Events

News

• President Obama has urged African nations to strengthen democracy and fight corruption in a keynote speech to Ghana's parliament., view news article or complete speech.
  
• President Obama pledges $63 billion in global health funding.  "In the 21st century, disease flows freely across borders and oceans, and, in recent days, the 2009 H1N1 virus has reminded us of the urgent need for action,"  stated the President.  Read more.
  
• IOM Report Calls for a Big Boost in Global Health  May 21, 2009 article by Christine Stencel
  in National Academy of Sciences. Read the IOM Report in brief.
  
• Re-learning medicine for another world. OHSU class teaches docs to provide the basics that the developing world needs. The Portland Tribune Apr 23, 2009

•  The Globalization of Health Research:  Harnessing the Scientific Diaspora, Nalini P. Anand, JD, Karen J. Hofman, MD and Roger I. Glass, MD, PhD.  Academic Medicine, Vol 84, No. 4, April 2009.

• OHSU Global Health Center E-letter - current
  
• OHSU Global Health Center E-letter - Sept 09
  
• OHSU Global Health Center E-letter - July 09
  
• OHSU Global Health Center E-letter - June 09
  
• OHSU Global Health Center E-letter

 

Off Campus Events

November 2009

November 16 - 20, 2009
"Innovating for the Health of All."   The Global Forum for Health Research is pleased to announce that its 2009 annual Forum will take place in Havana, Cuba at the invitation of the Ministry of Health. It will focus on policies, incentives and new approaches to strengthen both social and technological innovation for health and health equity. Details

December 2009

December 1, 2009
World AIDS Day - Portland
On December 1st 2009– around the world and throughout the United States – communities will come together to mark the 21st Annual World AIDS Day. Via the leadership of UNAIDS and under the 2009 theme of, "Universal Access and Human Rights", hundreds of countries and millions of individuals will take time to ensure we not only recognize the 25 million individuals lost to HIV and AIDS, but the 33 million global citizens living with the HIV virus today.  Every 9 1/2 minutes someone in the US is infected with HIV - Details

December 18 – 20, 2009
Recent Advances In  Neurosciences
The Indian Academy of  Neurosciences is holding its 27th Annual Conference at NIMS University RAJASTHAN, Shobha Nagar, Jaipur, India.  This conference will discuss various protective and therapeutic strategies for brain disorders. The aim of the conference is to bring together the  neuroscientists, physicians, surgeons,  bio-technologists & researchers  to discuss the advances in the field of basic and clinical neuroscience. At the meeting, the conference will present a good balance between the recent advances in basic science research and the clinical challenges that the physicians face in their clinical practices.  Flier.  Registration form

April 2010

April 9 - 11, 2010
2010 GHEC Conference, Cuernavaca, Mexico
The National Institute of Public Health of Mexico will host (in Cuernavaca) the 19th GHEC Annual Conference: Alliances for Global Health Education: Learning from South-South Collaboration Abstract submission (abstract deadline November 1st, 2009)

April 17-18, 2010
GH/Innovate 2010
Global Health & Innovation Conference presented by Unite For Sight, 7th Annual Conference, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.  Register now as registration rate increases monthly:  Details

May 2010

May 19-21, 2010

III InterAmerican Conference on Emergency Medicine.  Buenos Aires, Argentina.  Details