Calendar of events relevant to chronic disease prevention, 2007.
Please email Katy Cooper (katy.cooper@oxha.org) if you have an event that you would like to be included in this calendar or on the 2008 calendar, which can be viewed here >>.
January
11–13: Christian Medical College Winter Symposium 2007: 'Endocrinology, Diabetes and metabolism – From Bench to Bedside', Vellore, India
17–19: Annual Health & Human Capital Management Congress, ‘Investing in Employee Health to Improve Corporate Performance’, Washington, DC
21–27: Healthy Weight Week
23–26: California Childhood Obesity Conference, Anaheim, CA
24–28: World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2007, ‘The Shifting Power Equation’, Davos, Switzerland
25–27: Health Action 2007, Washington DC
28–2 February: Seminario Regional Sobre Epidemiología y Prevención de las Enfermedades Cardiovasculares, Posada Belén, Guatemala
February
American Heart Month 2007
2: National Wear Red Day, USA (women’s heart health awareness)
4: World Cancer Day
6: Cardiovascular Disease Risks of Obesity, London
6–8: E-Health Asia, Putrajaya, Malaysia
7–9: International Stroke Conference, San Francisco, CA
8: NGO Forum Inaugural Lecture, 'Tackling the Social Determinants of Obesity – Why Weight?', London
8–10: 6th Annual New Partners for Smart Growth, ‘Building Safe, Healthy, and Livable Communities’, Los Angeles, California
8–10: 9th National Conference on Cancer Nursing Research, Hollywood, CA
9–11: 4th Asia-Oceania Conference on Obesity, Seoul, Korea
11–14 Gulf Group for the Study of Diabetes Conference, Muscat, Oman
12–13: National Health Policy Conference, Washington DC
15–19: American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting, ‘Science and Technology for Sustainable Well-Being’, San Francisco, CA
21: 7th Annual Center for Global Health Systems, Management, and Policy Conference, 'Eating Ourselves Sick: The Health and Economic Challenges of Obesity', Dayton, Ohio
22–24: Active Living Research Annual Conference, 'Active Living in Diverse and Disadvantaged Communities', Coronado, California
27–1 March: Building for Health Conference, London, UK
28–3 March: 47th Annual Conference on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention, Orlando, Florida
March
8–10: 5th Conferenza Nazionale della Società Italiana per la Prevenzione Cardiovascolare, Genoa, Italy
14: No Smoking Day (UK)
11–17: Obesity Awareness Week (UK)
16–17: 18th Annual Health Economics Conference, Tempe, Arizona
19–20: National Conference on Obesity and Health, Manchester, UK
21–22: 'Business–NGO–government partnerships:
How to build partnerships that strengthen your position...create opportunities...and help you achieve your long-term goals', Ethical Corporation, London, UK
26–28: World Health Care Congress Europe 2007, Barcelona, Spain
26–1 April: 17th Annual Art & Science of Health Promotion Conference, San Francisco, CA
27–30: 11th Pan Arab Conference on Diabetes, Cairo, Egypt
28: Kick Butts Day
27–30: CDC IUHPE Physical Activity and Public Health Course for the African Region, Cape Town, South Africa
28–30: First East African Health and Scientific Conference 28-30 March 2007 Kampala, Uganda
29–31: 6th IASO Stock Conference, ‘Insulin Resistance: Central & peripheral mechanisms’, Bangkok, Thailand
April
Cancer Control Month (US)
2–8: National Public Health Week (US), ‘Preparedness and Public Health Threats: Addressing the Unique Needs of the Nation’s Vulnerable Populations’
4: Building Research Capacity to Improve Global Health - Lessons and Challenges, Melbourne, Australia
7: World Health Day 2007: ‘Working Together for Health’
15–21: ICRC/WHO Spring School: Sixth Training Course on Non-communicable Diseases Prevention and Health Promotion (Isfahan Healthy Heart Program), Isfahan, Iran
18–20: Bridging the Health Care Divide: Research and Programs to Eliminate Cancer Disparities, New Orleans, LA
19–21: EuroPrevent 2007, Madrid, Spain
22–24: 4th Annual World Health Care Congress, Washington, DC
22–25: 15th European Congress on Obesity, Budapest, Hungary
25–28: 2nd International Congress on Prediabetes and the Metabolic Syndrome, Barcelona, Spain
30–3 May: CDC Diabetes Conference, Atlanta, Georgia
May
1: World Asthma Day
4–6: Diabetes New Zealand Conference 2007, Hamilton, New Zealand
7–9: 1st FANUS (Federation of African Nutrition Societies) meeting: 'Nutrition, Health and Human Development in Africa: Breaking the Downward Trend', Ouarzazate, Morocco
9–11: First Conference of the Journal Public Health - Social, Cultural and Economic Determinants of Health: International Perspectives for Global Action, Lisbon, Portugal
9–11: 8th AHA Scientific Forum on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research in Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke, Washington DC
9–11: International Conference Towards Sustainable Global Health, Bonn, Germany
10–12: Kids Being Healthy Expo, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
17: World Hypertension Day
13–16: 1st All Africa Conference on Heart Disease, Diabetes, and Stroke, Grand Regency Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya
21–22: Cross-border eHealth in the Baltic Sea Region, Stockhold, Sweden
21–23: World Health Care Congress Asia, Singapore
21–25: National Walk to School Week (UK)
22–24: Saudi Arabia National Conference on Diabetes and Obesity, Buraydah, Saudi Arabia
23–25: National Nutrition and Physical Activity Public Health Conference, Rotorua, New Zealand
26–28: 15th Biennial Congress of the Southern African Hypertension Society, Johannesburg, South Africa
28–30: eLearning Africa 2007: Building Infrastructures and Capacities to Reach out to the Whole of Africa, Nairobi, Kenya
29–1 June: 34th Annual International Conference on Global Health, 'Partnerships: Working Together for Global Health', Washington DC
31: World No Tobacco Day
June
2–3: Second International Congress of Gender Medicine 2007, Vienna, Austria
2–5: 15th Annual Congress on Women's Health, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, USA
10–15: 19th World Conference of the International Union for Health Promotion and Health Education, Vancouver, Canada
13–15: 2007 Afrihealth Pan African Conference on Public Health Education, Pretoria, South Africa
14–15: 2007 UK National Smoking Cessation Conference, London
16–24: National Bike Week (UK)
19–21: Pacific Global Health Conference 2007, Honolulu, Hawaii
20–23: 6th Annual Meeting of The International Society For Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, Oslo, Norway
23–29: Food as Medicine 2007, Baltimore, MD
24–27: International Conference on Physical Activity & Obesity in Children, Toronto, Ontario
27–29: Obesity and its Management, Liverpool, UK
27–1 July: 5th World Congress on Design and Health, Glasgow, Scotland
July
1: Ban on smoking in enclosed public places comes into force in England
5–7: 17th Annual Meeting of the European Childhood Obesity Group (ECOG), Athens, Greece
8–14: National Diabetes Week, Australia
10–13: 10th European Nutrition Conference, Paris, France
16–18: Public Health Congress, Washington DC
18–21: 22nd Caribbean Cardiology Conference, Fort-de-France, Martinique
29–August 10: 33rd 10-Day Seminar on the Epidemiology and Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, Tahoe City, California
August
22–24: Ninth International Course on Physical Activity and Public Health, Bangkok, Thailand
September
1–5: European Society of Cardiology Congress, Vienna, Austria
3: Policy Advocacy-MS Training Centre for Development Cooperation, Arusha, Tanzania
4–7: Smoke-free Oceania Tobacco Control Conference,
Auckland, New Zealand
5–7: 1st Latin-Amercian SRNT Conference and 2nd Ibero-American Conference on Tobacco Control, Rio de Janeiro
6–8: Third World Ageing & Generations Congress, St. Gallen, Switzerland
10–11: WorkLife 2007: 'Protecting and promoting worker health: a national symposium', Bethesda, Maryland
10–11: Towards a Smokefree Society, Edinburgh
10–13: International Conference on Vegetables 2007, Fortaleza, Brazil
12–15: International Conference on Traditional Asian Cuisine – United We Eat, Panaji, India
17–21: 43rd Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
18–20: Setting an Ethical Agenda for Health Promotion Conference, Ghent, Belgium
19–21: Open Space, People Space – Innovative Approaches to Research Excellence in Landscape and Health, Edinburgh
23–25: 51st IFHP World Congress: Futures of Cities, Copenhagen
24-26: IFHP 2007 Student Congress, Copenhagen
25–29: 61st High Blood Pressure Research Annual Conference, Tucson, Arizona
27: Public Health is Global Health (satellite broadcast and webcast), Online
27-29: Nigerian Heart 2007, Lagos, Nigeria
29–30: National Conference on Health Communication, Marketing and Media, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
30: World Heart Day, ‘Team up for healthy hearts'
30–3 October: 24th International Conference – International Society for Quality in Health Care, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
30–6 October: Heart and Stroke Week, Barbados
October
International Walk to School Month 2007 (UK)
3–6: Ninth Annual Conference of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco Europe, Madrid, Spain
5: Seventh Annual Global Health Mini-University, Washington, DC
7: 12th World Congress on the Internet in Medicine – MEDNET 2007, Leipzig, Germany
11–13: European Conference on Tobacco or Health, Basel, Switzerland
17–20: 8th triennial Asia Pacific Conference on Tobacco or Health ‘Smoke Free Asia – Implementation of FCTC’, Taipei, Taiwan
19–21: Third Micronesian Medical Symposium – 'Childhood and Adolescence Obesity and its Complication and Impact in the Asia Pacific Region', Guam (email: guammedicalsociety@yahoo.com)
24–26: 5th International Conference on Behavioural Risk Factor Surveillance, Rome
24–26: National Conference on Tobacco or Health 2007, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
25–27: VII Congreso Nacional de Prevención y Tratamiento del Tabaquismo, Castellón, Spain
28-31: 14th Canadian Conference on International Health, Ottawa, Canada
28-31: International Conference on Rural Medicine 2007, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
29–31: Tufts University Friedman School Symposium: Focus on Behavior, Interventions and the Future of Nutrition, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
29–2 November: Global Forum for Health Research, ‘Equitable Access: Research Challenges for Health in Developing Countries’, Beijing
November
1–2: Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity and the Prevention of Cancer: A Global Perspective, London, UK
2–4: Sixth Annual Conference of the International Society for the Prevention of Tobacco Induced Diseases, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
3: Mechanisms and Syndromes of Cardiometabolic Disease: Emerging Science in Atherosclerosis, Hypertension and Diabetes, Orlando, Florida, USA
3–7: American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, USA
6: Association for the Study of Obesity 40th Anniversary Conference 'Tackling Obesities: Future Choices', London, UK
7–9: Cancer in the Developing World, Cairo, Egypt
8–26: International Health System Management Program, Nahalal, Israel
10–11: Second Chinese Conference on Health Communication, Beijing, China
12–16: 13th Latin American Diabetes Congress, Havana, Cuba
15: Great American Smokeout
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/home/index.asp
15–16: 3rd International Conference of IREMAS, 'Food, Health Messages, Marketing ... and nutritional cacophony' , Paris, France
16–19: Sixth Asian-Pacific Congress of Hypertension/Ninth International Symposium on Hypertension and Related Diseases, Beijing, China
20–26: Diabetes Awareness Week, New Zealand
23–25: Second Argentine Congress on Tobacco or Health, Mendoza, Argentina
24: Seoul Diabetes Forum 2007—Diabetes in Asia, Seoul, South Korea
24–25: 'Commercialization and Health' Alma Mata Conference, London
25–28: 2nd International Cancer Control Congress, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
28: The British Heart Foundation National Centre for Physical Activity and Health 7th Annual Conference, Nottingham, UK
29–1 December: 2007 Global Diabetes Summit, Columbus, Ohio, USA
29–1 December: Obesidad y Metabolismo del tejido Adiposo: Conceptos actuales, San Antonio, Texas
29–1 December: I Congresso Latino-Americano de Hipertensão e Obesidade, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
December
4: Britain Against Cancer Conference, London, United Kingdom
6: Disparities Foresight Briefing, 'Reducing Health Disparities Faster: Addressing Social Determinants of Health', Washington D.C., United States
7–9: 40th Annual New York Cardiovascular Symposium, New York, New York, USA