The Panos AIDS Programme in partnership with the Centre for Communications Programmes at Johns Hopkins University is carrying out a series of country assessments on media environments for public health across Africa. The assessments will focus on broadcasting in particular. In each focus country Panos will work with local experts to research broadcasting policies and the broadcasting environment, and its impact on public health. The results of the research will be presented in a number of policy and editorial outputs. If your organisation has expertise or current activities in this area we would very much like to contact you to share experiences and to investigate possible synergies. Feel free to contact Johanna Hanefeld johannah@panoslondon.org.uk
Jobs and Announcements
The Panos Global AIDS Programme and Stop TB Partnership invite print and photo journalists from India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan, Philippines, Zambia, Ethiopia, Malawi and Haiti to apply for a fellowship to write/photograph issues around TB, and TB & HIV/AIDS. Fellowships will run from June to October 2005. Each fellowship will involve working closely with the Panos Global AIDS Programme, the Stop TB Partnership and a panel of experts on TB and communication in TB and/or HIV/AIDS in the countries specified.
The Paradigm Shift Programme is a holistic, economic development outreach tool that connects business men and women within the church to micro entrepreneurs in poor communities. Paradigm Shift seeks to appoint a Regional Partnerships Coordinator to be based in South Africa. This position is part-time, and can be fulfilled working remotely but with frequent teleconferencing and face-to-face meetings built in. The responsibilities include managing communication between volunteer teams and Paradigm Shift, ensuring the training and coaching of Point Persons, creating and executing strategic plans for national expansion, new partnership development and communications. The post requires a minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree, demonstrated expertise in key areas mentioned in job description, interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills and experience of working with people working their way out of poverty.
The G20 Summit will take place on 3-4 November 2011 in Cannes, France, and preparations are progressing for the Alter-Forum to be held in Nice, from 1-4 November 2011. The “People First, Not Finance” Alter-Forum will be organised around six themes: stop austerity and end inequalities (austerity, employment, social rights, health and welfare); focus on the people, not the market (finance regulation and debt); change the system, not the planet (environment and development); don’t gamble with our food (agriculture, food); indignados, rebels and solidarity (democracy and human rights); and global governance. Several activities will be organised by the coalition, including a protest on 1 November and a press conference on 4 November at the end of the alter-forum and the G20 Summit. The coalition calls on all civil society groups, social movements, NGOs and trade unions to take the initiative of organising one or several events during the Alter-Forum.
The Partnership for Global Health Equity is a small grants facility created to provide seed funding for Canada-South partnerships that involve the production or utilisation of equity-oriented research for health. The Partnership is housed at the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and has a number of contributors, including IDRC, RITC, CIDA, CSIH, CPHA, and other Canadian and developing country health research organisations. The inaugural October 2001 competition will be administered by the Canadian Society for International Health. The Partnership seeks to encourage a range of innovative health research related activities and partnerships that are focussed on the health priorities faced by Southern countries and are pro-equity, gender-sensitive, participatory, and trans-disciplinary. Priority research areas include tobacco control policy, population health and community-based approaches to HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases, health equity, and globalisation and health. The Partnership intends to fund research whose current theme, approach, and/or partnerships do not readily fit under already existing funding frameworks, and thus to identify some of the current gaps in health research funding and to explore mechanisms to increase the resources available for important and innovative health research activities. The application deadline is October 1st 2001.
This book is Farmer's account of the disenfranchised poor whose lives so often end in tragic and yet, he contends, wholly predictable ways. They are victims of “structural violence,'' falling prey to treatable illnesses, preventable hunger, and crime, all for the sole reason of having no money.
The 3rd International Conference of the International Society for Equity in Health will be hosted by the Health Systems Trust (HST), a South African-based NGO, the Southern African Regional Network on Equity in Health (EQUINET) and the Global Equity Gauge Alliance (GEGA), an international consortium of initiatives to support health equity. The meeting will bring together, researchers, policy-makers, practitioners and others concerned with equity in health to develop an international health agenda for governments, universities and organisations all over the world. The 3rd International Conference theme is “Pathways to equity in health: Using research for policy and advocacy”. The Conference will explore this theme through a varied program of plenary sessions, forums, poster sessions and scientific sessions.
Population Health Research Institute is offering a paid studentship for up to two students to undertake a research project in Peace through Health. One of these studentships will be available to Canadian students, and the other to students from other countries, to pursue a project in Peace through Health. The amount available for each studentship is up to CDN $2,500. This amount could be used to support travel or living expenses when the student is away or can be used towards the costs of the project. Deadline: July 1 - annually.
Together, let us build a healthy world! The Second Peoples Health Assembly will be the culmination of a process of local and national reflections, discussions and debates, and of the exchange of experiences of communities and networks the world over. National and regional conferences and workshops centered around all aspects that influence the health and well being of the marginalized will be held in preparation of PHA 2. At the same time, there will be a mobilization of campaigns to help join together organizations and groups of people around the call for Health for All Now, No to War and no to the WTO.
From 1 June 2009, the PHM Global Secretariat will be hosted by PHM-South Africa in Cape Town, South Africa. Ms Bridget Lloyd has been appointed Global Co-ordinator. For the last three years, from June 2006 to June 2009, PHM’s Global Secretariat has been based in Cairo at the Association of Health and Environment Development (AHED) and led by Dr Hani Serag with the support of the Global Secretariat Committee (Dr Jihad Marshal, Dr Alaa Shukrallah and Dr Ghassan Issa). Cape Town will be the fourth location of the PHM Global Secretariat. From January 2000 to December 2002, the Secretariat was hosted by Gonoshasthaya Kendra in Savar, Bangladesh and led by Dr Qasem Chowdhury) and then from January 2003 – May 2006 in Bangalore, India when it was hosted by the Community Health Cell and led by Dr Ravi Narayan.