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World No Tobacco Day is May 31st, 2009

Thu, 21 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Fight Tobacco Usage with Health Warnings

15th Annual Summer Public Health Research Videoconference on Minority Health

Fri, 08 May 2009 15:03:00 -0700

Please join us for the 15th Annual Summer Public Health Research Videoconference on Minority Health.

When? Tuesday, June 9, 1:30-4:00pm EDT
Where? Webcast, C-band satellite (tentative), and Tate-Turner-Kuralt building auditorium - see www.minority.unc.edu

Topic: "Breaking the Cycle: Investigating the Intersection of Educational Inequities and Health Disparities"

Featuring:

Reginald Weaver, Vice President, Education International; Past President, National Education Association

Dina Castro, M.P.H., Ph.D., Scientist, UNC FPG Child Development Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Nicholas Freudenberg, Dr.P.H., Distinguished Professor, Program in Urban Public Health, Hunter College School of Health Sciences/City University of New York

Moderator: Howard Lee, M.S.W., Executive Director, North Carolina Education Cabinet

This interactive session will be broadcast with a live audience in the Tate-Turner-Kuralt auditorium at the UNC School of Social Work and can be viewed over the Internet (webcast) and (tentatively) c-band satellite. Questions will be taken from studio and broadcast participants by email and toll-free telephone.

For more information: www.minority.unc.edu/institute/2009/

To register a viewing site: www.minority.unc.edu/institute/2009/broadcast/

To register for the Internet broadcast: www.minority.unc.edu/institute/2009/broadcast/

To register to participate in the studio audience at the TTK auditorium: www.minority.unc.edu/institute/2009/studio/

Answers to frequently asked questions: www.minority.unc.edu/institute/2009/faq.cfm

This year's Videoconference is presented by the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health Minority Health Project, UNC Diversity and Multicultural Affairs, and NC A&T State University Institute for Public Health. Funding comes from the Dean's Office of the UNC Gillings School of Globa Public Health, UNC Diversity and Multicultural Affairs, UNC FPG Child Development Institute, Counseling and Wellness Services (UNC Campus Health Services), and a growing list of cosponsors (www.minority.unc.edu/institute/2009/cosponsors.cfm). Please consider becoming a cosponsor.

20+ health disparities-related broadcasts and seminars are available as on-demand webcasts at www.minority.unc.edu/resources/webcasts/

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Community-Campus Partnerships for Health promotes health (broadly defined) through partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions. Become a member today at www.ccph.info

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Invitation: Data in Motion — 25 Years of Demographic and Health Surveys

Fri, 08 May 2009 10:36:00 -0700

Please join the Environmental Change and Security Program for a discussion of Data in Motion: 25 Years of Demographic and Health Surveys

Event Details

Webcast Viewers: The webcast for this event will begin approximately 10 minutes after the scheduled start time. You can submit questions for the speakers to ecsp@wilsoncenter.org.

featuring

Hans Rosling, Professor, Public Health Science, Karolinska Institute; Director, Gapminder Foundation

Tuesday, May 26, 2009
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

6th Floor Flom Auditorium
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20004 USA

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For the past 25 years, Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) have provided a large body of high-quality, nationally representative and cross-nationally comparable data on population and health in more than 70 developing countries. Funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development, these surveys have proven invaluable for developing-country governments and their ministries of health; NGO field and headquarters staff; researchers; donors; and others concerned with health and development.

Using his dynamic Trendalyzer software—which was recently bought by Google—Hans Rosling will bring DHS numbers to life, demonstrating how reproductive health impacts poverty, maternal mortality, and other health indicators. He will also show how the slow but steady convergence of life conditions has made the division of countries into “Western” and “developing” categories an outdated and unhelpful concept.

Rosling is a professor of international health at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm and director of the Gapminder Foundation, which developed the Trendalyzer software system. Rosling's dynamic presentations showing international statistics as moving, interactive graphics have been highlights at conferences, including the visionary technology summit TED. While serving as a district medical officer in northern Mozambique, he discovered konzo, a formerly unrecognized paralytic disease that is induced by hunger and malnutrition.

If you are interested, but unable to attend the event, please tune into the live or archived webcast at www.wilsoncenter.org. The live webcast will begin approximately 10 minutes after the posted meeting time. You will need Windows Media Player to watch the webcast. To download the free player, visit:http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download.

Reception to follow

Webcast live at www.wilsoncenter.org

Please RSVP to ecsp@wilsoncenter.org with your name and affiliation.

Location: Woodrow Wilson Center at the Ronald Reagan Building
1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, DC

("Federal Triangle" stop on Blue/Orange Line)
6th Floor Flom Auditorium.
A map to the Center is available at www.wilsoncenter.org/directions.

Note: Due to heightened security, entrance to the building will be restricted and photo identification is required. Please allow additional time to pass through security.

World Malaria Day 2009

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Elimination of Deadly Parasitic Disease is Possible

Millions Still Suffer From Leishmaniasis

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Spread via the bite of a sandfly, infections by leishmania parasites bring disfigurement, debility, disability, and death.

Book Launch "AIDS - Is It a Risk to Economic Development in Regions with Low HIV Prevalence?"

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:23:44 -0700

Book Launch "AIDS - Is It a Risk to Economic Development in Regions with Low HIV Prevalence?"
Monday, April 20
12 PM
Auditorium J1-050

Please see attached invitation for more information.

MODERATOR
Julie McLaughlin
Sector Manager, Health, Nutrition, and Population, South Asia Region,World BanK

PRESENTERS
Mariam Claeson,
Program Coordinator, South Asia Regional AIDS Team, World Bank

Mead Over
Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development

DISCUSSANTS
Robert Clay
Director, The Office of HIV/AIDS, USAID

Debrework Zewdie
Director, Global AIDS Unit, World Bank

About The InfoShop

The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and serves as a forum for substantial debate on international development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250 events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally recognized speakers, including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, Senator Hagel, and Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible space at headquarters and provides internal and external audiences with over 10,000 titles published by the World Bank, international organizations, and other publishers on development issues.
For more information, visit www.worldbank.org/infoshop For comments about the events program, visit InfoShop.

World Health Day is April 7th, 2009

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Focus on emergency medical services this World Health Day.

Ending Schistosomiasis

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Ancient disease continues to inflict suffering on millions in poor communities in the developing world.

DCPP Quarterly Newsletter March 09

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

DCPP Quarterly Newsletter - Issue Number 7

World TB Day is March 24th, 2009

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Help in the fight against the spread of Tuberculosis!