Global Health calls for papers / meetings & conferences

Call for Abstracts: 2nd International Conference on Nutrition and Growth (N&G 2014)

The 2nd International Conference on Nutrition and Growth (N&G 2014) will take place on January 30 – February 1, 2014 in Barcelona, Spain.

The 2nd International Conference on Nutrition and Growth (N&G 2014) follows the success of the 1st International Conference held in Paris, France in March 2012.  The purpose of the conference is to bring together pediatricians, nutritionists, neonatologists, experts in child development and other specialists to discuss the challenges of the interplay between Nutrition and Growth in the pediatric age group. The meeting will enable the exchange of ideas and knowledge between the different disciplines for facilitating research and clinical interdisciplinary collaborations focusing on nutrition and growth.

The  2nd International Conference on Nutrition and Growth (N&G 2014) will provide a unique platform for discussing the interplay between nutrition and growth in children and focus on cutting edge research, the latest developments and groundbreaking results.

Deadline for Abstract Submission: September 30, 2013

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION TOPICS

Neonatal & Prematurity

Infancy

Childhood & Adolescence

Obesity

Other

CONFERENCE TOPICS

Optimal growth of premature infants

The right diet for infants born SGA

Nutrition and the hormonal system

Macro and micronutrients

Nutrition and growth in children suffering from chronic disease

Nutrition supplements

Vitamins and hormonal system

Nutrition and diabetes

Nutrition in underprivileged countries

Bone assessment, bone health and bone status in health and disease

SYMPOSIA TOPICS

Outcome measures of nutrition and growth

Nutrition and growth in under privileged communities

Early nutrition and later growth

Nutrition and growth in childhood and adolescence

Catch up growth

Obesity and growth during childhood and adolescence

A new approach to address the stunting and adiposity challenge

Nutrition in the premature infant

Bone acquisition in health and disease

Nutrition and growth during growth hormone therapy

Deadline for Abstract Submission: September 30, 2013

Please follow the instructions listed below:

Abstracts may be submitted for oral or poster presentations.

Abstracts must be submitted via the conference website only. Abstracts submitted by fax will not be accepted.

Presenting authors must be registered participants. Only abstracts of authors who have paid their registration fees by the Early Registration Deadline will be scheduled for presentation and included for publication.

Submission of an abstract acknowledges your acceptance for the abstract to be published in all printed material of the Meeting.

Abstracts must be submitted in English.

Conflicts of Interest / Disclosure: Work submitted for presentation must include an acknowledgement of funding sources of commercial nature and/or consulting or holding of significant equity in a company that could be affected by the results of the study.

The presenting author is expected to attend the pediatric conference and present the poster or oral presentation. The presenting author is required to ensure that all co-authors are aware of the content of the abstract before submission.

Abstracts must be allocated to a specific category and topic area for the Scientific Program. You will need to select the category and topic most suited to your abstract.

The conference organizers may be contacted for further information:

c/o Kenes International
1-3 Rue de Chantepoulet
P.O. Box 1726
CH-1211 Geneva 1, Switzerland
Tel: +41 22 908 04 88, Fax: + 41 22 906 9140
E-mail: ngc@kenes.com

Request for Proposals: Yale Food Systems Symposium

Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut October 18-19, 2013

The parallel forces of urbanization and globalization are transforming our planet. They are bringing unprecedented changes to food production and distribution, livelihoods, communities, and the environment. While the pace of this transformation presents significant challenges to the creation of just and sustainable food systems, it may also create powerful opportunities: to support ecological stewardship, promote economic sustainability, cultivate human health, and ensure social justice. Currently, divergent food system paradigms compete for validity. How can these diverse perspectives be negotiated? How can we synchronize the efforts of research, policy, and practice?

The Yale Food Systems Symposium will bring emerging and established scholars and practitioners to work together in action-oriented sessions that address the complex ecological and socio-economic processes of food production, consumption, climate change and rapid urbanization. A variety of session formats will encourage transdisciplinary dialogue and an active exchange of ideas. We seek a diversity of proposal formats: panels, working groups, roundtables, poster presentations, and papers. We welcome perspectives from the natural and social sciences, from applied disciplines, and from community practitioners. Proposals that bring scholars and practitioners together, work across disciplines, or partner emerging and established researchers are especially encouraged.

Topic areas include, but are not limited to:

Climate change and the food system

Urbanization, land use change, and food systems planning

Politics, policies, and governance across scales

Agricultural biodiversity and issues of genetic property

Sustainable intensification, multi-functional agriculture

Urban-rural linkages

Public and market-based approaches to regulating the food system

Alternative food networks

The right to food, food justice, and food sovereignty movements

Industrial ecology approaches to food systems analysis

Sustainable diets and assessing and forecasting nutrition trends

Sustainable supply chains

University-community partnerships

Research methods, participatory practice, and frameworks for collaboration

Deadline for submission is July 1st, 2013. Abstracts & Workshop Proposals should be 150-200 words and include a title and keywords. Please submit online using our abstract submission form. Accepted proposals will be notified by August 15, 2013.

Questions about proposal submission and registration may be directed to yalefoodsymposium@gmail.com.

Call for Oral/Poster Abstracts: 16th World Congress of Psychiatry

September 14-18, 2014 Madrid, Spain

The 16th World Congress of Psychiatry will be held in Madrid and have a thought-provoking programme exploring the latest perspectives, trends and clinical research in global psychiatric care and practice.

Deadline for submission: February 1st, 2014

Abstracts’ submission: Only through the conference submission web page.

Abstracts submitted via fax or e-mail will not be accepted.

Contact Us

Tilesa OPC
C/ Londres 17, 28028, Madrid
+34 91 361 2600
secretariat@wpamadrid2014.com

Call for Abstracts for Workshops and Symposia: 16th World Congress of Psychiatry

September 14-18, 2014 Madrid, Spain

The 16th World Congress of Psychiatry will be held in Madrid and have a thought-provoking programme exploring the latest perspectives, trends and clinical research in global psychiatric care and practice. 

Deadline for submission: September 1st, 2013

Abstracts’ submission: Only through the conference submission web page.

Abstracts submitted via fax or e-mail will not be accepted.

Contact Us

Tilesa OPC
C/ Londres 17, 28028, Madrid
+34 91 361 2600
secretariat@wpamadrid2014.com

Call for Papers: Global Health 2013, The Second International Conference on Global Health Challenges

November 17 - 22, 2013 - Lisbon, Portugal

Submission deadline (full paper): June 26, 2013

Recent advances in technology and computational science influenced a large spectrum of branches in approaching population health. Despite significant progresses, many challenges exist, including health informatics, cross-country platforms interoperability, system and laws harmonization, protection of health data, practical solutions, accessibility to health services, and many others. Along with technological progress, personalized medicine, ambient assistance and pervasive health complement patient needs. A combination of classical and information-driven approach is developing now, where diagnosis systems, data protection mechanisms, remote assistance and hospital-processes are converging.

GLOBAL HEALTH 2013 takes a global perspective on population health, from national to cross-country approaches, multiplatform technologies, from drug design to medicine accessibility, everything under mobile, ubiquitous, and personalized characteristics of new age population.

We solicit both academic, research, and industrial contributions. We welcome technical papers presenting research and practical results, position papers addressing the pros and cons of specific proposals, such as those being discussed in the standard fora or in industry consortia, survey papers addressing the key problems and solutions on any of the above topics short papers on work in progress, and panel proposals.

Industrial presentations are not subject to the format and content constraints of regular submissions. We expect short and long presentations that express industrial position and status.

Tutorials on specific related topics and panels on challenging areas are encouraged.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.

All topics and submission formats are open to both research and industry contributions.

FUNDAMENTALS

Foundations in global health informatics

Computational health

Software for health

Independent living technologies

ICT and health

Platform interoperability

Semantic interoperability

Diagnosis systems

Applied health informatics

User interfaces and visualization

TECHNOLOGY

Bio-medical semantics

Bio-medicine

Disease biomarker prediction

Applications of bio-nano technology

Body networks

Mobile healthcare

Ubiquitous healthcare

TRENDS

Clinical epigenetic

Long term health conditions

Ambient assisted

Genetics

Virtual reality in medicine surgery

Clinical trials

Computational and knowledge management on proteomics and genomics

Drug design, disease diagnosis and control

PRACTICE

Nursing

Patient-centered care

Personalized medicine

Pervasive health

Homecare

Pharmaceutical services

ALTERNATIVE

Biomedicine

Natural medicine

Preventive medicine

Chronic diseases following

Home surveillance

CHALLENGES

Security aspects and access control on medical data

Data management in pervasive context

Data quality assurance and provenance

Patient flow models in hospitals

Clinical data analysis

Information visualization of medical data

GLOBAL

eHealth initiatives

Social medicine

Health global accessibility

Epidemic spreading and control

Health Education

Providing health in remote areas

Decision support within healthcare

Ethical aspects in eHealth

Healthcare plans and patient benefits

Synchronization of federal regulations

Availability of medication

Community health services

Call for Abstracts: Cancer in Africa: Bridging Science and Humanity

21-24 November 2013 Durban, South Africa

Abstract submissions required: 18 June 2013

The African Organisation for Research and Training in Cancer is pleased to announce its 9th International Conference on Cancer in Africa. It will take place in Durban, South Africa from 21-24 November 2013 at the International Convention Centre Durban.

Held every two years, the AORTIC conferences provide a unique platform to bring together leading African and international health care professionals in cancer care, advocates, leaders in Government, and various members of the international health industry and global cancer community to meet and discuss cancer-related matters and proffer solutions to significantly reduce the impact of cancer in Africa and indeed around the world. To make a difference, AORTIC invites you, as a committed member of the international cancer control community, to contribute to and listen to world-renowned speakers, to network with colleagues and professionals from all over the world, and to be exposed to the latest research findings in the cancer arena.

The AORTIC 2013 Scientific Programme Committee invites you to contribute to the programme by submitting an abstract for an oral or poster presentation.

The target audience for AORTIC’s 9th International Cancer Conference is anyone interested in the cancer burden in Africa, including physicians, nurses, social workers, researchers, and representatives of NGOs and international businesses.

The programme will address cutting edge cancer management and basic science and clinical research on cancers relevant to Africa. This will include the following topics: National Cancer Control Plans (NCCPs), Cancer Registration, Basic Sciences, Genetics, Epigenetics, Site-specific Cancers, Biomarkers, Radiation, Chemotherapy, Epidemiology, HIV-AIDS-related Cancers, Haematology, Cancer Advocacy, Tobacco-related Cancers, Paediatric Oncology, Palliative Care, and Oncology Nursing.

Call for Abstracts: 5th International Cancer Control Congress (ICCC5)

November 3 – 6, 2013 Lima, Peru

Abstract Submission Deadline June 14, 2013

Building on the success of previous ICCCs, the theme of the 2013 congress ‘International Collaboration’ will underpin the need for collaboration and cooperation in implementing cancer and non-communicable disease control strategies worldwide. The Conference is the perfect forum to foster collaborations, networks and relationships to transfer knowledge to enhance cancer/NCD control; to learn, share and problem-solve through discussions amongst delegates from diverse cultural and contextual settings. We encourage the participation of individuals from a wide range of professional backgrounds including physicians, nurses and other health care professionals; policy makers, researchers, scientists, patients, advocates and those interested in any aspect of cancer/NCD control.

On behalf of the 5th International Cancer Control Congress, the Scientific Program Committee is inviting the submission of Scientific Abstracts in the following subject areas which reflect the topics of our Plenary Sessions and related Workshops:

1. Improving and sustaining prevention in cancer control

2. Mobilizing all of society for effective cancer control

3. Using data and evidence to improve population health

4. Improving integrated approaches to cancer treatment and care

5. Integrating research, practice and policy priorities to improve cancer control

CONTACT

For questions or any inquiries concerning abstract submission and/or scholarships, please contact the Conference Secretariat at iccc2013@icsevents.com

Call for Abstracts: Options for the Control of Influenza VIII 

September 5-10, 2013 Cape Town, South Africa

Held every 3 years, Options for the Control of Influenza is the largest international scientific conference exclusively devoted to influenza.  Options VIII will showcase recent advances in the basic science and control and prevention of influenza.  Whatever your domain of expertise – virology, veterinary medicine, human medicine, public health policy, industry or journalism – Options for the Control of Influenza VIII is the premier conference bringing together experts dedicated to all aspects of influenza.  Presentation formats will include keynote addresses, invited lectures, scientific workshops, abstract presentations, satellite meetings and poster sessions.

The Conference Chairs welcome your latest scientific research on influenza for Oral or Poster presentation during the Options for the Control of Influenza VIII conference.

Categories for Abstract Submission:

•Animal Human Interface and Zoonotic Influenza

•Animal Influenza

•Animal Models for Influenza

•Antiviral Drugs and Resistance

•Clinical Management

•Diagnostics

•Disease Burden and Health Economics

•Epidemiology including Seroepidemiology

•Innate and Adaptive Immunity

•Mathematical Models Informing Public Health Decisions

•Novel Therapeutic Strategies

•Pandemic Mitigation: What Worked and What Did Not

•Pathogenesis and Systems Biology

•Risk Communication in Influenza

•Science Policy Interface

•Transmission and Infection Control

•Vaccines

•Viral Genomics and Evolution

•Viral Surveillance and the Global Influenza Surveillance Network

•Virology and Viral Receptors

To submit an abstract, please visit the Options VIII Abstract Submission System for submission instructions and parameters.

Submissions will be accepted until 3 June 2013.

For questions regarding abstract submission, please contact us at abstracts@controlinfluenza.com.