Date	12 August 2008 - 14 August 2008
Title	First Meeting for the Eastern Mediterranean and Arab Forum on Bioethics in Research
Location	Cairo, Egypt
Organisation	Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office, WHO
Target audience
Website	Click here
Event description	The Forum will discuss the challenges to the application and contribution of Bioethics in the Region and on the promotion of bioethical principles as a whole of the reception and development of International Scientific Research in the Region, with respect to Human Dignity and Human Rights. The suggested topic for this First meeting of the forum is: "Challenges to Ethical Considerations in Research in the East Mediterranean and Arab Region: Research Subjects, Researchers and Research Ethics Committees Perspectives".
Date	25 August 2008 - 28 August 2008
Title	21st World Congress Rehabilitation International (RI)-Québec 2008
Location	Quebec City Convention Center, Canada
Organisation	Rehabilitation International
Target audience
Website	Click here
Event description	The RI-Québec 2008 World Congress also presents an exciting opportunity to connect to more than 1,500 of your global peers (experts, researchers, disability rights advocates, government representatives, service providers, civil society leaders) during three days of an extensive program, events and sightseeing tours of beautiful Québec City. “Disability Rights and Social Participation: Ensuring a Society for All.” The conference theme showcases the new United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which provides the framework for the development of good policies, actions and projects to drastically improve the living conditions of hundreds of millions of people worldwide with disabilities.
Date	28 August 2008 - 30 August 2008
Title	4th World Ageing & Generations Congress
Location	University of St.Gallen, Switzerland
Organisation	World Demographic Association
Target audience
Website	Click here
Event description	The fourth World Ageing & Generations Congress will yet again be an exceptional and unique event that reunites top speakers and participants with leading capacities in their respective fields to form a platform of interactions and stimulating exchanges. Always a focus for leading company representatives, national and multinational institutions and lucid and insightful scholars and practitioners from all fields, the congress will again provide state-of-the-art information to a broad international audience.
Date	04 September 2008 - 04 September 2008
Title	Global Mental Health Symposium
Location	The Royal Society, London, United Kingdom
Organisation	The Academy of Medical Sciences
Target audience
Website	Click here
Event description	The symposium will focus on 'challenges and priorities for mental health research in low- and middle-income countries'. The symposium will provide an opportunity to highlight the latest advances in research, discuss the development of effective and affordable treatments and identify both barriers to progress and areas where greater funding and/or research may be needed.
Date	09 September 2008 - 13 September 2008
Title	8th IUHPE European Conference on Health Promotion and Education
Location	Torino, Italy
Organisation	International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE)
Target audience
Website	Click here
Event description
Date	16 September 2008 - 19 September 2008
Title	8th Regional Congress on Health Sciences Information (CRICS 8)
Location	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Organisation	The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ) and the Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information (BIREME/PAHO/WHO)
Target audience
Website	Click here
Event description	The main theme of the CRICS8 – Scientific information and knowledge for innovation in health, will approach the critical function the information and the scientific knowledge play in the processes of generation, adoption, and adaptation of innovations in the social and economic development, particularly in health systems and services. The information and knowledge sources and flows that are produced and operated by means of products, services, and events of information and communication comprise the fabric that unites, sustains and systematically innovates the relationships, policies, programs and practices of the instances of promotion, research, technology, industry and the health systems and services in favor of the social inclusion and of the equity.
Date	21 September 2008 - 23 September 2008
Title	Immunodiagnosis of Tuberculosis; New questions, new tools
Location	Virginia Beach, VA, United States
Organisation	Public Health Research Institute
Target audience
Website	Click here
Event description	The objective of the conference is to integrate knowledge generated through basic, translational and clinical research that can lead to novel methods and strategies for the immunodiagnosis of tuberculosis. The conference brings together leaders in host and pathogen biology, epidemiology, diagnostic development and use, and in basic and clinical research.
Date	25 September 2008 - 27 September 2008
Title	Conference on the Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health
Location	London, United Kingdom
Organisation
Target audience
Website
Event description	The conference will have a particular, but not exclusive, focus on the role of health workers. For example, it will re-examine the indispensable role of health workers in relation to the right to the highest attainable standard of health. Also, how can the right to the highest attainable standard of health assist health workers? How can they be involved in the missions of the UN Special Rapporteur? Thanks to the work of countless organisations and individuals throughout the world, the 'health and human rights movement' has made significant progress in recent years. But progress has not been rapid enough and enormous challenges remain. One of the aims of the conference is to review progress and obstacles - and to discuss future strategies and developments.
Date	25 September 2008 - 25 September 2008
Title	High-Level Event - End Poverty 2015 - Millennium Development Goals
Location	United Nations Headquarters, New York, USA
Organisation	United Nations
Target audience
Website	Click here
Event description	The UN Secretary-General and the President of the UN General Assembly will convene a High-level Event on the Millennium Development Goals at UN Headquarters in New York on 25 September 2008. At the halfway point towards the target date, significant progress has been made, but urgent and increased efforts are needed by all stakeholders in order to meet the Goals by 2015. The High-level Event will be a forum for world leaders to review progress, identify gaps, and commit to concrete efforts, resources and mechanisms to bridge the gaps. By asking world leaders to announce their specific plans and proposals, the High-level Event will help accelerate implementation and follow-through.
Date	29 September 2008 - 01 October 2008
Title	1st conference on Strengthening Linkages Between Sexual and Reproductive Health And HIV/AIDS Services
Location	Safari Park Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya
Organisation	Liverpool VCT Care and Treatment
Target audience
Website	Click here
Event description	This conference aims to utilize sexual violence as a nexus for interrogating and strengthening existing response and the inter-linkages between HIV/AIDS and reproductive health.
Date	02 October 2008 - 04 October 2008
Title	XVth Conference of the International Association of Health Policy in Europe (IAHPE)
Location	Frankfurt, Germany
Organisation	International Association of Health Policy in Europe (IAHPE)
Target audience
Website	Click here
Event description	Privatization and Marketization of Health Care in Europe – Recent Trends and Policy Responses
Date	06 October 2008 - 08 October 2008
Title	1st meeting of the African Network for Drug/Diagnostics Discovery and Innovation (ANDI)
Location	Transcorp Hilton Abuja, Nigeria
Organisation	World Health Organization and TDR
Target audience
Website	Click here
Event description	To facilitate and support the discovery of new drug leads for tropical diseases through networks and partnerships between pharmaceutical companies, academia and disease endemic country (DEC) institutions.
Date	12 October 2008 - 13 October 2008
Title	Seminar: Improving the use of evidence in the policy process
Location	Thon Hotel Oslofjord, Sandvika, Norway
Organisation	University of Edinburgh
Target audience
Website	Click here
Event description	The University of Edinburgh (Scotland) is organising a seminar series on Evidence and Policy with the University of Iceland, National University of Ireland, University of Oslo and Erasmus University (Rotterdam). The seminars aim to advance international and comparative understanding of the use of different forms of knowledge and evidence in the policy process through a process of sharing of ideas and discussion across these jurisdictions.
Date	15 October 2008 - 18 October 2008
Title	Safe Kids Worldwide 2008 Child Injury Prevention Conference
Location	Washington, DC, United States
Organisation	Safe Kids Worldwide
Target audience	All
Website	Click here
Event description	At this year’s conference, Safe Kids Worldwide celebrates 20 years of working to save children’s lives. In October, our member countries, coalitions and chapters will come together to share in the accomplishment of the dramatic reduction ofunintentional deaths and injuries to children.
Date	15 October 2008 - 16 October 2008
Title	7th International Dialogue on Population and Sustainable Development
Location	Berlin, Germany
Organisation	Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Germany
Target audience
Website	Click here
Event description	“Exploring Cultural Diversity and Gender Equality: towards universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights” The International Dialogue on Population and Sustainable Development, an annual, two-day conference taking place in Berlin, was first convened in 2002 by a consortium of German development cooperation organisations, private enterprises and their international partners. The objective of this forum is to provide a platform to exchange strategies on population issues and sustainable development, to reinforce the implementation of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) Cairo agenda and to contribute to accelerating achievement progress towards the MDGs.
Date	21 October 2008 - 21 October 2008
Title	2nd High-Level Symposium on Global Health Diplomacy
Location	Graduate Institute Geneva, Switzerland
Organisation	Graduate Institute Geneva
Target audience
Website	Click here
Event description	The aim of the Symposium is to bring together diplomats, health experts and academics to debate the interface of foreign policy and health. At the 2008 Symposium His Excellency Pascal Couchepin, President of the Swiss Confederation, and Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization, will be joined by a group of distinguished speakers to discuss how the role of nation states has changed in the era of inter-dependence. A particular focus is on the increasing role placed by emerging economies in global health negotiations and in setting the global health agendas.
Date	25 October 2008 - 29 October 2008
Title	136th Annual Meeting: Public health without borders
Location	San Diego, CA, USA
Organisation	American Public Health Association
Target audience	All
Website	Click here
Event description	The APHA Annual Meeting theme "Public Health Without Borders" will explore transnational public health, and will provide a forum to address a diversity of topics including immigrant and refugee health; water and land rights; coordinating disease surveillance and epidemiologic response activities across borders; air and water pollution management across borders; the international impact of trade, arms sales, tobacco sales and gun control policies; and the international transmission of socio-cultural behaviors with adverse health implications. This Annual Meeting provides an opportunity for a better understanding of the aspects of growing multiculturalism that promote healthy living and even to highlight and foster traditional practices that may serve to protect minority populations as they enter new environments.
Date	17 November 2008 - 19 November 2008
Title	Global Ministerial Forum on Research for Health
Location	Bamako, Mali
Organisation	6 co-organizers: COHRED, Global Forum for Health Research, Republic of Mali, UNESCO, World Bank, WHO
Target audience
Website	Click here
Event description	The 2008 Global Ministerial Forum on Research for Health is the culmination of nearly 20 years of global efforts to focus research towards improving the health of poor people. On this high-profile occasion, the Ministers of Health attending issued a statement calling on national governments to commit to fund the necessary health research, in order to ensure vibrant health systems and reduce inequity and social injustice. The objectives of the forum are to strengthen leadership, engage all relevant constituencies and increase accountability.
Date	03 December 2008 - 05 December 2008
Title	Seventh Annual International Society for Disease Surveillance
Location	Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Organisation	International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS)
Target audience
Website	Click here
Event description	The International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS) Conference is the premier annual scientific gathering for global leaders in public health, epidemiology, health policy, biostatistics, computer science, and related fields focused on cutting-edge research in biosurveillance and emerging challenges to public health practice. The multi-disciplinary field of disease surveillance brings together biostatistics, mathematical modeling, natural language processing, GIS visualization, and decision theory to address public health challenges including communicable diseases, non-infectious diseases, adverse drug events, and zoonotic outbreaks. In addition to presentations describing novel research, the conference also highlights case studies from real-world surveillance practice by public health practitioners.
Date	04 December 2008 - 06 December 2008
Title	Second Congress of the Asia-Pacific Council on Contraception (APCOC)
Location	The Venetian Macao-Resort-Hotel, Macau, China
Organisation	Asia Pacific Council on Contraception
Target audience
Website	Click here
Event description	Main topics: - Current contraceptive methods - Sexuality and sex related infections - Clinical pharmacology of hormonal contraception - Non-contraceptive benefits - Teenage pregnancy and abortion - Clinical issues in contraceptive use
Date	08 December 2008 - 11 December 2008
Title	70th Anniversary of IPK
Location	Havana, Cuba
Organisation	'Pedro Kourí' Tropical Medicine Institute (IPK)
Target audience
Website	Click here
Event description	The 70th Anniversary of IPK coincides with the VII Cuban Congress of Microbiology and Parasitology and the IV National Congress of Tropical Medicine. This Congress will deal with several important topics related to infectious and parasitic diseases. Parasitologists, bacteriologists, mycologists, virologists, infectologists, zoonologists, tropicalists, and those specialists working on other related disciplines who may be interested in these topics, are invited to present and discuss experiences and results about this fascinating world of sciences.
Date	08 March 2009 - 11 March 2009
Title	SVRI Forum 2009
Location	Johannisburg, South Africa
Organisation	Sexual Violence Research Initiative
Target audience
Website	Click here
Event description	This global event will bring together 200 participants working on sexual violence as researchers, gender activists, funders, policy makers, service providers, survivors and others. The three day event includes: - Keynote and breakout sessions on the latest research and debates on: preventing sexual violence; responding to sexual violence; and global advocacy on sexual violence - A dialogue between activists, researchers, funders and policy makers on collaboration and partnerships - An analysis of current advances in health sector responses to sexual violence - Sexual violence research, ethics and advocacy skills building workshops
Date	18 April 2009 - 19 April 2009
Title	Unite for Sight 6th Annual Global Health Conference
Location	Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Organisation	Unite for Sight
Target audience
Website	Click here
Event description	Unite For Sight's conference convenes a committed vanguard of thousands from more than 60 countries. The conference challenges students, professionals, educators, doctors, scientists, lawyers, universities, corporations, nonprofits, and others, to develop innovative solutions to achieve global goals. Achieving Global Goals Through Innovation is the theme of the conference.
Date	18 April 2009 - 19 April 2009
Title	Achieving Global Goals Through Innovation
Location	Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Organisation	Yale University, USA
Target audience
Website	Click here
Event description	Unite For Sight's conference convenes a committed vanguard of thousands from more than 60 countries. The conference challenges students, professionals, educators, doctors, scientists, lawyers, universities, corporations, nonprofits, and others, to develop innovative solutions to achieve global goals.
Date	27 April 2009 - 01 May 2009
Title	12th World Public Health Congress
Location	Istanbul, Turkey
Organisation	World Federation of Public Health Associations/Turkish Public Health Association
Target audience
Website	Click here
Event description
Date	30 November 2009 - 11 December 2009
Title	COP15 Copenhagen 2009 - United Nations Climate Change Conference
Location	Copenhagen, Denmark
Organisation	United Nations
Target audience
Website	Click here
Event description	COP stands for Conference of Parties. It is the highest body of the United Nations Climate Change Convention and consists of environment ministers who meet once a year to discuss the convention’s developments. The overall goal for the 2009 (COP15) United Nations Climate Change Conference hosted by Denmark is to establish an ambitious global climate agreement for the period from 2012. Denmark is hosting the conference.
Date	11 July 2010 - 15 July 2010
Title	20th IUHPE World Conference on Health Promotion
Location	Geneva, Switzerland
Organisation	Health Promotion Switzerland
Target audience
Website	Click here
Event description	Switzerland will host the 20th World Conference of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE) in 2010. Our excellent national and international networks and support from the canton of Geneva will enable us to organise this most important triennial event of the world's leading organisations in the field of Health Promotion. We expect over two thousand specialists and interested parties to attend and establish networks at the 2010 IUHPE World Conference in Geneva. Representatives from the health, public and private sectors from all over the world will meet to discuss new developments in "Sustainability and Health Promotion".