Calendar of events relevant to chronic disease prevention in 2009.
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Katy Cooper [email] if you have an event that you would like to be included in this calendar, or if you discover any out-of-date links (we strive to keep them up to date, but occasionally they may be superseded).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
12–18: National Non-Smoking Week, Canada
13: 'Healthy Ageing: The Role of Nutrition and Lifestyle', London
19–23: Cancertalk Week
22–24: 8th Annual New Partners for Smart Growth: 'Building Safe, Healthy, and Livable Communities', Washington DC
26: Chinese New Year
26: LSHTM/CGCH Controversies in Global Health Series: 'What role should the corporate sector play in tackling the global obesity pandemic?', University College, London
28: Walking Works conference: 'Why walking works for business', London
28–30: The 1st Regional (EMRO) Congress on Tobacco and Health, Kish Island, Islamic Republic of Iran
29–31: Health Action 2009, Washington DC
28 Jan–1 Feb: World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2009, Davos, Switzerland
February
National Heart Month Canada – Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada
2–3: 2009 National Health Policy Conference, Washington DC
3–9: National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, Canada
4–10: National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, United Kingdom
5-7: Aga Khan University Chronic Diseases Summit: Preparing Communities - Chronic Diseases in the Developing Regions of Asia and Africa, Kampala, Uganda
5–8: 5th Asia Oceania Congress of Obesity, Mumbai, India
6: National Wear Red Day, United States
8–10: American Dietetic Association's Public Policy Workshop, Washington DC
10: Managing Appetite: Pharmaceuticals and Functional Foods, London
12–16: AAAS Annual Meeting, Our Planet and Its Life: Origins and Futures, Chicago
14: Dress Red 2009, South Africa
14: Global Heart Day and Global Heart Hour
15: Nirvana Day
17–20: 2009 International Stroke Conference
18–21: African Science Communication Conference 2009: Shaping Africa's Future, Gauteng, South Africa
23–25: 20th National Conference on Chronic Disease Prevention and Control: Cultivating Healthy Communities, Washington DC
22–28: National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, United States
23: Maha Shivaratri
23–25: 20th National Conference on Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, 'Cultivating Healthy Communities', National Harbor, MD, USA
24: Physical Activity & Health Alliance Annual Conference 2009, Edinburgh, Scotland
25: Ash Wednesday
25–28: International Conference on Advanced Technologies & Treatments for Diabetes (ATTD) Athens, Greece
26: Women's Health Conference, Greenville, NC, United States
March
Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month
National Nutrition Month (United States)
National Nutrition Month (Canada)
3– 5: Innovations for the Built Environment, Earls Court, London
5–8: 40th Annual Meeting on Women’s Cancer, San Antonio, TX
6–7: Tobacco-control workshop for young people (prior to 14th World Conference on Tobacco OR Health), New Delhi, India
6–8: International Women's Day 2009
8: Planning effective tobacco control public education campaigns workshop, Mumbai, India
8–12: 14th World Conference on Tobacco OR Health, 'The Way Forward – Multi-sectoral Action for Tobacco Control: Policies, Pathway, Partners and People', Mumbai, India
10–14: Joint Conference - 49th Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention, and: Nutrition, Physical Activity and Metabolism, Palm Harbor, FL
11: No Smoking Day (United Kingdom)
11: Hola Mohalla
11–14: Primary therapy of Early Breast Cancer 2009: 11th International Conference, St Gallen, Switzerland
16–19: 19th Annual Art & Science of Health Promotion Conference: What Works Best in Health Promotion? San Francisco, CA
18–20: Seventh National Forum for Heart Disease & Stroke Prevention, Washington DC
19–22: International Conference on Advances in Diabetes and Insulin Therapy, Mumbai, India
24: 21st Annual American Diabetes Alert Day
24–27: 13th Pan Arab Conference on Diabetes, Cairo, Egypt
25: Kick Butts Day, United States25–26: 17th UKPHA Annual Public Health Forum, Brighton
25: American Diabetes Alert Day, United States
26: Tackling Obesity '09, London
26–28: 5th International Symposium on Diabetes and Pregnancy DIP 2009, Sorrento, Italy
27–29: 17th Annual Congress on Women’s Health, Williamsburg, VA
29–31: 58th Annual Scientific Session Orlando 200930: Joint PASCAR and ACC session on CVD in Africa at ACC.09 (American College of Cardiology conference), Orlando, Florida
April
1–3: Med-e-Tel - International Educational and Networking Forum for eHealth, Telemedicine, and Health ICT, Luxembourg
1–4: 3rd International Congress on Prediabetes and the Metabolic Syndrome, Nice, France
3: Ramanavami
5–17: IEA International Course on Epidemiological Methods, Jaipur, India
6: World Physical Activity Day
7: World Health Day
9–16: Passover
10: Good Friday
12: Easter Sunday
16–18: Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association 15th annual symposium, Dallas, TX
16: Oxford Health Alliance Summit '09, Oxford, UK
19: Easter Sunday (Orthodox)
21–24: 2009 CDC diabetes conference, Long Beach, California, USA
22–24:10th AHA Quality of Care and Outcomes Research in Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke Conference, Washington DC
24–26: Second international scientific conference: Health inequalities in urban and rural areas, Lodz, Poland
26–28: Mediterranean cardiology meeting, Taormina, Italy
27–28: 5th National Conference on Obesity and Health, Birmingham, UK
27–28: Healthy Work – Healthy Lifestyle – Healthy Business,
6th European Conference on Promoting Workplace Health (ENWHP), Perugia, Italy
27 April – 1 May: 12th World Public Health Congress, Istanbul, Turkey
27–29: Milken Institute Global Conference 2009, Los Angeles, California, United States
27–30: 2009 Joint Conference of SRNT and SRNT-Europe, Dublin, Ireland
30: Royal College of Physicians Events 2009: Device Therapy for Heart Failure, Joint conference with the British Cardiovascular Society London Conference
May
6–9: EuroPRevent 2009, Stockholm, Sweden
6–9: ECO 2009 17th European Congress on Obesity, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
7–10: 1st National Obesity Summit, Kananaskis, AB, Canada
9: Buddha Day
10–13: 6th Annual Nutrition and Health Conference, Chicago, IL
14–16: Heart Foundation (Australia) Conference, Brisbane, Australia
16–22: Impact Assessment and Human Well-being (International Association of Impact Assessment '09), Accra, Ghana
20–23: 17th Asian Pacific Congress of Cardiology, Kyoto, Japan
20–24: Metabolic Syndrome, Type 2 Diabetes, and Atherosclerosis Congress 2009, Berlin, Germany
21–23: BASORD – 8th International Symposium on Obesity and Related Diseases, Albena, Bulgaria
23–24: 8th National Congress on Obesity, Budapest, Hungary [email]
25–29: 36th Annual International Global Health Conference, Washington DC
26–29: 18th European Stroke Conference, Stockholm, Sweden
29–May 1: American Heart Association, Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology Annual Conference 2009, Washington DC
31: World No Tobacco Day, World Health Organization
31: Pentecost
June
2: Promoting Behaviour Change: Effective Behavioural Interventions, conference of the Association for the Study of Obesity, Leeds
5–7: 7th International Conference on Diet and Activity Methods (ICDAM7), Washington, DC
5–8: Urban and Regional Information Systems Association, Second GIS in Public Health Conference, Providence, Rhode Island
5–9: Annual scientific sessions of the American Diabetes Association 2009, New Orleans, Lousiana
9–11: International Society for Equity in Health conference 2009, Crete, Greece
12–16: 19th European meeting on hypertension, Milan, Italy
12–16: InterAmerican Congress of Cardiology 2009, Fajardo, Puerto Rico
14–18: International Symposium on Atherosclerosis 2009, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
17–20: Annual meeting of the International Society for Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, Lisbon, Portugal
18–21: Tenth International Lung Cancer Congress, Kohala Coast, Hawaii
24–26: Obesity and Its Management training meeting (Association for the Study of Obesity), Liverpool
29 June–2 July: School Nutrition Association Annual National Conference, Las Vegas, NV
July
1–3: New Zealand Society for the Study of Diabetes, Dunedin, NZ
7: Asalha Puja Day
10–12: ISHIB 2009 - Eliminating disparities in hypertension, metabolic syndrome, kidney failure, and cardiovascular disease: basic science, clinical practice, and community initiatives, Chicago, Illinois
11–15: The Society for Nutrition Education 2009 Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA
18–20: First Asia Pacific conference on health promotion and education, Chiba-city, Japan
August
13–16: Annual scientific meeting of the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand 2009, Sydney, Australia
16–17: CSANZ inaugural indigenous cardiovascular health conference, Sydney, Australia
29 Aug–2 Sept: ESC Congress 2009 (European Society of Cardiology), Barcelona, Spain
September
10: EuroHeart Conference 2009, Combating heart disease and stroke: planning for a healthier Europe, Brussels
17–19: 2nd International Korotkoff Congress, Hypertension – from Korotkoff to present days, St Petersburg, Russia
19–20: Rosh Hashanah
20: Eid al-Fitr
23–26: Go Public: Global Leadership Forum for Cancer Control, Ottawa, Canada
26–30: Pan African Society of Cardiology Conference 2009, Abuja, Nigeria
27–30: World Congress on Oils and Fats and 28th ISF Research Congress, Sydney, Australia
27 Sept–1 Oct: 45th Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes, Vienna, Austria
28: World Heart Day
28: Yom Kippur
28: Dasera
October
4–9: 19th International Congress of Nutrition 2009, 'Nutrition Security for All', BITEC, Bangkok, Thailand
4–7: NCRI Cancer Conference, Birmingham, UK
5–6: Communicate, collaborate, celebrate: tobacco-control conference, Cardiff, Wales
11–14: 8th International Congress on Coronary Artery Disease – ICCAD 2009 (CME), Prague, Czech Republic
14–16: Second SRNT IAHF Latin American Conference on Tobacco Control – From science to policy: progress in tobacco control in Latin America and the Caribbean, Mexico City, Mexico
17: Diwali
17–20: ADA's Food & Nutrition Conference & Expo. American Dietetic Association, Denver, CO
18–22: IDF 2009: 20th World Diabetes Congress, Montreal, Canada
19–23: 8th International Conference on Urban Health (ICUH), Nairobi, Kenya
24–28: The Obesity Society's 2009 Annual Scientific Meeting (NAASO), Washington DC
26–28: National Environmental Public Health Conference: Healthy People in a Healthy Environment, Atlanta, GA
29: World Stroke Day
November
3: Inequalities, Ethics and Obesity, joint conference of the Association for the Study of Obesity and the Department of Health, London
5-6: 2009 AICR Research Conference on Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity & Cancer, Washington, DC
7–11: 137th Meeting: Water and Public Health: the 21st Century Challenge, Philadelphia, PA
18: British Heart Foundation National Centre for Physical Activity and Health, 9th Annual Conference,‘National policy to local practice: Working together to deliver physical activity programmes'
26–28: European conference on public health 2009, Lodz, Poland
27: Eid al-Adha
December
8: Bodhi Day
9: Integrated Care and the Management of Chronic Illness: The Patient's Agenda for Healthy Living, Royal College of Physicians, London
12–19: Hanukkah
18: Islamic New Year
25: Christmas Day