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Title: Spotlight on: Infectious Diseases @ the RSM

Event Date: Friday, 10th February 2012 - Saturday, 11th February 2012

ORGANISED BY THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR IMMUNOLOGY

The meeting will highlight current issues on infectious diseases and bridge animal and human health. Exploring recent developments on immunology, epidemiology, public health and clinical aspects of infectious diseases. The conference will provide a forum for interdisciplinary discussion of:

• vaccines for infectious diseases
• genetic susceptibility to infectious diseases
• public health implications in relation to access to medicines and vaccines

Guest speakers include:
• Helen McShane, Professor of Vaccinology,
Jenner Institute, University of Oxford
• David Heymann, Chairman of the UK Health Protection
Agency and Head of Chatham House Centre for Global
Health Security
• Andy Pollard, Professor of Paediatric Infection and
Immmunity, Jenner Institute, University of Oxford
• Geraldine Taylor, Senior Investigator, Jenner Institute and
Institute for Animal Health for Avian Influenza, Veterinary
Laboratories Agency
• Ian Brown, Head of Avian Virology and Director of the
OIE/FAO/EU, International Reference Laboratory

To book your place or for further information please visit www.rsm.ac.uk/immunology

Title: Shaping the global health agenda: Woman, children and society

Event Date: Tuesday, 27th March 2012 - Wednesday, 28th March 2012

This international conference is organised by the Royal Society of Medicine in association with the Royal Colleges of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and of Paediatrics and Child Health, with support from the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. It highlights the unacceptable inequality which prejudices stability in society with specific focus on issues pertaining to women and children. Some of this agenda is naturally controversial, distressing and difficult to discuss. This conference debates and discusses these challenging problems whilst, simultaneously, seeking to understand how international aid can be directed in the most effective way.

Full details of the programme can be found here

Up to 50 Fellows of the RSTMH may register for both days of this conference at a special discounted rate of £200. To register, please download the registration form here and return it to the RSM.

Title: Prevention, Detection and Management of Arboviral Diseases - Barcelona April 2012

Event Date: Monday, 23rd April 2012 - Friday, 27th April 2012

CRESIB are please to announce an upcoming course on Prevention, Detection and Management of Arboviral Diseases, which will take place in Barcelona April 23-27, 2012.

This five-day course coordinated by Dr. Edward B. Hayes focuses on the key elements of the epidemiologic and clinical characteristics of arboviral diseases. It is directed at professionals and students in medicine and other health sciences.

The course--which is accredited by the tropEd Network for Education in International Health--is organized by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Barcelona Centre for International Health Research (CRESIB).

Please, check out all the details and download the programme brochure at http://www.isglobal.org/en/web/guest/what-we-do/-/custom-asset-portlet/b5pJ/content/prevention-detection-and-management-of-arboviral-diseases

For enrolment and information, you can write to formacion@isglobal.org

Title: The 9th Asia Pacific Travel Health Conference (APTHC)

Event Date: Wednesday, 2nd May 2012 - Saturday, 5th May 2012

The 9th Asia Pacific Travel Health Conference (APTHC) will be held from 2-5 May 2012 in Singapore, themed "Travel Health and Vaccines: the Asia Pacific Perspective," APTHC 2012 is organized in conjunction with the 5th Regional Meeting of the International Society of Travel Medicine (ISTM).

This biennial conference will provide regional clinicians, physicians and any other healthcare professionals working in the field of travel medicine with the best networking and continuing education opportunity. It features plenary sessions, high level debates, country highlights and symposia. For further details on the conference information and program, please click here. (link to www.apthc2012.org)

Title: RSTMH 2012 biennial meeting at the University of Warwick - call for abstracts and registration now open!

Event Date: Wednesday, 19th September 2012 - Friday, 21st September 2012

Our 2012 biennial meeting ‘Discovery and Delivery of New Paradigms in Global Health’ will take place at the University of Warwick on Wednesday 19 - Friday 21 September 2012.

Covering a range of topics including new drugs and vaccines, imported infections, implementation research and mental health in resource-poor settings, this exciting international meeting will give you an opportunity to meet like-minded professionals from around the globe as well as enjoy some of the parks and tourist attractions of Warwick.

Programme highlights to date include:

Keynote speakers:

Dr Tachi Yamada MD KBE, Former President of the Global Health Programme, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Dr Robert Newman, Director of Global Malaria Programme, World Health Organization
Dr Nathan Ford Medical, Co-ordinator for the International Campaign for Essential Medicine, MSF
Professor Bob Snow, University of Oxford and KEMRI

Invited speakers include:

Professor Clifton Barry, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Professor Moses Bockarie, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Dr Priscille Brodin, Institut Pasteur
Dr Tim Brooks, Health Protection Agency
Professor Janet Cox-Singh, University Malaysia Sarawak
Professor Tim Evans, Dean of the BRAC School of Public Health, Bangladesh
Professor Robert Foy, University of Leeds
Professor Adrian Hill, Oxford University
Dr Ruth McNerney, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Professor James Nokes, KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Centre, Kenya
Professor Vikram Patel, Centre for Global Mental Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK and Sangath, Goa, India
Dr Pascal Ringwald, Drug Resistance and Containment Global Malaria Programme, WHO
Professor Mark Taylor, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

A draft programme is now available to download here.

The University of Warwick is a lively, cosmopolitan campus with its own shops, banks, bars and restaurants, making it a perfect location for our international conference with everything you need close at hand. To find out more about the campus and the surrounding area please click here.

Abstract submission is now open; please click here to submit. Deadline for abstract submission: 31 May 2012.

Delegate registration is also open. Please log in to your RSTMH Fellow account on the top right hand of the screen or if you are not a Fellow, please click here to register. Preferential early bird delegate rates available until 31 May 2012.

Student hall accommodation is bookable directly via Warwick conference office, please click here to make a booking.