The Global Forum for Health Research invites you to submit an abstract for Forum 11 in any area of health research relevant to the overarching theme of Equitable Access: Research challenges for health in developing countries. Equitable access, the overarching theme of the Forum, begins with the recognition that all people are entitled – by virtue of their inviolable human rights – to have the opportunity to share in societal resources, to be treated with quality, dignity and respect, to actively participate in decision-making that affects them and to be fully included as active participants in society. The deadline for submission of abstracts is 31 January 2007.
Jobs and Announcements
Equitable Access: Research challenges for health in developing countries, Beijing, 29 October-2 November 2007
Global Forum for Health
Professor/Associate Professor (Health Systems and Health Policy)
Oliver Tambo Fellowship (OTF) Programme UCT Graduate School of Business and Faculty of Health Sciences
The Faculty of Health Sciences seeks to recruit an internationally respected academic with a background in health systems and/or health policy research at level of Professor or Associate Professor to lead the OTF Programme as Convenor. In collaboration with the GSB, the incumbent will provide overall academic leadership of a refurbished OTF Programme. He/she will engage with senior officials in national, provincial and local Departments of Health to identify skills development needs in high level management training and will lead curricular development reflecting international best practice. Experience in working with senior health officials and policy makers, and familiarity with the South African health system will therefore be advantageous.
Further details: /newsletter/id/32039
Contact: Roslyn.Daniels@uct.ac.za
Reminder: Announcing CAFS course on 'Managing Reproductive Health Programmes'
The Centre for African Family Studies
The Centre for African Family Studies (CAFS) is pleased to announce its course on 'Managing Reproductive Health Programmes', to be held from 12 to 30 March 2007 in Nairobi, Kenya. This course provides state of the art guidance to Reproductive Health Programme Managers and enhances their capacity to achieve organisational success through modern management techniques. Participants will gain a wide range of management skills and principles including management process and principles, leadership, team building, programme design, proposal writing, participatory facilitative programme supervision, monitoring and evaluation, strategic planning, human resource management, learning organisations, building coalitions and alliances and facilitation skills.
WIDER Conference Call for Papers: Fragile States – Fragile Groups, Tackling Economic and Social Vulnerability
Helsinki, Finland, 15-16 June 2007
This conference will bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss different concepts and measures of fragility and vulnerability, to analyse causes and consequences of vulnerability, to consider appropriate policy options, and to identify future research directions. Conference topics will include: fragility concepts and measures; trade and financial shocks; weather and other environmental shocks; state failure and governance in fragile states; household vulnerability and fragile groups; poverty dynamics and economic insecurity; strategies for dealing with economic and social vulnerability; linking aid, debt relief, and fragility; and fragility and MDG implementation. Details of how to submit a paper for the conference can be found at the website listed above. The deadline for submissions is 16 March 2007. Final copies of accepted papers are required by 18 May 2007.
World Conference on Children without Parental Care
World Initiative for Orphans
World Initiative for Orphans (WIO), a worldwide independent, non-profit human rights organisation for orphaned and abandoned children, organises the World Conference on Children without Parental Care from 21-24 May 2007 in The Hague/Amsterdam, The Netherlands. This international conference, meant for Government Decision-makers, relevant NGO's and Researchers, will provide an open forum for communication and will identify new approaches and model practical solutions. The four-day event will host up to 100 countries, represented by officials, NGOs and scientists. A wide range of distinguished speakers, children's advocates and experts in various fields will discuss the long needed reforms in Child Welfare Policies. This event will also be the official launch of the WIO World Council, the new and very unique practical partnership between UN-Governments, NGO's and the Academical world.
Announcing CAFS course on 'Managing Reproductive Health Programmes'
The Centre for African Family Studies
The Centre for African Family Studies (CAFS) is pleased to announce its course on 'Managing Reproductive Health Programmes', to be held from 12 to 30 March 2007 in Nairobi, Kenya. This course provides state of the art guidance to Reproductive Health Programme Managers and enhances their capacity to achieve organisational success through modern management techniques. Participants will gain a wide range of management skills and principles including management process and principles, leadership, team building, programme design, proposal writing, participatory facilitative programme supervision, monitoring and evaluation, strategic planning, human resource management, learning organisations, building coalitions and alliances and facilitation skills.
Call for proposals: Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research grants
Alliance for Health Policy and Systems
The Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, in collaboration with the Oslo Satellite of the Cochrane Effective Practice and Organization of Care (EPOC) Group, the EPPI-Centre, Institute of Education, London, and the Effective Health Care Research Programme Consortium, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, wishes to award grants to four institutions in low and middle income countries in order to: develop capacity in low and middle income countries (LMICs) for the conduct and packaging of systematic reviews of health policy and systems research relevant to these countries; conduct reviews within three main thematic areas; further develop methodologies relevant to systematic reviews of health policy and systems research in LMICs. The closing date for applications is 19 January 2007.
International Campaigners Award
Sheila McKechnie Foundation: Applications Deadline 16 January 2007
The Sheila McKechnie Foundation is a charity that supports campaigners and gives them the skills they need to make a greater impact. The winner will receive a package of free support including: one to one coaching on campaign tactics and other areas that will help that person's campaign; advice from a senior UK-based campaigner with knowledge of their policy area; the opportunity to spend a day with a decision maker; and participation in a skills development weekend in the UK with other campaigners.
New Investigators in Global Health (NIGH) Program: 2007 call for abstracts
2 November 2006
The NIGH program is a competitive abstract submission and selection program designed to highlight exemplary research, policy and advocacy initiatives of new and future leaders in global health and empower participants with global health advocacy skills. The NIGH Program is open to all students currently enrolled in a degree-seeking program in a health related field OR new professionals within two years of achieving their terminal degree in a health-related field. Winners will receive a scholarship to help facilitate their attendance at the Global Health Council's International Conference on Global Health. The deadline for applications is 1 December 2006.
Support for advocacy work: International Campaigners Award
Sheila McKechnie Foundation, 2006
This new International Award gives advice, support and skills development for the award winner in the areas that are specific to their campaign. For example, the winner might need to develop an understanding of how to communicate in the media or to build alliances with other organisations. In this sense, were an HIV-AIDS campaigner to win it would be ensured that they received skills and advice related to how to influence this policy field. The winner would receive a package of free support including: one to one coaching on campaign tactics and other areas that will help that person's campaign, advice from a senior UK-based campaigner with knowledge of their policy area, the opportunity to spend a day with a decision maker, participation in a skills development weekend in the UK with other campaigners.