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13th World Congress on Public Health 'Towards Global Health Equity: Opportunities and Threats' will take place 23 - 27 April, 2012 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia!

“Horizon 2020: Investing in the common good”

Treating knowledge as a public good in EU research and innovation Horizon 2020 is the EU´s framework programme for research and innovation. This conference will explore how EU funding can promote economically and socially sustainable innovation models with the aim of more openness, easier accessibility and higher result-oriented efficiency. The conference will examine what it means to treat knowledge as a public good in policy making and how this should affect future EU funding schemes for research and innovation.

Date: 30th November Time: 13 - 15h

Room: A3G3 European Parliament Brussels

Please register by sending an email to philippe.lamberts@europarl.europa.eu.

The next Global Health Policy Forum will be held in Brussels on November 10th from 12:00 to 14:00. The theme is Global Health Governance.

Antoine Flahault, Alliance Co-Chair will give a presentation about EAGHA at the ASPH (Association of Schools of Public Health, US) Global Health Committee meeting to be held on Sunday, October 30th in Washington, D.C.

EAGHA will host a session at World Health Summit Berlin on Ensuring the effectiveness of EU expenditure on Global Health on October 25^th from 12:00 – 13:00.

The European Commission has launched a call for the renewal of the membership of the three Scientific Committees - which form part of its System of Scientific Advice established by Commission Decision 2008/721/EC  -  it manages. The call will run until 15 November 2011 and is published in the Official Journal of the European Union (Administrative Procedure 2011/C 297/04).

The three Scientific Committees are composed of experts who deliver their advice in the form of scientific opinions that serve as the scientific basis for the Commission policy making in the areas of consumer and product safety, public health and the environment. Selected applicants will be offered a three-year mandate.

The online application procedure is accessible through the following link or through the Scientific Committees homepage.

European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health, October 3-6, 2011, Barcelona! http://www.ectmihbarcelona2011.org/ 

Alliance General Assembly Meeting to be held October 4th from 14:00 – 17:00 at the European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health, Barcelona! http://www.ectmihbarcelona2011.org/

HIFA2015 is a global campaign and knowledge network that brings together more than 5000 health workers, librarians, publishers, researchers and policymakers in 2000 organisations across 158 countries worldwide, all committed to a common goal: By 2015, every person worldwide will have access to an informed health care provider. One-third of members are based in Africa, one-third in Europe, and one-third in the rest of the world. They range from senior executives at the World Health Organization to community health workers in rural Uganda.

HIFA members are working for a future where people are no longer dying for lack of basic healthcare knowledge. They interact on five forums:
1. HIFA2015
2. CHILD2015 in collaboration with the International Child Health Group of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
3. HIFA2015-Portuguese in collaboration with WHO, Geneva
4. HIFA-EVIPNet-French in collaboration with WHO, Geneva
5. HIFA-Zambia in collaboration with the Zambia UK Health Workforce Alliance

HIFA2015 explores the health information and learning needs of all groups of healthcare providers in low-resource settings, from mothers and ordinary citizens to hospital doctors and policymakers. As part of its remit, HIFA2015 has hosted many discussions on issues related to the availability of electronic journals, including HINARI and other initiatives.

HIFA2015 is administered by the Global Healthcare Information Network, a UK-based non-profit organisation working to improve the quality of health care in developing countries. It has received financial support from the British Medical Association, British Nursing Index, ePORTUGUESe/World Health Organization, International Child Health Group, Lancet, Network for Information and Digital Access, Rockefeller Foundation, Royal College of Midwives, Royal College of Nursing, THET and several other health and development organisations.

Join HIFA2015, CHILD2015, HIFA-Portuguese, HIFA-EVIPNet-French, HIFA-Zambia: www.hifa2015.org<http://www.hifa2015.org/>

"Healthcare Information For All by 2015: By 2015, every person worldwide will have access to an informed healthcare provider"