It's time to register for the 16th Canadian Conference on International Health (CCIH). This year's conference is being held on October 25–28, 2009 in Ottawa, Canada. The Conference convenes more than 500 participants from 44 countries. It also creates a unique networking forum for practitioners, researchers, educators, policy makers and community advocates working at the intersection of health and development within and outside Canada, to share knowledge, experience and promote innovation and collaborative action. It provides a peer review process for individuals and organisations involved in health development, building knowledge and strengthening programmes in international health. The themes of the Conference are: Pathways to Global Health Competence; An Ethical View of Health Equity: Trends and Challenges; Global Health Diplomacy: A Tool for Global Health and Justice; and Thinking Globally/Acting Locally: The Reality and Challenges for the Future.
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All interested parties are invited to the 6th Annual Scientific Conference of TICH. The Conference theme is ‘Revitalisation of primary health care towards Millenium Development Goals’. The sub-themes are: ‘Community strategy: Enhancing stewardship in health systems strengthening’; ‘Health systems financing: Reducing out of pocket expenditure in health’; and ‘Human resource for health: The role of community health workers in improving health outcomes’. This conference will differ from the conventional paradigm of conferencing by: creating multi-voice sessions in order to capture experiences from different communities such as marginalised groups; addressing deficiencies in research to policy; and focusing on the quest for practical, proven and effective solutions.
The central focus of this conference, organised by the Federation of European Societies for Tropical Medicine and International Health (FESTMIH), will be ‘Equity, Human Rights and Access to Care’. This event aims to deal with the classical aspects of tropical medicine including basic science, diagnostics/therapeutics and disease control, and will include an emphasis on transferability of research results into actual practice. Discussions will also address the North-South gap in health research, in all main aspects, such as how much space is devoted to global health in medical journals, the role of researchers from the South in relevant publications, what share of research is actually devoted to priority areas, important gaps that remain to be filled in research in tropical medicine and international health, and difficulties experienced in financing health system research.
The International Society for Equity in Health- ISEqH - will hold its 6th International Conference: Making Policy a Health Equity Building Process in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia - September 26-28, 2011. Equity is an important issue to champion for, however nobody disagrees with it because is too broad. The conferebce aims to provide more detail, to be more specific and, at the same time, offer a multi-disciplinary look. The organisers call for submissions for organised sessions by 4 March and individual abstracts by 15 April 2011. All participants are invited to submit an abstract for symposia and/or oral and/or poster presentations to abstracts@iseqh.org. It is not necessary to be a member of the International Society for Equity in Health to submit an abstract.
The International Society for Equity in Health- ISEqH - will hold its Sixth International Conference: Making Policy a Health Equity Building Process in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia - September 26-28, 2011. Equity is an important issue to champion for, however nobody disagrees with it because is too broad. The conferebce aims to provide more detail, to be more specific and, at the same time, offer a multi-disciplinary look. The organisers call for submissions for organised sessions by 4 March and individual abstracts by 15 April 2011. All participants are invited to submit an abstract for symposia and/or oral and/or poster presentations to abstracts@iseqh.org. It is not necessary to be a member of the International Society for Equity in Health to submit an abstract.
The Sixth South African AIDS Conference will be held in Durban from 18-21 June 2013. The conference theme is "Building on our successes: Integrating responses". As South Africa enters the fourth decade of HIV and AIDS, the conference aims to look back at lessons learnt and reflect, celebrate the gains made, and find ways to build on past successes by integrating HIV with other health responses. The conference will bring together various members of the HIV research community, including clinicians, academics, civil society and government.
The Sixth South African AIDS Conference will be held in Durban from 18-21 June 2013. The conference theme is "Building on our successes: Integrating responses". As South Africa enters the fourth decade of HIV and AIDS, the conference aims to look back at lessons learnt and reflect, celebrate the gains made, and find ways to build on past successes by integrating HIV with other health responses. The conference will bring together various members of the HIV research community, including clinicians, academics, civil society and government.
The Sixth South African AIDS Conference will be held in Durban from 18-21 June 2013. The conference theme is "Building on our successes: Integrating responses". As South Africa enters the fourth decade of HIV and AIDS, the conference aims to look back at lessons learnt and reflect, celebrate the gains made, and find ways to build on past successes by integrating HIV with other health responses. The conference will bring together various members of the HIV research community, including clinicians, academics, civil society and government.
The Sixth South African AIDS Conference will be held in Durban from 18-21 June 2013. The conference theme is "Building on our successes: Integrating responses". As South Africa enters the fourth decade of HIV and AIDS, the conference aims to look back at lessons learnt and reflect, celebrate the gains made, and find ways to build on past successes by integrating HIV with other health responses. The conference will bring together various members of the HIV research community, including clinicians, academics, civil society and government.
The Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research announces its 3rd call for Research for Policy Grants. The topic for this round is Health System Development and Scaling-Up Priority Services. Research proposals should aim to improve health in low and middle in-
come countries through applying quantitative and/or qualitative methods to the understanding and explanation of critical issues in the scaling-up and integration within national health systems of priority health services and disease control programmes.