PUBLIC HEALTH LECTURE FACULTY OF HEALTH FREE UNIVERSITY
- CALI
introductory remarks Dr. Helen ESPINOSA DE RESTREPO
If we are gathered Today about Public Health, is because we believe in the advantages of creating spaces of intellectual thought and academic advantages not hesitate to call by name: spiritual benefits. This is not a propitious time to get them properly but instead of a catalog of regrets we must appeal to the stubbornness and insistence that all these years of involvement with militant in defense of thought have given us many of which we gather here today in this enclosure memory rendering their name to the great intellectual Colombian named Gerardo Molina.
Given the smallness of many things "seeks the spirit of better air, better air," cried the poet León de Greiff to invite us into new versions of leaks to the reality, the intellect and the idea of \u200b\u200bmemory and writing, the reflective meditation and patience. This space that opened today in the city of Santiago de Cali - and we invite all those who feel concerned by the desire to overcome the reduction of life to the smallness of many things - it will be conducive to land the mind meets best air.
I am pleased and honored to present to you today, to Helena Espinosa de Restrepo, the teacher, the intellectual adventure companion, the companion of many musical evenings. I wish to record that I proposed his name to the Commission for organizing this conference in his capacity as professional and friend, because she has allowed me to honor the admiration I have for their professional work with I consider the best friendship of nations possible in a world that stripping of human subjectivity leads them to the quagmires of the implementation of the relationship with the other.
will honor the request of this communication to you who is the person who is Helena Espinosa. Lipovetski, author of "The Third Woman," it would be a great example of how a woman has been able to overcome the constraints that their gender has received from the culture in these times, managing to establish simultaneously a beautiful family and an academic path broad spectrum and reaches unexpected. Sure of her journey, now runs the American continent from Canada to Argentina, promoting the ideas that have given her experience, health professionals and with all the bounty of the world.
After his medical degree from the Universidad del Valle, Helena Espinosa, having been a resident in pathology and biochemistry at the University, will soon be linked to the field of Public Health, earning a master's degree at the University of Antioquia and starting a journey training in various fields both nationally and internationally. Simultaneously he began and continued his teaching career began occupying roles that monitors the condition, through investigating and reaching condition a teacher at universities such as the del Valle, Antioquia, the UPB and the CES in Medellin, Louisiana State University in the USA and, currently, the Valencian Institute of Public Health of Valencia, Spain.
His academic and research journey has taken her to positions ranging from an advisor to several health departments in the country, through the Ministry of Health provided the Municipality of Medellín and he held several positions in Washington the Pan American Health Organization, as coordinated by the Adult Health Program, coordination of the Programme for the Promotion of Health and the Division Promotion and Health Protection. He currently works as a private consultant in Public Health and Health Promotion, offering its services to all types of public and private entities, as we said, throughout the Americas.
In the field of Mental Health Promotion Helena Espinosa has made contributions that enrich the current state of the art of the matter with extensions to other fields, because the undisputed two-way relationship between mental health and other spheres of existence human.
Approximately 120 scientific papers attest to this contribution, which had focused primarily around ideas such as quality of life, healthy municipalities, epidemiological surveillance, health prevention strategies, community participation, role of education in various fields of health, violence and mental health, mental health promotion, etc. It has also been translating the work of authorities in the field of Public Health.
has received numerous awards and honors throughout his life, among them are:
Award for best research in Hypertension, the Third National Congress of Internal Medicine, Colombia, 1974.
honorary scientific consultant, Merck Research Laboratories, Sharp and Dohme in Colombia, 1975.
Representative of the Minister of Health of Colombia to the Honorable Board of General Hospital of Medellín, city of Medellin, Colombia ,1974-1981.
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Honorary Member of the Colombian Association of Epidemiology since 1986.
Honorary President of the Association of Women in Latin America for Tobacco Control, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1992.
Honorary Professor at the University of Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia. Chancellor's Resolution 4131, September 16, 1993. Declared
Guest of Honor of the canton of San Carlos, Agreement 073 of July 20, 1994, Ciudad Quesada, San Carlos, Costa Rica. Member
Editorial Board of the Journal of Public Health Policy, 1993-1995. Correspondent editor for Colombia: 1995 - Declared
Guest of Honor of the Municipalities of Cumarebo in Venezuela (1995) and the city of Manizales, Colombia (1996) by decrees of the respective mayors.
Tributes received in Campinas Brazil (March 1996) and Santa Fe de Bogota, (April 1996).
Scroll of the Marian Sodality of Medellín and the Cardiovascular Center Santa Maria de Medellín where "pay tribute of gratitude to its founder, Helena Espinosa de Restrepo" Hypertension Program at the commemoration of 20 years after its creation. December 1996.
Member of International Scientific Committee for the planning of the First World Congress on Urban Health and Environment. Madrid, Spain, 1996-1998.
Honorary Member of the World Congress of the International Union for Health Promotion and Health Education, (International Union of Health Promotion and Health Education, IUHPE) Puerto Rico, 20 to 26 June 1998.
Member of Editorial Committee of Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. January 1998 -
Academic Coordinator of the Third Congress of the Americas of Municipalities and Communities, Medellin, Colombia 8 to 12 March 1999.
Distinction with Silver Plate "Mayors of the Americas" in March 1999 during the Third Congress of the Americas of Municipalities and Communities. March 8 to 12 Medellin, Colombia
Member of Technical Experts Group ad-hoc World Health Organization and the Department of Health Promotion. (Part of Technical expert group to support WHO and Its Department of Health Promotion) julio/1999-July-2000.
Designated by the American Public Health Association for the honorary position of Vice President for Latin America. (Vice President for Latin America for the period 1999-2000).
Member of International Advisory Committee Review National School of Public Health, May 2000 -
elected to the Board of Directors (Board of Trustees) of the International Union for the Promotion and Health Education, IUHPE (International Union of Health Promotion and Health Education, IUHPE) for 2001-2007, Paris, July 2001. Honorable Mention
conferred by the Governor of Huila, Ministry of Health Department. November 23, 2001 Medal and Scroll
ORDER LICEO Benard, Cali, June 8, 2002 to graduate with outstanding resume in professional and scientific.
pro Medal awarded San Marcos University, Faculty of Medicine. Lima, Peru, December 2003.
Distinction "Institutional recognition for his outstanding and distinguished career." Diploma and Resolution No. 136 of 3 November 2005 the Academic Council of the Universidad del Valle in the ceremony commemorating the 60th anniversary of the University: alumni awards to outstanding national and international level.
addition, Helena Espinosa belonging to different academies and editorial boards of prestigious journals in the field of public health, including:
Academy of Medicine, Medellín, city of Medellin, Colombia, 1976-1982 Active Member. Corresponding Member, 1982.
National Academy of Medicine of Colombia, Corresponding Member 1982.
International Association of Epidemiology (IEA) 1976-2001.
Interamerican Society of Hypertension (1981-1986)
Women's Professional Association of Antioquia, Colombia (1963-1982)
American Public Health Association (active until 2003)
founding member of the Caribbean Medical Association (AMECA) 1995.
International Union of Health Promotion and Health Education (active, and a member of the Board)).
Interdisciplinary Gerontology Association, AIG de Colombia, 1998-2003
School Alumni Association National Public Health at the University of Antioquia
(ASESPUA) 2001-2002
Dr. Espinosa: I know that the experience of a lifetime can not be summarized in a presentation, but the main thing I hope I have communicated to this audience of young students now have the privilege of hearing.
As a colleague and friend, I wish to express our profound pleasure to have your generous presence today among us, an academic community that was born to the tenor of the concern we share with you and put into practice the horizon of our crucial problems for the survival of humanity and culture. Let me
thank you on behalf of the Free University, its Faculty of Health Sciences and Social and Community Area.
We are pleased to subscribe to you and grateful recipients of knowledge that has built with his experience. I invite you to take the word and we present his lecture. Eduardo Botero
Medical - Psychoanalyst
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