The M8 Alliance of Academic Health Centres, Universities and National Academies is pleased to invite the submission of abstracts for presentation at its upcoming 5th World Health Summit.

>>> Please click here to submit your abstract online

The World Health Summit is one of the world’s foremost gatherings of leaders from academia, politics, industry and civil society to develop joint strategies and take action to address key challenges in medical research, global health and health care delivery with the aim of shaping the political, academic and social agendas. This year’s World Health Summit will be held at the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin from October 20th to 22nd, 2013.

The New Voices in Global Health (NVGH) is a competitive abstract submission and selection program designed to highlight important research, policy and advocacy initiatives of new and future leaders in global health, and empower participants with global health advocacy skills.

Selected participants will have the opportunity to make a presentation at the World Health Summit 2013. The accepted researchers will participate in either the NVGH forum session or the NVGH poster presentation session. Selected abstracts will be published in a special booklet available at the World Health Summit and on The Lancet´s website.

Issues addressed must be relevant, reflect current challenges, show originality and will spark the interest of conference participants and the readers of The Lancet. Topics of particular interest would be those linked to the summit’s main themes:

Global Health and Development

• Health in the (post 2015) Development Agenda
• Universal Health Coverage
• Global Nutrition and Health

Evidence to Policy

• Evidence for improved Decision-Making
• Social media and global Health
• Foreign Policy and Global Health

Research and Innovation

• New Approaches to the Control of Infectious Diseases
• Research Capacity Strengthening in Low- and Middle-Income countries
• Future of Research for Health

Education and Leadership

• Transforming Health Professions Education through Collaborative Leadership
• Global Health Education
• Interdisciplinary Strategies for Health Communication

Research using qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods may be submitted. Abstracts should be submitted online no later than June 19th, 2013. An expert committee composed of M8 Alliance members and Lancet editors will review the abstracts after peer review.

Please click here to read more about important dates and the general submission guidelines.

Upcoming Symposium

17th June 5pm – 630pm
UCL Institute of Child Health 30 Guilford Street, WC1N 1EH

Globally, men experience a higher burden of disease and lower life expectancy than women, but policies focusing on the health needs of men are notably absent from the strategies of global health organisations. The ‘Global Burden of Disease: 2010’ study shows that all of the top ten causes of premature death and disability, and top ten behavioural risk factors driving rates of ill-health around the world, affect men more than they affect women. A review of institutional strategies, however, finds that efforts and resources are more often focused on the health needs of women. This may miss an opportunity to promote truly gender transformative policies and programmes that include men and boys, and result in better health outcomes for everyone.

This talk will analyse evidence that gender norms drive some of these differences in health outcomes, and will suggest how we might move forward to develop a truly gender-equitable global health approach.

Speaker

Dr Sarah Hawkes – UCL Institute for Global Health

Panel
Dr Julian Walker – UCL Bartlett Development Planning Unit
Dr Jenny Parkes – Institute of Education

Chair
Mike Rowson – UCL Institute for Global Health

Book Online via Eventbrite.

London International Development Centre and the Department of Geography, Environment and Development Studies (GEDS) at Birkbeck are launching ‘Aid, NGOs and the realities of women’s lives: a Perfect Storm’ edited by Fenella Porter and Tina Wallace. The presentation of the book will be followed by a discussion.
You will get a chance to meet the authors, purchase a copy of the book and have it signed. Light refreshments will be served.

When: 12 June 2013, 5.30 – 7.30 pm (drinks will be served from 5.30 and presentations will start at 6 pm)

Where: Drama Studio, Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL

Speakers:
Fenella Porter, Birkbeck/IGS@LMH; and Tina Wallace, IGS@LMH (editors)
Deepa Joshi, Wageningen UR, chapter author ‘Apolitical stories of sanitation and suffering women’
Tom Scott-Smith, University of Oxford, chapter author ‘Insulating the developing classes’

Discussants:
Professor Naila Kabeer, SOAS
Professor Elaine Unterhalter, IOE

Chair: Dr. Jasmine Gideon, Birkbeck

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About the book:
Several factors are coming together that put pressure on NGOs working in development: the economic crisis, the growing conditionality of aid, and increased competition for funding between NGOs seeking to grow in reach and influence. This creates ‘a perfect storm ’that focuses attention increasingly on a new language of aid, policies and procedures. The book addresses the current crisis and growing disconnect between development frameworks and the lives of women. It argues for NGOs to learn more from their past experiences and to keep open a challenging and creative space for analysing aid.

We are pleased to announce that Zrinka Bralo will be joining the panel this Thursday. Zrinka Bralo is a journalist from Sarajevo and has been involved with refugee and human rights since she was exiled in 1993. She is executive director of the Migrant and Refugee Communities Forum in London and has served as a commissioner of the Independent Asylum Commission, the most comprehensive review of the UK protection system. She has previously written for Migrant Voice, The Guardian, openDemocracy, The Huffington Post and featured in Marcel Ophüls’ documentary Veillées d’armes. She is also a winner of the 2011 Voices Of Courage Award by the Women’s Refugee Commission in New York. Unfortunately, due to reasons beyond her control, Kristine Harris is no longer be able to join us.

Enhancing Learning and Research for Humanitarian Assistance (ELRHA), on behalf of DFID and the Wellcome Trust, invites you to a townhall event to mark the launch of the first Call for Proposals under our Research for Health in Humanitarian Crises (R2HC) programme.

R2HC is a ground breaking new collaboration between the UK Government’s Department for International Development (DFID) and the Wellcome Trust aiming to support world class research into public health interventions in humanitarian disasters. The objective of this programme is to strengthen the evidence base underpinning public health interventions in humanitarian contexts to improve health outcomes, enrich humanitarian practice, and facilitate closer collaboration between researchers and practitioners.

The first R2HC Call for Proposals will be officially opened in early June and launched through a series of townhall meetings around the world:

If you are unable to attend one of these launch events but would like further information on the programme and the Call for Proposals please click here to sign up to our R2HC mailing list.

There will be a very limited number of funded places to attend the meetings in Delhi and Nairobi. These will be allocated based on research experience. If you would like to request funding on this basis, please register your interest as above and send a short biography (max 100 words) and CV detailing your publication history to info@elrha.org stating ‘R2HC funded place request’ in the subject heading.

Full Time, Fixed Term Contract for 2 Years (renewable for up to 2 more years depending on funding)

Salary Scale: Clinical Lecturer Scale (£31,838 to £56,312 per annum)

Applications are invited for the post of Clinical Lecturer in Global Health within the Division of Clinical Medicine at Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS). This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in defining and developing the Global Health programme at BSMS in the context of a new and rapidly-evolving academic environment which has recently been recognised as a Wellcome Trust Centre for Global Health Research. The successful applicant will take on the role of course leader for the MSc in Global Health, help expand the discipline of Global Health within the undergraduate medical curriculum and will be encouraged to develop their personal research portfolio in accordance with their experience. The post-holder will play a key role in fostering collaborative links with other departments at both BSMS parent universities (Brighton and Sussex) and the Institute of Development Studies. The holder will undertake clinical duties in keeping with their training and experience to date. The post sits within the Division of Clinical Medicine and whilst a Public Health or Infectious Diseases background fits with the strengths of the programme, suitably qualified applicants from any relevant clinical background are welcome to apply.

Closing date for applications: 30 May 2013

Interviews are likely to be held between 10 June 2013 to 28 June 2013 (subject to change)

Interested candidates are encouraged to discuss the position informally with the following people;

• Professor Melanie Newport, Chair in Infectious Diseases and Global Health, m.j.newport@bsms.ac.uk
• Dr Gail Davey, Reader in Global Health, g.davey@bsms.ac.uk
• Professor Jon Cohen, Dean of BSMS, tel: +44 (0) 1273 877577 or email j.cohen@bsms.ac.uk
• Professor Kevin Davies, Chair of Medicine, k.a.davies@bsms.ac.uk

For full details on how to apply please see: www.sussex.ac.uk/jobs, www.brighton.ac.uk/jobs orwww.bsms.ac.uk

The 2013 Postgraduate Training in Global Health – Trainee and Student Survey is now open.  It is the second large scale survey we have carried out, looking at trainees’ and students’ experiences and views on PostgraduateTraining in Global Health. It aims to understand what you, as a trainee/student, want and need in terms of Global Health training. What do you feel is useful and what would help you develop an interest in Global Health.

The survey will take around 10 minutes to complete, with opportunities to give open text responses detailing what you think.

It is anonymous and confidential; you can not be identified from your response. Your views and experiences are really important if training in this area is to be improved. We will share these results with postgraduate training Institutions and aim to publish the results at the end of the year in a peer reviewed journal.

To thank you for your time, survey participants are invited to enter our free prize draw to win a case of 6 bottles of fair trade wine or fair trade hamper. Winners will be chosen at random and notified by the Alma Mata Working Group.

If you have any queries or require further information about the survey, please contact us at secretary@almamata.org.uk. 

Click here to take survey

With Thanks,

Alma Mata Working Group

Abstract submission deadline Friday 5th July 2013

Conference date:  Friday 29th November 2013

Venue: UCL Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH

Contact: info@ichevents.com or Tel: 020 7905 2675 / 2699

The core of the event will consist of oral and poster presentations of selected research. Peer-reviewed abstracts of shortlisted papers will be published by The Lancet, online and in print. This multidisciplinary event will build upon the outstanding creativity that was seen at the first meeting in November 2012* and aims to showcase exceptional talent in the UK public health research community. The conference will present work spanning all aspects of public health and using a full range of methodological approaches.

Further details on the programme for the day, the abstract requirements and submission process can be found online on the conference website.

* All abstracts from the 2012 event are available online here.