The Global Health Education Consortium, and GHEC, the Consortium of Universities for Global Health and Canadian Society for International Health are hosting a global health conference in Montreal, Canada from November 13-15, 2011.  Please find the attachment for more information.  Also, please read below for more information about abstract submission.

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Ahmar

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Ahmar Hashmi, MPH

University of Texas Medical Branch, MD candidate ahhashmi@utmb.edu

(512) 574 0405

*Call for Abstracts Now Open*

Submit an abstract by August 1, 2011

Register now for the 2011 Global Health Conference in Montreal, Canada, November 13–15, 2011. Jointly sponsored by the Consortium of Universities for Global Health, the Canadian Society for International Health and the Global Health Education Consortium.

This three-day meeting will explore the breadth of issues relevant to the promotion of health equity worldwide. Sessions will be organized according to themes including, but not limited to, innovations and interventions to advance global health equity; globalization, global trade and movement of populations as drivers of health inequity; partnerships and capacity building for education and research in global health; and social, economic and environmental determinants of health.

Confirmed panel presentations

Teaching innovation in global health: Hold on to your wallet…

Multiple crises and the future of health disparities

Infant mortality and micronutrition

Global health and the media

Driving health innovation and equity in Low and Middle Income Countries through sustainable centers of excellence

Integrating oral health into global health

Innovations in global nursing education

Building national health research capacity to strengthen health systems: a collaborative challenge

Training in food security – integrating human nutrition with ecology and agrodiversity

Confirmed keynote speaker

Dr. Harold Varmus

Director of the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health Former President Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | Former Director of the NIH Co-recipient of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Medicine