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This day meeting aims to examine the question of migration and health particularly from a UK perspective and to identify opportunities and challenges in research, policy and service provision for migrant communities.
Topics include:
Migration and health – why does it matter?
Migrant communities in the UK: Current patterns and issues
Migration and health services in the UK- problems and prospects
The health of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK
Migration and communicable disease in the UK
The mental health of migrants in the UK
Learning from migration- the HIV VCT project
The way forward: setting an agenda, building a network
Essay prize presentation, “Does ethnicity in health matter”

Location:
The Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street London, W1G 0AE

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Hosted by the Royal College of Nurses, in collaboration with Medecins sans Frontieres and VSO, this event aims to aims to 'provide a platform for all stakeholders, planners, providers and users of healthcare to debate and discuss global trends on provision of healthcare. It is designed to give midwives and nurses an opportunity to explore the options around gaining experience of health care provision in developing countries.'
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Date: 15th June 2007
Cost: £60 professionals, £30 Students

Location:
20 Cavendish Square, London W1

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The event will likely be of interest to many medics even if they are not surgically oriented - Topics covered include recent major events - Pakistan Earthquake, Tsunami, London bombings, Palestinian Refugee Camp...
Please register on-line this week at:

www.rsm.ac.uk/orthopaedics

Location:
The Kensington Roof Gardens, London

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Website:
">http://hei.unige.ch/summer/healthindex.html
“……Diplomacy is undergoing profound changes in the 21st century – and global health is one of the areas in which this is most manifest. The negotiation processes that shape and manage the global policy environment for health are increasingly not only conducted between public health experts representing governments. They now include many other major players at the national level and in the global arena, such as new philanthropies and public-private partnerships.

Location:
Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva Switzerland

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18 June - 22 June 2007
George Davey-Smith, University of Bristol, UK and Nancy Krieger, Harvard University, Boston, USA
This one week specialized course is intended for epidemiologists seeking to expand their understanding of concepts and methods for studying the social and political determinants of health.
The course will:
(1) briefly review the history and frameworks of social epidemiology and
(2) address conceptual and methodological issues relevant to studying health inequities, within and across countries. Social determinants (as class, racial discrimination, gender, global politics) and their embodiment will be analyzed in relation to level and lifecourse. Novel methods for improving causal inference, including instrumental variables, will be covered. Participants will have the opportunity to present their own work for discussion.

Location:
Florence, Italy

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Website:
">http://hei.unige.ch/summer/healthindex.html
“……Diplomacy is undergoing profound changes in the 21st century – and global health is one of the areas in which this is most manifest. The negotiation processes that shape and manage the global policy environment for health are increasingly not only conducted between public health experts representing governments. They now include many other major players at the national level and in the global arena, such as new philanthropies and public-private partnerships.

Location:
Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva Switzerland

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18 June - 22 June 2007
George Davey-Smith, University of Bristol, UK and Nancy Krieger, Harvard University, Boston, USA
This one week specialized course is intended for epidemiologists seeking to expand their understanding of concepts and methods for studying the social and political determinants of health.
The course will:
(1) briefly review the history and frameworks of social epidemiology and
(2) address conceptual and methodological issues relevant to studying health inequities, within and across countries. Social determinants (as class, racial discrimination, gender, global politics) and their embodiment will be analyzed in relation to level and lifecourse. Novel methods for improving causal inference, including instrumental variables, will be covered. Participants will have the opportunity to present their own work for discussion.

Location:
Florence, Italy

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http://www.isid.org/13th_icid/index.shtml

Location:
Kuala Lumpur

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Website:
">http://hei.unige.ch/summer/healthindex.html
“……Diplomacy is undergoing profound changes in the 21st century – and global health is one of the areas in which this is most manifest. The negotiation processes that shape and manage the global policy environment for health are increasingly not only conducted between public health experts representing governments. They now include many other major players at the national level and in the global arena, such as new philanthropies and public-private partnerships.

Location:
Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva Switzerland

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18 June - 22 June 2007
George Davey-Smith, University of Bristol, UK and Nancy Krieger, Harvard University, Boston, USA
This one week specialized course is intended for epidemiologists seeking to expand their understanding of concepts and methods for studying the social and political determinants of health.
The course will:
(1) briefly review the history and frameworks of social epidemiology and
(2) address conceptual and methodological issues relevant to studying health inequities, within and across countries. Social determinants (as class, racial discrimination, gender, global politics) and their embodiment will be analyzed in relation to level and lifecourse. Novel methods for improving causal inference, including instrumental variables, will be covered. Participants will have the opportunity to present their own work for discussion.

Location:
Florence, Italy

description:
http://www.isid.org/13th_icid/index.shtml

Location:
Kuala Lumpur

description:
Website:
">http://hei.unige.ch/summer/healthindex.html
“……Diplomacy is undergoing profound changes in the 21st century – and global health is one of the areas in which this is most manifest. The negotiation processes that shape and manage the global policy environment for health are increasingly not only conducted between public health experts representing governments. They now include many other major players at the national level and in the global arena, such as new philanthropies and public-private partnerships.

Location:
Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva Switzerland

description:
18 June - 22 June 2007
George Davey-Smith, University of Bristol, UK and Nancy Krieger, Harvard University, Boston, USA
This one week specialized course is intended for epidemiologists seeking to expand their understanding of concepts and methods for studying the social and political determinants of health.
The course will:
(1) briefly review the history and frameworks of social epidemiology and
(2) address conceptual and methodological issues relevant to studying health inequities, within and across countries. Social determinants (as class, racial discrimination, gender, global politics) and their embodiment will be analyzed in relation to level and lifecourse. Novel methods for improving causal inference, including instrumental variables, will be covered. Participants will have the opportunity to present their own work for discussion.

Location:
Florence, Italy

description:
http://www.isid.org/13th_icid/index.shtml

Location:
Kuala Lumpur

description:
Website:
">http://hei.unige.ch/summer/healthindex.html
“……Diplomacy is undergoing profound changes in the 21st century – and global health is one of the areas in which this is most manifest. The negotiation processes that shape and manage the global policy environment for health are increasingly not only conducted between public health experts representing governments. They now include many other major players at the national level and in the global arena, such as new philanthropies and public-private partnerships.

Location:
Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva Switzerland

description:
18 June - 22 June 2007
George Davey-Smith, University of Bristol, UK and Nancy Krieger, Harvard University, Boston, USA
This one week specialized course is intended for epidemiologists seeking to expand their understanding of concepts and methods for studying the social and political determinants of health.
The course will:
(1) briefly review the history and frameworks of social epidemiology and
(2) address conceptual and methodological issues relevant to studying health inequities, within and across countries. Social determinants (as class, racial discrimination, gender, global politics) and their embodiment will be analyzed in relation to level and lifecourse. Novel methods for improving causal inference, including instrumental variables, will be covered. Participants will have the opportunity to present their own work for discussion.

Location:
Florence, Italy

description:
http://www.isid.org/13th_icid/index.shtml

Location:
Kuala Lumpur

description:
Website:
">http://hei.unige.ch/summer/healthindex.html
“……Diplomacy is undergoing profound changes in the 21st century – and global health is one of the areas in which this is most manifest. The negotiation processes that shape and manage the global policy environment for health are increasingly not only conducted between public health experts representing governments. They now include many other major players at the national level and in the global arena, such as new philanthropies and public-private partnerships.

Location:
Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva Switzerland

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Tuesday 26 June 2007, 6.45-8pm
London School of Economics
A new public debate with Professor Stuart Corbridge, Professor Lord Meghnad Desai, Mr R Krishna Kumar, Professor S Parasuraman and Professor Sir Nicholas Stern
Free entry, see link below to reserve ticket:
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/LSEPublicLecturesAndEvents/events/2007/20060706t1422z001.htm

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Friday 29th June
Future Inn Hotel, Cardiff Bay
Find out how to:
• Benefit your NHS staff
• Start and sustain a link
• Share knowledge and best practice
• Fundraise
• Network and share with Wales links
Anyone who would like to know how to share learning with colleagues in Africa is welcome. We particularly welcome senior managers in the NHS and universities who could enable such links to develop in their own organisations in Wales by allowing visits, secondments, exchanges and the management of projects to be recognised as one of the options allowed to NHS employees.

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Date: Wednesday 4 July 2007
Time: 6-7.30pm
Venue: Peacock Theatre, Portugal Street
Speakers: Professor Mary Kaldor, Yahia Said, George Soros and Professor Sir Nicholas Stern
Chair: Howard Davies
This event seeks to encourage a more holistic approach towards thinking about energy security, and will mark the launch of the publication Oil Wars, edited by Mary Kaldor, Terry Karl and Yahia Said.
Mary Kaldor is Professor of Global Governance and co-director, Centre for the Study of Global Governance, LSE. Yahia Said is research fellow, Centre for the Study of Global Governance, LSE and head of the Middle East Revenue Watch Programme, Open Society Institute. George Soros is chairman of the Open Society Institute. Professor Sir Nicholas Stern is the IG Patel Professor of Economics & Government at LSE.

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Tuesday 10th July 5.00 pm
Professor Graham Scambler
Professor of Medical Sociology, Department of Medicine, UCL
‘Sex Work Stigma as a Health Barrier’
The stigma attached to sex work is ubiquitous, although always a mix of the global and the local, and always embedded in political and social structures (themselves a mix of the global and the local). The capacity of sex work stigma to enhance the vulnerability of female sex workers (FSW) and their clients to disease, to impede their ‘rights’ and to undermine health interventions is well documented. In this paper a lapsed sociological distinction between stigma and deviance is re-presented, and a novel conceptual apparatus comprising notions of felt, enacted and projected stigma and deviance presented. The explanatory potential of this conceptual frame is illustrated empirically and a typology of sex work careers developed. Reference is made in this paper to the author’s own study of migrant FSW from Eastern Europe working in central London, and to the published research of colleagues on FSW in both developed and developing societies.

Location:
This seminar will be held at UCL