A Special Virtual Event on Thursday, May 20, 2021 addressed the Consequences of Long COVID. The recorded session is now available to replay on demand. This one-hour webinar was hosted by the organizers of IFDM 2021.
Continue reading Special Virtual Event: The Consequences of Long COVID
The Special Virtual Event took place on Monday, November 9, 2020. A recorded version is now available (free of charge).
Continue reading RETURN TO WORK STRATEGIES UNDER COVID-19: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
Continue reading INTERNATIONAL FORUM ON DISABILITY MANAGEMENT – IFDM 2020 – Belgium
This is a last chance to submit your abstract! So far we’ve received many abstracts but we are hoping for more! Don’t miss the deadline of April 20th. If you hesitate to share an abstract with us now, it will be too late. Please send it to us now!
All information about the call for abstracts and submission is available following this link: https://www.ifdm2020.org/call-for-abstracts
Please see the attached flyer for more information
The International Forum on Disability Management – IFDM 2018 – hosted by PCU-WHS provided an opportunity to sit down with individuals representing a wide variety of perspectives. These interviews are available for viewing under the Video Library tab of this website and are in addition to the IFDM videos also available in the Video Library:
During the conclusion of IFDM 2018 held in Vancouver, Canada, October 15-17, attended by 400 delegates from 30 countries, organized by the Pacific Coast University for Workplace Health Sciences (PCU-WHS), the handover took place to Brussels, site of the 10th International Biennial Congress on Disability Management and Return to Work – IFDM 2020 – to be hosted by the Belgium Federal Social Security Organization, INAMI.
Attached please find the bulletin with further details with regard to the IFDMs going forward.
Over 80 Presentations were delivered by experts from 20 countries during the conference. These have been uploaded to the IFDM 2018 website. Please click on the tab marked Program on the website and click on the links provided in the titles of the Plenary presentations as well as of the Concurrent Workshop presentation titles.
To view the Gallery of Photos taken at IFDM 2018, please visit the IFDM 2018 website and click on the tab marked Gallery of Photos.
To view the Welcome videos from Federal Ministers Carla Qualtrough and Patty Hajdu and BC Premier John Horgan, please click on the tab marked Video Library on the website.
Following the Kuala Lumpur Joint Statement on Disability Management issued at IFDM 2016 in Malaysia, which set out a framework of values, at IFDM 2018 held in Vancouver, Canada, October 15-17, 2018, the Canada Declaration was put forth as a practical agenda leading to demonstrable improvements, clarifying the duties of governments, employers, unions and other relevant stakeholders, providing support where needed, and putting government money to work in ways that reduce poverty and unemployment of workers with a disability.
It identifies barriers that still face workers with a disability and sets out Goals going forward.
To read the full text of the IFDM 2018 Canada Declaration, please click on the following link:
IFDM 2018 Canada Declaration
We are extremely pleased to advise that an agreement has been reached, and will be signed during the Opening Session of IFDM 2018, between the International Social Security Organization (ISSA) a UN affiliated, Geneva based organization, with over 330 members in more than 150 countries, and Canada’s National Institute of Disability Management and Research (NIDMAR), effecting the legal transfer of IFDM associated intellectual property, currently held by NIDMAR to ISSA.
For further details, please see the attached Third Update
Keynote Address: Bill C-81, An Act to ensure a barrier-free Canada
We are pleased to announce that Ms. Yazmine Laroche, Deputy Minister, Public Service Accessibility, Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, will be the opening keynote speaker taking place on Monday, October 15, 9:00 am – 10:00 am. Ms. Laroche was appointed to this position by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on August 7, 2018 with a mandate to lead the Government’s public service accessibility agenda. For further details, please see the attached Second Update