The World Health Organization's Scientific Resource Group on Equity Analysis and Research, together with the Global Forum for Health Research and the People's Health Movement, have announced a call for research proposals from civil society organisations (CSOs) on the theme: ‘Advancing health equity through research and practice: Identifying what works to reduce health inequities’. In their proposals, CSOs may evaluate interventions they have implemented and their impacts both on health outcomes and on health equity. The interventions to be evaluated need to address social, economic and political determinants of health. The evaluation should examine inequities among different social groups, not only between one disadvantaged group and a population average. Interventions could potentially be adapted for implementation in other countries. Teams submitting expressions of interest should demonstrate expertise in research for health or development, ability to design evaluation studies and ability to analyse data to evaluate impacts of interventions on health and health equity. Demonstration of advanced writing skills will be an advantage. A budget and timeline must be included, specifying how the case award will contribute to the overall evaluation of the intervention.
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Funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and managed by the Netherlands Organizations for International Co-operation in Higher Education (NUFFIC), the Netherlands Fellowship Programme is an opportunity for non-governmental organisations, governmental and private organisations in developing countries to build their capacity. The overall aim of the NFP is to help alleviate qualitative and quantitative shortages of skilled staff within a wide range of governmental, private and non-governmental organizations by offering fellowships to mid-career professionals to improve the capacity of the organizations they work for. The need for training has to be evident within the context of an organisation. Candidates from Sub-Saharan Africa, women and members of priority groups and marginalised regions are specifically invited to apply for an NFP fellowship. The NFP offers several sub-programmes. Each sub-programme has a separate section on the Fellowship Programme’s website, with information about eligibility criteria, application and selection and deadlines (if applicable). Sub-programmes include short courses, master’s degrees and PhD studies.
All concerned parties are invited by AGRA Watch/Community Alliance for Global Justice & La Via Campesina to add their signatures to this open letter to the Gates Foundation. It acknowledges that signatories to the letter share recognition with the Foundation that hunger, poverty and climate change are inter-related through the medium of agricultural policies, but express reservations that the Foundation’s approach to these issues – directly and through its Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) subsidiary – is unlikely to adequately address them and may well aggravate their underlying causes. The letter states that the Foundation is mistakenly funding an inappropriate effort to industrialise agriculture in Africa, including the use of chemical fertilisers, pesticides, monocropping of ‘improved’ and genetically engineered crop varieties, further deregulation of trade, and regulatory frameworks that will privatise seed. The authors of the letter warn that science and historical precedents indicate that these changes will come at the expense of the hungry, small farmers, consumer health and the environment.
This is an opportunity for activists and scholars to contribute to a series of three linked workshops in Africa. Each two-day meeting will debate current challenges and prospects for Left analysis and action. The organisers are seeking both key speakers and offers of papers, with a plan to publish a selection in the Review of African Political Economy. The workshops are scheduled in November 2017 in Accra, Ghana; April 2018 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; June 2018 in Johannesburg, South Africa; September 2018 at the African Studies Association in the UK. These workshops will link analysis and activism in contemporary Africa from the perspective of radical political economy, and will be organised around three linked themes: Africa in a ‘post-crisis’ world, economic strategy, industrialisation and the agrarian question and resistance and social movements in Africa.
This series of meetings is an opportunity for activists and scholars to contribute to three linked workshops in Africa. Each two-day meeting will debate current challenges and prospects for analysis and action. The organisers are seeking speakers and offers of papers, with a plan to publish a selection in the Review of African Political Economy. The workshops are scheduled in November 2017 in Accra, Ghana; April 2018 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; June 2018 in Johannesburg, South Africa; and September 2018 at the African Studies Association in the UK. These workshops will link analysis and activism in contemporary Africa from the perspective of radical political economy, and will be organised around three linked themes: (1) Africa in a ‘post-crisis’ world, (2) Economic strategy, industrialisation and (3) The agrarian question and resistance and social movements in Africa.
This is an opportunity for activists and scholars to contribute to a series of three linked workshops in Africa. Each two-day meeting will debate current challenges and prospects for Left analysis and action. The organisers are seeking both key speakers and offers of papers, with a plan to publish a selection in the Review of African Political Economy. The workshops are scheduled in November 2017 in Accra, Ghana; April 2018 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; June 2018 in Johannesburg, South Africa; September 2018 at the African Studies Association in the UK. These workshops will link analysis and activism in contemporary Africa from the perspective of radical political economy, and will be organised around three linked themes: Africa in a ‘post-crisis’ world, economic strategy, industrialisation and the agrarian question and resistance and social movements in Africa.
The mission of the APHA International Human Rights Committee is to develop research, education, and policy toward eliminating international human rights violations which relate to public health. IHRC seeks abstracts from students in public health or related fields on topics addressing the intersection between health and human rights. Abstracts related to the 2006 Annual Meeting theme "Public Health and Human Rights" are encouraged. Student papers must reflect work, issues, or activities undertaken while in school, either undergraduate or graduate programs. Poster sessions allow participants to view presentations at will and interact with poster session authors. Complete and submit attached form by email (in Word format) or mail no later than October 10, 2006, 5:00pm (ET).
Cities & Health aims to provide an innovative new international platform for consolidating research and know-how for city development to support human health. The journal will publish papers and commentary from researchers and practitioners working to build stronger relationships and a better understanding for supporting healthier cities. Unique to the journal, authors are asked to provide a one page lay summary of their papers specifically to illustrate its relevance for the practitioner community and to inform city authorities. A forum of city leaders and practitioners who are already fostering change will be asked to review and comment on these summaries. The journal invites contributions from a broad range of disciplines, including, but not limited to: built environment, including: urban design, planning, architecture, transport, landscape and city governance; public health, including: epidemiology, health economy, public health advocacy and community health; experts in many other relevant fields, such as psychology, human behaviour, geography, environmental resources, cultural studies, communications and the arts. The paper is to be published bi-annually, starting from 2017.
What does post-westernness look like? What does it mean to be a cultural practitioner working outside the current imperial centres? What happens when water becomes more expensive than oil? How will south-south co-operation change things? What colour is the future? This call is for written submissions to “The State”, a media space for written and audiovisual communications, critical texts, interrogative narratives, images, manifestos and conversations. Send pitches or submissions of new work or pieces in English that have not yet been published in English, along with a brief bio, to submit@thestate.ae, by January 15th, 2014. Commissioned pieces will receive an honorarium.
The South African Health Review Emerging Public Health Practitioner Award is offered to South African candidates under the age of 35 to submit a chapter dealing with public health or policy in South Africa for publication in the South African Health Review. Click on link for further details.