On 6–17 July, a school programme on health law will be held in Rotterdam for health professionals and practitioners, including intensive training in various aspects of health law and ethics over a two-week period, while absorbing the sights, sounds and culture unique to Rotterdam and the Netherlands. The Summer School offers a custom-developed course taught by leading academics in their field. The courses are designed to enhance the preparation of health professionals confronted with legal and ethical issues. The course focuses on both theoretical and practical aspects of health law and ethics. The following courses are given: Human Rights and Health, Sexual and Reproductive Health, Public Health, Bioethics and the Law, and Health Economics.
Jobs and Announcements
You are invited to submit your abstract for the 2009 conference, describing your research and advocacy efforts to address the many dimensions of sexual violence by 27 March 2009. Abstracts should be submitted according to the conference themes, namely sexual violence and HIV, sexual violence and mental health, sexual violence and conflict and emergency settings, sexual violence and prevention, and health sector responses to sexual violence. The call for abstracts welcomes multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural perspectives and preference will be given to efforts undertaken in, or focusing on low- and middle-income countries. There are four types of sessions that you can apply for: oral and posters presentations, round tables and seminar meetings. To submit an abstract, visit the forum website.
The Training and Research Support Centre (TARSC), and University of Zimbabwe, Department of Community Medicine (UZ-DCM) invite applications for the 2009 Winter School Public Health short course-training programme to be held at UZ Health Sciences Building from the 6 to 11 July 2009. The programme is aimed at building capacities for people working particularly at district level in health-related work, but who may not have had the benefit of formal training in health. The course thus aims to include people in Zimbabwe from local government, from health related services and sectors working in areas related to health at district level, from civil society and from community leaders with roles in health. The course aims to build an understanding of public health and of health systems, particularly at district level. Contact the Programme Coordinator on the email address or visit the TARSC website for further details. Applications close April 17th 2009.
The research project Mobility of Health Professionals (MoHProf) is a European Union funded project that aims to contribute to an improved knowledge base and to facilitate European policy on human resource planning. The general objective of the project is to investigate and analyse current trends of the mobility of health professionals (such as nurses and doctors) to, from and within the European Union, including return and circular migration. The Consultants will conduct empirical socio-scientific field studies on migration of health workers, each in one of the countrises listed, and participate in two meetings with the Regional Research Coordinator and other national consultants. For further information visit the website.
The Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, World Health Organization, is hiring a technical officer, P4, in the areas of pharmaceutical policy and use of evidence to inform policy making. Based in Geneva, the officer will lead a programme of work that engages research users to identify and build consensus around global research priorities in the access to medicines field; manage calls for proposals, administer and provide technical support to grants focused on synthesising and generating new knowledge on access to medicine issues; promote networking between research institutions working in the pharmaceutical policy field and help build capacity in the field through workshops and other interventions; monitor and support Alliance grants to country teams that aim to promote the use of evidence in policy making; and act as the point person for the Alliance on coordination with the EVIPNet (Evidence Informed Policy Networks).
The APORDE initiative is supported by The Department of Trade and Industry (the DTI) and the French Development Agency (AFD) with the French Institute of South Africa (IFAS) and will be held in Durban (South Africa) from 3–17 September 2009. They are seeking applications from talented African, Asian and Latin American economists, policy makers and civil society activists who, if selected, will be fully funded. For further information on the criteria required and your eligibility, visit the website address given below. Note that entry into this high-level programme has been very competitive in the past and only 26 applicants will be selected. The main body of participants will be drawn from Africa, but applications from Asians and Latin Americans who have research or work experience related to Africa are welcomed.
The Southern African Network of Nurses and Midwives (SANNAM) is calling for suppport for Zimbabwean nurses at a critical time of deepening political and socio-economic crisis. SANNAM can provide further information on the network and the support it aims to mobilise.
The theme of the conference this year is ‘Health equity: Our global responsibility’. The conference will examine inequities of health status, and the impact on the health of marginalised, vulnerable and indigenous populations of changing environments, whether these changes are due to climate, technology, the economy or threats to human security. Presentations exploring lessons learned and new ways of understanding health equity and social justice locally, nationally and globally are invited. Anticipated outcomes of the conference will be evidence of improvements in social determinants and their impacts on health and social outcomes, evidence of the impact of environmental technological and economic change on health equity, and consideration of the need for a paradigm shift in intersectoral policy and practice, locally, nationally and internationally.
The 8th International Conference on Urban Health is being organised by the International Society for Urban Health (ISUH) in partnership with the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) and the Government of the Republic of Kenya. This will be the first time the Conference is held in Africa, and not North America or Europe! The annual ICUH meetings provide an international forum for knowledge exchange among urban health stakeholders. They address issues pertaining to urban health, with an emphasis on interventions that help to alleviate barriers to urban health care and to promote strategies and policies that enhance the health of urban populations. The ultimate goal of the ICUH is to mobilise and energise like-minded professionals addressing the effects of urbanisation and urban environments on the health of urban populations.
The Ivan Toms Memorial Lecture will coincide with the week of Human Rights Day and thus call to attention Ivan's commitment to justice and humanity. Ivan was an exceptional South African and a true champion of primary health care and the right to health. From his role as a doctor in the SACLA clinic in Crossroads, through his management roles in the National Progressive Primary Health Care Network and SHAWCO, to that of his most recent post as Director of Health Services in the City of Cape Town, Ivan campaigned for many things: one of which was to secure the effective delivery of accessible health services to all based on the principles of primary health care. The lecture will take place on Wednesday, 18 March 2009 at 18h00–20h00, at the New Learning Centre Auditorium, Faculty of Health Sciences, UCT Medical School, Anzio Rd, Observatory.