Inter-American Network of Healthy Habitats

1:30 pm Registration and snacks

1:45 pm Welcome: Jean Wactawski-Wende, Dean, UB School of Public Health and Health Professions

2:00 pm Network Administration Session

3:30 pm coffee/tea

4-5 pm Network Administration Session

8:30 am Inter-American Healthy Habitat Network concerns and Habitat III linkages
Marilyn Fernández, UN Habitat Regional Office for Latin America and the Carribean

9:00 am Multi-national vulnerable neighborhoods project
Henry Louis Taylor, Jr., MA, MS, PhD, Buffalo WHO Collaborating Centre

10:00 am Tea / coffee

10:15 am Technical Symposium, Scientific Session

12:30 pm Lunch

1:30 pm Keynote Address: Tackling health inequalities through action on housing
Dr. Nathalie Roebbel, Technical Officer, Public Health, Environmental and Social Determinants of Health, WHO

2:30 pm Vote of thanks
Robert Shibley, Professor and Dean, School of Architecture and Planning, UB

2:40 pm Tea / coffee

3:00 pm Implementing plans, policies, and designs for healthy housing and habitats
Samina Raja, MPlanning, PhD, Buffalo WHO Collaborating Centre

4:30 pm Reflections and gratitude

5:00 pm Close

Nathalie Röbbel is a Technical Officer in the Department of Public Health, Environmental, and Social Determinants of Health at WHO in Geneva and is currently leading the department's work on housing and health. One of her main areas of work is the development of WHO Housing and Health Guidelines and WHO’s efforts to address slum upgrading through housing policies and other social policies and interventions. Before joining WHO HQ, she worked as a technical officer at the WHO Regional Office for Europe, in Bonn and Copenhagen, where she was responsible for environmental health performance reviews and involved in several housing and health related projects. Ms Röbbel holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Bonn, Germany.