While efforts to foster inter-sectoral cooperation on health have been successful at times, real challenges remain. The discussions at the European Health Forum Gastein 2017 will aim to dig deeper, taking the technocratic concept of Health in All Policies to the political level of policy implementation – Health in All […]

3rd to 7th April 2017, Melbourne, Australia. The 15th Congress on Public Health will take place in Melbourne, Australia. During the Congress there will be a Festival of Public Health to engage researchers, practitioners, academics, administrators, policy makers, industry representatives, students and stakeholders involved in public health from all over […]

24th to 28th April 2017, Boston, MA, USA. Comprehensive 2017 Updates for the Prevention, Detection, Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases This comprehensive CME program ensures attendees are current with state-of-the-art approaches to prevention, detection, diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases. Updates, best practices and new guidelines are presented by […]

28th February to 4th March 2017, Cape Town, South Africa. The 31st International Papillomavirus Conference & Clinical and Public Health Workshops will be held in Cape Town, South Africa. Through workshops, invited lectures, and oral and poster sessions presenting the latest research results, the conference will cover papillomavirus (PV) related topics from basic science […]

23rd to 26th March 2017, Athens, Greece. The 11th World Congress on Controversies in Neurology (CONy) will take place in Athens, Greece. In recent years the field of neurology has witnessed enormous expansion in clinical and basic data. Conferences are more informative but there is often only limited time for […]

6th to 8th March 2017, Paris, France.   TAT Congress is a medium-sized annual meeting encompassing 3 days of plenary sessions, poster viewing sessions, special symposia, international faculty and excellent networking opportunities. It is held in Europe (odd years) and the USA (even years). This year the 15th International Congress on Targeted Anticancer […]

17th to 18th June 2017, Oxford, United Kingdom. This weekend course provides a good grounding in basic statistical methods. Such methods are useful in a wide variety of disciplines including social sciences, such as business studies, economics and psychology. The techniques include summarising, distributions, frequency, hypothesis testing and confidence. This […]

Start: 27th February 2017, Liverpool, United Kingdom. This programme is particularly useful for physicians who have trained in medicine in a developed country but intend to practise in the tropics. It is also useful for physicians already practising in developing countries who require an update on infectious, parasitic and other […]

Free online course. Many countries are reforming their health systems working toward universal health coverage (UHC). These reforms can be harnessed to increase equity in medicines access, affordability, and appropriate use of medicines. However, they also have the potential to decrease the effectiveness of prescribing and dispensing, increase unnecessary use […]

Margherita Giannoni, Luisa Franzini and Giuliano Masiero. Background Research on socio-economic determinants of migrant health inequalities has produced a large body of evidence. There is lack of evidence on the influence of structural factors on lives of fragile groups, frequently exposed to health inequalities. The role of poor socio-economic status and country level structural factors, […]