"From Crisis to Equity: Transforming the Global Health Workforce"
17–18 September 2026 |
Format: Single room
Timing: Max 30 min/speaker
DAY 1 | Thursday, 17 September 2026
08:00 – 18:30
08:00 – 08:25
Registration
08:30 – 09:05
Institutional Welcome
Speakers
Gerent del Col.legi Major Penyafort-Montserrat — Dania Perez
Presidenta de Global Health Workforce Barcelona — Rosa Maria Orriols
Directora General d'Equitat en els Treballs i Corresponsabilitat, Conselleria de Feminismes — Saray Espejo
09:10 – 09:45
Plenary Inaugural Lecture
Speaker
“The money that never becomes care: Fraud and corruption in the financing of health and research institutions” — Pura Strong
09:50 – 10:55
Violence Against Women
Chair Patricia Ripoll
Co-chair Rosa Maria Orriols
Speakers
The Cost of Violence Against Women — Xavier Prats
PIP-Woman and Disability (program POWER – Promoting Organizations' empoWErment to guarantee women’s human Rights and stop gender violence’ (CERV – 2023 – DAPHNE) — Eugenia Bretones
10 Things Survivors Need Us to Change: Transforming Systems to End Violence Against Women — Menys Tarzans i més Xites
11:00 – 12:15
Reimagining the Health Workforce: AI, Data, Gender and Equity
Chair Judit Diaz Bazan
Speakers
AI as a Workforce Multiplier: Can Technology Help Close the Global Health Workforce Gap? — Otto Joseph Bonilla
Empowering Health Workers with AI: From Digital Triage to Smarter Care — Cristian Pascual
The Digital Gap in Occupational Health Across Latin America — Gonzalo Rodriguez
Building the Health Workforce of the Future: Leadership, Education and Public Policy — Judit Diaz Bazan
12:20 – 12:30
Institutional Remarks – Chair Women in Global Health (Streaming)
Speaker M. Emilia Caro
12:30 – 13:15
Transformative Leadership in Action: Global and Intersectional Voices for Health Equity (Streaming)
Chair M. Emilia Caro
Co-chair Judit Diaz Bazan
Speakers
Annicke Sidibe
Kim Sales
M. Emilia Caro
Rosa M. Orriols
Ruth Nyambura
Venus Mushininga
13:10 – 14:10
🍴 Lunch / Posters Defense
14:15 – 14:35
Oral Presentations / Posters
A Self-Reporting System For Workplace Violence Against Healthcare Workers: Twelve Years of Experience in a Large Tertiary Hospital in Barcelona — Aitor Rodero Pastor
Implementation of the OSVASC Platform in a Tertiary University Hospital: Experience at Vall d'Hebron University Hospital — Susana Tafalla
Digital Transformation and Artificial Intelligence in Latin American Occupational Medicine: A Regional Diagnostic Survey of Scientific Society Leaders — Gonzalo Rodriguez
Leadership Disparity Across the Primary Organisational Structures of Hospital Bera, Malaysia — Abdul Aziz Harith
14:40 – 15:50
Intersectional Perspectives on Environmental Threshold Values: Rethinking Exposure and Health Equity
Chair Aida Fajardo
Co-chair Rosa Maria Orriols
Speakers
Occupational Exposure Limits. Where have they come from and where are they going? — Martin Hogan
ROUNDTABLE: Intersectional Perspectives on Environmental Threshold Values: Rethinking Exposure and Health Equity.
Speakers: Alicia Huici, Vijay Bade, Martin Hogan
15:55 – 16:50
Oral Presentations / Posters
Beyond Liquid Science: The Forgotten Nose and the Nose-Brain Axis in Healthcare Workers Exposed to Hazardous Drugs — Maria Amparo Ortuño Moreno
The Legislative and Regulatory Framework for Women's Occupational Health in Morocco: A Critical Review and Recommendations for Improvement — Ioubna Tahri
Correlation of High Blood Pressure with BMI — Vijay Bade
Applicability of the Senior Fitness Test for Identifying Osteoporosis Risk in Older Adults — Nora L. Toth
Results of a pilot study to assess the feasibility of exoskeleton use in a tertiary Hospital in Barcelona — Gabriele Stella
16:55 – 18:30
Satellite Symposium MIESES (Spanish)
Chair Manel Bestraten
Co-chair Renné Scott
Speakers
Invited Talk: Gestión de la Exposición a Formaldehído en un Edificio Público — Pedro Luque, Mº Rosa Hernandez
ROUNDTABLE: Salto Cuántico en SST — Renné Scott
Prevención Psicosocial en una Nueva Cultura Empresarial — Ester Castelló
Tecnologia Digital y Agentes de Cambio en las empresas — Loly Fernandez
Gestión Preventiva y Excelencia Empresarial en Pymes — David Traves
DAY 2 | Friday, 18 September 2026
08:00 – 16:10
08:00 – 08:40
Oral Presentations / Posters
Strengthening the Global Health Workforce: A WHO-Informed Framework to Improve Mental Health and Well-Being Through Organisational Action — Cindy Esther Frias Torres
Shift Work, Sleepiness, Chronic Fatigue and Accident Occurrence in Nurses — Mehrzad Ebrahemzadih
Assessment of the Relationship between Sleep Disorders with Circadian Type in Female Nurses in Iran — Ehsan Rafeemanesh
Is Fly-In Fly-Out Work Associated with Burnout? Evidence from Oil and Gas Workers in Oman — Abdulnassor Jamal
08:45 – 10:15
Mental Health in Health Workers
Chair Patricia Ripoll
Co-chair Bill Buchta
Speakers
Burnout and Spirituality in Health Workers: A Personal Journey — Bill Buchta
Mental Health in Hospital Workers: A Gender-Sensitive Screening Study of 1700 Workers in Medellin, Colombia — Martha Adriana Leon
Women at Work in Global Health: Psychosocial Risks and Mental Well-being in a Changing World of Work — Sibel Kiran
From Psychosocial Data to Action: Measuring Mental Health, Gender and Wellbeing at Work — Yeshework Yigezu
10:20 – 11:05
Q&A: Climate Change Is a Health Crisis: Every Degree Matters
Chair Rosa Maria Orriols
Speakers
Delta Jeazul Ponce
Aida Fajardo
11:10 – 11:35
Navigating Vaccine Hesitancy among Health Workers: Vulnerabilities, Opportunities, and Epidemic Preparedness
Speaker Amy Behrman
11:40 – 12:40
Global Security & Pandemic Preparedness
Chair Acran Salmen-Navarro
Co-chair Martin Hogan
Speakers
Workers' Health and Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic from a German Perspective — Albert Nienhaus
Workers' Health and Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Mexican Perspective — Veronica Gutierrez
Emerging Infections – An Update — Wendy Thanassi
12:45 – 13:45
🍴 Lunch
13:50 – 15:05
Worker Vulnerability and Work as a Social Determinant of Health
Chair Acran Salmen-Navarro
Speakers
Public Policies and Social Determinants in Vulnerable Working Populations — Davide Malmusi
Women Health and Work – Successful Health Equity Interventions — Shabnum Faraz
The Intersection Between Migration and Informality – Contributions and Vulnerabilities — Acran Salmen-Navarro
Group Discussion: Future for Decent and Dignifying Work
15:05 – 15:15
Oral Presentation
Gender Disparity in Leadership Across the Main Organisational Structures of Hospital Bera, Malaysia: A Descriptive Study — Abdul Aziz Harith
Leadership Needs Analysis in the Healthcare Sector. A Quantitative Diagnosis of 351 Professionals for Designing Comprehensive Management Development Programs — Angel Herraiz Tomey
Occupational downgrading as a social determinant of mental health among migrant women — Maria Isabel Calvo Rubiales
Precarious employment and physical health outcomes among migrant women in the Barcelona metropolitan area — Maria Isabel Calvo Rubiales
15:20 – 15:55
Plenary Closing Lecture – Everything is Tuberculosis?
Speaker Wendy Thanassi
16:00 – 16:10
Institutional Closing
Speakers
Vice President ICOH — Martin Hogan
Organizing Committee
Rosa M. OrriolsPatricia RipollEugenia BretonesMartha Adriana LeonMelissa GónzalezOtto J. BonillaAida Lucia Fajardo MontielEmilia CaroJudit Diaz Bazan