Going Global Conference 2013 - Call for proposals

Going Global 2013 will take place in Dubai, UAE on 4 - 6 March 2013 at the Dubai World Trade Centre.

The theme for Going Global 2013 is Globaleducation: knowledge-based economies for 21st century nations

Deadline:
Paper presentation - Monday 17 September 2012
Full conference session - Monday 17 September 2012
Poster presentations - Monday 23 November 2012
Click here for more details

Call for Abstracts – Global Maternal Health Conference 2013

GMHC2013 is a technical conference for scientists, researchers, and policy-makers to network, share knowledge, and build on progress toward eradicating preventable maternal mortality and morbidity by improving quality of care. The conference is co-sponsored by Management and Development for Health, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and the Maternal Health Task Force at the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA.

In 2010, the first Global Maternal Health Conference was convened in New Delhi, as a partnership with the Public Health Foundation of India and the MHTF. The 2013 conference will build on the successful technical focus and abstract-driven structure of the 2010 conference.

GMHC2013 will be held at the Arusha International Conference Center in Tanzania, January 15-17, 2013, featuring:
- up to 700 participants/presenters
- parallel sessions and poster presentations within 5 tracks
- 3 plenary sessions with leading maternal health experts
- scholarships for developing country-based presenters
- high-level government officials
- a gala event at the new Mt. Meru Hotel
The GMHC 2013 Steering Committee has been established to oversee the conference program. The GMHC2013 Scientific Sub-Committee has been established to review and approve abstracts. A call for abstracts will be issued soon. Guidelines for submitting abstracts and information about conference tracks can be found at: www.maternalhealthtaskforce.org/gmhc2013
Abstracts can be submitted only online. The deadline for submissions is midnight EST, September 30th, 2012.
Click here for more information

International Conference on Technology and Communications in Health (ITCH): Call for Papers

The Call for Papers is available for the ITCH 2013 conference, to be held on February 21 – 23, 2013, venue the Inn at Laurel Point, Victoria, BC, Canada. The themes of ITCH 2013 will be “Available, tailored and closer: enabling health and healthcare through ICT”. ITCH is an international conference addressing Information Technology and Communications in Health (ITCH), organised by the School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, BC, Canada (an Academic Institutional Member of IMIA).

Realizing the enabling potential of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) is the theme of ITCH 2013. The conference will focus on impacts of ICT on healthcare delivery and personal health. ITCH 2013 invites national and international papers that address one or more of the three broad characteristics of ICT that are realizing their enabling potential: Available, Tailored and Closer.

Persons interested in presenting should submit completed papers to the ITCH 2013 Steering Committee no later than September 10, 2012. Papers, which must be no longer than five pages, will be peer-reviewed for acceptance and publication in Proceedings – ITCH 2013. Authors will be notified of acceptance by October 18, 2012.

Click here for more details

INASP Small grants scheme -2012

The focus in 2012 will be to support research, consultation, stakeholder engagement and other types of needs analysis by organisations and individuals working in the following areas: Libraries and information science (LIS), Evidence-informed policy making, Research sector mapping and understanding
Click here for more details

“We can just Google it!”: Accuracy of Medical Information on the Internet

“We can just Google it!” is becoming our standard response to unanswered questions in life.
This study highlights the opportunities and pitfalls of using the internet to communicate medical in

formation. The internet is providing an opportunity for patients and family members to obtain additional medical information that they did not receive from their physicians, as well as to address questions that may arise and do not warrant a visit to a physician. On the other hand, the study also demonstrates that the quality of medical information on the internet varies widely. Click here for more details

CABI’S GLOBAL HEALTH DATABASES - DATABASE OF THE WEEK

.....provides access to journals in public health, medicine, human nutrition, parasitic, communicable and tropical diseases and medicinal plants. Requests usename and password from the librarian.
Click here to access the database

IOP publishing database is now available at MUHAS

IOP publishing database is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal publishing articles on all aspects of nanoscience and nanotechnology.

Click here to access the database