Participate in the second Global Health Watch, by submitting human interest stories and case studies. GHW are calling on activists, health workers and academics from around the world to submit case studies and testimonies or stories based on individual or group experiences to supplement the second edition of the report and reinforce its main themes. While guides to the various themes can be found at the GHW parent website, the "Food and Globalisation" chapter framework summary can be found at the weblink below.
Jobs and Announcements
Call for case studies and human interest stories on food and globalisation
The Global Health Watch (GHW)
Further details: /newsletter/id/32224
Call for interest: Monitoring of budgets and tracking expenditure for health and HIV and AIDS in Africa
Affiliated Network for Social Accountability (ANSA Africa)
The Centre for Economic Governance and AIDS in Africa (CEGAA) and the International Budget Project (IBP), kindly sponsored by the FORD Foundation, is offering a two-week training to civil society organizations/research agencies in: "Monitoring of budgets and tracking expenditure for health and HIV/AIDS". The training is to take place from the 18th to the 30th June 2007, venue still to be confirmed. After the training, CEGAA will provide technical support to participating organizations, so as to ensure the fruitful outcome of the research and advocacy projects. More details can be found on the weblink below.
Call for papers for the Inaugural Conference of IESE
Institute for Social and Economic Studies
CIESE, an independent research organisation which is in the process of being created, is calling for proposals for papers for its inaugural Conference which will take place in September 2007 in Maputo. IESE's central objective is to promote research from an interdisciplinary and heterodox perspective, bringing together different approaches and research groups in a process of mutual reinforcement. The focus of IESE's research is the analysis and development of public policy. All interested parties are invited to submit, by 15 May 2007, a two-page summary of the paper, clearly indicating the theme, sources of information, the research central questions and the methodology, as well as information on their institutional position and contacts.
Critical Health Perspectives - Call for papers
People's Health Movement
The People's Health Movement invites readers to consider writing for Critical Health Perspectives (CHP); either by writing something new, adapt something already written, or comment on a report or paper. Guidelines for submissions can be found at the weblink below and at the People's Health Movement website. CHP is a publication of the People's Health Movement, South Africa (South Africa). It is produced with the aim of offering an alternative, "peoples health" perspective and stimulating debate on critical issues related to health and health care in South Africa and elsewhere.
Further details: /newsletter/id/32177
ILRIG Globalisation School 2007 - 23 to 28 September in Cape Town - Alternatives to Globalisation
International Labour Research and Information Group (ILRIG)
Activists from all over Southern Africa are invited to apply. Since 2002 the ILRIG annual Globalisation Schools have brought together trade unions and social movement activists from different parts of Africa to engage in education and debate around the many aspects of capitalist globalisation. This year our theme will be Alternatives to Globalisation. All participants are charged a registration fee of R250. This includes materials, accommodation and all meals. ILRIG will not cover travel costs. Space will be allocated on first-come-first-serve basis and ILRIG will ensure a gender balance.
Institute for Health and Social Justice launches campaign on hunger and health
Partners In Health, March 2007
The Institute for Health and Social Justice (IHSJ) – the research, education and advocacy arm of PIH – has launched a campaign to galvanize knowledge, awareness, and action to combat pandemic coinfections of hunger, malnutrition and disease. The first round of activity in this campaign is a series of seminars to be held in the Boston area, organized jointly with the Friedman School of Nutrition at Tufts University and the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights.
Advancing women's leadership and advocacy for AIDS action
Pan African Treatment Action Movement (PATAM)
PATAM would like to invite applications to the Global Women's Leadership in HIV/AIDS Workshop to be held July 16 – August 10 in Washington, DC. It is the first in a series of international, regional and country-level workshops under the new Advancing Women's Leadership and Advocacy for AIDS Action initiative. Funded by the Ford Foundation, partners include CEDPA, the UNAIDS/Global Coalition on Women and AIDS, International Center for Research on Women, International Community of Women Living with HIV and AIDS, and the National Minority AIDS Council.
Call for case studies and human interest stories on urbanisation
Global Health Watch
The Global Health Watch would like to ensure that people's health issues and indigenous health issues are reflected within the second edition of Global Health Watch, and would like assistance and input in writing and sourcing human interest stories written in a simple narrative style. Where it is not possible to integrate stories submitted within chapters, they will put them on the web site. They would like both positive and negative stories, successes and failures, etc.
Call for papers: International conference on researching work and learning (RWL5)
The Researching Work and Learning Conference (RWL5) will be held in Cape Town, South Africa from 2 – 5 December 2007. The aim of the RWL5 conference will be to promote a truly global conversation about researching work and learning which enables us to rethink the `centre` and rethink the `margins` from a variety of countries and perspectives. At the same time the conference will strive to inject local southern African research issues and debates into the discussions, not in order to be parochial, but to deepen and enrich our understandings about `work` and `learning` globally. The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 15 May 2007.
Essay competition: Young voices in research for health
Global Forum for Health Research and The Lancet
The Global Forum for Health Research and The Lancet are sponsoring their second joint essay competition on the occasion of Forum 11, the 2007 annual meeting of the Global Forum for Health Research in Beijing, People's Republic of China, 29 October to 2 November 2007. Entries relating to some aspect of the overall theme of Forum 11: Equitable access, research challenges for health in developing countries are invited from young professionals working in or interested in the broad spectrum of health research for development. The deadline for submissions is 20 April 2007.