Reproductive Health calls for papers / meetings & conferences

Call for Abstracts: 2013 AWHONN Annual Convention

Do you have something to say about the care of women and newborns? Now’s your chance! The call for presenters is open for the 2013 AWHONN Annual Convention in Nashville, Tennessee at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center, June 15-19, 2013.

Our national conference draws more than 3,000 attendees, approximately 72% have 15 or more years of experience, and 46% have a master’s degree or higher. Presenting at the AWHONN convention ensures that your talk, research, case studies or innovative programs will be heard or viewed by a highly skilled, sophisticated, and influential body of nurses.

Objectives of the 2013 AWHONN Annual Convention are to

• Integrate improvement science into practice,
• Experience inspiration and professional growth, and
• Strengthen connections and enhance collaborations.

For those interested in this opportunity, there are four application options:

1. Specialty Sessions
2. Research Presentations (Papers or Posters)
3. Innovative Program Presentations (Papers or Posters)
4. Case Study Presentations (Papers or Posters)

All abstracts are due no later than September 10, 2012.

For information on criteria, further instructions, and access to our electronic submission site, go to www.awhonn.org . If you have any questions, please contact Carolyn Schick at cschick@awhonn.org.

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 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 Abstracts: 15th National Mother Baby Nurses Conference

Sponsored by the Academy of Neonatal Nursing and Mother Baby Education

September 5–8, 2012 Chicago, Illinois

The purpose of this conference is to provide current and clinically applicable information for prenatal, intrapartum, and postpartum care of the mother as well as infant care, both in the hospital and through transition to home. The educational sessions provide information to nurses and other health care professionals who care for the expectant and postpartum mother and her newborn. Specific objectives for each presentation will be listed in the conference program.

We are seeking poster presentations to compliment our line-up of world-class speakers. In keeping with our theme of examining current practice, we invite you to submit a poster abstract. Clinical, case study, and research posters are welcome. The topics for these posters should be relevant to the theme of the conference and the audience of mother baby nurses.

Abstracts for poster presentations are due July 2, 2012. Presenters will be notified by July 16, 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

Call for Papers: Relational Selves and Families in Medicine: Gender Perspectives

Conference Dec 10-12, 2012, Linköping, Sweden

In many cases, there is only one patient in the patient-health care professional encounter. This, however, is not always the case. As some examples, two individuals may seek medical assistance in order to conceive a child together and more individuals may be involved if a sibling donates egg or sperm to a family-member and her/his partner.

Many other examples can be given of encounters and treatments that involve more than one patient and one health care professional. When the patient is a minor child, parent(s) may face difficult treatment decisions as regards medical treatment for their children. If two parents are involved in the decision, they may not always agree on what is the best treatment for their child. And what say does the child have in terms of treatments? As yet another example, cases of sibling organ donation where a sibling donates an organ to a brother or sister highlight how intimately family members can become involved in each other’s medical treatment. Finally, the topic of families in medicine can be pertinent in relation to aging and health care needs in later life, where relatives can become thoroughly involved in this care and where gender roles can feed into this care work.

Still, comparably little attention has been given to the role of families in medical encounters, treatment decisions, care work and illness experiences.

The aim of the conference

Relational selves and families in medicine: Gender Perspectives is to bring together scholars who examine the role of extended families, parents, siblings, children, and close friends in medicine, and this with a gender perspective. We welcome contributions from scholars with interdisciplinary and various disciplinary backgrounds within the social sciences and the humanities. We specially invite contributions that focus on (but are not limited to):

Assisted reproductive technologies, surrogacy, egg-, sperm- and embryo donation, adoption and other ways of becoming parents

The welfare of the child in medicine

Conceptions and norms of parenthood in medicine

Corrective measures: what is ‘corrected’ and why, in children’s and teen-agers’ bodies?

Ageing and care in later life

- Relational conceptions of selves and relational autonomy

- The interplay between self and others, and how this can inform the illness experience as well as experiences of hope, strength and health.

Abstract submission

Please submit abstracts (400 words) incl. name and affiliation, no later than September 1, 2012, to abstracts.genderandhealth@gmail.com. The Conference Committee will select abstracts for oral presentation and notify whether or not you have been accepted.

Registration

Deadline for registration is October 15, 2012. Conference fee (100 Euro) covers one conference abstract booklet, coffee in pauses and one conference dinner. Register by sending an e-mail to conference.genderandhealth@gmail.com in which you state name, affiliation, allergies/food preferences. The conference fee is to be submitted using one of the alternatives below.

Participants with a Swedish bank account: Please use the account Bankgiro 743-8609 (Danske Bank). The reference nr: 8831030001, your name and affiliation must be included in the payment.

Participants with an international bank account: Please use the account: 8901-1 924 339 671-1. Address: Swedbank, S-105 34 Stockholm, Sweden, BIC: SWEDSESS, IBAN: SE34 8000 0890 1192 4339 6711. Please note that the reference nr: 8831030001, your name and affiliation must be included in the payment.

Any questions and enquiries can be sent to conference: genderandhealth@gmail.com