Margit OHR
International Policy Fellow
Open Society Institute/Centre
for Policy Studies
Nádor utca, H-1051
Budapest, Hungary (36-1) 327-3100/2139, Fax: (36-1) 327-3809
1. Name:
Margit OHR
2. Address:
1063 Budapest, Bajnok u. 24 fsz. 5.
3. Work Phone
Number: 0036-70-315-5466
4. Home Phone
Number: 0036-1-302-5833
5. Email:
ohr@policy.hu
6. Short
summary of my professional experience:
I am an International
Policy Fellow of the Open Society Institute, and the Centre for Policy
Studies of Central European University, Budapest. Before that I was
working for the National Institute for Health Promotion in Hungary
and WHO Collaborating Centre for Health Promotion Development in Central
and Eastern Europe in a number of international projects between 1994-2002.
I studied Health Promotion at the University of Bergen, Norway and
completed a Master of Philosophy degree in Health Promotion between:
1996-1998. My current research proposal is: Developing capacity in
cross-sectoral governance: opportunities and barriers to the use of
Health Impact Assessment in Hungary. In the capacity of my research
findings so far I am a Policy Advisor of the new Hungarian Government.
CURRICULUM
VITAE
1. Family
name: OHR
2. First
names: Margit
3. Date of
birth: 260170
4. Citizenship:
Hungarian
5. Marital
status: Single
6. Education:
Institution
Faculty of Psychology and Medicine, University of Bergen, Norway
Date / Diploma
obtained 1998 Master of Philosophy in Health Promotion
Institution
Faculty of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Health Sciences,
Budapest, Hungary
Date / Diploma
obtained 1994 B.Sc. in Public Health and Epidemiology
Institution
Faculty of Mother and Child Health, University of Health Sciences,
Budapest, Hungary
Date / Diploma
obtained 1991 B. Sc. in Nursing
7.
Language skills
Language
Reading Speaking Writing
Hungarian
5
5
5
English
5
5
5
Russian
1
2
1
5 = highest
competence
1 = lowest competence
8.
Membership of professional bodies:
- International Union
for Health Promotion and Education, Institutional member since
1994, Individual member since 2001
- International Association
of Impact Assessment, individual member since 2002
9. Present position:
International Policy Fellow in Public Health Policy
10.
Years with organisation:
National
Institute for Health Promotion and WHO Collaborating Centre for Health
Promotion Development in Central and Eastern Europe,
between 1994-2002 (8 years).
11. Expertise
in:
- Health Promotion
- Healthy Public Policy
and Intersectoral Health Policy
- Health Impact Assessment
- Public Health
- Research in Health
Promotion and Policy Advise in Health Policy
12. Specific Countries
Experience:
- UK since 1994
- Netherlands 2002+
- Norway 1996-1998
- WHO/EU since 1994
- Central Eastern
European Countries (WHO CC) since 1996
13. Professional Experience
Record (some example):
Date September
2001
Location Budapest, Hungary
Company National Institute
for Health Promotion and Development
Position Senior Scientific
Officer/ Technical adviser of the international team
Description
The contribution of
Public Health to National Development in Central and Eastern Europe
A case study from
Hungary in strengthening capacity in cross-sectoral governance and
development
Date November
1999 – July 2000
Location Budapest, Hungary
Company National Institute
for Health Promotion and WHO CC
Position Professional
Assistant of the General Director
Description
- Working report
of the National Institute for Health Promotion, 1996-1999
- Strategy for
developing a Regional Health Promotion Network in Hungary
- Strategy for
reviewing concept, functions and organisation of the National
Institute for Health Promotion
- Professional
briefings for General Director on range of topics and issues
- Represented
the Director at national and international conferences and meetings
Date September 1998 –
October 1999
Location Budapest, Hungary
Company National Institute
for Health Promotion, Hungary
Position National Co-ordinator
of the WHO/EURO Regions for Health Network in Hungary
Description
- Author of the
Hungarian Three-counties Twinning Project Final Report (Process
and Successes within Hungary)
- Regional Healthy
Public Policies in Europe: publication based on the lesson learned
from the RHN in Europe
- Represented
Hungary in international meetings
Date June 1994 – July
1996
Location Budapest, Hungary
Company National Institute
for Health Promotion, Hungary
Position Co-ordinator
of School Health Programme funded by World Bank
Description
- Contribute
to developing health education curriculum
- Co-ordinate
activities of participating schools
- Develop strong
functional relationships with related projects
- European Network
of Health Promoting Schools Project
- Health Behaviour
in School-Aged Children: A WHO Cross-National Study (HBSC)
14. International
experience:
2002
- Health Impact Assessment
5 day training course, 29 April – 3 May UK, Liverpool
- 2 day workshop on
Supporting Public Health Development in an enlarged European Union,
London, UK 18-19 April
2001
- XVII. th World Conference
on Health Promotion and Health Education, Paris 15 – 20 July
2000
- Technical advisor
to 3rd Arena Meeting of the WHO/EURO Verona Initiative (Italy),
July
- Represented NIHP
at meeting of WHO/EURO Collaborating Centres, Venice (Italy),
May
- Regional consultation
on health research and policy development in Central and Eastern
Europe and the Newly Independent States, Balatonlelle (Hungary),
May
1999
- Technical Advisor
to the Annual meeting of WHO Collaborating Centre for Health Promotion
Development in Central and Eastern Europe: Practical Guidance
on Evaluating Health Promotion, Boglarlelle, (Hungary), November
- Technical Adviser
at the Seventh Annual Meeting and Conference (Healthy Regions:
New Policies for a new Century) of the WHO Regions for Health
Network, Madeira, Portugal, October
- Participant at Targets
for Health: Shifting the Debate. An International Policy Conference,
Paris, September
1998
- Participant at Challenges
in Policies for Health, International Conference, Budapest, November
- Technical Adviser
at Sixth Annual Conference of the WHO Regions for Health Network,
Katowice, Poland, October.
1995
- Participant at 3rd
European Network of Health Promoting Schools meeting, Setubal,
Portugal, April
15. Academic appointments:
2000 - Visiting
lecturer at the New Public Health University, Debrecen, Hungary
16. Presentations:
2000
- National and international
structure, networks and organisation of health promotion, New
Public Health University, Debrecen, Hungary, March
- The strategy and
programmes of the National Institute for Health Promotion, New
Public Health University, Debrecen, Hungary, March
1999
- Stakeholder analysis
of the WHO/EURO Regions for Health Network in the Hungarian 3-Counties
project, Budapest, January
1995
- National co-operation
between education and health in curriculum development for primary
education, 3rd European Network of Health Promoting Schools meeting,
Setubal, Portugal, 1-26 April
- Health education
in Hungary in the primary education school curriculum, 3rd European
Network of Health Promoting Schools meeting, Setubal, Portugal,
1-26 April
- Experience of developing
a health education curriculum for primary schools in Hungary and
introduction to 10 pilot schools, Scientifically Association of
Public Health conference, Hévíz, Hungary, April
17. Professional development:
- 1996, International
Seminar on Study Planning and Curriculum Development, Jerusalem,
Israel, 20 November – 28 December
- 1995, International
Visitor’s Programme of the North Karelia Project, Finland, 1-6
September
18. Publications:
2000
- with E Gábor.
Assessing the professional concept, optimal functions and organisation
of the National Institute for Health Promotion (NEFI), NEFI working
paper
- with G. Kovács.
Strategy paper for developing a Regional Health Promotion Network
in Hungary, NEFI
- with Zs. Hangyál,
P. Ábrahám and K. Mihai. Stakeholder analysis report
of the WHO/EURO Regions for Health Network in the Hungarian 3-Counties
Project
Last updated:
15 June 2002, Budapest, Hungary
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