Venue: Stanford University School Of Medicine

Hundreds of Conference Sessions For Anyone Interested In:

• Global Health
• International Development
• Millennium Development Goals
• Public Health
• Overseas Volunteering
• Health and Human Rights
• Refugee Health
• HIV/AIDS
• Infectious Disease
• Microfinance and Social Entrepreneurship
• Nonprofits
• Health in Africa
• Health in Asia
• Health in Latin America
• Global Eye Care and Vision 2020
• Glaucoma Symposium

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Who should attend?

Anyone interested in eye care, international health, medicine, health education, health promotion, public health, international service, nonprofits, or microenterprise

Conference Goal: To exchange ideas across disciplines about best practices in public health, medicine and research, and international health and development.

Conference topics range from “The Right to Health: Towards Social Inclusion and Universal Health Care in Latin America” and “Antiretroviral Drugs and Issues of Drug Access and Quality in the Developing World” to “Global Progress in Preventing the Burden of Blindness and Other Diseases Caused by Measles and Rubella” and “Once I Was Blind….The Challenges of Eye Care in Ghana”

• Join over 1,500 leaders, doctors, professionals, and students from 5 continents
• More than 150 speakers about eye care, public health, international development, entrepreneurship, microfinance, policy and advocacy, bioethics, and medicine
• Exchange ideas about best practices to achieve global goals in health and development

Confirmed Speakers in Global Health, International Development, Public Health, Medicine, Health Policy and Advocacy Sessions

Confirmed Speakers in Global Eye Care and Research Sessions

Time: 1pm - 5pm with Reception to follow

The Nicholas C. Petris Center at the University of California, Berkeley’s School of Public Health is looking forward to Friday, May 4 for this year’s Spring Symposium on Implementing Health Reforms in California. For those of you who attended the 2006 Petris Symposium, you will know that this will be an afternoon of informative discussions on key health care issues facing Californians: proposed health care coverage reforms, ongoing changes in our mental health care system brought on by Proposition 63, and the wide-spread use of Ritalin and other stimulant drugs used to treat ADHD in children.

This year’s Symposium will be held in Berkeley at the Clark Kerr Campus, which is a few blocks southeast of the main campus. The welcoming comments will begin at 1:00 p.m., followed by the afternoon’s keynote addresses and panel discussions, and then a reception from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

PLEASE log onto our website to view the current agenda and to register for the event. This is a ticketed event. Tickets are no charge, but registration is required. If you experience problems with the registration site, please call Amy Nuttbrock at 510-643-4100.

Amy M. Nuttbrock
Program Coordinator
Nicholas C. Petris Center on Health Markets and Consumer Welfare
2150 Shattuck Avenue, Suite 525
Berkeley, California 94704
510-643-4100

Venue: Andrássy University

Download Confirmation Form (MS Word) and send to send to Stefan Okruch, stefan.okruch@andrassyuni.hu by March 30.

The European Research Group on Innovation and Change in Health Care Systems (ERGIHCS) is an initiative of researchers at European universities and research institutes. Their main interest is to explain the factors and their interaction that affect the evolution of health care systems. By applying advanced methods in institutional and evolutionary economics on current issues their ultimate objective is to design sustainable policies and give advice to decision-makers in the relevant policy fields.

All over the world health care systems face a tremendous pressure for reforms, mainly caused by tightening financial constraints, but also by demographic changes. Given the importance of medical progress in improving the human condition and the increasing share of health care activities in GDP, a focus on innovation and change in health care is an essential extension of health economics research. The ERGIHCS starts out from the diagnosis that existing approaches in health economics need to be expanded and enriched with insights and methods of evolutionary and institutional economics. The standard approaches analyze how innovations in the medical sector influence prices, quantities and qualities of medical services while treating them as exogenously given. In contrast to that, the ERGIHCS aims to analyze in detail how innovations emerge and diffuse by the interaction of the actors involved in health care systems. By identifying the mechanisms that shape how new institutions, products and organizational forms are generated in health care systems, statements about their impact on health care expenditures and outcomes can be derived. By analyzing the incentives of the main actors, viable prescriptions to better direct the path of innovations in the medical sector can be obtained for public policymakers.

Accordingly, the ERGIHCS focuses primarily on (1) institutional innovation in health care systems and industry evolution, on (2) policy change and competition among health care systems, and on (3) the demand for health care services and its long-run evolution. The I. ERGIHCS Conference is meant to bring together researchers of the relevant fields, to survey different approaches and to set the agenda for further research.

Paper submission: Invitation to the conference is based on an extended abstract of around 2000 words. The abstract must include information on the relevant theories, methodology, data, and (expected) results. MORE INFORMATION on submission procedures is soon available at http://www.ergo-inch-health.de/

Organizing committee

• Martina Eckardt; Witten/Herdecke University (Germany)
• Carsten Herrmann-Pillath, Witten/Herdecke University (Germany)
• Stefan Okruch, Andrássy University (Budapest, Hungary)

Contact person:

Martina Eckardt martina.eckardt@uni-wh.de
Faculty of Management and Economics
Witten/Herdecke University Alfred-Herrhausen-Strasse 50
58448 Witten
Germany

Address of hosting university

Andrássy University
Pollack Mihály tér 3
H-1088 Budapest

http://www.andrassyuni.hu/

For details please visit: http://www.ispor.org/meetings/future/index.htm

This congress is the 5th congress which is organized under the auspices of the Federation of the Societies of Tropical Medicine and International Health. It will be organized in the Netherlands to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Dutch Society for Tropical Medicine and International Health (NVTG).

In the Netherlands, especially in Amsterdam, there is a longstanding tradition in tropical medicine and international health.

The theme chosen is Partnership and Innovation in Global Health, expressing the need for collaboration to develop the quality of global health and achieve some of the Millennium Development Goals. Global collaboration means collaboration between North and South, South and South, North and North, and East and West. Furthermore, innovation is important to be able to attempt to control the major problems of international health.

The upcoming congress in Amsterdam is welcoming every health professional to create a platform where all issues concerning global health may be addressed, such as issues of public health, clinical tropical medicine, health economics, poverty, basic science, diagnostics and therapeutics.

http://www.trop-amsterdam2007.com/

Overview of the Topics: The conference programm will be composed of parallel and plenary sessions, satelite symposia and side meetings, “Where are we?” sessions, interactive clinical case sessions and poster presentations.

Conference topics include e.g.

• malaria, TB and AIDS vaccine development
• North-South collaboration
• governance, equity and health
• health sector reforms and policy
• travel health
• public-private partnerships
• tuberculosis pharmacology
• antibiotic resistance
• military medicine
• tropical neurology
• mental health
• geograpical dermatology
• venomous and poisonous animals
• fungal disease
• leptospirosis
• intestinal helminths
• tuberculosis control and epidemiology
• MDR-TB
• antiretroviral resistance
• HIV prevention
• malaria pathology, immunology, biology and treatment
• vector control
• infectious diseases modelling
• immigrant health
• safe motherhood

Contact Details: The 5th European Conference on Tropical Medicine and International Health will be held from May 24-28 2007 at the Amsterdam RAI Exhibition and Congress Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

For more information check the conference website www.trop-amsterdam2007.com or contact the congress organisation at:

K.I.T. Swiss S.A., Association & Conference Management Group, Genève. Email: info@trop-amsterdam2007.com

• Conference website: http://www.trop-amsterdam2007.com/
• Netherlands Society of Tropical Medicine and International Health: http://www.nvtg.org/
• Federation of European Societies for Tropical Medicine and International Health: http://www.festmih.net/

Uniting Stream “Young Tropical Scientist 2007” Award.

Uniting Streams is a workgroup for fieldresearch in International Health and operates under the unbrella of the Netherlands Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. The workgroup has over 150 members from The Netherlands and Belgium working in various disciplines within the field of International Health. Our aim is to stimulate multidisciplinary discussion on various topics related to (fieldwork in) International Health.

On behalf of Uniting Streams, we invite all talented young scientists to apply for the Young Tropical Scientist of the Year Award. The organisation will select five speakers to present their work in a separate parallel session. A professional committee will award one of these scientists with a prize and 500 euros.

All scientists who have not yet defended their PhD thesis can apply for this prize. They can submit recent research in the field of tropical medicine which should be related to field work in developing countries.

To apply for this prize, we require:

• an abstract of the work you want to present (250 words, format provided),
• an outline of your research (500 words, format provided),
• a letter of recommendation for a senior scientist.

For details please visit http://www.academyhealth.org/conferences/arm.htm

The diverse and sometimes opaque process of achieving successful pricing & reimbursement in Emerging Growth Markets presents many challenges to pharmaceutical companies seeking to access these dynamic and rapidly growing markets. This seminar aims to provide participants with key insights into major issues, and practical approaches to achieve successful pricing and reimbursement outcomes in these markets.

Program Highlights:

• Overview of Healthcare systems and in-depth analysis of Pricing and Reimbursement systems in key Emerging Markets
  • Asia Pacific: China, Korea, Taiwan, ASEAN
  • Central & Eastern Europe: Russia, Turkey, new EU states
  • LATAM: Brazil, Mexico
• Evolution of P&R models in Emerging Markets: Lessons to be learnt from other P&R models
  • Australia, Japan, US, EU
• Pharmacoeconomics in emerging markets: Payer demand and practical implementation
  • Coverage of pharmacoeconomics in pricing and reimbursement guidelines in emerging markets
  • Learning from recent experiences in EU15 markets and what could this mean for emerging markets
  • The tactical challenge: How to ensure satisfactory coverage of pharmacoeconomics in clinical development
  • Principles of message and data transfer between markets

For further details please visit http://www.emarketstraining.com/ or email info@emarketstraining.com

On behalf of INSEAD and its Healthcare Management Initiative, Johnson & Johnson and the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association (HBA), we cordially invite you to participate in our 2007 healthcare2020.forum on Globalization, Transformation and Health. The forum will be held 15-16 June on the INSEAD Europe campus in Fontainebleau, France.

This will be our largest ever healthcare2020.forum, welcoming top tier panelists from across the globe to address Leadership and Innovation, Sustainable Development and Global Diversity in Healthcare and the Life Sciences. This year the forum will be preceded, on 14 June, by the inaugural celebrations of the INSEAD Life Sciences Network - a global network including all INSEAD alumni and stakeholders in the fields of healthcare and the life sciences.

To register and access the detailed programme, please visit: http://www.insead.edu/hmi

More Information including Programme

Complete Announcement of Cost Action 866

The overall aim of this conference is to discuss how Green care services in agriculture can be further developed and organised by relevant research activities. This will be achieved by discussing conceptual and theoretical frameworks and research methods for assessing health effects, economics and social impact of various types of Green care services, and how these fit into current and future national health and social care systems.

Participants that are from the Action’s member countries can be eligible for reimbursement of their expenses, up to a maximum of six persons per country and within our overall budget (roughly 60 persons). We may have to consider a good balance between countries, working groups and scientific expertise when this selection is made. For those being able to pay their own expenses, the conference is open to anybody within the available space.

ABOUT THIS COST ACTION

COST is European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technological Research, and is a scientific network programme under European Science Foundation. It is administered by a Management Committee of 1-2 persons being representatives of each of the member countries of the Action. This Action presently has 14 member countries, and its activities are regulated by the Memorandum of Understanding. COST cannot fund research projects, but coordinates scientific work.

‘Green care’ is the utilisation of agricultural farms - the animals, the plants, the garden, the forest, and the landscape - as a base for promoting human mental and physical health, as well as quality of life, for a variety of client groups. A multidisciplinary scientific effort is essential to further develop green services as part of a multifunctional agriculture. This COST Action will coordinate research and develop new research on green care in biological, medical and health sciences, including conceptual, theoretical, and methodological developments. The Action will also focus on economics and management of green care farming, as well as developing policies and discussing how green care can fit current and future national health and social care systems, and affect rural development positively.

The main objective of the Action is to increase the scientific knowledge on the best practices for implementing green care in agriculture with the aim of improving human mental and physical health and the quality of life.

The scientific work in the Action is based on three Working Groups (WGs):

WG 1: Health effects of green care

Chair: Joe Sempik, UK

The main aim of this Working Group is to coordinate research and develop new research in biological, medical and health sciences for the purpose of gaining new insight into the effects of various types of green care on several aspects of physical and mental health and the quality of life of people. The work must include conceptual and theoretical discussions and developments, as well as discussions on research methodologies.

Milestones:

1. Development of a conceptual framework and theoretical models for the health promoting mechanisms of green care.
2. Comparison and discussion of ongoing research projects related to health effects on people.
3. Establishment of a set of good research methodologies.

WG 2: Economics of green care

Chair: Saverio Senni, Italy

The main aim of this Working Group is to coordinate research and develop new research on economics and management of green care farming. This includes the cost-benefit effectiveness of green care across the economic spectrum (micro, mezzo and macro levels) within the framework of multifunctional agriculture, market based versus governmental based economics, marketability of public goods and positive agricultural externalities, as well as measurements of the positive externalities of Animal Assisted Therapy and Horticultural Therapy.

Milestones:

1. Development of a methodology to determine the economic benefits of green care services for farmers, for other parts of the agricultural sector and for the health and social care sectors, and also the social returns of such services.
2. Development of systems to support green care regionally and nationally.
3. Development of a research programme on economics of green care.

WG 3: Policies related to green care88

Chair: Thomas van Elsen, Germany

The main aim of this Working Group is to investigate how green care fits into current and future national health and social care systems. This includes the organisation of the green care system and the building up of the network behind the health and social care systems. A further aim is to define how rural development is affected; creation of new jobs and strengthening of the economic viability of rural communities, those of less-favoured and remote rural areas in particular.

Milestones:

1. Definition of terms and concepts for the different services of green care.
2. Evaluation of the contribution of green care not only to rural and agricultural policies, but also to policies in health care and social care.
3. Development of a research agenda - policies of green care.

AIMS FOR THE CONFERENCE

The overall aim of this conference is to discuss how Green care services in agriculture can be further developed and organised by relevant research activities. This will be achieved by discussing conceptual and theoretical frameworks and research methods for assessing health effects, economics and social impact of various types of Green care services, and how these fit into current and future national health and social care systems.

The discussions in the Working Groups (WGs) will draw on the experience and discussions of the COST Workshop held in Brussels 4-5 December 2006. After presenting and discussing different situations in various countries during the last meeting we want to make steps forward in order to build up a network behind the health and social care systems. The affection of rural development and the economic viability of rural communities, especially of less-favoured and remote rural areas, will be taken into account as well. More details are to be found in the minutes of the last meeting.

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

We invite offers of presentations in the plenary sessions (15 minutes), in the Working Groups (10-15 minutes), or as posters. Presentations should either be presentations of research results, scientific methods you currently use, or theoretical or conceptual issues. Priority will be given to presentations which are judged to contribute best to fulfilment of the aims of the conference. The number of presentations will be limited to ensure adequate time for discussions.

Those offering a presentation must submit a one-page abstract that clearly indicates the authors’ names, addresses and e-mail address to corresponding author, objectives, methods, main research results (if any), theoretical/conceptual issues (if any), and conclusions. These abstracts must accompany the Registration Form to be submitted by 10th March 2007.

The Scientific Committee, which is the same as the Executive Committee of the COST Action, develops a final programme based on offered presentations and the discussion topics. Those having their abstracts accepted, for oral or poster presentations, must submit an extended two-page summary based on a given template for the Proceedings of the conference by 15th May. After the conference, we will consider inviting some of the presenters to submit a full article for a book to be published by COST.

Cost Action - Green Care web site

The fifth global NHA symposium will be hosted in Lund, Sweden, in conjunction with the iHEA Conference in Copenhagen in 2007.

The aim of the fifth global NHA symposium is to highlight the usefulness of the tool in monitoring efforts to strengthen health systems in different countries. The symposium will be a two-day workshop, financed by Sida and USAID. The participants are expected to have different levels of knowledge about the concept of NHA and its applications. The program will include training and information sessions regarding the production of NHA as well as benefits and policy implications of using the tool to inform policy processes and evaluate results of reforms. Presentations will be made by representatives from different organisations who are involved in the production and/or use of NHA, e.g. health ministries, research institutes and universities in different countries, donor organisations, the World Bank and the World Health Organization.

For queries, please contact Anna H Glenngård (ag@ihe.se) at IHE.

For registration and visa and scholarship applications please visit iHEA’s 6th World Congress website.

Venue to be announced.

The workshop is being organised by members of the Danish Hospital Institute, the University of Cape Town and Curtin University (Perth, Australia). There will be a small fee to help cover some of the costs, but we will try to keep this as low as possible.

Vicente Navarro has agreed to be the Key Note opening speaker.

Bob Evans has agreed to chair the workshop and facilitate discussion.

The other speakers (who have all confirmed their participation) are:

• David Coburn
• Amiya Bagchi
• Gavin Mooney
• Maureen Mackintosh
• Di McIntyre

Plenty of time will be left for questions and discussion in between the presentations. In addition, there will be a final panel discussion which will allow for further participation in the workshop:

Panel discussion: ‘Where to now? - what should we collectively be doing to promote more work and advocacy around the political economy of health?’ - to include abovementioned speakers and Jes Sogaard and Bob Evans

More information will be available later. If interested contact Gavin Mooney g.mooney@curtin.edu.au

• Important Dates & Deadlines
• Abstract and Session Submissions & Examples
• Registration Rates for Members and Non-Members
• Pre-Conference Session Rates
• Refunds
• Scholarships
  • Developing Country Presenters
  • Students
• Visa Requirements
  • Denmark
  • Sweden
• Official Airline Network

For further details please visit: the 6th World Congress Conference site

Notification decisions: 2 March 2007
Submission of papers: 1 June 2007

The spatial dimension of economic structures and processes has become increasing relevant in theoretical and applied research in the social sciences. The 1st World Conference of the Spatial Econometrics Association aims to bring together economists, econometricians and regional scientists to discuss the present achievements and future challenges and opportunities. The conference will be held on 11-14 July 2007 at Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge.

Visit http://www.sea2007.com/

Papers on any health economics topic dealing with spatial issues are particularly welcomed.

The 24th International Conference of ISQua, The International Society for Quality in Health Care, in Boston will start on the evening of Sunday 30 September and finish on the afternoon of Wednesday 3 October 2007. An impressive group of leaders have agreed to be plenary presenters for the Boston program. These will be announced announced this month.

For ISQua’s Boston Conference program, abstracts are being invited for a major track across the program on E-Health as it applies to patient safety and quality, and lessons learned from hands-on practice.

IN ADDITION, other program tracks will cover new initiatives and lessons learned in the areas of, but not limited to:

• Performance Measures/Indicators
• Patient safety
• Patients - informed, consulted, empowered
• Workforce
• Systems
• Accreditation and other evaluation services
• Clinical performance improvement

A major focus for each track will be Oral and Poster presentations. Additional Posters will be selected for display only.

CLOSING DATE for ABSTRACT submissions: No later than Monday 12 March 2007.

Abstracts are to be submitted ON-LINE. Go to the Boston star on ISQua’s home page: http://www.isqua.org/

The steps for submitting abstracts are set out in the Boston conference section on the ISQua site. Please refer to the instructions and use the skeleton abstract framework provided. A separate registration form and file must be submitted for each abstract. All abstracts will be acknowledged.

Check ISQua’s website for regular program updates.

This year’s meeting will focus on:

• Exploring the science of decisions
• Consumer-driven, individualized health care

Keynote Address: Malcolm Gladwell, staff writer with The New Yorker and author of the bestselling books “Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking” and “The Tipping Point: How Little Things Make a Big Difference”, will speak about topics related to making decisions in his talk: “Lessons from the Outside”.

Call for Short Courses: SMDM is now accepting proposals for Short Courses for the 2007 Annual Meeting. Submission form is available at http://www.smdm.org/. The deadline for submission of these proposals is March 5, 2007

Call for Nominations for the 2007 SMDM Awards: Program is designed to recognize distinguished service to SMDM and/or the medical decision making field. Visit http://www.smdm.org/ for detailed descriptions of awards, past recipients, and eligibility requirements. Deadline for award nominations: April 1, 2007

Call for Abstracts: Submit your original work for presentation at the 2007 Annual Meeting in Oral and Poster format. Electronic submission site and detailed instructions will be available starting March 2 at http://www.smdm.org/. Deadline for abstract submission: June 8, 2007

Mark Your Calendar

• February 1, 2007 - Hotel Reservation Opens
• March 2, 2007 - Abstract Submission Site Opens
• March 5, 2007 - Call for Short Courses Due
• April 1, 2007 - Call for Awards Nominations Due
• June 8, 2007 - Abstract Submission Deadline
• June 13, 2007 - Meeting Registration Opens
• October 20-24, 2007 - 2007 SMDM Annual Meeting

For details please visit: http://www.apha.org/meetings/future_past.htm

For details please visit http://www.academyhealth.org/conferences/arm.htm

http://www.cpt2008.org/

The IXth World Conference on Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics - CPT2008, will take place from July 27 - August 1, 2008 at the Québec City Convention Centre, in Québec City, Canada.

The Québec City Convention Centre is in the heart of the city, across from the Parliament Building and just steps from the fortifications. It is linked by underground walkways to a complex that includes two major hotels, indoor parking, and a shopping centre.

For details please visit: http://www.apha.org/meetings/future_past.htm

For details please visit: http://www.apha.org/meetings/future_past.htm