The current economic boom in many sub-Saharan countries is accompanied by an unprecedented increase in non-communicable diseases (NCDs) due to industrial pollution, including pesticides. While local and international mobilizations call for more stringent pesticide control measures, African governments often refrain from adopting and enforcing strict regulations – considered as potential obstacles to “development”. This interdisciplinary conference aims at laying the foundations for a long-term scientific cooperation between African and European scholars on the management of pesticide-related occupational and environmental health hazards in Africa. It aims to explore the trade-offs between production and prevention that underlie the expansion of chemical-intensive agriculture on the continent, to understand the relations between technique, knowledge and power that condition the inclusion of African populations in the globalized economy, and to grasp the resulting health and environmental inequalities.
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The current economic boom in many sub-Saharan countries is accompanied by an unprecedented increase in noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) due to industrial pollution, including pesticides. While local and international mobilizations call for more stringent pesticide control measures, African governments often refrain from adopting and enforcing strict regulations – considered as potential obstacles to “development”. This interdisciplinary conference aims at laying the foundations for a long-term scientific cooperation between African and European scholars on the management of pesticide-related occupational and environmental health hazards in Africa. It aims at exploring the trade-offs between production and prevention that underlie the expansion of chemical-intensive agriculture on the continent, to understand the relations between technique, knowledge and power that condition the inclusion of African populations in the globalized economy, and to grasp the resulting health and environmental inequalities.
Forum 2012 marks the beginning of a new series of the annual Global Forum for Health Research meetings. It will bring together seven key constituencies: governments, research institutions, business, social enterprises/civil society organisations, international organisations, research funders and media. Under the theme of ‘Beyond aid: Research and innovation as key drivers for health, equity and development’, the Forum will focus on potentials, solutions, and developing capacities – specifically in low- and middle-income countries and emerging economies – and how global collaboration can leverage this for a new era of global development support. It aims to contribute to health, equity and development in a measurable way. Forum 2012 will focus on three key areas to achieve this goal: investing in research and innovation for health; networks and networking for research and innovation; and creating an enabling environment for research and innovation (government policies). COHRED and the Global From for Health Research are calling for contributions to setting the agenda for Forum 2012.
The Broker is hosting the debate on 'Health for All' following up on the special report published in Issue 12, which argues that there is an urgent need to improve universal access to health care by means of a radical new approach to health. All contributions to this debate are now available online at the address given below. For those of you who didn't have time yet to respond, please feel free to join the discussion now. You can add comments directly to individual contributions online.
Co-led by WHO and UNICEF, and with the support of the governments of Sweden and Botswana, the High-level Global Thematic Consultation on Health in the post-2015 agenda took place on 5-6 March 2013, in Botswana. This was one of 11 United Nations thematic consultations to help define the priorities of the future development agenda. As part of the ongoing consultation towards a final report that will be presented in May 2013, interested parties are invited to make contributions. Some commentators have noted a lack of inputs from low- and middle-income countries. CHESTRAD specifically calls on all contributors from these countries. The draft report is included in this newsletter.
As part of its editorial programming for 2019-2021, the journal Justice Spatiale | Spatial Justice is opening a permanent call for contribution to its different sections : 1) Focus for peer review papers ; 2) Public Spaces for general interventions, interviews or position papers on issues related to spatial justice; 3) JSSJ Reviews for books reviews. Justice Spatiale | Spatial Justice is an international electronic journal whose concept was born in Nanterre, France, precisely where Henri Lefebvre taught, and this is in no way a coincidence as there is a strong relation between the concept of spatial justice and the Lefebvrian concepts of production of space (“production de l’espace”) and right to the city (“droit à la ville”). The journal Justice Spatiale | Spatial Justice is committed to interdisciplinary approaches and encourages cross-cutting research. Another primary objective is to create sustained linkages between the English-speaking and the French-speaking scientific communities. The journal is therefore completely bilingual. The electronic medium also has the potential to expand the traditional definition of the academic article since it enables the combination of text, images (static and animated) and sounds.
Plos Medicine and the World Health Organisation (WHO) are calling for contributions to its World Health Report 2012, which will be themed ‘No Health without research’. Research in any of the following areas may be submitted: setting and implementing health research priorities; building, strengthening, and retaining research capacity, at both the individual and institutional levels; national research and development initiatives and experiences to produce needed medical products using TRIPS flexibilities; appropriate use of evidence in health policy development; organizing research within a country, including the establishment of effective research networks and sustainable governance mechanisms; standards and mechanisms to ensure the responsible conduct of research; exercises to evaluate the impact of research investments; and external foreign aid for research. Once a paper is accepted for publication in a PLoS journal it will then be forwarded to the selection panel for the collection. This panel, which will comprise PLoS and WHO staff, will decide on the articles for inclusion in the collection.
The Global Forum for Health Research invites all interested parties to contribute their ideas for presentations and also welcomes innovative ideas for discussion topics and for the format of sessions in Forum 2009 in three different categories. First, in ‘Innovative presentations and discussion topics, çontributors may be invited for oral or poster presentations or as a panellist in a discussion session. Second, in ‘Innovative approaches to sessions’, a diverse array of formats will be presented, including panel discussions, workshops and roundtables. These seek to engage the participants in constructive dialogue and debate to identify pathways to solutions for critical health problems. Third, in ‘Other innovative proposals’, proposals may include suggestions for executive meetings, prizes, declarations, action plans, networking events, launches of books and of innovative initiatives and partnerships, among others.
The guest editor seeks contributions to the issue on any topic related to feminist disability studies and bioethics, including (but not limited to):critiques of bioethics by feminist disability theorists from within feminist bioethics, the relevance of feminist disability studies in developing countries, what’s still missing from feminist arguments in the debates about stem cell research and other forms of biotechnology, the importance of perspectives of disabled embodiment in feminist bioethics, how the critiques of bioethics advanced in disability studies are gendered and the integration of political analyses of disability into feminist bioethics. All submissions should be prepared in accordance with the journal’s style guidelines which are posted on the IJFAB website. The deadline for submissions is 30 April 2009.
The United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines is calling for contributions by interested stakeholders that address the misalignment between the rights of inventors, international human rights law, trade rules and public health where it impedes the innovation of and access to health technologies. In particular the High-Level Panel will consider contributions that promote research, development, innovation and increase access to medicines, vaccines, diagnostics and related health technologies to improve the health and wellbeing of all, as envisaged by Sustainable Development Goal 3, and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development more broadly. Submitted contributions should be evidence-informed and include references to the principles, literature and models upon which the contribution is based. The contributions should reflect, align and demonstrate how it will support the attainment of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and in particular, Sustainable Development Goal 3, that aims to improve the health and wellbeing for all, and where applicable, indicate the political, financial or other requirements to the implement of the proposed ideas.