Foreign Affairs committee  You've asked a very interesting question. Actually we have with us Dr. Jan Hatcher Roberts, who did work at the International Organization for Migration. Jan would probably be much better than the rest of us to answer this question. One of the things Canada used to champion—and

Foreign Affairs committee  This was where you would basically get the parties to stop fighting in order to allow children to be vaccinated. This was amazing work. It took a lot of time. But again, it worked. You could move in and actually create peace. Now, it was temporary, but still, people sat back. Ag

Foreign Affairs committee  Perhaps I could just add something on this again. I work with public health associations in capacity-building for them and in governance, not only their governance, but the whole issue you're talking about of how they reach out to the government structures and talk to them. One o

Foreign Affairs committee  It's a very interesting question. Actually going back to Mr. Schellenberger's comment, I think it ties in nicely because one of the issues that we deal with when we talk about the rule of law is the capacity of people to speak out and say, look, something's wrong, we need to get

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, I just wanted to add something. I had the opportunity of working in Pakistan several years ago with an organization called SMI. They were working on reproductive health. One of the young Pakistani doctors I happened to be working with gave me a beautiful card with a beauti

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, thank you. I'm going back to my former work with the Canadian Public Health Association. It was a CIDA-funded program that also received funding from the Pan American Health Organization and the World Health Organization. This was the strengthening of public health associati

Foreign Affairs committee  That's a good question and not an easy one to answer. When you were talking about that situation, I was reflecting on a former CIDA-funded program called the Southern African AIDS Training Program, or SAT, which was managed by the Canadian Public Health Association. It was dealin

Foreign Affairs committee  Do you want me to answer that one? Okay. Thank you very much for the question. Actually, it's an interesting question, because we just held the 14th World Congress on Public Health in India two months ago. I was the chair of the planning committee for that event, and we had more

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. On behalf of the Canadian Society for International Health, I thank the committee for providing this opportunity to us to share with you our perspective and our recommendations about the mechanisms to protect the health, livelihood, and well-b