Plenary sessions

Opening of the Conference, August 24^th, 2011

• Prof. Pekka Puska, Director General, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Finland
• MSc Aleksi Randell, Mayor, City of Turku
• Minister of public health, Finland
• Ms Zsuzsanna Jakab, Regional Director, WHO-EURO ( “Today’s European Health Challenges: Health 2020 as a New Policy Response”)
• BSc Bosse Pettersson, Public health expert, Sweden

Plenary 1, August 24^th, 2011

"Public health and future of the Nordic welfare model" - panel discussion with

• Dr. Else Smith, Administrative director, National Board of Health, Denmark
• Prof. Pekka Puska, Director General, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Finland
• Dr. Geir Gunnlaugsson, Medical director, Directorate of Health, Iceland
• Prof. Knut-Inge Klepp, Director of division, Norwegian Directorate of Health
• Dr. Sarah Wamala,  Director General, Swedish National Institute of Public Health

Moderator prof. Mats Brommels, President of Samfundet Folkhälsan, Finland

Plenary 2, August 25^th, 2011

"Inclusion and equity in health"

• Mika Kivimäki, Professor, University College London; University of Helsinki; Finnish Institute of Occupational Health ("Does current working life increase or decrease socioeconomic inequalities in health")
• Finn Diderichsen,Professor, University of Copenhagen ("Determinants of social inequalities in health in Denmark")
• Prof. Paula Barrett, University of Queensland; founder Pathways Health and Research Centre, Australia ("Building Resilience in Families and School Communities")

Plenary 3, August 25^th, 2011

"Structural investments for health"

• Matts-Åke Belin, Director, The Swedish Transport Administration  ("Nollvisionen - en systematisk folkhälsopolicy med konkreta resultat?")
• Dr. Geir Gunnlaugsson, Medical director, Directorate of Health, Iceland ("Economic Recession and Health in Iceland")
• Tone Mørk, Director, Nordens välfärdcenter, Sweden ("The Nordic welfare model - a model with developmental potential to meet tomorrow's challenges?")

Plenary 4, August 26^th, 2011

"Knowledge and practice - local and regional"

• Docent Mikael Fogelholm, Director, Health Research Unit, Academy of Finland ("Improving public health – does research have an influence?")
• Dr. Sven Bremberg, Senior Consultant in Child and Adolescent Public Health, Swedish National Institute of Public Health; Karolinska Institutet ("Universal programmes for parenting support – a Swedish national strategy for promoting public health")
• Dr. Else Smith, Administrative director, National Board of Health, Denmark ("Communicating about disease prevention and evidence-based interventions – dissemination from a central to a local level")

Closing ceremony, August 26^th, 2011

• Prof. Antti Uutela, Director of department, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), University of Tampere, Finland ("How does the Nordic welfare model cope with today's challenges?"
• Prof. Knut-Inge Klepp, Director of division, Norwegian Directorate of Health, Norway ("Perspectives on the next Nordic Public Health Conference in Norway")