Scope of Working Group of Space & Global Health
Scope of Expert Focus Group of Space & Global Health
From a conceptual view, global health places a priority on improving health outcomes and achieving equity in health for all people worldwide. Problems that transcend national borders or have a global socio-economic impact are often emphasized. From a space perspective, the expert group on Space and Global Health includes a broad array of activities to be directly relevant to global health, such as: telemedicine, tele-health, space life sciences , space technologies, tele-epidemiology, and disaster management (including response to epidemics). From a health perspective, the expert group recognizes the contribution of the space community to the prevention and control of diseases, to promote health and welfare, to addressing global health security issues, to the advancement of medical research, health practices and the provision of healthcare services to individuals and communities, also through a One Health lens.
It is also understood that various global determinants and social trends (ex: climate change, global migration, population growth and ageing, citizen science and crowdsourcing, big data and digital medicine) are driving the health outcomes and the evolution of various technology development. Although these drivers are significant for their general impact on society, they are not directly scoped in the notion of Global health in the context of the activities of the expert group.
It is also understood that various global determinants and social trends (ex: climate change, global migration, population growth and ageing, citizen science and crowdsourcing, big data and digital medicine) are driving the health outcomes and the evolution of various technology development. Although these drivers are significant for their general impact on society, they are not directly scoped in the notion of Global health in the context of the activities of the expert group.
Objective AT6FUI & Community of Practise
Leverage the potential of Space Technology for Global Health Risk Mitigation and Health Service Delivery
Objective AT6FUI 2015
- Establish a Living Lab in El Salvador for CKD Public Health Risk Mitigation
- Establish a WHO Collaboration Centre on Space & Health
- Establish a Capacity Building Programme in Wikiversity school of Risk Management.
Structure
AT6FUI consist of to major components:
- Political Facilitator: Sidemeeting COPUOS Vienna 02/2012 - 02/2015, now Expert Focus Group on Space and Health (Canada)
- Community of Practise: Expert Meeting and Workshop based on the Open Community Approach OCA 2012, 2013, 2014 as OCA pilot
After 02/2015 - Follow-Up Structure
- for Political facilitation for Risk Mitigation (Expert Focal Group - Head Canada)
- AT6FUI remains accessible as Community of Practice and Capacity Building
Community of Practise - Space & Global Health
Phase 2:
- Preparation: Post AT6FUI with LLinES project
- Start of Post AT6FUI: 01/2015
- End of Post AT6FUI: 12/2017
- Comment: Political Level was developed further by Canada into an Expert Focus Group on Space and Health Post AT6FUI will now operate as Community of Practise with the main scope in Capacity Building and improving and supporting an Open Scientific development for risk mitigation (see detail in past and upcoming events)
AT6FUI Activities
Phase 1: Completed
- Preparation: AT6 Expert Meeting in Montreal 2011
- Start of AT6FUI: 01/2012
- End of AT6FUI: 12/2014
- Decision - Future of AT6FUI: Sidemeeting COPUOS 02/2015