Report of attendance at All Together Better Health VII (ATBH VII)
Date: Friday to Sunday, 6-8 June 2014
Venue: University of Pittsburgh Campus, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Attendees from Gunma University:
Hideomi Watanabe: Director of Gunma University Centre for Research andTraining on Interprofessional Education (GCRTIPE), Dean of Graduate
School of Health Sciences (GSHS)
Hiromitsu Shinozaki: Member of GCRTIPE, Manager of Promoting Office ofInterprofessional Education (POIPE), GSHS
Nana Kururi: Member of GCRTIPE and POIPE
Yoshiharu Tokita: Member of GCRTIPE and POIPE
Ayako Igarashi: Graduate student, GSHSAyaka Saiki: Undergraduate student, School of Health Sciences (SHS)
Miki Takahashi: Undergraduate student, School of Health Sciences (SHS)
Mika Takabayashi: Undergraduate student, School of Health Sciences (SHS)
Contents:
All Together Better Health is the world’s largest and longest-running global
biennial conference series with a goal of advancing interprofessional practice andeducation for better health. This year’s conference represents the seventh in the series,
the previous 6th conference held in Kobe in 2012. The conference brings together
providers, health system executives, educators, students, policymakers, and health careindustry leaders to advance interprofessionalism worldwide. All Together Better Healthconference series will be coordinated by the World Interprofessional Education andCollaborative Practice Coordinating Committee (WCC), established in 2013 torepresent networks across the world sharing the same values in interprofessional
education and practice.
As described in the TOR 1 of WHO Collaborating Centre for Research andTraining in Interprofessional Education of Gunma University, Japan InterprofessionlWorking and Education Network (JIPWEN) universities participated actively in thisinternational conference, ATBH VII to contribute to better understanding of IPE in thecontext of overall transformative scaling up of health professional education.
Presentations reported in ATBH VII were described in the Annex. During thisconference World Interprofessional education and Collaborative Practice Coordinating
Committee (WCC) Planning Meeting was held. In this meeting, 7 members including
Hideomi Watanabe were nominated on the WCC by the networks for 2014 to 2017.
Establishment of website (http://www.atbh.org) and promoting future ATBH
conferences were reported. Furthermore, TOR of WCC was discussed, and on the basisof this discussion, Closing plenary session was organized. Panelists had presentation in
response to Transforming and Scaling up Health Professionals’ education and training:
World Health Organization Guidelines 2013. Report of this session was prepared to bepresented to WHO.
Hideomi Watanabe,
Director, GCRTIPE / Coordinator, JIPWEN

Annex 1: Presentation from JIPWEN universities and the related one
Presentations from JIPWEN universities
Closing plenary session:
1. Hideomi Watanabe, Panelist, Interprofessionalism in a Global Context
Poster session:
1. Yoshiharu Tokita, Shiomi Kanaizumi, Fusae Tozato, Hideomi Watanabe. Changes inattitudes toward healthcare teams through the IPE training course. (GunmaUniversity)
2. Mariko Otsuka,. Naoko Kunisawa, Yuu Maruyama, Mitsuyo Azegami, Examinationof the environmental factor to promote IPW. (Saitama Prefectural University)
3. Mariko Zensho, Koji Sugano. Wisdom of the area core hospital in a district that
established an unique discharge planning-a qualitative analysis. (SaitamaPrefectural University)
4. Ayako Igarashi, Takatoshi Makino, Hideomi Watanabe. Changes in attidudes toward
interprofessional health care teams between Gunma University and Kanazawa
University. (Gunma University)
5. Nana Kururi, Miki Takahashi, Mika Takabayashi. A literature review onInterprofessional Education in the Western Pacific Region. (Gunma University)
6. Ayaka Saiki. Outcome of the IPE training in Gunma University - from the srudents’perspective -. (Gunma University)
7. Yumi Tamura, Teppei Yamashita, Peter Bontje, Noriko Nagao. Evaluation of a 4-year
IPE curriculum for undergraduate health sciences university students throughmeasuring changes in readiness for IPL. (Tokyo Metropolitan University, and KobeUniversity)
8. Tomoko Koike, Rika Fujiya, Keiko Kishimoto, Shinzo Kato. Student experiences inLaos study tour: an evaluation of the interprofessional education program. (KeioUniversity)
9. Norie Obu, Yuji Katsuki, Osamu Hosoya, Sachiko Takahashi. The effectiveness andchallenges of a joint project in interprofessional education. (Saitama PrefecturalUniversity)
Presentations from Indonesian colleagues who participated in the Training Course inGunma University
1. Lhuri Dwianti Rahmartani, Samuel Josafat Olam. Lessons from Japan: The
Importance of Culture and Work Ethics in Promoting Interprofessional Educationand Collaborative Practice. (Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia Young HealthProfessionaks’ Society (IYHPS))Annex 2: Photos

In front of Cathedral of Learning with
Dr. Hugh Barr, Coordinator of WCC

Poster presentation by Tokita et al.

Poster presentation by Kururi et al.

Presentation by Watanabe in theClosing plenary session