Global Health calls for papers / meetings & conferences

Call for Oral Abstracts and Posters: 2013 Council on Resident Education in Obstetrics and Gynecology and Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics Annual Meeting

2013 CREOG and APGO ANNUAL MEETING

Extending Your Reach in Women’s Health Education: Up, Out, Across, and Around

February 27 - March 2, 2013 Phoenix, Arizona

The Council on Resident Education in Obstetrics and Gynecology (CREOG) and the Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics (APGO) invite you to contribute to the 2013 CREOG and APGO Annual Meeting. Medical students, residents, fellows, and faculty are all encouraged to submit abstracts in response to this Call for Abstracts and Posters.

We are excited about the theme of the 2013 Annual Meeting, “Extending Your Reach in Women’s Health Education: Up, Out, Across, and Around” and want you to be a part of the meeting. All submissions of original work related to education in Obstetrics and Gynecology will be considered for inclusion as Oral Abstracts or Posters.

This year, we are especially interested in receiving submissions related to the five broad topics listed below in the context of education in Obstetrics and Gynecology. Examples of what might fit into each category are also provided as suggestions.

Reaching Up – Setting and Attaining Stretch Goals for Individuals, Programs and Institutions

Reaching Out – Mentoring, Developing Philanthropy, Promoting Diversity, and Medical Arts and Humanities

Reaching Across – Handling Conflict Resolution, Interdisciplinary Learning, and the Educational Continuum of UME, GME and CME

Reaching Around – Considering Global Health and Medical Education; Working with Underserved Communities

Reaching Your Learners – Utilizing Technology in Education and Meaningful Assessment

All submissions will be blinded and scored by a group of peer judges who are members of CREOG and APGO. You must indicate on the form whether your submission should be considered as an oral presentation, as a poster, or as either. Up to forty abstracts will be accepted for oral presentation based on their educational merit, relevance and general interest. Unless otherwise indicated, the remaining meritorious submissions will be considered for inclusion in the poster sessions.

Every year, a number of awards are given to outstanding posters and abstracts presented at the meeting. The current list of awards appear at the bottom of this letter. Note that CREOG and APGO will be again offering an award for the best abstract submitted by a part-time/ volunteer faculty member. We are also pleased to announce a new award in 2013 sponsored by The Foundation for Exxcellence in Women’s Health Care. This $500 Award for Exxcellence will be presented to a Medical Student, Resident, Fellow or Faculty Member for the best use of the Exxcellence in Life-Long Learning (L3Ob/Gyn) or Pearls of Exxcellence programs directed by the Foundation for Exxcellence in Women’s Health Care. Please visit The Foundation for Exxcellence website for more information.

Submissions for the CREOG and APGO Annual Meeting have both written and electronic components. The electronic component must be sent via the CREOG website at http://classic.acog.org/creog-abstract-submission and must be complete by 8:00 a.m. EST on Monday, August 20, 2012. The paper component must be postmarked on or before August 20, 2012.

Call for Papers: 2012 Quetelet Seminar--Adult Mortality and Morbidity

December 5-7, 2012 Research Centre in Population and Societies, Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Numerous demographic studies have been focusing on mortality and range from analysis of age-specific mortality to cause-of-death analysis or risks factors analysis. In countries with a long statistical tradition, mortality levels by sex, age and cause of death are easily obtained. Epidemiologists as well as demographers took interest in identifying risks factors and markers by age, sex and cause. Although these factors and markers remain the same for morbidities and the resulting mortality, little is known about morbidity levels, be it in terms of prevalence or incidence, except for pathologies that are recorded in specific registrars or for which large surveys are conducted. In countries with incomplete demographic data, both mortality and morbidity are little or badly documented except when subjected to specific surveys such as under-5 mortality or, to a lesser extent, morbidity. The need for medical diagnosis and assessment of severity of illness makes morbidity data collection especially challenging. Morbidity data collection is especially challenging as it involves. In addition, in armed conflict, post-conflict or natural disaster situations, evaluating the number of victims is crucial to assess needs as well as to ease the reconciliation process.

The 2012 Quetelet Seminar will focus on adult age morbidity and mortality analysis from the data collection and measurement perspective. It will be organised in collaboration with the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (UCL-CRED/WHO) and International Network for the Demographic Evaluation of Populations and Their Health in Developing Countries (INDEPTH). Communications will cover existing or in-the-making tools for data collection and measurement that serve to estimate adult-age morbidity levels in countries with good-level statistical data and adult-age morbidity and mortality levels in countries with incomplete data. Particular attention will be devoted to papers that deal with estimating mortality and morbidity in crisis or post-crisis time. Studies analysing interactions between mortality and morbidity as well as the role of health monitoring systems in situations conducive to potentially high public health risk are encouraged.

The 2012 Quetelet Seminar will be organised along the following three axes:

1. Morbidity Analysis

What are the existing data collection and measurement tools to estimate incidence and prevalence of diseases, including chronic diseases? What are their limits?

What morbidity data collection and registration tools are most effective? What are the most reliable data to collect for the measurement of functional and cognitive abilities in a population so as to evaluate dependency ratios? What health monitoring systems should be developed to detect and prevent infectious disease?

2. Adult mortality in countries where data are incomplete

What are the latest developments in the estimation of adult mortality in countries where civil registration data are incomplete or non-existent? How has adult mortality changed recently in developing countries, more than three decades after the onset of the HIV epidemic and in a context of increased access to antiretroviral treatment? Beyond mortality levels, how are inequalities in adult mortality analysed (by sex, according to educational or poverty levels)? What are the lessons to be learned from demographic surveillance sites, particularly in terms of causes of death, as reflected by verbal autopsies and associated tools?

3. Demographic impacts of armed conflicts and natural disasters

What impact armed conflicts and natural disasters have on adult morbidity and mortality? How is this impact measured? What different forms of resilience develop and how are they captured? What early warning systems can be put in place to limit the impact of disasters?

Instructions for submitting paper
Abstracts (1 page including tables) should be submitted by email before 8th June, 2012 to Isabelle Theys (Isabelle.Theys@uclouvain.be). The abstracts should include a description of the paper’s objective, background, data and research methods, as well as expected findings. Authors of accepted papers will be notified by 29th June.

Paper
The completed papers, either in English or French, should be sent before 15th November, 2012. The final version should not exceed 20 single-spaced pages, including tables and references.

Language
Papers will be presented in French or English, without simultaneous translation.

Publication
A selection of publications will be published in the proceedings of the Chaire Quetelet 2012.

Deadlines
Deadline for submission: 8th June, 2012
Author notification of accepted paper abstract: 29th June, 2012
Deadline for complete paper: 15th November, 2012
Quetelet Seminar: 5th-7th December, 2012

Call for Abstracts: Disability and the Majority World: The 2nd International Conference

Date: 26th- 27th September, 2012

Venue: Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom

We are pleased to confirm that the 2nd international conference 'Disability and the Majority World' will be held at Manchester Metropolitan University. The conference seeks to bring together researchers, disability activists, practitioners, organisations, and others from various fields, to discuss a range of key and emerging themes around disability in the global South. It provides a much needed inter-disciplinary, critical, supportive and open space to debate, question and challenge, while exploring alternatives in a safe and friendly environment.

Call for abstracts: OPEN- deadline (22nd September)

We are now accepting abstracts for paper presentations, and welcome contributions around (not exclusively) the following broad areas, from all disciplinary perspectives. We particularly encourage contributions from activists, researchers and practitioners from the global South:

Poverty and disability
War and conflict
Health and rehabilitation
Migration
Development
Globalisation, neoliberalism and beyond
Post/neocolonial spaces
Researching disability across cultures

Those wishing to present a paper please send an abstract (maximum 300 words) in an attached Word Document to S.Grech@mmu.ac.uk . Please ensure the abstract contains name, title of presentation, institution (if applicable) and contact email and please insert 'abstract for conference' in the subject line of your email.Paper presentations are 15 minutes.

Registration

The conference is FREE of charge, but all delegates need to register. This will help us gauge attendance and make adequate preparations.

Cancellations: we would appreciate if those registered but no longer able to attend to please inform us by email Shaun Grech: S.Grech@mmu.ac.uk

Conference Programme

In the spirit of an eco-friendly conference, please note that we will be providing an e-pack instead of printed material on the day.

Meals

The conference is free, which means that lunch and refreshments will have to be purchased from the University or elsewhere. Please let us know if you have any dietary requirements so we can make the refactory aware of delegate requirements.

Bursaries

We are afraid that despite the need, we are unable to provide bursaries (for travel, lodging or other expenses) to attend the conference.

Call for Papers for Health-Related Sessions at the 17th World Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences

August 5th-August 10th, 2013 Manchester, United Kingdom

The 17th World Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences has the overall theme "Evolving Humanity, Emerging Worlds".

The Call for Papers will close on July 13, 2012. The call for papers deadline applies to both papers proposed as additions to an existing panel and also to papers proposed to the holding panel. These deadlines are final and no further proposals will be accepted after these dates.

All Panels
-- BH01 Health, nutrition and physical growth in developing nations
-- BH02 Co-evolution of humans and their foods: cross-disciplinary perspectives (IUAES Commission on the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition)
-- BH12 Forensic anthropology; emerging issues and challenges in the 21st century
-- LD01 The vulnerable child: biological responses to life in the past
-- LD02 The role of cosmopolitan-modern medicine and its social and cultural challenges
-- LD03 Health and emerging regional demographic trends
-- LD04 The future agenda for anthropological research on the HIV/AIDS pandemic (IUAES Commission on the Anthropology of AIDS)
-- LD05 Urbanization and reproductive health (IUAES Commission on Urban Anthropology)
-- LD06 Anthropologies in and of Public Health in the 21st century
-- LD07 Landscapes of life-and-death in India, South Arabia and Asia Minor
-- LD08 Social debate over the prevention, mitigation and rehabilitation for disaster affected children
-- LD09 Anthropology of ageing
-- LD10 Menopausal woman and assisted reproduction: rights to access of ART in an ethical context (IUAES Commission on Urban Anthropology)
-- LD11 The states of welfare and wellbeing of indigenous populations?
-- LD12 Health and nutrition: changes in lifestyle in the era of globalization
-- LD13 Gender equity in nutrition and child health
-- LD14 Disjunctions of deathscapes: ways of suffering, dying, and death
-- LD15 Status of the aged in the Third World
-- LD16 Techniques of healing in traditional societies
-- LD18 Dominant caste and their culture: health perspective of the indigenous communities in the south Asian subcontinent and beyond
-- LD19 Traditional and medicinal knowledge among the indigenous communities
-- LD22 The problems and values of old age in postmodern era
-- LD23 Tribal health: emerging consequences in the era of globalization
-- LD24 Documenting the meanings of life and death in the Americas
-- LD25 Health concerns of women during and after menopause
-- LD26 Identified skeletal collections: the testing ground of anthropology?
-- MMM10 Interdisciplinary perspectives on identity, food and wellbeing of migrants I: global resource flows, political contestations and health
-- MMM11 Interdisciplinary perspectives on identity, food and wellbeing of migrants II: memory, emotional sustenance and culinary practices
-- MMM18 Sanitising migration: epidemiology or medical police?
-- PE03 Food and environmental security: the imperatives of indigenous knowledge systems
-- PE06 Food security and rural development
-- PE21 Human life, enterprise and market (IUAES Commission on Enterprise Anthropology)
-- PE24 How women are affected by local vs. corporate food systems (IUAES Commission on the Anthropology of Women)
-- PE25 Sustainable livelihood security and human development
-- PE26 Plants utility by ethnic communities of eastern India for nutritional and health security, past-present and future
-- PE28 Anthropology of food and nutrition in the globalized economy
-- PE31 Ethnomedicinal properties of traditional vegetables: the present status and future journey
-- SE23 Action anthropology, tribal medicine and development
-- SE24 Exclusion of de-notified (ex-criminal tribes) and nomadic tribes in India: issues and challenges for inclusion
-- SE25 Health activism in the context of 'global health'
-- WMW01 Medical anthropology for a better tomorrow: exploring the mind, medicine and mental health

Call for Papers: Pan Arab Psychiatric Conference (PAPC2012)

Novembe 29-December 1, 2012 Dubai, United Arab Emirates 

The theme selected for the Mental Health Changes in the Arab World (Violence, Trauma and Recovery) will address the involvement of the mental health professionals in providing services for people affected by the recent developments in the region. It is an opportunity to discuss and share development, trends, scientific research and treatments advancements in the impact of the violence on the mental health specifically and psychotrauma and Psychiatric disorders in general not forgetting Recovery.

Together with a carefully selected educational program and a group of highly renowned regional and international keynote speakers, we promise you a significant scientific enrichment for people involved hoping to benefit the region on the ground in the post period of the conference and initiate mental health programs the region needs.

The Scientific Committee welcomes the submission of abstracts to make poster presentations at PAPC2012 from professionals, researchers and students in the Psychiatric field.

Deadline
Deadline for abstract submission is 30 August 2012, 8 pm Dubai time.

Abstract Topics
1....Psychological trauma and recovery.
2....Resilience and recovery after psychological trauma.
3....Disaster psychiatry
4....Role of NGPs in developing mental health services
5....Violence and mental health (Domestic Violence, Violence among psychiatric population)
6....Recent advances in psychopharmacology of major mental illnesses
......(schizophrenia, bipolar, depression etc)
7....Addiction, personality and deliberate self harm available services and different managements.
8....Co morbidity of physical and psychiatric disorders
9....Special populations (Women's, child, adolescent and old age)
10..Community psychiatry and post discharge services & managements.
11..Psychiatry and the law
12..Cultural issues of psychiatric practice in the Arab world
13..Bridging the gap between psychology and psychiatry in the Arab world
14..Psychiatry and spirituality
15..Recruitment into psychiatry & Postgraduate training in psychiatry
16..Arab Psychiatrists experience abroad, prospects & challenges

Meeting Minds Experts
PAPC2012 Professional Conference Organisers

pco@papc2012.com

Call for Abstracts: World Health Summit

The M8 Alliance of Academic Health Centres and Medical Universities is pleased to invite submission of abstracts for presentation at its upcoming 4th World Health Summit. The World Health Summit is one of the world’s foremost gatherings of leaders from academia, politics, industry and civil society to develop joint strategies and take action to address key challenges in medical research, global health and health care delivery with the aim of shaping the political, academic and social agendas. This year´s World Health Summit “Research for Health and Sustainable Development” will be held in Berlin from October 21st to 24th, 2012.

The M8 Alliance of Academic Health Centres and Medical Universities was officially founded in 2009, as a medical and scientific forum of excellence on the occasion of the 1st World Health Summit in Berlin. It is composed of a network of prestigious medical institutions dealing with scientific, political, and economic issues related to medicine and global health. The M8 Alliance acts as a permanent platform for framing future considerations of global medical development and health challenges. It is the M8’s vision to harness academic excellence to improve global health.

The New Voices in Global Health (NVGH) is a competitive abstract submission and selection programme designed to highlight important research, policy and advocacy initiatives of new and future leaders in global health, and empower participants with global health advocacy skills.

Selected participants will have the opportunity to make a presentation at the World Health Summit 2012. The accepted researchers will participate in either the NVGH forum session or the NVGH poster presentation session. Selected abstracts will be published in a special booklet available at the World Health Summit and on The Lancet´s website.

Issues addressed must be relevant, reflect current challenges, show originality and will spark the interest of conference participants and the readers of The Lancet. Topics of particular interest would be those linked to the summit’s main themes:

“Research for Health and Sustainable Development”

Educating Health Professionals
• Brain Drain in Medical Professions
• Educating Health Professionals for the 21st Century

Translating Research into Policy
• Integrating Research into Health Policies and Health Systems
• Minimizing Waste of Research
• Translating Genomic Research into Global Health Gains

Financing Health
• Economic Crisis and Health Impact
• Sustainable Health Systems Financing and Universal Coverage

Diseases of Modern Environments
• The Epidemic of Chronic Diseases
• The Future of Maternal and Reproductive Health
• Urban Development and Mental Health

Research using qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods may be submitted. Abstracts should be submitted online no later than June 15, 2012. An expert committee composed of M8 Alliance members and Lancet editors will review the abstracts after peer review. Participants will be informed of the acceptance of their abstracts for presentation at the World Health Summit at the end of July 2012. (Authors of selected abstracts should submit a 10-minute-presentation / or poster by email no later than September 30, 2012. Deadlines will be strictly adhered to.)

• The New Voices in Global Health Forum is open to all. Abstracts should address current issues with a special focus on the main themes of this year’s World Health Summit.
• Abstracts must be free of commercial bias or promotion.
• Only one abstract per person is permitted.
• All abstracts must be submitted online.

Call for Papers: Fourth Summer Annual Conference--From Altruism to Partnership: Crossroads of Knowledge What Challenges for Human Development?

Institute for Educational and Social Work

August 27th to 31st, 2012 Bouznika, Morocco

The 4th International Summer Institute (27th-31 August, 2012) will focus on partnership, through the intersection of knowledge to debate its challenges for human development.

In the field of social action, health and humanitarian aid, the challenge of altruism is to take into consideration its close connection with profit sharing, the transmission of knowledge, reciprocity of services and competence exchange. Altruism takes its legal form from the partnership contract and it allows an active association of various stakeholders, who, maintaining their own independence, agree to share their efforts to achieve a common goal related to a problem or a clearly identified need in which, by virtue of their respective missions, they have an interest, a responsibility, a motivation, and even an obligation to work and build this collective action detailed in the present time.

Although our organizations encourage a broad spectrum of topics at our conferences, we especially encourage papers, posters, panel sessions, roundtables, and workshops that speak directly to the following topics. We welcome submissions on all aspects related to the following:

This summer institute will focus on three axes:

Expected papers should take part in one of the three proposed axes which will form the program of the 4th International Summer Institute.

The Topic of the conference :

Bridging the gap between Altruism, Partnership,
Crossroads of Knowledge and human development.

The Areas : Social work, social welfare, psychology, human development, Anthropology, sociology, education policy, philosophy, laws.

First Axis:
Working together, partnership is a mode of intervention among others
* Partnership and collective action
* The working process in partnership
* Partnership between the health and the medico-social fields
* Partnership and Territory

Second Axis:
From the interest to be a partner and beyond the pragmatist approach
Two approaches co-exist and sometimes clash:
One utilitarian would hold that a partnership must guarantee the co-existence of different interests of knowledge broadly and specifically defined.

The other voluntarist who uses the ability of individuals to transcend their affiliations and interests to gather around a common object with the risk of “erasing” gradually what makes the richness of anybody.

Third Axis
The ethical challenge of partnership
The ethical challenge of partnership brings into focus the necessary confidence in which there must be a room to support human development. Partnership cannot be decreed; however, it is built slowly by means of working together with partners outside the institutions, incited by logics and motivations different from ours (the presence of constrains and pains). This is a test of hospitality measuring the ability to accept differences resulted from modalities of joint action.

CALL FOR PAPERS
Two types of papers can be presented to the Scientific Committee:

• Conference sessions are for scientific papers lasting 30 minutes, a standard-size paper, Times New Roman font, size 14, Editorial Style APA (American Psychological Association: www.apastyle.org) with summary in English and another in French each should be between 150 and 200 words. The maximum number of characters for the entire text should not exceed 10,000 characters (References and footnotes pages are included).

• The posters are of a shorter format and more open to developing scientific contributions (research topic, preliminary results, arguments, etc..) Case studies, presentations of experiences, personal reflections or positions, institutional presentations. Posters are therefore open to a wider audience: PhD students, Master or Bachelor students, practitioners, activists, etc.. and must be presented in a format not exceeding 100 cm by 200 cm.

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
Participants wishing to present a paper must first provide a summary of their paper of two pages containing the problematic, keywords, methodology or approach, the main results and a bibliography (Approximate 500 words)
Participants wishing to present a poster (research topic, preliminary results, starting arguments, case studies, presentations of experiences, personal reflections, institutional presentations) must provide a one-page summary

These abstracts that will be evaluated by the Scientific Committee members should be sent to the following address:
Nabil Hajji n.hajji@ites-formation.com
Hicham Khabbache springfes@gmail.com

Deadline for Abstract Submission: June 1st, 2012

Notice of decision of the scientific assessment will be given maximum one week after reception of the manuscript

Selected papers will be published in the acts of Summer Institute, in the form of a digital CD, and in the form of a hand book as a collective work, the publisher of which is the International Institute of Sociology, Anthropology and Human Development.

EVALUATION CRITERIA FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS

- The proposal should contribute to broadening knowledge on one of the themes of the Summer Institute 2012 in connection with notions of Altruism, Partnership, crossroads of knowledge, Human develoment…
- The proposal should tackle a subject that will interest a large number of participants
- The research question or problem should be clearly identified and supported by an updated knowledge in the field
- The method should be rigorous and appropriate to the research. The various elements that compose it (sample, instruments of data collection, analysis, etc...)
- The results should be presented and related to one of the Summer Institute’s themes.
- The discussion should be sufficiently extensive and consistent with the logic of the problematic; it should be then based on solid arguments.
- The proposal should present clear positive outcomes relevant at least for one of the fields dealt with in the Summer I nstitute .
- The proposal should be supported by recent and relevant references.

Other modalities of intervention are possible.
To link theory with practice in a dynamic and interactive way, other forms of contributions are possible during this summer institute:

Keynote Lectures: where the speaker is invited to explain concepts s/he has developed themselves during practice or research in the social sphere of course proportionate to the thematic of the summer institute, either in their theoretical or practical aspects.

Presentation of a book: the author will present his book which is close in its thematic to that of the summer institute.

Workshops: where techniques and skills are introduced to facilitate animating a group, resolving conflicts, managing relationships…along with tips and computing programs that can be useful in terms of human and social development.

Video session: the possibility of submitting a DVD of 15 minutes illustrating some experiences lived by individuals in relation to the thematic of the institute.

Symposium: individuals are invited to talk about their institutions (brainstorming) and discuss modalities of partnership envisaged in such institutions and the extent of their profitability. The aim is exchanging ideas, reflections and experiences, speaking without constraints on personal experiences related to the thematic of the institute.

Art Exhibition: assistants and social actors are invited to present the products of their associations that are made by vulnerable populations in which they intervene.

Individuals wishing to participate in the Summer Institute via one of these modalities of communication are invited to send copies of their materials plus a descriptive to the address of Nabil Hajji n.hajji@ites-formation.com OR Khabbache Hicham hichamcogn@gmail.com

Call for Papers: 2nd HEC Paris Workshop on Regulation--Regulating Lifestyle Risks in Europe: The Case of Alcohol, Tobacco and Unhealthy Diets

September 27-28 Paris, France

In September 2011, the UN General Assembly declared that the global burden and threat of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) constituted one of the major challenges for development in the twenty-first century: in 2008, 36 of the 57 million deaths globally (63%) were attributed to NCDs, including cardiovascular diseases, cancers, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes. By recognizing NCDs as largely preventable, it urged the international community to take action at global, regional and national levels to prevent and control their surge. To this end it recommended the adoption of a 'regulatory mix' of multi-sectoral, cost-effective, population-wide interventions in order to reduce the impact of the common NCD risk factors, namely tobacco use, harmful use of alcohol, unhealthy diets and lack of physical activity. Yet how to respond to the growing incidence of NCDs is a major source of complexities in risk analysis and regulatory decision-making: the conditions in which people live, poverty, uneven distribution of wealth, lack of education, rapid urbanization and population ageing, as well as the economic, social, gender, political, behavioral and environmental determinants of health are all contributory factors to the prevalence of NCDs. At the same time, the legitimacy, the effectiveness as well as the design of any regulatory intervention aimed at promoting healthier lifestyle remain highly contested.

The European Union has recently recognized the growing impact of NCDs on the EU's economy and the well-being of its citizens and has consequently started to develop policies intended to tackle the four main factors to which they are linked. Nevertheless, if common themes emerge between the different EU policies intended to promote healthier lifestyles, no attempt has yet been made to systematize them.

We therefore propose to hold a two-day workshop with selected speakers and discussants to identify horizontal, common themes and determine whether the lessons learned in relation to each area of EU intervention may be transposed to the others. More generally, this workshop will offer an opportunity for researchers (PhD students, post-docs, researchers and established academics), policy makers and other stakeholders to reflect on the role which the European Union should play in promoting healthier lifestyles, in light of the moral, philosophical, legal and political challenges associated with the regulation of individual choices. Special attention will be paid to the role that the relevant industries may realistically be called to play in tackling the rising tide of NCDs.

The questions the workshop will focus on include (but are not limited to):

- the role of the EU in promoting healthier lifestyle and how powers should be shared between the EU and its Member States in public health matters;

- the role of consumer information, taxation, reformulation and marketing restrictions with regard to tobacco, alcohol and unhealthy food in promoting healthier lifestyles and their impact on the EU internal market;

- the international role the EU can/should play and its relationship with the World Health Organization and other international organizations, as a result of the conclusion of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), the 2004 WHO Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health and the 2007 WHO Global Strategy to Reduce Harmful Use of Alcohol;

- identification of the drivers behind the emergence of an EU lifestyle policy: is there an economic case for regulating lifestyle health risk determinants?

- the role of the EU impact assessment system in the preparation of legislative proposals and rule-making;

- the role played by the principles of transparency, consultation, and proportionality in ensuring that the legitimate interests of key stakeholders are sufficiently taken into account;

- the role of various stakeholders in supporting healthier lifestyles, including the role of the EU Platform for Action on Diet, Physical Activity and Health and the EU Alcohol and Health Forum;

- the assessment of different policy initiatives to determine the most appropriate forms of intervention (statutory regulation, self-regulation, co-regulation, nudges) in relevant policy areas;

- the challenge of integrating the findings of behavioral research into lifestyle policy-making, in particular the potential role and legitimacy of nudge-inspired measures in changing individual behavior and establishing social norms;

- the extent to which tobacco control may represent a blueprint for the regulation of lifestyle risks in the EU; - what the specific characteristics of EU regulation are that make problems easier or harder to solve than at national level;

- the extent to which the particular vulnerability of children requires a targeted regulatory intervention;

- the role the right to health and other fundamental rights should play in the debate;

- the impact of lifestyle regulation policies on the IP system, such as trademarks, and technological innovation, such as e-cigarettes, food reformulation and food supplements;

- the extent to which it is beneficial and justified to talk about an emerging EU lifestyle policy;

- the constraints imposed by the WTO Agreements to the emergence of a EU lifestyle regulation policy.

Organisers

- Alberto Alemanno, Associate Professor of Law at HEC Paris and Editor of the European Journal of Risk Regulation
- Amandine Garde, Senior Lecturer in Law and Director of the Durham European Law Institute, Durham University

Event

The event will consist of a two-day workshop to be held at HEC Paris Campus on 27 and 28 September 2012. The workshop is supported by the Jean Monnet Chair in EU Law & Risk Regulation as well as by the HEC Paris Foundation.

Outcomes

It is anticipated that the papers presented at the workshop will form the basis of an edited collection.

Submissions

Please submit an abstract of between 300 and 500 words, including a title, to :

- Alberto Alemanno, alemanno@hec.fr and

- Amandine Garde, amandine.garde@durham.ac.uk by Tuesday 22nd May 2012.

Call for Papers: Determinants of Unusual and Differential Longevity

International Conference

Vienna, 21 - 23 November 2012

This scientific meeting aims at developing a comprehensive picture of the factors decisive for human longevity. Papers will identify the key drivers of longer lives by explaining variations in mortality and longevity. This includes the analysis of hitherto unexplained phenomena and paradoxes of longevity, among them the causes (biological and/or non-biological) underlying unusual mortality patterns of subpopulations with specific, longevity-relevant characteristics, the factors determining mortality and longevity differentials between population subgroups, and changes in longevity over time. The presentations are expected to focus on overall mortality, age-specific mortality and/or causes of death. Empirical studies, theoretical papers and overviews are welcome.

More specifically, papers could address some of the following topics:

Paradoxes of longevity and mortality as well as unexplained phenomena, e.g. the exceptionally high life expectancy of the Japanese population, the low mortality of migrants (healthy migrant paradox), the mortality crossover of blacks and whites in the US, etc.

Mortality and longevity of subpopulations with very specific health characteristics or behaviours, risk factors, life course events or living conditions typical for such groups as learned societies, vegetarians, smokers and/or non-smokers, drinkers, centenarians and supercentenarians, religious groups or prisoners

‘Longevity islands’ such as Sardinia, Vilcabamba, Okinawa, Caucasus and Altay

Determinants of differentials in longevity and mortality such as differentials by sex, education, occupation, regions and ethnicity

Plasticity of mortality in human and non-human populations

Other studies that add pieces to the ‘puzzle of the determinants of longevity’

The conference will be co-ordinated by Marc Luy and Bill Butz. Selected conference contributions will be published in the thematic issue of the Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2013 after scientific review. The Yearbook will be widely circulated in hard copy and is freely available on the web (http://www.oeaw.ac.at/vid/yearbook). This rather young journal already has a high impact factor.

Please send your 1-page abstract to conference.vid@oeaw.ac.at
by 30 June 2012. Successful submitters will be informed by 1 September 2012.
 

Call for Abstracts: 5th Africa Conference on Sexual Health and Rights

September 19-22, 2012 Windhoek, Namibia

The Scientific Committee of the 5th Africa Conference on Sexual Health and Rights is pleased to invite Abstracts (oral presentations and posters) exploring the overall theme of the conference – “Sexual Health and Rights in Africa – Where Are We?” and through the following sub-themes:

- Adolescent and Youth Sexuality
- Women’s and Girls Sexuality
- Disabilities and Sexual Rights
- Sexual Rights and Sex Work
- HIV/AIDS and Sexuality
- Sexuality, Culture and Religion
- Sexual and Reproductive Rights (Legal, Policy and Programme Issues- financing, equity, access, implementation, enforcement and redress)
- Sexual Orientation, Sexual/Gender Identity and Sexual and Reproductive Rights
- Capacity building and Knowledge Management

Abstract Format
1. 15-minute oral presentations (10 minutes presentation + 5 minutes for questions).

2. 5 minute oral poster presentations (3 minutes for presentation + 2 minutes for questions).

Authors may choose among the following abstract formats:

- Standard format (Introduction and objectives, Method(s), Results and Conclusion).

- Qualitative Research Studies (Introduction, Method(s), Findings and discussion, Recommendations and References)

- Experiential & Practice Samples (Introduction, Action. Outcome, Discussion, Recommendations and References).

- Historical Survey (Introduction, Approach, Findings and discussions and References).

Abstracts Submission & Evaluation Criteria
- Abstracts should be submitted for poster and podium presentations.

- All abstracts must be submitted online at www.africasexuality.org/abstract/openconf.php

- Abstracts can be submitted in English, French or Portuguese.

- Abstracts will be printed as submitted. It is the author’s responsibility to submit the abstract in the correct order with no spelling or grammar errors.

- Abstracts that are not received in the proper format will not be considered for review by the Scientific Committee.

- The Abstract should include a summary of not more than 200 words and an extended abstract of 2-3 pages (Arial font 11, spacing 1.5).

- The abstract should provide as much relevant information as possible and should follow the one of the 4 formats highlighted above.

- The title should be in capital letters.

- For multiple submissions, consistency in authors’ names should be maintained to avoid duplication in the Author index of the final Program.

- The presenting author’s name should be listed first and underlined.

- Authors must indicate the name of the funders (if any) of research being presented.

- Authors must disclose any potential conflict of interest for their research.

- PowerPoint presentations using a PC data projector will be the standard method of visual data presentation.

- Authors should indicate whether they prefer a podium or poster presentation.

- The final decision on the presentation format will be made by the Scientific Committee.

- Receipt of all abstracts will be acknowledged by e-mail.

- All accepted abstracts will be published in the Conference Proceedings, online and may be reproduced in relevant scientific journals.

- Submitted Abstracts will be treated with utmost confidentiality.

For further information and questions, contact conference@africasexuality.org

Submission Deadline: June 30, 2012

Conference Host
Namibia Planned Parenthood Association
P.O. Box 10936
Windhoek, Namibia
Tel: +264 61 230250
Fax: +264 61 230251
Email: conference@africasexuality.org
www.nappa.com.na