[Alma Mata] Alma Mata February 2007

[Andrew Khodabukus]

Welcome to the February Alma Mata update. Here’s a selection of our latest additions to the site.
   
  News
  A major new report has advised that the NHS should do more for international health. Lord Crisp, the former Chief Executive of the NHS, was invited to carry out the review by the Prime Minister as part of the commitments set out in the commission for Africa and the G8 Gleneagles summit in 2005. It finds a vast array of organisations, enthusiasm and work already being done in the arena of international development, but a need for greater coordination and strategic partnerships between these groups. The Alma Mata Global Health Directions Survey was part of the information used to direct the reports recommendations.
  http://www.almamata.net/news/crispreport
   
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  Careers
  Since its creation four years ago, the Canadian Program on Genomics and Global Health (CPGGH) has become recognised around the world as a leading program on innovation and global health. The mission of the CPGGH is to harness the advances of innovative technology for global health equity. They are seeking applications from graduate students from developing countries, for postgraduate fellowships and for the 2007 summer student research program.
  http://www.almamata.net/news/node/7029
   
  Events
  17th-18th February 2007
  Psychosocial Responses to Conflict and Forced Migration
  Department of International Development, Oxford
  http://www.almamata.net/news/node/7024
   
  27th February 2007
  Knowledge, Agency, Action: The Commission on Social Determinants of Health
  University College London, UK
  http://www.almamata.net/news/node/7018
   
  21st March 2007
  THET: Ghana UK Links Meeting
  Royal College of Physicians, London
  http://www.almamata.net/news/node/7034
   
  24th-25th March 2007
  Medsin Global Health Conference 2007: Health and Human Rights
  University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
  http://www.almamata.net/news/node/7036
   
  Research
  A new journal Infection in Developing Countries has been created. The journal is intended to publish original research papers, research notes and reviews covering microbiology and infections in developing countries with particular emphasis on diagnosis and epidemiology and public health.
  http://www.almamata.net/news/research/library
   
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  Andrew Khodabukus 
  News Editor 
  Alma Mata 
  andrew.khodabukus at almamata.net
  www.almamata.net
   
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