Calendar of events relevant to chronic disease prevention in 2010.
Please email Katy Cooper [email] if you have an event that you would like to be included in this calendar, or if you discover any out-of-date links (we strive to keep them up to date, but occasionally they may be superseded).
January
17–23: National Non-Smoking Week, Canada
25–29: Cancertalk Week, UK
27–31: World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2010, Davos, Switzerland
28–30: 1st International Congress on Abdominal Obesity, Hong Kong, China
February
2–5: 21st International Congress on Anti-Cancer Treatment (ICACT), Paris, France
4: World Cancer Day – Protection against Cancer-causing Infections
4–6: 9th Annual New Partners for Smart Growth Conference: ‘Building Safe, Healthy, and Livable Communities’, Seattle, WA, United States
5: National Wear Red Day, United States
8–9: 2010 National Health Policy Conference, Washington DC
9–12: Clinical Nutrition Week, Las Vegas, NV, United States
10–12: Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Towards Better Work and Wellbeing Conference, Helsinki, Finland
12: Maha Shivaratri
14: Global Heart Hour and Global Heart Day
14: Chinese New Year
15: Nirvana Day
17: Ash Wednesday
18–21: World Congress on Controversies in Cardiovascular Diseases 2010, Istanbul
18–21: American Psychosocial Oncology Society (APOS) 7th Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, United States
21–27: National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, United Kingdom
25–28: International Conference on Early Disease Detection and Prevention, Munich
March
1: Holi
1: Hola Mohalla
3–5: Diabetes UK Annual Professional Conference 2010, Liverpool, UK
4–6: 3rd International Conference on Hypertension, Lipids, Diabetes and Stroke Prevention, Berlin, Germany
7–11: 16th International Conference on Cancer Nursing, Atlanta, GA, United States
9–10: 3rd Burden of Disease Today Conference, Johannesburg, South Africa
11–14: The Latin America Congress on Controversies to Consensus in Diabetes, Obesity and Hypertension (CODHy), Buenos Aires, Argentina
13–14: Prevent India 2010 (conference on CVD in India), Hyderabad, India
14–17: Society of Gynecologic Oncologists, 41st Annual Meeting on Women’s Cancer, San Francisco, United States
18–20: 6th International Conference Clinical Cancer Prevention 2010, St Gallen, Switzerland
23–26: 14th Pan Arab Conference on Diabetes, Cairo, Egypt
24: Ramanavami
24–27: 7th European Breast Cancer Conference, Brussels
26–27: 2nd Diabetes in Asia Study Group International Conference, Doha, Qatar
30–6 April: Passover
April
2: Good Friday
4: Western and Orthodox Easter
11–16: Inaugural international Healthy Parks Healthy People Congress 2010, Melbourne, Australia
29–3 May: 34th Oncology Nursing Society Annual Congress, San Antonio, TX, United States
May
3–6: International Federation on Ageing 10th Global Conference, Melbourne, Australia
5–8: International Congress on Physical Activity and Public Health 2010, Toronto, Ontario
13–15: 20th FIP World Congress of Podiatry, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
13–16: World Congress of the International Society for Heart Research 2010, Kyoto, Japan
13–16: 3rd World Congress on Controversies to Consensus in Diabetes, Obesity and Hypertension (CODHy), Prague, Czech Republic
14: 5th Baltic Congress of Oncology, Riga, Latvia
16: First European Obesity Awareness Day
19-22: 18th Annual Meeting of the Congress for the New Urbanism, Atlanta, Georgia
23: Pentecost
25–29: International Psycho-Oncology Society (IPOS), 12th World Congress of Psycho-Oncology, Quebec City, Canada
June
4–8: American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), 2010 Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, United States
13–19: Diabetes Week (UK)
24–27: ESMO Conference: 11th World Congress on Gastrointestinal Cancer, Barcelona, Spain
26–29: 21st Meeting of the European Association for Cancer Research, Oslo, Norway
July
11–15: 20th IUHPE World Conference on Health Promotion and Health Education, Geneva, Switzerland
11–15: 11th International Congress on Obesity (ICO2010), Stockholm, Sweden
24–27: International Academy of Cardiology, 15th World Congress on Heart Disease, Annual Scientific Sessions 2010, Vancouver, Canada
26: Asalha Puja Day
August
11: Ramadan begins
18–22: 2010 World Cancer Congress, Shenzhen, China
September
9–10: Rosh Hashanah
10: Eid al-Fitr
18: Yom Kippur
26–30: Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Hypertension, Vancouver, Canada
October
6–9: Asia-Pacific Conference on Tobacco or Health (APACT) 2010, Sydney, Australia
8–12: 35th European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Congress, Milan, Italy
13–16: World Stroke Congress 2010, Seoul, South Korea
17: Dasera
17–21: 48th International Making Cities Livable Conference, True Urbanism: Planning Healthy, and Child-Friendly Communities, Charleston, SC
21–22: 2010 AICR Annual Research Conference on Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity & Cancer, Washington, DC
23–26: 13th International Gynecologic Cancer Society Biennial Meeting (IGCS 2010), Prague, Czech Republic
29: World Stroke Day
November
5: Diwali
7–10: National Cancer Research Institute Conference, Liverpool, UK
16: Eid al-Adha
December
2–5: 14th Asia-Oceania Congress of Endocrinology, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2–9: Hanukkah
7: Islamic New Year
8: Bodhi Day
9–12: 33rd Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, San Antonio, TX, United States
25: Christmas