The overall theme of the 9th International Cochrane Colloquium is 'The evidence dissemination process: how to make it more efficient'. The Colloquium will focus on identifying the barriers preventing the use of evidence, and means of overcoming these.
Jobs and Announcements
9th International Cochrane Colloquium
9-13 October 2001, Palais des Congres, Lyon - France
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A call for applicants to the short course: The struggle for health
Application deadline: 7 March 2010
The International People's Health University (IPHU) of the People's Health Movement (PHM) and The Great Lakes University of Kisumu (GLUK) are holding a ten-day short course for health activists scheduled in Kisumu, Kenya 19-28 April, 2010. The course will be conducted in English. A limited number of scholarships for travel and accommodation will be available for qualified applicants from sub-Saharan Africa and Kenya. Younger health activists and practitioners working on the issues of health, gender and human rights and particularly including those involved in the People’s Health Movement (PHM). Applications are particularly welcomed from from women and from South Africa, Botswana, Congo, Tanzania, Namibia and Ghana. Applicants should be fluent in English. Priority, with respect to enrolment, will be given to younger people motivated to get involved in PHM, primary health care and public health practitioners, and people with a track record as health activists within the PHM, in particular those who have been actively involved in organisations that are part of the PHM.
A call for expressions of interest to participate in new research and research training in Comprehensive Primary Health Care
People's Health Movement
In 2007, an international network of researchers and people involved in building comprehensive primary health care (CPHC) received funding to support research and research capacity-building. This network, associated with the People's Health Movement, includes individuals in India , Africa, Latin America, Europe, Canada and Australia. The ideals of comprehensive primary health care were first launched internationally by the 1978 Alma-Ata Declaration on Primary Health Care. This Declaration was partly based on earlier primary health care successes in significantly lowering infant, childhood and maternal mortality rates and creating over all population health improvements in many parts of the developing world. Since the Alma-Ata Declaration, however, most health systems reform in much of the world has been driven by 'selective' (single-disease or intervention focused) primary health care, and by increased marketization of health care services ( e.g. user fees, privatization). This has led to increasingly complex, inefficient and inequitable health systems driven by an ever larger number of special 'global health initiatives.'This document outlines how this project will set out to change this.
A Call for HIV/AIDS Artwork-2003
Candelight memorial poster contest
Are you an artist? Do you want your artwork to be seen in 1500 communities around the world? Do you have an image that the HIV/AIDS community can benefit from? If the answer is YES, then participate in the Candlelight Memorial Poster Contest. The Global Health Council is inviting anyone interested to participate in the Candlelight Memorial 2003 Poster Contest. We are asking individuals to submit artwork that addresses this year's theme of remembrance and renewal. The 2003 theme is "Remembering the Cause, Renewing our Commitment,Mobilizing a Global Community". We encourage you to take this contest to your communities and invite everyone to participate. It is a great way to get your community to express their ideas and thoughts about HIV/AIDS through art. All entries will be accepted until November 8, 2002 and we will announce the winner during our annual World AIDS Day event on December 1, 2002.
Further details: /newsletter/id/29357
A Public Health Approach to Antiretroviral Treatment: Overcoming Constraints
Perspectives and Practice in Antiretroviral Treatment
With 42 million people now living with HIV/AIDS, expanding access to antiretroviral treatment for those who urgently need it is one of the most pressing challenges in international health. Providing treatment is essential to alleviate suffering and to mitigate the devastating impact of the epidemic. It also presents unprecedented opportunities for a more effective response by involving people living with HIV/AIDS, their families and communities in care and will strengthen HIV prevention by increasing awareness, creating a demand for testing and counselling and reducing stigma and discrimination.
Abstract call: 12th World Congress on Public Health, 27 April - 1 May 200, Istanbul, Turkey
World Federation of Public Health Associations
The 12th Triennial Congress will address the enormous challenges and opportunities for public health organizations worldwide to make a difference.
The World Federation of Public Health Associations and the Turkish Public Health Association invite local, national and international public health leaders, advocates and students to submit abstracts dealing with the major cross-cutting sub-themes: education, research, and practice. These abstracts should demonstrate the link between public health education, research, and practice and improved health outcomes. The abstracts should also showcase innovations, practices, tools and transferable lessons from across the globe that will help us make a decided difference in global public health. Submit abstracts in the following general topics: Education in Public Health for 21st Century; Global Public Health Workforce; Public Health & Health Services Research & Technology; Global Governance; Health and Development; Comparative Analysis of Health Systems; Strengthening Global Public Health Systems; Financing Global Public Health; Environmental Safety & Stewardship; Health, Geopolitics, & Public Diplomacy; Public Health, Political Will, & the Public Good. Abstract Submission Deadline is Saturday, 5 July 2008, Midnight Pacific Time.
Abstract submission open for the 13th International AIDSImpact Conference
Deadlines for abstracts:10 July 2017
Stellenbosch University and the Human Sciences Research Council will jointly host the 13th AIDSImpact Conference at the Century City Conference Centre, Cape Town South Africa. Each AIDSImpact meeting attracts delegates new to the field as well as a core group of loyal psychosocial and behavioral researchers, prevention workers, community members and policy makers from universities and institutes across all five continents who use the biannual meeting to present their studies, interventions and prevention schemes. AIDSImpact has evolved as one of the leading platforms for understanding, updating and debating the behavioral, psychosocial and community facets of HIV in light of changing social conditions and medical advances. A review of past AIDSImpact scientific programs reveals the evolution of the psychosocial and behavioral response to the HIV epidemic over the past 25 years. The 2017 Cape Town conference will promote pioneering work on understanding the dynamics of a changing epidemic. A key focus will be consideration of new choices for HIV - for prevention, treatment, care and strategic planning.
Abstract Submission Open For The 13th International AIDSimpact Conference
Deadlines for abstracts:10 July 2017
Stellenbosch University and the Human Sciences Research Council will jointly host the 13th AIDSImpact Conference at the Century City Conference Centre, Cape Town South Africa. Each AIDSImpact meeting attracts delegates new to the field as well as a core group of loyal psychosocial and behavioral researchers, prevention workers, community members and policy makers from universities and institutes across all five continents who use the biannual meeting to present their studies, interventions and prevention schemes. AIDSImpact has evolved as one of the leading platforms for understanding, updating and debating the behavioral, psychosocial and community facets of HIV in light of changing social conditions and medical advances. A review of past AIDSImpact scientific programs reveals the evolution of the psychosocial and behavioral response to the HIV epidemic over the past 25 years. The 2017 Cape Town conference will promote pioneering work on understanding the dynamics of a changing epidemic. A key focus will be consideration of new choices for HIV - for prevention, treatment, care and strategic planning.
AC3 NGO Conference 2008
The 2008 AC3 Non-governmental Organisations’ (NGO) Conference will be held on 23-October 2008 in Pretoria, South Africa. It will focus on building the organisational capacity of communities to respond effectively to their unique needs. The conference will assist organisations to: build organisational skills, identify other capacity building opportunities, provide learning opportunities to expand existing or new skills, provide an opportunity for organisations to share best practices and serve as a major annual networking opportunity for community-based organisations, non-governmental organisations and faith-based organisations.
Academic publishing made more accessible for scientists in developing world
The Open Society Institute (OSI) and Public Library of Science (PLoS) has announced a new grants program to support open access publishing in developing and transition countries. The grants will make it much easier for scientists based in developing and transition countries to submit articles to the premiere peer-reviewed research journals published by PLoS. "Scientists in poorer countries have been virtually excluded from the journal publishing world," said Darius Cuplinskas, director of OSI's Information Program. "Open access journals will remove barriers and make these scientists full members of the international scientific community.
Further details: /newsletter/id/30327