Organizers & Co-organizers

Organizers

School Nurses International

School Nurses International (SNI) provides a forum for nurses around the world working with school children to come together in a stimulating intellectual and happy environment to share their knowledge and understanding of the emotional, social and physical needs of the school aged child.

Since 1981, members have voluntarily formed international committees to jointly organize, plan, and host biennial conferences. The use of Universities and residential schools for our conferences has given us economical living space and academic support and in many instances School Nurses and their families have been welcomed into the homes of families in the host country after the conference, through which many friendships have been forged.

Hong Kong School Nurses Association

The Hong Kong School Nurses Association was established in 2009. The vision of the ‘Hong Kong School Nurses Association’ is to enhance the capacity building for the professional development of school nursing in Hong Kong and to promote the health and well-being of school-age children, adolescents, parents and school personnel in the communities. The goal of the “Hong Kong School Nurses Association” is to advocate for a “One School One Nurse” policy. To accomplish its goal, the Association will collaborate with a variety of organizations and disciplines in the university, the community, and the nation to enhance the well-being of children and adolescents and their families. The Association implements the school-based health programme by providing accessible health services and promoting healthy lifestyle behaviours for children and adolescents and their parents in the school setting.

World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Community Health Services, School of Nursing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

The WHO Collaborating Centres are a highly valued mechanism of cooperation in which relevant institutions are recognized by WHO as implementing the Organization's mandated work by supporting the achievement of its planned strategic objectives at the regional and global level, enhancing the scientific validity of its global health work, and developing and strengthening institutional capacity in countries and regions.

The WHO has designated the School of Nursing, Faculty of Health and Social Science, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University as a WHO Collaborating Centre for Community Health Services for a period of four years from December 2007 to December 2011. The terms of reference of the Centre are:

Western Pacific Regional Office, World Health Organization

*This information is taken from WPRO, WHO website: http://www.wpro.who.int/about/about.htm

The Western Pacific Regional Office, located in Manila, the Philippines, represents WHO in the Asia Pacific. We act as the health conscience of the Region; we operate semi-autonomously with our own regional budget.

Our role is to act as a catalyst and advocate for action at all levels, from local to global, on health issues of public concern. Working together with a broad spectrum of partners from all sectors of society, WHO in the Western Pacific is involved in a host of closely related public health activities, including research, databanking, evaluation, awareness raising and resource mobilization.

Our purpose is to lead the regional response to public health issues on all fronts - medical, technical, socio-economic, cultural, legal and political - towards the achievement of WHO's global health mission.

WHO's mission is to support all countries and peoples in their quest to achieve the highest attainable level of health, defined in the WHO Constitution as "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity."

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