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Private lives, Public issues
Global perspectives on adolescent sexual health

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Dato' Dr. Narimah Awin

Biosketch:
Dato' Dr. Narimah Awin is currently serving as the Regional Adviser for Making Pregnancy Safer at WHO Regional Office of the Western Pacific Region in Manila, Phillipines. After her graduation from the Assam Medical College, India in 1976, she obtained the Masters in Public Health from the University of Phillipines in 1982. She served in the Ministry of Health Malaysia for almost 30 years and retired from the civil service in 2007 as Director of Family Health Development Division. She was instrumental in planning the National Adolescent Health Policy in Malaysia. She has presented more than 200 papers on various topics in Public Health at seminars, conferences, scientific meetings and conducted research in various aspects of public health. In 2005, she served as consultant to WHO/WPRO in the development of the document "Investing in our Future : A Framework for Accelerating Action for Sexual and Reproductive health of Young People" , a joint project of WHO, UNICEF and UNFPA.

Her special interests includes Family Health, including maternal and child health; and the newer and "expanded" scope of Family Health including women’s health and gender issues; and all aspects of adolescent health especially sexual and reproductive health of adolescents.


Marcus Stahlhofer

Title: "Respecting and protecting the rights of adolescents: a pre-requisite for advancing adolescent health and development"

Biosketch:
Marcus Stahlhofer is Human Rights Adviser for the Department of Child and Adolescent Health (CAH) at the World Health Organization's Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. He coordinates the work of WHO in the area of children's rights, and is responsible for the integration and application of international human rights norms and standards to various aspects of the Organization's work on child and adolescent health. His work ranges from training of WHO staff, Government officials and health professionals to developing and implementing rights-based guidelines lines and tools to strengthen national legal and policy environments to support child and adolescent health policies and programmes. Prior to his post with WHO, Mr Stahlhofer worked as a volunteer and human rights specialist in refugee camps in Croatia during the armed conflict, and worked at UNAIDS as associate human rights adviser. He holds degrees in International Relations and International Human Rights Protection from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and the University of Kent at Canterbury.

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Deadline - 30 March 2009. After the 1991 IAAH international congress held in Montreux, the Swiss Association for Adolescent Health has created a prize which is delivered every four to five years during the IAAH international congresses. The first prize was delivered in 1995 in Vancouver.
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IAAH 2009
Malaysian Paediatric Association
3rd Floor, Annexe Block
National Cancer Society Building
66, Jalan Raja Muda Abdul Aziz
50300 Kuala Lumpur

Telephone: +603-26989966/+603-26915379
Fax: +603-26913446
Email: 2009iaah@gmail.com or musamn@gmail.com
Website: http://mpaweb.org.my

www.iaah2009.com

Shangri-la Hotel
11 Jalan Sultan Ismail,
50250 Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia

Telephone: +603-20322388
Fax: +603-2070 1514
Email: slkl@shangri-la.com
Website: http://shangri-la.com

For more info regarding the congress venue, Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, etc click here.

 IAAH Committee 2008

President: Ueli Buhlmann (Switzerland)
Immediate Past President: Sue Bagshaw (New Zealand)
Treasurer/Secretary: Jean Yves Frappier (Canada)
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 MPA Exco 2007-2009

President: Dr Soo Thian Lian
Immediate Past President: Dr Zulkifli Ismail
Vice-President: Prof Zabidi Azhar Mohd Hussain
Hon Secretary: Assoc Prof Tang Swee Fong
Asst Hon Secretary: Dr Noor Khatijah Nurani
Treasurer: Dr Musa Mohd Nordin
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 Local Organizing Committee

Nazeli Hamzah
Zulkifli Ismail
Soo Thian Lian
Tang Swee Fong
Musa Mohd Nordin
Koh Chong Tuan
Mymoon Alias
Nik Rubiah Nik A. Rashid
Mary Huang
Thiyagar Nadarajan
Norliza Ahmad