Global Health meetings & conferences

International Society for Disease Surveillance 2013 Conference

December 12-13, 2013 New Orleans, Louisiana

The International Society for Disease Surveillance twelfth annual conference will be held December 12-13, 2013 in New Orleans, Louisiana at the Sheraton New Orleans, with Pre-Conference Workshops on Wednesday, December 11th. The theme for this year's conference— Translating Research and Surveillance into Action— highlights one of the salient topics voiced by the biosurveillance community, and will focus on strategies for incorporating the latest in biosurveillance approaches, methodologies, and results into data-driven public health practices, programs, and policies.

Both the 2013 ISDS Pre-Conference Workshops and Conference are designed help to build capacity for public health surveillance at multiple levels— from the local to global— by addressing a need for information about the most up-to-date practices, tools, and research results. By convening professionals from across the spectrum of biosurveillance, including public health practitioners, academic researchers, healthcare providers, and policymakers, ISDS harnesses the extensive and collective expertise of ISDS members, as well as other stakeholders, to advance surveillance through the integration of research and practice. This unique gathering has resulted in past attendees consistently reporting making positive changes in their work based on what they learned at a pre-conference workshop and the conference.

Do not miss this opportunity to collaborate, innovate, and build upon the knowledge base developed by the attendees — join us in the historic French Quarter of New Orleans!

International Smoke Symposium

Presented by the International Association of Wildland Fire, in conjunction with National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) Smoke Committee and Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP)

October 21-24, 2013 The Marriott Inn & Conference Center, University of Maryland University College, Adelphi, Maryland, USA

As the extent of global wildland fire and smoke increases, changes in air quality and climate will result in greater threats to human health, ecosystems, and infrastructure in the United States and internationally. The International Smoke Symposium will provide a venue to explore the complex issues surrounding wildland fire and smoke; discuss different management strategies adopted around the world; and identify knowledge gaps within the field of smoke science for future research, innovation, and development.

This symposium will serve as a nexus of interdisciplinary research, management, and policy. Research specialists, managers, and policy makers from non-governmental organizations, government agencies, tribes, and private institutions will be able to discuss and evaluate current practices and the latest research and technological developments that inform decision making and provide a critical sounding board for future research needs and practical solutions to management challenges.

OBJECTIVES

The Symposium will:

Create an international forum to discuss complex smoke issues surrounding both wildland and agricultural fire.

Identify research gaps and priorities for smoke science and air quality communities to address and meet contemporary challenges regarding public health, transportation safety, fire personnel exposure and changes in climate.

Increase awareness of ongoing smoke science research for professionals engaged in fire activities, air quality management, resource stewardship, military land-use activities, and emergency services.

Provide innovative training opportunities for managers and operational professionals through a virtual platform.

Showcase contemporary science and technologies to promote pioneering management and policy strategies.

Raise awareness of the global diversity of approaches, issues, ideas and mitigation strategies in fire behavior and smoke management as they pertain to ecological concerns, social perceptions, and economic issues.

Contact Us:

Mikel Robinson
Executive Director
International Association of Wildland Fire
1418 Washburn Street
Missoula, Montana 59801 USA

(01) (406) 531-8264
Toll Free from US & Canada:
(888) 440-IAWF (4293)
execdir@iawfonline.org

44th Union World Conference on Lung Health

October 30-November 3, 2013 Paris, France

The 44th Union World Conference on Lung Health will be held at the Palais des Congrès in Paris, France on 30 October–3 November 2013.

The conference theme is "Shared Air, Safe Air?" This theme reflects growing concerns about the need to improve or preserve the quality of the air we breathe for both healthy and vulnerable persons alike. To safeguard the wellness of future generations, it is essential that we take action now on the problems of tobacco smoke and air pollution, and the preventable spread of airborne infections. These are issues that affect everyone, but the risks and the impact are disproportionately greater for those who are poor and disadvantaged.

The vital importance of "Shared Air, Safe Air?" will be a recurrent theme throughout the five-day scientific programme, which will also present the latest developments in the related fights against tuberculosis, HIV, lung disease, non-communicable diseases and the global campaign for tobacco control.

4th Pediatric Infectious Diseases Conference - Emerging Infections and Vaccine Dilemmas (PIDC 2013)

17th November 2013 Mumbai, India

The 4th Pediatric Infectious Diseases Conference - Emerging Infections and Vaccine Dilemmas (PIDC 2013) will be held in the city of Mumbai, India on 17th November 2013. The conference provides an opportunity for pediatricians, infectious disease specialists, critical care physicians, oncologists and post graduate students from around the world to receive the latest research, perspectives and treatments of pediatric infectious disease from principal experts in the field. This PID conference features a high-caliber and multi-disciplinary scientific programme featuring groundbreaking information and in-depth examination of the most essential topics that are needed in practical management of children with infectious diseases.

The scientific programme will cover a thorough and detailed journey through emerging infections, travel related infections for children returning from abroad, common problems of infestation and eosinophilia, recurrent infections, surgery related infections. Upcoming dilemmas in vaccinations such as intussusception and rotavirus vaccine, re-emerging pertussis, update in immunization in pregnant women will be discussed in depth. Prevention of emerging MDR infections with antibiotic stewardship, biofilms and catheter care will be addressed. The entire programme is in form of interactive case discussions, panel discussions and state of the art lectures.

Global Mental Health Forum--Sustainable Development Through Global Action: The Case for Investing in Mental Health

Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, United Kingdom 27-28 September 2013

Following on from previous successful events on global mental health and the 2007 Lancet Series on Global Mental Health conference, we would like to invite you to attend our inaugural Global Mental Health Forum to be held on 27-28 September 2013 at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London.

This year’s forum, hosted by the Centre for Global Mental Health (a joint initiative of King’s Health Partners and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine), aims to encourage the sharing of evidence and experience to strengthen the case for greater investment in mental health research and services around the world– especially in low and middle income countries. Forum topics include: capacity-building; integrating mental health; programme development and implementation; scaling-up; evaluation; consumer experiences of care; mental health policies and plans; financing mental health. The forum will include plenary sessions; however, it will largely consist of submitted symposia, workshops and oral and poster presentations.

Chikungunya 2013

28-30 October, 2013 Langkawi Island, Malaysia

The recent re-emergence of Chikungunya virus led to millions of affected people worldwide. For the first time, local transmission from mosquitoes were reported outside the tropics, in Italy and France. As the global distribution of Aedes mosquito vectors continues to expand, Chikungunya is now a global threat, and no longer a relatively neglected infection confined to the tropics.

We are therefore pleased to invite all those interested in Chikungunya to this major conference focusing on Chikungunya and related alphaviruses. A broad range of topics will be addressed by leading experts, and the conference will appeal to virologists, clinicians, epidemiologists and entomologists. There will also be opportunities for selected participants to present papers at oral and poster sessions, including a number of Young Investigator Awards.

The conference will be organised jointly by the Tropical Infectious Diseases Research and Education Centre, of University Malaya in Malaysia, and the Integrated Chikungunya Research (ICRES) consortium, funded by the European Union Seventh Framework Programme.

For further details and updates, please e-mail us. To be put on our mailing list, please register your e-mail with the Secretariat at:

Chikungunya 2013 Secretariat
Tropical Infectious Diseases Research and Education Centre
Faculty of Medicine
University Malaya
Kuala Lumpur 50603
Malaysia
Tel: (60) 3 7967 6670/6661
Fax: (60) 3 7967 6678
E-mail: chikv2013@um.edu.my

2014 World Cancer Congress

3-6 December 2014 Melbourne, Australia

This next World Cancer Congress will be held in Melbourne, Australia, from 3 - 6 December 2014 and will be hosted by Cancer Council Australia.

Building on the success of the 2012 World Cancer Congress in Montréal, Canada, UICC would like to bring your expertise on board to help us build a top-quality programme highlighting collaboration, interactivity and innovative thinking.

The World Cancer Congress is the opportunity to involve all players in the global cancer community and to contribute collectively towards achieving UICC’s mission: eliminating cancer as a life-threatening disease for future generations.

One of the key objectives of the 2014 World Cancer Congress will be to equip delegates with the tools and implements needed to effectively apply knowledge, take action at all levels and address priorities efficiently.

It is in this spirit that the event’s theme has been chosen – Joining Forces – Accelerating Progress.

Congress audience

Approximately 3,000 delegates representing the entire spectrum of the global cancer control community from over 100 countries participate.

Global Health 2013, The Second International Conference on Global Health Challenges

November 17 - 22, 2013 - Lisbon, Portugal

Colocated with other events part of DataSys 2013

Tracks:

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

International Health Organisations (IHOs) and the History of Health and Medicine c. 1870-2012

October 18-20, 2013 Shanghai, China

A jointly organised conference between the Shanghai Social Sciences Association, the David Musto Centre at Shanghai University, and the CSHHH Glasgow at the University of Strathclyde

IHOs and the history of health and medicine

Recent studies of institutions as varied as the League of Nations Health Committee, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Medical Missionary Society have drawn attention to the multiple roles played by international organisations since the nineteenth-century in the fields of healthcare and medicine. Most obviously they have played important parts in addressing particular health crises and emergencies, by providing medical expertise, drugs and medicines, and more general aid. Longer term impacts, however, have included the establishment of lasting healthcare infrastructures, the dissemination of new ideas about health and medicine, and the emergence of major bodies that transcend national political, economic and professional interests. However, from the refusal of the East India Company to sanction medical missionary activity in the eighteenth-century, to the recent ban on the WHO by al-Shabaab in Somalia, such international organisations have often faced opposition and hostility.

While there are a number of studies of particular institutions and movements, the IHO has rarely been viewed as a distinct phenomenon in the history of health and medicine in the modern period. This conference seeks to address this by bringing together historians and those from related disciplines with relevant research interests. It aims to examine fresh insights into particular periods, organisations and case studies, but also to explore the potential of comparative perspectives, and of teasing IHOs out of the wider history of health and medicine in modernity.

Key questions would include:

What agendas and ideologies shaped the emergence of IHOs in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries?

How far have IHOs met their objectives and what shaped or prevented success?

What impacts have IHOs had in the locales where they have been embedded?

To what extent have locals worked with or against IHOs and what shaped their approaches?

In what ways has the emergence of the IHO had wider impacts on international relations, and on domestic relations in contributing countries and cultures?

What does the emergence of the IHO over the last two centuries tell historians about the history of medicine, and of modernity?

Contacts

Dr Yong-an Zhang
History Department
Shanghai University
99 Shangda Road
Shanghai, 200444, China
www.mcdps.shu.edu.cn
zhangyongan@shu.edu.cn

Professor James Mills
CSHHH Glasgow
University of Strathclyde
Glasgow G11XQ, UK
www.strath.ac.uk/cshhh
jim.mills@strath.ac.uk

Dr. Qi Zhou
Academic Monthly Editorial Office
Shanghai Social Sciences Association
zhouqish@126.com

Cancer in Africa: Bridging Science and Humanity

21-24 November 2013 Durban, South Africa

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 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.