ISSOP 2018 / Program
Early Childhood Intervention:
Science, Systems and Policies Promoting
Healthy Development of Vulnerable Children
Thursday, September 27
08:00 – 09:00 Registration
09:00 – 10:00 Opening Remarks
- Reinhard Limbach in representation for Ashok-Alexander Sridharan, Lord Mayor, City of Bonn
- Rainer Ganschow, Head, Dep. of Child and Adolescent Medicine, University Hospital Bonn (UKB)
- Ute Thyen, Germany, President DGSPJ: Role of National Organizations in Promoting Social Pediatrics
- Jeffrey Goldhagen, USA, President ISSOP: Future of Social Pediatrics
10:00 – 10:30 Introduction to Program
Inclusive Early Childhood Development: Global Arenas and Collaborations for Social Pediatrics
Chair: Nick Spencer, UK
Speaker: Donald Wertlieb, USA (abstract)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30 Plenary 1
Recent advances in the science and communication of brain development
Chair: Ayesha Kadir, Denmark & Volker Mall, Germany
- Giorgio Tamburlini, Italy: The Science of Brain Development
- Emilie L’Hote, USA: The Science of Communicating about Brain Development
- Deepa Grover, Switzerland:Nurturing Care
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 15:00 Plenary 2
NZFH Sponsored-Symposium: Early integrated health and psychosocial services for vulnerable children: Clinical and systems approaches and evidence for quality care [Simultaneous translation available]
Chair: Gulbin Gokcay, Turkey & Ute Thyen, Germany
- Mitch Blair, UK: Well child care and preventive services in Europe – themes and insights emerging from analysis of 30 EU country approaches
- Alison Baum, UK: Baby Buddy: embracing the power of evidence, innovation and collaboration to reduce child health inequalities
- Ilona Renner, Germany: Early preventive services in Germany – new beginnings and the challenges to cooperate among youth welfare and health services
- Helia Molina, Chile: Chile Grows with You: A National ECD Systems Model
15:15 – 16:45 Parallel Workshops: Early Intervention Services
- Translating brain science into practice: Early Intervention Programs to improve the health, well-being and long-term life prospects of the most vulnerable children in our society
Speaker: Lang Ma, Sierra Leone & Helia Molina, Chile - Talking about Early Brain Development and Early Intervention Services, Framing and Delivering the Message
Speaker: Emilie L’Hote, USA [Simultaneous translation available] - Pioneering Early intersectoral intervention services, training, and research in Mumbai and Andalusia: Lessons learned and future prospects
Speaker: Vibha Krishnamurthy, India & Sara Miguel-Barrena, Spain; Chair: Luis Martin-Alvarez, Spain - EUSUHM-Workshop: Nurses in School Health Care
Speakers: Monica Bulcke, Belgium & Betty Bakker, Netherlands & Antje Tannen, Germany - How can we build sustainable systems for community-based interventions for post-traumatic stress symptoms in refugee youth?
Speaker: Anna Sarkadi, Sweden
17:00 – 17:30 Coffee break & poster walk (poster abstracts)
17:30 – 18:45 Free Papers
Parallel session 1: Interventions to support child development
Chair: Gonca Ylmaz, & Ulrike Horacek, Germany
- Perran Boran: Efficacy of an educational intervention promoting positive parenting skills on parent attitudes and their relation with children
- Anneli Ivarsson: Socio-emotional problems in 3-year old children – ASQ:SE used in a population-based study
- Francis Rushton: The Well Baby Plus Program: Promoting Resilience in American At-Risk Families
- Stefan Steinebach: ICF-CY and the Importance of orthopaedic and rehab devices for disabled people
- Giorgio Tamburlini: Un villaggio per crescere (A village to thrive ): a project aimed at improving parenting skills in at risk population groups
- Verena Clara Vetter: Parent Training Programs to Promote Self-Regulation in Preterm Born Toddlers
- Francesca Vezzini: Challenges in evaluating ECD-focused interventions targeting at risk population groups with a non-selective approach (Un villaggio per crescere)
Parallel session 2: General conditions for the development of children
Chair: Luis Martin-Alvarez, Spain & Peter Borusiak, Germany
- Anna Battersby: Supporting healthy parent-child attachment relationships, child neurodevelopment and emotional wellbeing: insights from parent focus groups
- Hamadou Boiro: Is ban on begging an effective strategy to fight child trafficking?
- Jónína Einarsdóttir: Ambiguous adventures: children driving tractors in rural Iceland
- Geir Gunnlaugsson: Things are not what they seem: Review of diverse forms of child abuse in Iceland
- Karen Horridge: Impact of austerity on families with disabled children in Europe
- Junko Okumura: Ill-health of Children in the southern rural Lao PDR: A three-year longitudinal study
- Filiz Şimşek Orhon: Determination of bisphenol a levels in the urine of exclusively breastfed babies and in the breast milk and urine of their respextive mothers
17:30 – 19:00
19:30 – 22:00 Reception and Dinner (social program)
Friday, September 28
08:30 – 10:00 Plenary 3
Global Child Development: Systems and Policy to address ECD of Vulnerable Children
Chair: Fouad M. Fouad, Lebanon & Freia De Bock, Germany
- Giorgio Tamburlini, Italy: Working with parents to promote child development
- Ramzi Nasir, UK: Promoting health, development and wellbeing of children on the move within and across borders
- Aaron Merchen, USA: National and Global Strategies in pursuit of ECD Advocacy
- Elvira Thissen, Netherlands/UK: Addressing the needs of childhood victims of armed conflict: Lessons learned in Lebanon, Jordan and the Netherlands
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break & poster walk (poster abstracts)
10:00 – 13:00 EUSUHM Executive Committee Meeting
10:30 – 12:00 Plenary 4
A Child Rights and Equity-based Approach and Measures to Early Child Development: Systems and Policy
Chair: Raul Mercer, Argentina & Elke Jäger-Roman, Germany
- Gerison Lansdown, UK: Child Rights (CRC) and Rights of Children with Disabilities (CRPD)
- Ziba Vaghri, Canada: The science of early child development and child right: where do they cross paths?
- Adem Arkadas, France: ECD-GC7 and global monitoring of child development measurements
- Bolajoko Olusanya, Nigeria:Child development, disability and the sustainable development goals. Global Burden of Disease
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 14:00 Special lecture: Peace Policy and Child Health
- Healthy development through a peaceful environment – the next generation’s need for peace policies
Speaker: Franca Brüggen, Germany, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) and Recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize 2017
Chair: Tony Waterston, UK & Ute Thyen, Germany
14:00 – 15:30 Parallel Workshops: Systems and Policy
- Drawing on NGO experience in camps to inform social pediatric practice
Speakers: Ramzi Nasir, UK & Fouad M. Fouad, Lebanon & Elvira Thissen, Netherlands/UK - Trainee Workshop
Speaker: Rita Nathawad, USA & Anna Battersby, UK - Applying a Child Rights-based Approach to ECD programs and interventions
Speakers: Adem Arkadas, France & Gerison Lansdown, UK & Bolajoko Olusanya, Nigeria & Ziba Vaghri, Canada - Neurocognitive Development in chronic disease of Childhood and Adolesence: Perspectives for Counseling
Speaker: Fritz Haverkamp, Germany - Advocacy principles and Nurturing Care
Speakers: Aaron Merchen, USA & Deepa Grover, Switzerland & Bettina Schwethelm, Switzerland
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:30 Plenary 5a
Promoting development of children with chronic complex conditions – challenges and solutions
Sponsored by Wagener Foundation
Chair: Barbara Rubio, Spain & Thorsten Langer, Germany
- Rich Antonelli, USA: Implementing Effective Integrated Care Management for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs
- Peter Borusiak, Germany: Social Pediatric Centers (SPZ) in Germany
- Glenn Flores, USA: Eliminating Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Health and Healthcare for Children with Special Healthcare Needs and their Families
16:00 – 17:30 Plenary 5b
The role of schools in integration
Chair: Geir Gunnlaugsson, Iceland & Harald Bode, Germany
- Inge Van Trimpont, Belgium, EUSUHM: The application of ICF in the context of the integration of chronic ill schoolchildren in mainstream education in Flemish school health care
- Vera Musil, Croatia, EUSUHM: Education of children with special needs in Croatia
- Olivier Duperrex, Switzerland: Preschool medical examination: what for?
17:30 – 18:30 ISSOP Annual General Meeting
17:30 – 19:00 EUSUHM Annual General Meeting
19:15 – 23:00 Conference Dinner (social program)
Saturday, September 29
09:00 – 10:00 Free Papers
Parallel session 3: Children on the move
Chair: Marie Köhler, Sweden & Erika Sievers, Germany
- Geert Tom Heikens: Community engagement as early intervention supported the integration of asylum seeking Syrian families: the role of child health practitioners in the Netherlands
- Elisabeth Mangrio: Recently arrived refugee families and the experience of having an introduction plan and being in the resettlement process in Sweden: A qualitative study
- Elif N. Özmert: Turkish National Pediatric Society Action Model for Refugee Children
- Stella Tsitoura: Fostering Integration of Children and Youth on the Move through the Creation of an Urban Youth Center in Athens, Greece
Parallel session 4: Children´s rights
Chair: Mitch Blair, UK & Christian Fricke, Germany
- Nusheen Ameenuddin: Successful Advocacy for Children’s Health Policy by Pediatricians Using Social Media
- Mitch Blair: Stakeholders’ views on scenarios on European child healthcare systems and how potential changes might be achieved
- Fernando Gonzalez: Exequiel González Cortés Hospital experience on integrating the rights approach into health care
- Kyriakos Martakis: Developing autonomy in pediatric healthcare: towards an ethical model
- Hajime Takeuchi: The Budapest Declaration of ISSOP 2017 – efforts to increase awareness in Japan
- Natalia Ustinova: The evaluation of knowledge of primary care paediatricians (PCP) into social paediatrics (SP)
10:15 – 12:45 Expert Panel – A strategic response to improve the development of children
Chair: Donald Wertlieb, USA & Helmut Hollmann, Germany
- Colleen Kraft, President American Academy of Pediatrics, USA
- Vibha Krishnamurthy, President, International Association of Developmental Pediatrics, Medical Director – Ummeed Child Development Center, Mumbai, India
- Helia Molina, Dean of the School of Medicine, University of Santiago, Chile
- Bolajoko Olusanya, Center for Healthy Start Initiative. Ikoyi, Nigeria
- Elvira Thissen, Refugee Response – Bernard van Leer Foundation, Netherlands/UK
- Deepa Grover, Senior Adviser – Early Childhood Development, UNICEF Europe and Central Asia Regional Office, Switzerland
- Bettina Schwethelm, WHO HQ consultant, Switzerland
- Martin Weber, Programme Manager, Child and Adolescent Health, WHO Regional Office for Europe, Denmark
12:45 – 13:00 Closing Remarks
- Ute Thyen, Germany, President DGSPJ
- Jeffrey Goldhagen, USA, President ISSOP
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 17:00 Sightseeing Citytour Bonn (social program)
(tentative programm, updated September 25)
The conference is sponsored by DFG (Deutsche Forschungs-Gemeinschaft), NZFH (Nationales Zentrum Frühe Hilfen) and Wagener Foundation in form of partially refinancing the traveling expenses of speakers. There is no pharma sponsoring.