A comprehensive archive of public seminars is available online on the website of the International Institute for Society and Health of University College, London. The seminars cover a broad range of topics which Alma Mata members will find interesting and useful.

Topics have included:

Risk, Resilience and Social Integration
Conflict Medicine: A Neglected Challenge
Social Inequalities in Health - New Evidence and Policy Implications

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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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Social, Cultural and Economic Determinants of Health
International Perspectives for Global Action
1st International Conference of the journal Public Health
JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH
9-11 May 2007 • Lisbon , Portugal
www.publichealth.elsevier.com
FULL PROGRAMME: http://www.publichealth.elsevier.com/programme.htm
Keynote speakers
Sian Griffiths, Chinese University of Hong Kong , China
- Health challenges in China
Michael Marmot, University College London , UK
- Social determinants of health and the Commission on Social Determinants of Health

Location:
Lisbon , Portugal

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This conference is an interdisciplinary open forum for sharing experience and knowledge among researchers, practitioners and decision makers from the fields of science, politics, governance, private companies and NGOs. It aims to build a long term and action oriented infrastructure to work out projects and partnerships in light of the Millennium Development Goals, particularly concerning the issue of sustainable global health. It is organized by the following representatives and partners of the United Nations: UNESCO/UNEVOC, UNU-EHS, ILO, IHDP and the University of Bonn , Institute for Hygiene and Public Health (WHO CC).

Location:
Bonn Germany

Beyond scarcity: Power, poverty and the global water crisis

UNDP November 2006 - web site: http://hdr.undp.org/hdr2006/

“….Throughout history water has confronted humanity with some of its greatest challenges. Water is a source of life and a natural resource that sustains our environments and supports livelihoods – but it is also a source of risk and vulnerability. In the early 21st Century, prospects for human development are threatened by a deepening global water crisis. Debunking the myth that the crisis is the result of scarcity, this report argues poverty, power and inequality are at the heart of the problem.

Education and Training: Grants and Funding Directory of Grants and Fellowships in the Global Health Sciences

Website: http://www.fic.nih.gov/funding/directory_fellowships.htm

A comprehensive compilation of international funding opportunities in biomedical and behavioral research published by the Fogarty International Center,
part of the National Institutes of Health. NIH Publication 06-3027, February 2006

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Please find attached the latest Alma Mata Newsletter.

Gaz Lewis looks at the how the media impact on recognition of global health problems, how can we manage this important vehicle for health promotion?

Adam Musgrove, who works for Practical Action, raises issues surrounding indoor smoke, a large course of morbidity and mortality in the less developed world.

We round up with an article covering the Diploma in Tropical Medicine & Hygiene and the latest news form Medact and Medsin.

Many thanks for your continued support.

Website: http://www.who.int/whr/2006/en/index.html

Full report [pdf 6.83Mb]

World Health Organization – April 2006

The World Health Report 2006 - Working together for health contains an expert assessment of the current crisis in the global health workforce and ambitious proposals to tackle it over the next ten years, starting immediately.

The report reveals an estimated shortage of almost 4.3 million doctors, midwives, nurses and support workers worldwide. The shortage is most severe in the poorest countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, where health workers are most needed. Focusing on all stages of the health workers' career lifespan from entry to health training, to job recruitment through to retirement, the report lays out a ten-year action plan in which countries can build their health workforces, with the support of global partners.

Poverty and Health in the New Millennium
Medsin Global Health Conference
Guy’s Campus, March 25th and 26th 2006

Details and Registration: http://www.medsin.org

Our national conference this year is titled “Poverty and Health in the new Millennium”, and is based on the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a set of eight time-bound targets that were agreed upon by 189 Heads of State and Government at the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000. The MDGs aim to end extreme poverty worldwide by 2015 and “to free our fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty” by fostering an unprecedented global effort to address the needs of the world's poorest people.

Researchers have identified a gene in mosquitoes that helps the insects to fight off infection by the Plasmodium parasite, which causes malaria in humans. Anopheles mosquitoes transmit the malaria parasite to nearly 550 million people worldwide each year with these cases resulting in more than 2 million deaths annually. The protective gene was identified in a study conducted by a team of investigators from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Malaria Research Institute , the Imperial College of London and the University of Texas Medical Branch. It will be published in the Online Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences the week of October 24.