Jobs and Announcements

The Fordham Urban Law Center, in conjunction with the University of Cape Town (UCT), is pleased to announce a call for participation in the 4th Annual International and Comparative Urban Law Conference, to be held on Monday July 17th and Tuesday July 18th, 2017. The Conference will be held at UCT in Cape Town, South Africa. The Conference will provide a dynamic forum for legal and other scholars to engage and generate diverse international, comparative, and interdisciplinary perspectives in the burgeoning field of urban law. The Conference will explore overlapping themes, tensions, and opportunities for deeper scholarly investigation and practice with a comparative perspective. The Conference is open to urban law topics across a broad spectrum, such as: Structure and workings of local authority and autonomy; urban and metropolitan governance and finance; economic and community development; housing and the built environment; unique challenges facing cities in developing nations and the global south; urban public health; migration and citizenship; urban equity and inclusion and sustainability and resilience. While the Conference will foster a broad dialogue about cities and legal systems in comparative and international perspective, we specifically invite submissions to focus on the role of law in New Urban Agenda adopted this past October by the United Nations at the Habitat III Conference in Quito, Ecuador. In keeping with this framework, the conference seeks to investigate the role of laws in promoting the New Urban Agenda in a manner that is democratic, sustainable and equitable.

The World Health Organization is soliciting high-quality submissions of original statistical research results and/or experience focusing on the topic, ‘Measuring health workforce inequalities: Methods and applications’. Selected papers will be presented at a special meeting in South Africa in August 2009. Submissions should focus on methodological developments and applications for measuring health workforce inequalities, with special attention to monitoring trends (over time and/or areas) and evaluating their impacts on health systems performance and population health outcomes. Priority will be given to researchers from low- and middle-income countries who do not receive financial support from an international source. Full papers must be submitted by 15 May 2009 according to the format prescribed.

New Solutions seeks submissions for a special issue that will focus on the extractive industries. Extractive industries are defined as processes that involve the extraction of raw materials from the natural environment to be used for consumption and include the mining of precious and other metals (e.g. gold, silver, iron, manganese, tin, asbestos and rare-earth metals, amongst others), and the extraction of energy sources such as coal, uranium, natural gas, oil sources such as oil shale and tar sands, as well as dredging and quarrying for primary materials. Because New Solutions is a policy journal, manuscripts, including scientific papers, should include a perspective that addresses relevant policy concerns. Manuscripts are welcome for any of its journal sections, including: Scientific Solutions, Feature Articles, Movement Solutions, Documents, Voices, and Comment and Controversy. The editors encourage submissions that highlight possible alternatives or solutions and examples of positive community responses and activities.

The journal Health Policy and Planning and the organisers of the Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research are pleased to issue a call for papers for a special supplement on the theme of "The science and practice of people-centred health systems". People-centred health systems are founded on pro-people philosophies of social justice and equity, recognise the role of social exclusion and inequities as determinants of poor health, and can also actively work to address them. They consider the health needs and preferences of individuals, families and communities, and create the channels through which these can be articulated and realised. They also recognise and actively progress people’s rights to participate in and determine how health systems are organised, resources are allocated, and services are delivered. Original research articles as well as review papers are invited. The theme may reflect either in the topic or focus of the paper (e.g. research on people-led governance, health worker rights or patient-led health care), in the analytical approach adopted (e.g. ethical analysis, approaches that help understand people’s behaviour and motivation), or in the manner of conduct of research (e.g. participatory approaches, focus on researcher reflexivity).