Maternal/Child Health meetings & conferences

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.

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

Summit Organizer

K.I.T. Group GmbH
Association & Conference Management
Kurfürstendamm 71
10709 Berlin
Germany

Sophie Spangenberger
Organizing Manager
Tel.: +49 30 246 03 240
Fax: +49 30 246 03 200
sophie.spangenberger@worldhealthsummit.org

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.

Retelling Familiar Tales of Pregnancy and Birth in European Cultures

Tues 3rd-Weds 4th July 2012, Oxford, United Kingdom

Purpose of conference

This conference aims to bring together leading specialists from a range of the medical humanities with healthcare professionals to explore the trope of the retelling of stories about pregnancy and birth. While recent work has considered the way in which stories of exceptional pregnancies and unusual births have been told again and again over western history, from Greek mythology and the Old Testament until the present day, the methodological and intellectual questions raised by these retellings have not been discussed in detail. Taking a very broad geographic and chronological focus (Europe from antiquity to the present day), our objective is to encourage innovative interdisciplinary exchanges by addressing the following questions.

How did the growth of print culture in Europe encourage the retelling of familiar birthing tales, and how were new ones added?
Why did some stories of pregnancy and birth circulate more widely than others?
When stories are retold, which details of the original are always retained, which are lost in the retelling, and how and why do new accretions creep into the story?

Sessions

The gathering particularly looks to provide the opportunity for discussion and exchange on both substance and methodology between, on the one hand, a wide range of academic disciplines contributing to the medical humanities (e.g. cultural history, art history, history of the book, literary scholars) and, on the other hand, health care practitioners who have been increasingly focused on the oral transmission of case histories (midwives, obstetricians and gynaecologists, psychiatrists). The four sessions proposed are thus wide-ranging and deliberately aim to juxtapose contributions from academics and practitioners in the various sessions.

1) The trope of repetition, or why some tales of pregnancy and birth are retold

2) Exploring accretion and loss: how tales are retold across time (antiquity to the present) and across different geographic and cultural European contexts

3) Who sees or experiences, who tells and who reads repeated tales: patients, practitioners, witnesses and readers:

4) The significance of the material circulation of repeated tales in word and image

Keynote plenary session: Professor Monica Green (Arizona State University)

Practical details

The conference sessions, including lunches and dinners, will be held in Lady Margaret Hall, a college of the University of Oxford, located in attractive grounds in the north of the city. We are looking to provide bed and breakfast accommodation in another Oxford college for the nights of 2-3-4 July 2012 for delegates who wish to take advantage of this. Alternatively, Oxford has a range of good guesthouses and hotels for those wishing to organise their own accommodation. We hope to have some bursary support available for students.

Children and HIV: Closing the Gap - Ending Vertical Transmission Through Community Action Symposium

The Children and HIV: Closing the Gap - Ending Vertical Transmission through Community Action international symposium will be held at the Georgetown University Hotel and Conference Centre in Washington, D.C. on July 20th and 21st, 2012. This two-day symposium, jointly hosted by The Teresa Group, the Coalition on Children Affected by AIDS (CCABA), and the Global Fund for Children, will once again bring together hundreds of service providers, researchers, donors, advocates, and policy leaders from around the world, presenting on the topic of ending vertical transmission through community-based efforts.

By holding this symposium we hope to define how community support, family-centered services, and social protection, can enhance the efforts of health care systems to end mother to child transmission of HIV.

For further information or general inquiries, contact:

The Teresa Group
124 Merton Street, Suite 104
Toronto, Ontario, M4S 2Z2, Canada

Tel: 416-596-7703
Fax: 416-596-7910

E-mail: childrensymposium@teresagroup.ca

2012 Water and Health Conference: Science, Policy and Innovation

29 October - 2 November 2012 Chapel Hill, North Carolina

The 2012 Water and Health Conference: Science, Policy and Innovation will bring together experts from academia, industry, non-governmental organizations, government and foundations to provide an interdisciplinary perspective spanning science, policy, practice and economics. The Conference will consider drinking water sanitation, hygiene and water resources with a strong public health emphasis. The Conference will deal with critical concerns relevant to both the developing and developed worlds.

2012 Main Conference Themes:

Monitoring and Evaluation for Sustainability
Ecosystem Protection and Drinking Water Safety
WaSH and Child Health
Southeastern US Water Challenges
Beyond 2015: Realizing Universal Access and Human Rights
Water, Energy and Climate
Making Sanitation Benefits Achievable and Sustainable for All
Household-centered WaSH

Questions?
Please contact Margo Ginsberg with any questions you may have about the conference. Margo can also be reached by phone at 919-966-7302.
 

19th International Council on Women's Health Issue Congress

November 14-16, 2012 Bangkok, Thailand

The International Council on Women's Health Issue Congress is held every 2 years. Previous Congress has been held is Sao Pedro, Sao Pau, Brazil (2004). Sidney , Australia (2006), Gaborone, Botswana (2008), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (2010), we are pleased to announce that the 19th International Council on Women's Health Issue Congress will be held in Bangkok, Thailand from 14th November – 16th November 2012.

The Faculty of Nursing, Mahidol University (MU), Thailand and The International Council on Women's Health Issues (ICOWHI) are proud to present the 19th ICOWHI Congress on "Women's Health 2012: Partnering for a Brighter Global Future". The Faculty of Nursing, Mahidol University was founded under the patronage of Her Majesty Queen Sripatcharintra, the Queen of King Rama V, as the first nursing school in Thailand in 1896. Historically, the Faculty of Nursing, Mahidol University has long had a vital role in improving people' health status and promote their quality of life, while establishing a network for education and research at national and international levels.

The International Council on Women's Health Issues (ICOWHI) is an international nonprofit association dedicated to the goal of promoting health, health care, and well-being of women throughout the world through participation, education, and research. It serves as a multidisciplinary network of women's health providers, planners, and advocates of those committed to improving women's health and quality of life. The ICOWHI Congress is held every 2 years.

Possible themes:

Partnerships, Collaborations, and Opportunities to Promote Women’s Health
Law and Policy for future Women’s Health
Cross cultural & Indigenous Women’s Health
Women & Chronic illness
Women & Child Health Issues
Women & Healthy aging
Women’s Health in urban and rural areas
Social Transitions & Fostering women and girls’ safety and health
Trafficking & Violence against women

Faculty of Nursing, Mahidol University, 2 Phrannok Road, Bangkok 10700. THAILAND
http://www.ns.mahidol.ac.th
Phone: (662) 419 7466-80
Fax: (662) 412 8415
E-mail: nsicowhi2012@diamond.mahidol.ac.th

15th International Congress on Circumpolar Health (ICCH15)

August 5-10, 2012 Fairbanks, Alaska

Through the ICCH, the International Union for Circumpolar Health (IUCH) promotes exchange of the health-related knowledge and discussion of recent research results between scientists, health care professionals, policy analysts, government agency representatives, and community leaders for the benefit of all humankind.

Preliminary Scientifc Program Themes:

The North: Unique Land and Social Environment
Anthropology, demography, genetics, housing, infrastructure, health service, delivery, climate change, health impacts, etc.
History of Circumpolar Health
The International Polar Year legacy, evolution of public health organizations in the North, etc.
Research in the Circumpolar North
Indigenous research and ethics, community participatory research methods, building research capacity, etc.
Social Determinants of Health
Social justice, education, health promotion, social marketing, health and social well-being, etc.
Healthy Families
Family health and well-being, women’s health, men’s health, child health, etc.
Nutrition and Food Security
Traditional diets, factors affecting food security, the politics of food, climate change for food
Behavioral Health
Suicide, addictions, holistic and other healing community programs, etc.
Environmental and Occupational Safety and Health
Water and sanitation issues, successful occupational health programs, etc.
Injury Epidemiology and Prevention in the North
Chronic Diseases
Cancer, diabetes, obesity, pulmonary disease, cardiovascular disease, etc.
Infectious Diseases
Tuberculosis, hepatitis, H. pylori, HPV, etc.

27th International Pediatric Association Congress of Pediatrics--IPA 2013

August 24-29, 2013 Melbourne, Australia

IPA 2013 is the global meeting place for Physicians, Researchers, Nurses and Health Care Workers in the field of Pediatrics and its sub-specialties. Dedicated to promoting and improving child health and setting it as a high priority on the world agenda professionals in the field will convene in Melbourne for a high-level scientific program focused specifically on “Bridging the Gaps in Child & Adolescent Health.” Join leading experts to explore different opinions, treatment methodologies, and practices of pediatric and adolescent care.

6th Asian Congress of Paediatric Infectious Diseases

28th November-December 1, 2012 Colombo, Sri Lanka

The 6th Asian Congress of Pediatric Infectious Diseases (ACPID 2012) is the largest gathering of pediatricians, researchers, academics, nurses, allied health professionals, virologists, epidemiologists, and other specialists in the field of infectious diseases from all over Asia Pacific.

The theme of the congress is “Rational Management of Infectious Diseases – A Path to a Safer Childhood.” It is envisaged that the dissemination of new knowledge from experts in the field will help safeguard our children by a rational approach to the prevention and management of paediatric infectious diseases.

Subject categories:

• Antimicrobial resistance and new antibiotic
• Influenza
• Bacterial Infection
• Dengue
• Fungal infection
• Enteric Infection
• Respiratory tract Infection
• Hospital Infection
• HIV
• Other viral infection
• Pathogenetic mechanisms
• Malaria
• Central nervous system infection
• Neonatal infection
• Enterovirus, Poliomyelitis
• Pneumococcal Diseases
• Urinary tract infection
• Sepsis
• Tuberculosis, Leprosy
• Vaccination
• Epidemiology
• Laboratory diagnosis
• Others

ACPID 2012 Conference Secretariat
Kenes Asia
5th Floor, PICO Creative Centre
20 Kallang Avenue, Singapore 339411
Tel: +65 6292 0723; Fax: +65 6292 4721
E-mail: acpid2012@kenes.com

Society for Prevention Research 20th Annual Meeting Promoting Healthy Living Through Prevention Science

May 29 – June 1, 2012 Washington, DC

Join your colleagues for the most important prevention science conference of the year! The Society for Prevention Research (SPR) 20th Annual Meeting will take place in Washington, DC at the Hyatt Regency Washington, May 29-June 1, 2012.

The Society for Prevention Research envisions a wellness-oriented society in which evidenced-based programs and policies are continuously applied to improve the health and well being of its citizens, fostering positive human development and citizens who lead productive lives, in caring relationships with others.

The SPR Annual Meeting provides a unique opportunity to advance this vision by providing a centrally integrated forum for the exchange of new concepts, methods, and results from prevention research and related public health fields; and by providing a forum for the communication between scientists, public policy leaders and practitioners concerning the implementation of evidence-based preventive interventions in all areas of public health.

Don’t miss this opportunity to meet and network with more than 800 researchers, policy-makers and practitioners from the U.S. and abroad at the premiere meeting for prevention science!

If you have any questions about the SPR Annual Meeting, please contact Jennifer Lewis, Executive Director, at 703-934-4850 ext. 213 or jenniferlewis@preventionresearch.org.