EUPHA novosti
2009-05-15 09:12:00
In this newsletter: 1. EUPHA – ASPHER 2009: Lodz, Poland 2. Job opportunities 3. Interesting news 4. Upcoming courses and Conferences 5. Interesting publications 6. European Commission: update 7. European Centre for Diseases Control: Eurosurveillance 8. WHO: new publications 1. EUPHA - ASPHER 2009: Lodz, Poland The preparations for the 2nd Joint European Public Health Conference in Lodz, Poland (25 to 28 November 2009) are well on its way. The deadline for the submission of abstracts was the 1st of May (midnight). We have received over 500 single abstracts and more than 40 workshops. The work of the International Scientific Committee will start soon and we wish them good luck with the scoring of all these abstracts. Their work will be discussed in the beginning of June after which all submitters will be notified by email. The registration process will start in the 3rd week of May. We are also planning a number of extra activities, including (but not limited to): - Pre conference organised by the European Public Health Alliance (EPHA) - Pre conference organised by ASPHER - Pre conference organised by our EUPHA section on Injury prevention and Safety. - Pre conference by the EUPHA section on Public Mental Health, organised as an excursion to Auschwitz /Oswiecim. - Pre conference of the EUPHA section on Environment-related Diseases, which is a training based upon the PHEEDUNET project on training in environmental public health - Pre conference of the EUPHA section on Social Security and Health on Research on gender differences in sickness absence. Other activities include: - A seminar organised on Thursday morning by Sanofi Pasteur MSD in collaboration with EUPHA - A seminar organised on Friday lunch time by Glaxo Smithkline in collaboration with EUPHA. For more information on the conference, please go to www.eupha.org 2. Job opportunities Malaria Control and Prevention Project Director A leading non-profit organization, headquartered in Washington DC, is seeking a Project Director for a major malaria control and prevention project. The project is global with an emphasis on countries in sub-Saharan Africa where malaria is most prevalent. The Project Director must be a globally respected leader in the malaria community, with significant experience in malaria control management. He/she must have both the technical and management skills required to lead this project, providing vision, leadership, and direction. Candidates with only the following qualifications should apply: • Recognized global leader in the malaria field in the prevention and control of malaria in developing countries and in capacity building. • Extensive developing country field experience (minimum of five years) in designing and implementing ITN related activities in malaria control programs. • At least 10 to 15 years of senior level experience managing large, complex projects in the developing world. • Experience interacting with developing country governments, multilateral and bilateral funding and technical organizations, civil society representatives, and senior level government officials. Experience working on USAID contracts a plus. • Substantial experience (at least five years) in supervising technical, management and support staff, and ability to work with diverse international teams. • A Master’s degree or higher, with a strong preference in public health and/or management. • Effective English oral and written communications skills and fluency in at least one of the following languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese. • Ability to travel up to 30% of the time for project oversight purposes. Please send cover letter and resume to publichealthrecruiting@yahoo.com by May 5, 2009. Due to the volume of respondents we regret that only those selected for an interview will be contacted. Department of Ethics, Equity, Trade and Human Rights, World Health Organization Call for interest to be a member of a new : WHO Scientific Source Group On Health Equity Analysis And Rerearch. Website: http://www.who.int/eth/en/ Nominate yourself or someone else by 15 May 2009: equity@who.int “……The World Health Organization (WHO) is establishing a Scientific Resource Group (SRG) on Health Equity Analysis and Research to support WHO on its programme of work on equity and health.
This includes contribution to the development of WHO and other collaborative products or the peer-review of these products. The Scientific Resource Group (SRG) work aligns with a key strategic objective of WHO to address a broad range of determinants of health (social, economic, political, environmental, etc.) and a core value to increase social justice including health equity within and across countries. Members will advise WHO on strategic directions, work plan content, objectives and priorities, as well as contribute to products and services in particular those relating to measurement, monitoring, evaluation, analysis and research, including: · Recommend indicators for the monitoring of broader determinants of health and health inequalities, within and across countries; recommend indicators and measurement approaches to enhance global accountability and national monitoring efforts in this area · Produce or endorse tools and methods to support measurement and evaluation of status and trends in equity and health, drawing on multiple disciplinary perspectives · Recommend research and research synthesis methods to evaluate policies and interventions from an equity perspective and support global research activities in this area that serve to increase global evidence on what to do, and strengthen capacities and extend collaborations across low-, middle- and high-income countries involving a wide range of knowledge producers and users · Produce key analysis and reports addressing equity and health, that clarify analytical methods, revise and apply norms and standards as well as peer-reviewed articles or practical guidelines for wider dissemination. The members of the Scientific Resource Group (SRG) will work primarily through electronic communications (e.g. email, facsimile, telephone or video conferences) to exchange information, circulate documentation and maintain contact. Expected Qualifications: Up to 25 members will be selected on the basis of their knowledge and expertise on equity and health. The group will include both established experts as well as promising leaders in relation to measurement, monitoring and analysis, and research methods. Experts from research and training institutions, universities, ministries, other institutes, governmental and non-governmental, as well as from other UN organizations, development banks, etc. are sought to participate in this group. Individuals from low- and middle-income countries and women are especially encouraged to apply. Commitment: A two year commitment, renewable, is sought. A base advisory role is expected to range from 6 to 12 working days per year. This includes the tasks of reviewing documents, preparing for discussions, completing written comments, and participation in eventual meetings. Additional working days to contribute to products and services will be mutually agreed upon and contractual arrangements, as appropriate, will be made with each Scientific Resource Group (SRG) member and in consultation with its chair, Professor Cesar G. Victora, President Elect of the International Epidemiological Association. Nomination Process: Please nominate yourself or someone else by 15 May 2009, by sending an expression of interest by email to equity@who.int that includes the nominee's name, full contact information including email and telephones, and optionally, a couple of sentences on why the nominee should participate in the group and noting no conflict of interest to advise WHO. All nominees will be contacted on a rolling basis with selection completed by end June 2009. Submitted by: Ritu Sadana, Coordinator ai, Equity Analysis and Research
Department of Ethics, Equity, Trade and Human Rights
World Health Organization
20, avenue Appia, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland 3. Interesting news Website 'Be healthy – Be Yourself' The Commission set up a new website in youth friendly design targeted for the young people. The aim of the website is to empower young people to have a real say about their health by offering them a space to air their views. This website will be used as a main source of information about the Youth Health Initiative. The initiative emphasises dialogue and involvement of young people in tackling the health issues that affect them and invites young people to be active partners in our work on health. The website is accessible from the EU Health Portal. It has three major parts: a conference page, a Youth Health competition page and a blog page which will be moderated by the European Youth Forum. The youth health conference web site gathers information about the conference which will take place in Brussels on 9 and 10 July 2009. A main feature of the conference will be close involvement of young people and their organisations in the preparation of the event. The website will be regularly updated in order to gather the latest information including the conference program, the main conference themes, related documents on youth health, and information about the main partners and their activities contributing to the initiative.
The youth health arts competition is open to 15-25 year olds who wish to express their views on health issues. Participants are invited to send via the website or by post their pictures, short video-clips or drawings on the six conference themes.
Prizes include a personal music player, a video game console, and a camera or video camera. Some winners will be invited to the Youth Health Conference in Brussels to present their work to an audience from across the Europe.
The blog will be a discussion forum for young people to exchange views on their heath concerns and priorities. Blog users will have the possibility to share their personal views on the "testimonial page" related to the 6 main conference themes. Some of the bloggers will be selected to participate in the Youth Health Conference. EUHSID News The EUHSID (European Health Surveys Information Database) project is an inventory of national and multi-country health surveys. The information is included in the HIS/HES Database that is accessible online. Developing and updating the database is the primary task of EUHSID. The other main aim is to provide a practical tool for the development of methods for the European Health Survey System (EHSS). The database also supports comparison and interpretation of survey findings. Moreover, EUHSID aims to disseminate information and to stimulate cooperation and sharing of experience in health survey methodology and instruments between EU Member States, Candidate Countries and EFTA-EEA countries, community bodies as well as international organisations. EUHSID is implemented by the Scientific Institute of Public Health (IPH) in Belgium and the National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) in Finland, with financial support by Eurostat and the Directorate General for Health and Consumers (DG SANCO). In the first issue of the EUHSID newsletter, at www.euhsid.org, you will find more information on the project. If you wish to subscribe, please contact: johanna.maki-opas@thl.fi 4. Upcoming courses and conferences Going International (Partner of EUPHA) Going International (GI) promotes training and further education for experts and newcomers in public health and humanitarian assistance around the globe. The flagship of GI is the international course catalogue "medicine & health", a unique annual publication listing courses and congresses in the fields of biomedicine, public health and development cooperation. For further information: http://www.going-international.at/index.php?lang=EN Title Primary Care: Interdisciplinary and Community Oriented Date 7/8 May 2009 Place Nicosia, Cyprus Organiser EFPC conference in close collaboration with the University of Nicosia More information mavris.j@unic.ac.cy Title Training course on Measuring the Progress of Societies:
“Statistics, Knowledge and Policy: Understanding Societal Change” Date 11-15 May 2009 Place Ottawa, Canada Organiser OECD Global Project in association with the Canadian Council on Learning (CCL) More information http://www.oecd.org/document/62/0,3343,en_40033426_40037426_42208190_1_1_1_1,00.html Title Inequalities in Health and Health Care Date June 8 to 12, 2009 Place University of Geneva – Switzerland More information Website: http://www.hec.unil.ch/iems/Enseignement/contact/ssph_brochure_web.pdf [page 8.] Title 9th WONCA Rural Health World Conference Date 12 to 14 June 2009 Place Heraklion, Crete, Greece Organiser Clinic of Social and Family Medicine, Medical Faculty, University of Crete, Greece in conjunction with the practice-based research rural network of Crete and EURIPA. More information www.ruralwonca2009.org Title Health in Context: A course in multilevel modelling for public health and health services research Date 31 August - 4 September 2009 Place Department for Epidemiology & International Public Health and Centre for Statistics, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany More information www.healthincontext.com Title Society for Social Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting Date 9 - 11 September 2009 Place Newcastle, UK More information www.socsocmed.org.uk Title 1st European Congress on Environmental Pathologies Date 9-10 October 2009 Place Rouen, France Organiser National Interdisciplinary College for Health and Environment Title Big Food Debate II - national public health nutrition conference Date 20 October 2009 Place Liverpool, UK Organiser Heart of Mersey More information www.heartofmersey.org.uk Title 16th Annual Canadian Conference on International Health: Health Equity: Our Global Responsibility Date 25-28 October 2009 Place Ottawa, Canada Deadline 11 May 2009 More information http://www.csih.org/en/ccih/overview.asp Title 7e congrès européen de psychologie communautaire Date 29-30 October 2009 Place Paris, France Organiser L'Association Française de Psychologie Communautaire et l'Association Européenne de Psychologie Communautaire Deadline 30 April 2009 Title 1st Congress of Fatty Liver and Metabolic Syndrome
Date 12-14 November, 2009
Place Budapest, Hungary
Title International course in modern methods in epidemiology and biostatistics: Regression analysis Date 26-30 October 2009 Place Rome, Italy Organiser Institute of Hygiene, Catholic University of Rome More information sboccia@rm.unicatt.it Title International course in modern methods in epidemiology and biostatistics: Survival analysis Date 2-6 November 2009 Place Rome, Italy Organiser Institute of Hygiene, Catholic University of Rome More information sboccia@rm.unicatt.it Title International course in modern methods in epidemiology and biostatistics: Epidemiologic principles and methods Date 9-13 November 2009 Place Rome, Italy Organiser Institute of Hygiene, Catholic University of Rome More information sboccia@rm.unicatt.it
5. Interesting publications Access to health care in relation to socioeconomic status in the Amazonian area of Peru Charlotte Kristiansson, Eduardo Gotuzzo, Hugo Rodriguez, Alessandro Bartoloni, Marianne Strohmeyer, Göran Tomson and Per, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. International Journal for Equity in Health – April 2009 Available online at: http://www.equityhealthj.com/content/pdf/1475-9276-8-11.pdf Affordable Medicines Facility - malaria (AMFm) An innovative financing mechanism, the Affordable Medicines Facility for malaria ( AMFm), was officially launched. The AMFm will make the most effective treatment for malaria, artemisinin combination therapies (ACTs), more affordable and so has the potential to save thousands of lives. The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria will manage the new scheme. The Global Fund: http://www.theglobalfund.org/en/amfm/?lang=en Seguro Popular in Mexico: is premature evaluation healthy? Cesar G Victora, David H Peters The Lancet, Volume 373, Issue 9673, Pages 1447 - 1454, 25 April 2009 http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(09)60564-X/fulltext Association of Maternal Height With Child Mortality, Anthropometric Failure, and Anemia in India S. V. Subramanian, PhD; Leland K. Ackerson, ScD; George Davey Smith, MD, DSc; Neetu A. John, ScM JAMA. 2009;301(16):1691-1701. - Vol. 301 No. 16, April 22/29, 2009 Website: http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/301/16/1691 A guide to Quantitative Methods in Health Impact Assessment Håkan Brodin, Stephen Hodge Swedish National Institute of Public Health, (SNIPH) 2008 Available online at: http://www.fhi.se/PageFiles/4375/R200841_Health_Impact_200812.pdf?epslanguage=en Recognition of the International Human Right to Health and Health Care in the United States Eleanor D. Kinney, JD, MPH Hall Render, William S. and Christine S. Rutgers Law Review [Vol. 60:2 – 2008] Available online PDF [45p.] at: http://www.pegasus.rutgers.edu/~review/vol60n2/Kinney_Macro_web.pdf Also at: http://indylaw.in |
