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April
28th Nordic Health Economists Study Group (NHESG) Meeting
Location: Tartu, Estonia
Dates: 15-17 August 2007
**Abstract Submission Deadline: 23 April 2007
We are pleased to invite you to the 28th Nordic Health Economists Study Group (NHESG) Meeting in Tartu, Estonia August 15-17, 2007. The meeting will be arranged by Institute of Public Health, University of Tartu.
Papers on all topics within health economics are welcome. The submitted papers can be reports on completed studies, work in progress or short descriptions of planned studies. The conference language is English.
If you are interested in presenting a paper at the meeting, please note that deadline for abstract submission is April 23rd, 2007. Accept of abstract will be confirmed by May 28th.
A workshop for doctoral students will be organised August 15th . Doctoral students are asked to submit papers. There will be organized two senior commentators for each paper - one responsible for theoretical comments and the other for empirical (statistical) questions. Only those who have submitted a paper can attend.
Other special sessions can be arranged if there is demand for them. If you want to arrange one, please contact the organizers.
The topic of the key-note lectures will be “What has happened in health care in former socialist countries after 1990s”.
Our meeting website with abstract submission, registration, and conference details will be available by the end of March 2007. You will be informed about this separately. Also you can participate without presenting a paper. Details for registration and accommodation will be published on the meeting website.
A preliminary conference programme will be found on the website from June 11th 2007.
April 23, 2007: Health Economics
April
Young voices in research for health: The Global Forum for Health Research and The Lancet
Submission deadline: 20 April 2007
Conference: Forum 11, the 2007 annual meeting of the Global Forum for Health Research
Location: Beijing, People’s Republic of China
Conference dates: 29 October - 2 November 2007
The Global Forum for Health Research and The Lancet are sponsoring their second joint essay competition on the occasion of Forum 11, the 2007 annual meeting of the Global Forum for Health Research in Beijing, People’s Republic of China, 29 October to 2 November 2007.
Entries are invited from young professionals working in or interested in the broad spectrum of health research for development relating to some aspect of the overall theme of Forum 11:
“Equitable access: research challenges for health in developing countries”
Rules, guidelines, principles, timeframe and prizes
- Essays should be no more than 1500 words and should be written in English.
- Essays must be based on the author’s own ideas and not be derived from another source.
- They should not have been previously published.
- They should include original, even provocative ideas and not be technical or academic texts: tables, charts, figures and references are probably not necessary.
- Authors are free to be idealistic, passionate, to take established practices to task, albeit in a constructive fashion.
- Entries are individual.
- Each author may submit one essay only.
- Authors should have been born on or after 1 January 1977.
- The deadline for receipt of entries is 20 April 2007.
- A shortlist will be announced by the end of June. Shortlisted authors will be asked to provide a high quality photograph and to confirm original authorship and date of birth.
- The winners will be notified by the beginning of August 2007. The judges’ decision will be final.
- A selection of shortlisted essays will be published in an anthology.
- Winning essays will also be published on the Lancet website and their authors invited to take part in Forum 11 with all expenses paid.
Staff members of the Global Forum or of the Lancet or their immediate families are ineligible to enter the competition, as are authors of commended and winning entries from 2006.
For full details and submission of entries, see http://www.globalforumhealth.org/.