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.
January
12–18: National Non-Smoking Week, Canada
13: 'Healthy Ageing: The Role of Nutrition and Lifestyle', London
22–24: 8th Annual New Partners for Smart Growth: 'Building Safe, Healthy, and Livable Communities', Washington DC
22–26: Cancertalk Week
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
29 Jan–4 Feb: Clinical Nutrition Week
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
5–8: 5th Asia Oceania Congress of Obesity, Mumbai, India
6: National Wear Red Day, United States
9–11: 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
18–20: 2009 International Stroke Conference
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
23–25: 20th National Conference on Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, 'Cultivating Healthy Communities', National Harbor, MD, USA
25 Feb – 2 Mar: National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, United Kingdom
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
No Smoking Day (United Kingdom)
National Nutrition Month (United States)
National Nutrition Month (Canada)
3– 5: Innovations for the Built Environment, Earls Court, London
4–6: 3rd International Conference on Hypertension, Lipids, Diabetes and Stroke Prevention, Berlin, Germany
6–7: Tobacco-control workshop for young people (prior to 14th World Conference on Tobacco OR Health), New Delhi, India
7–11: 39th Annual Meeting on Women’s Cancer, New Orleans, LA
8: International Women's Day 2009
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– 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
24–27: 13th Pan Arab Conference on Diabetes, Cairo, Egypt
24–26: 17th UKPHA Annual Public Health Forum, Brighton
25: American Diabetes Alert Day, United States
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 2009
April
1–3: Med-e-Tel - International Educational and Networking Forum for eHealth, Telemedicine, and Health ICT, Luxembourg
1–5: 4th IASLC International Meeting on Targeted Therapies on Lung Cancer, Saint Paul de Venice, France
5–17: IEA International Course on Epidemiological Methods, Jaipur, India
7: World Health Day
22–24:10th AHA Quality of Care and Outcomes Research in Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke Conference, Washington DC
22–26: 3rd International Congress on Prediabetes and the Metabolic Syndrome,Copenhagen, Denmark
28–28: 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
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
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
June
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
18–23: European Meeting on Hypertension 2009, Oslo, Norway
18–21: Tenth International Lung Cancer Congress, Kohala Coast, Hawaii
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
11–15: The Society for Nutrition Education 2009 Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA
18–21: 15th World Congress on Heart Disease 2009, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
August
13–16: Annual scientific meeting of the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand 2009, Sydney, Australia
29 Aug–2 Sept: ESC Congress 2009 (European Society of Cardiology), Barcelona, Spain
September
27 Sept–1 Oct: 45th Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes, Vienna, Austria
October
4–9: 19th International Congress of Nutrition 2009, 'Nutrition Security for All', BITEC, Bangkok, Thailand
4–7: NCRI Cancer Conference, Birmingham, UK
11–14: 8th International Congress on Coronary Artery Disease – ICCAD 2009 (CME), Prague, Czech Republic
17–20: ADA's Food & Nutrition Conference & Expo. American Dietetic Association, Denver, CO
18–22: IDF 2009: 20th World Diabetes Congress, Montreal, Canada
24–28: The Obesity Society's 2009 Annual Scientific Meeting (NAASO) ,Washington DC
November
7–11: 137th Meeting: Water and Public Health: the 21st Century Challenge, Philadelphia, PA
December
9: Integrated Care and the Management of Chronic Illness: The Patient's Agenda for Healthy Living, Royal College of Physicians, London