The Peoples Health Movement (PHM) is a large global civil society network of health activists supportive of the WHO policy of Health for All and organised to combat the economic and political causes of deepening inequalities in health worldwide and revitalise the implementation of WHO’s strategy of Primary Health Care. PHM in South Africa (PHM-SA) is currently most active in Cape Town, but we aim to extend our activities throughout South Africa. They are looking for a dynamic and well organized person to co-ordinate the PHM-SA activities in consultation with the Cape Town-based Steering Committee. The closing date is Friday 2 March 2007.
Jobs and Announcements
People’s Health Movement South Africa Coordination: Part-time one year contract position with a possibility of renewal
People's Health Movement, 2007
Further details: /newsletter/id/32103
PEPFAR: Helping or hindering the workforce planning of health systems in poor countries? A call for evidence, case studies and stories
Physicians for Human Rights
Physicians for Human Rights and the Global Health Watch are calling for evidence, case studies and anecdotal reports of PEPFAR’s impact on health workforce planning in order to provide members of the US Congress and other officials who are seeking to improve the effectiveness of PEPFAR. Please submit or inform them of any evidence, reports, case studies or stories that can help answer the following questions. There are two deadlines by which we seek this information. • As soon as possible, not later than February 23rd – to inform Congress in time for them to be able to influence PEPFAR’s operational plans for FY 08 and • June 15th – to allow information to be incorporated into the next alternative world health report, as well as to help inform the reauthorization of PEPFAR.
Further details: /newsletter/id/32115
4th Summer Institute for New Global Health Researchers: 13-20 August 2007
Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research
The Canadian Coalition calls for applications for the 4th Summer Institute for New Global Health Researchers, to be held in partnership with the Centre for Development Studies in Trivandrum, Kerala, India from August 13-20, 2007. By “global health research” we mean research concerning the problems borne by societies in low and middle income countries (LMICs). A limited number of spaces are available for this training opportunity for “dyads” - that is, pairs of researchers with one participant from a low- or middle-income country and one from Canada, who are members of the same project or program team. The deadline for receipt of applications is 1 March 2007.
Equitable Access: Research challenges for health in developing countries, Beijing, 29 October-2 November 2007
Global Forum for Health
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.
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.