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Events & Conferences

  • How Can We Set Priorities in Health Fairly?
    Date: 15 February 2012, University College of London (UCL)
    The UCL Centre for Philosophy, Justice and Heath, in association with the Nuffield Trust, will be holding a one-day conference at UCL on 'How Can We Set Priorities in Health Fairly?' For more conference details, please click here.
  • Fifty years since 'Smoking and health' progress, lessons and priorities for a smoke-free UK
    Date: 6 March 2012, Royal College of Physicians, London
    This is a joint conference with the UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies. This one-day conference to commemorate 50 years since the publication of the RCP report on 'Smoking and health' in 1962.  Please click here to book online.
  • WUN Global Public Health Conference
    Date: 19 – 23 May 2012, Southampton
    The Worldwide Universities Network, in partnership with the UK Health Literacy Group, is holding an event focused upon addressing socio-economic disparities in the prevention, control, treatment and outcomes of Non-Communicable Diseases in global and local comparative contexts. Please click here to register. 
  • Conference on “Transnational Migration and Global Development”
    Date: 20 - 22 June 2012, Bergen, Norway
    Please click here for more details.

  • Prevention Strategies for Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), 15 – 20 July 2012: Short course

    Application deadline: 1 March 2012

    Applications are now open for this new accredited short course comprising: a five-day short course in developing prevention strategies for NCDs; a free one-day workshop on policy development and implementation issues in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs). For more details, please click here.

Publications & Articles

  • Global health governance as shared health governance
    Published by: Jennifer Prah Ruger,J Epidemiol Community Health (JECH), December 2011
    This article develops select components of an alternative model of shared health governance (SHG). Please click here to read the article. 
  • Moving Forward Equity: A Proposal for Policies and Interventions to Reduce Social Inequalities in Health in Spain”
    Published by: The Committee on the Reduction of Social Inequalities in Health in Spain
    This document contains a proposal of 166 recommendations to reduce health inequalities in Spain in short, mid and long term; and it is the base of our National Strategy on Health Equity that is currently on development. Please click here to read the proposal.
  • Social Determinants of Health Discussion Paper: Cash Transfers and the Health Sector - making the case for greater involvement
    Published by: Geneva, WHO, December 2011
    The WHO have published its 4th Social Determinants of Health Discussion Paper. Please click here to read the article.

Latest Jobs

  • Research Associate in Epidemiology, UCL Institute of Child Health, Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics
    Deadline: 6 February 2012
    A Research Associate in Epidemiology, UCL Institute of Child Health, Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics. For more details on the role, please click here.
  • Associate Director, Field Support, UNICEF
    Deadline: 12 February 2012
    UNICEF is seeking an Associate Director. Please click here to read more about the role.