Calendar of events relevant to chronic disease prevention in 2008.
Please email Katy Cooper [email] if you have an event that you would like to be included in this calendar.
January
5–6: Seventh International Symposium on Diabetes, Mumbai, India
11–13: National Conference on Emerging Issues in Public Health, Kerala, India
20–26: National Non Smoking Week, Canada
23–27: World Economic Forum Annual Meeting: 'The Power of Collaborative Innovation', Davos, Switzerland
24–26: Health Action 2008, Washington DC
29: Climate change and its impact on health, Royal College of Physicians, London, UK
30: NGO Forum Conference: 'Social Determinants of Health', London, England
February
National Heart Month, Canada
3: National Wear Red Day in support for women’s heart disease awareness, USA
4–5: National Health Policy Conference, Washington DC
7: Walk to School Conference: 'New Tools for Walk to School', London, England
7–9: 7th Annual New Partners for Smart Growth: 'Building Safe, Healthy, and Livable Communities', Washington DC
8–9: Second Annual The Heart of Women's Health, Washington D.C., USA
14–18: American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting: 'Science and Technology from a Global Perspective', Boston, Massachusetts, USA
17: National Women’s Heart Day, USA
19–20: 1st International Clinical Nutrition Conference (ICNC): 'Confronting the obesity epidemic in the Middle East', KKNGH, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
20–22: International Stroke Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
21–23: Seventh Genoa Meeting on Hypertension, Diabetes and Renal Disease, Genoa, Italy
25–27: Oxford Health Alliance Summit, Sydney, Australia
26–28: Innovations for the Built Environment, Earls Court, London
27–1 March: 14th Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, United States
27–1 March: 1st International Conference on Advanced Technologies & Treatments for Diabetes (ATTD), Prague, Czech Republic
March
National Nutrition Month, Canada
1–2: International Congress on Obesity Management, Khobar, Saudi Arabia
2–7: First Global Forum on Human Resources for Health, Kampala, Uganda
5–8: 18th Annual Art & Science of Health Promotion Conference: 'Maximizing ROI in Health Promotion: Improving Health, Reducing Costs', San Diego, California, USA
6–7: 3rd Scandinavian Pediatric Obesity Conference, Malmö, Sweden
6–8: Cancer Prevention 2008: 5th International Conference, St Gallen, Switzerland
6–8: Second International Conference on Hypertension, Lipids, Diabetes and Stroke Prevention, Prague, Czech Republic
10–12: 4th Annual World Health Care Congress, Berlin, Germany
11–15: 48th Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention – First Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Metabolism Conference – 2008, Colorado Springs, USA
12: No Smoking Day, UK
23: American Diabetes Alert Day, USA
24–29: International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Kathmandu, Nepal
25–28: 12th Pan Arab Conference on Diabetes, Cairo, Egypt
26–28: Access 2008: Building a Tobacco-free Future, Seattle, Washington
26–28: Sixth National Forum for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention, Washington, DC
27–29: Third Amsterdam Diabetes Forum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
28: ASO Conference: 'Early Development and Obesity: Food Preferences, Diet and Appetite Regulation', Liverpool, England
29–1 April: 57th Annual Scientific Session of the American College of Cardiology, Chicago, Illinois, USA
30–3 April: 7th International Diabetes Federation Western Pacific Region Congress, Wellington, New Zealand
April
1–2: 16th UKPHA Annual Public Health Forum: 'Community Cohesion and Empowerment: Championing the social, cultural, economic and environmental determinants of health', Liverpool, United Kingdom
2: Kick Butts Day, United States
6–12: Global Youth Forum on Development 2008, Nairobi, Kenya
7: Women's Health in Business in the 21st Century Conference, London, UK
7–13: National Public Health Week, United States
9–11: 9th Behavioural Research in Cancer Control Conference, Melbourne, Australia
9–12: First International Congress on Prehypertension and Cardiometabolic Risk, Prague, Czech Republic
10–12: Ninth International Kawasaki Disease Symposium, Taipei, Taiwan
11–12: CARDIO ATHENA 2008: International Meeting on Cardiovascular Medicine, Athens, Greece
12–13: Unite for Sight's 5th Annual International Health Conference, Yale, USA
13–16: 2nd International Congress on Physical Activity and Public Health: 'Beyond the barriers: cutting edge approaches to physical activity and public health', Amsterdam, The Netherlands
16–18: Med-e-Tel—International Educational and Networking Forum for eHealth, Telemedicine, and Health ICT, Luxembourg
16–18: Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology Annual Conference 2008, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
20–24: Isfahan Cardiovascular Research Center, 7th Training Course on Non-Communicable Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Isfahan, Iran
23–26: 1st European Lung Cancer Conference, Geneva, Switzerland
24: Astor Lecture Series: Public Health Lecture - “Mapping poverty and obesity' (Professor Adam Frewnowski), Oxford and St Cross Seminar on Medical Ethics - 'Food, incomes, and health', Oxford
26–29: 77th European Atherosclerosis Society Congress, Istanbul, Turkey
28–29: Call to Action Conference: 'Successful Tobacco for the Future', Cardiff, UK
28-29: Controversies in the Prevention and Management of Obesity: Responsibilities, Roles and Results, Birmingham, UK
28–30: Milken Institute Global Conference 2008, Los Angeles, California, United States
29: Royal College of Physicians Global Health Conference, London, UK
30: Walk America, USA
30–2 May: Quality of Care and Outcomes Research in Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke Conference 2008, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
May
1–3: EuroPRevent 2008, Paris, France
5–8: CDC Diabetes Conference, Orlando, Florida, USA
13–16: 17th European Stroke Conference, Nice, France
14: 14: SHOW research symposium - showcasing the survey of the health of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
14–17: 16th European Congress on Obesity (ECO), Geneva, Switzerland
17: World Hypertension Day
18–21: World Congress of Cardiology, Buenos Aires, Argentina
19–24: 61st World Health Assembly, Geneva Switzerland
20: Places to Go? conference on child-friendly public spaces, London
20: Pulse Health and Nutrition Symposium, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
21–24: Annual Meeting of The International Society For Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, Banff, Alberta, Canada
25–28: Geneva Forum: Towards Global Access to Health, Geneva, Switzerland
27–31: 35th Annual International Conference on Global Health: Community Health: Delivering, Serving, Engaging, Leading, Washington, DC, USA
28–30: eLearning Africa 2008: Third Pan-African Conference on ICT for Development, Education, and Training, Accra, Ghana
31: World No Tobacco Day, World Health Organization
June
1–4: 5th World Congress on Prevention of Diabetes and its Complications, Helsinki, Finland
1–4: 9th Nordic Nutrition Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark
2–4: 4th Public Health Association of South Africa Conference 2008, Cape Town, South Africa
3: Association for the Study of Obesity conference: 'Obesity and the Environment', London, UK
4–12: British Heart Week, UK
6–10: Annual Scientific Sessions of the American Diabetes Association, San Francisco, California, USA
8–9 Iranian National Seminar for Policy-Makers on NCD Prevention, Tehran, Iran
8–14: Diabetes Week, UK
9–15: National Men's Health Week, UK
12–15: Food As Medicine Professional Nutritional Training Program, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
14–19: 22nd Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Hypertension/18th Scientific Meeting of the European Society of Hypertension, Berlin, Germany
25–27: Association for the Study of Obesity, Obesity and Its Management, Liverpool Medical Institution, Liverpool, UK
26–29: 26th International Symposium on Diabetes and Nutrition, Varna, Bulgaria
July
3: Healthy Towns = Healthy People, London, UK
3–6: World Congress on Controversies in Cardiovascular Disease: Diagnosis, Treatments and Interventions, Berlin, Germany
7–8: Fat chances – What is the future for health and food? (Sandwell Health's Other Economic Summit, SHOES), West Bromwich, UK
7–1 August: International Public Health Summer Institute, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
9–12: International Lung Cancer Conference, Liverpool, United Kingdom
18–20: ISHIB 2008: Emerging Public Health Challenges in Improving Cardiovascular Health in the Minority Population, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
26–29: 14th World Congress on Heart Disease, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
26–28: International Physical Activity and Public Health Course, Sydney, Australia
27–8 August: 34th Ten-Day Seminar on the Epidemiology and Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, Tahoe City, California, USA
August
10–22: 10-Day International Teaching Seminar on CVD Epidemiology and Prevention, Oxford, United Kingdom
27–31: World Cancer Congress 2008, Geneva, Switzerland
30–3 September: European Society of Cardiology Congress 2008, Munich, Germany
September
4–5: Medicine 2.0 Conference: Web 2.0 in Health and Medicine Toronto, Ontario, Canada
7–11: Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes, Rome, Italy
8–10: 4th Annual Meeting of HEPA Europe (European Network for the promotion of health-enhancing physical activity), Glasgow
9–13: Eighth IUHPE European Conference on Health Promotion and Health Education, Turin, Italy
17-19: Annual Meeting of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Brighton, UK
20–24: World Congress of Epidemiology 2008, Porto Alegre, Brazil
22–27 Social Epidemiology course, Menorca, Spain
24–27: Sixth World Stroke Congress, Vienna, Austria
25–28: Central European Congress on Obesity and Nutrition, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic
30–3 October: National Cancer Research Institute Conference 2008, Birmingham, United Kingdom
October
2–4: Childhood and adolescent obesity conference 2008, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
3–7: The Obesity Society's 2008 Annual Scientific Meeting (NAASO), Phoenix, Arizona, USA
8–10: Walk 21 Conference 2008, Barcelona, Spain
9–10: International Workshop on postponing ageing, ‘Contemporary Problems of Prolonging Work Ability’, Tallinn, Estonia
16–18: Diabetes in Asia Study Group Conference 2008, Kathmandu, Nepal
23–25: 59th Annual Meeting of the Society for Public Health Education, San Diego, CA
29: World Stroke Day
29–31: 7th International Conference on Urban Health: Knowledge Integration – Successful Interventions in Urban Health, Vancouver, Canada
30–31: Enterprise for Health conference, Achieving Business Excellence - Health, Well-being and Performance, London
30–2 November: Second World Congress on Controversies in Diabetes, Obesity and Hypertension, Barcelona, Spain
November
4: Association for the Study of Obesity conference, Obesity and Cancer, London
5–6: 2nd Trade Fair for Work and Health, ‘Healthy employees also boost the balance sheets’, Basel, Switzerland
5–8: Therapeutic Patient Education 2008 (TPE 2008) , Self Management Support and Education in Diabetes and Other Chronic Diseases including the 4th International Dawn Summit (Diabetes Attitudes Wishes and Needs), Budapest, Hungary
6–8: 16th European Conference on Public Health, ‘i-health: innovation and health in Europe’, Lisbon, Portugal
13: HSJ conference, 'Promoting health and preventing illness', Birmingham, UK
13–14: International workshop on national physical activity promotion strategies, Wageningen, The Netherlands
14–16: The Lancet medical forum 2008: Stroke in Asia, Beijing, China
16–19: Second international diabetes in indigenous peoples forum, Vancouver, Canada
17–19: 20th National Conference on Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Washington DC
17–20: Global Ministerial Forum on Research for Health, Bamako, Mali
19: BHFNC 8th Annual Conference, 'Opening doors to an active life: how to engage inactive communities', Nottingham, UK
21–23: African Heart Network annual workshop on building community capacity for heart health, Maputo, Mozambique [email]
19: World COPD Day
24–26: Third national conference of the Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
26–28: International Chronic Disease Self-management Congress, Melbourne, Australia
December
3–6: International conference on scaling up of health programs in low-income countries, Dhaka, Bangladesh [email]
9: King's Fund seminar on 'Encouraging healthy behaviour: developing successful interventions for creating change', London