Schedule

All times noted are in Doha, Qatar time

Registration

Welcome

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Opening remarks

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Setting the Stage: Population Health challenges and the emerging paradigm of health and disease

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Sustainability of the global lifestyle medicine movement

Examine approaches to the institutionalization of lifestyle medicine in multiple countries around the globe.
Evaluate economic models to implement lifestyle medicine in various health care systems.
Discuss future opportunities for the growth of lifestyle medicine at a global level.

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Coffee Break

Perspective at the confluence of pandemics: Of elephants overlooked in every room

Explain how COVID-19, planetary health, and chronic cardiometabolic diseases create a 'confluence' of interactive pandemics.
Discuss how the prior chronic disease pandemic greatly compounded the toll of COVID-19.
Recognize the importance of clearly articulated comprehensive objectives to guide policy and practice through pandemic response.
Outline how in both clinical and public health practice, an ability to see the 'big picture' (i.e., the elephant in the room) is of ineluctable value.

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Reexamining public health priorities in the region

Describe health indicators across the region, including indicators of public health capacity.
Analyze the most salient social and economic determinants of health in the region.
Identify priority areas for investment and strengthening of public health systems.

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Panel: Future of healthcare

Discuss public health in Qatar
Describe the future of healthcare
Outline the role of required health curriculum in schools to improve health of the people in the years ahead
Review lifestyle health: A policy perspective on equity
Discuss health policy and its challenges

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Lunch

Fixing the Broken Promise of Health