into issues of interest to all those involved in health care from the individual patient consultation to global health

  1. 18 jun

    Airton Stein | Improving Health Quality

    Professor Dr Airton Stein has dedicated more than two decades to advancing evidence-based guidelines and improving health quality on a global scale. Airton Tetelbom Stein Graduated in Medicine at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (1981), Family Physician at Rio Grande do Sul Health Secretariat, Master Medical Sciences, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (1989), Master’s degree in Community Health For Developing Countries – London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (1990) and Doctorate in Medical Sciences, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (1998). Associate editor of the Brazilian Journal of Epidemiology and the Scientific Journal of the Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre - Clinical Biomedical. Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Scientific Reports, from the Nature group. He was Head of the Department of Public Health and Full Professor of Public Health at the Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre until January 2025, when he retired. He was Provost of Research and Graduation courses and Head of the Department of Public Health and Full Professor of Public Health at the Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre until January 2025, when he retired. He was a professor in the Professional Master’s Program in Health Technology Assessment at the Conceição Hospital Group and in the Postgraduate Courses in Health Sciences at UFCSPA. He is still working as a tutor in Information Technology and Management at UFCSPA. He has greatly contributed to teaching and implementing guideline concepts in South America.In recognition of his continued dedication to the guideline community, Airton was awarded an Honorary FGIN in 2024.

    Airton Stein | Improving Health Quality
  2. 3 mei

    Bob Woollard | Social Accountability

    Robert F Woollard is Emeritus Professor of Family Practice at the University of British Columbia. He has extensive national and international experience in the fields of medical education, social accountability of medical schools, ecosystem approaches to health, and sustainable development. In this he has or is holding leadership roles in the CFPC, CMA, AFMC, AMEE, and The Network TUFH. He is actively involved in Nepal with a national medical school, school of public health and a nursing school founded on the principles of social accountability established through his initial feasibility study. He Chairs the International Advisory Board (IAB) for the newly established University of Nepal (Dec. 2024) a new public liberal arts university. His work in East Africa and Asia is centered on matters of social accountability, primary care, rural health and accreditation systems. Dr. Woollard co-chairs the Global Consensus on Social Accountability for Medical Schools (GCSA) and does extensive work in this area with many international bodies. He was a lead organizer for the World Summit on Social Accountability that led to the Tunis Declaration  and recently chaired the Scientific Committee for TUFH2022 the annual conference  of this network devoted to social justice and health, leading to the declaration https://thenetworktufh.org/tufh-2022- declaration/ He has engaged in a range of grant supported work including the establishment of CoPEH-Canada and the five year ECHO project on watershed scale integration of environmental, community and health. As an Associate Director of the Rural Coordination Centre of BC (RCCbc) he provided central leadership in the development of a Canadian national strategy for addressing educational and service needs for surgical and obstetrical services in rural Canada in particular Aboriginal service access for birthing. And, has worked in many areas to reduce racism in BC’s health system. Above all he is a husband, father, and grandfather.

    Bob Woollard | Social Accountability

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MedicsVoices is an international multimedia platform where we interview key opinion leaders in health and medicine around the world. The aim is to create dialogue, discussion, and debate with particular insight into issues of interest to all those involved in health care from the individual patient consultation to global health

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