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| 9th Annual International Conference on Urban Health, October 27-29, 2010. For more information and details about registration, please visit www.icuh2010.org. To view last year’s conference in Nairobi, please visit www.icuh2009.org. |
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Experience an exiting International Health program at the American Public Health Association 138th Annual Meeting & Expo Denver, CO November 6-10, 2010 and join us for our Section's business meetings |
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IH Section News |
| New Community-based PHC: Report and presentations from the 2009 Workshop |
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New Read the latest Global Health Connections Committee publications here: Mid-Year Report and Meeting Minutes - June 2010 |
| The mid-year IH Section Meeting on June 17, 2010, at the Global Health Council annual conference |
| 2010 Section Awards: read more ... |
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The International Health Section Mourns the Death of Dr. Carl Taylor.
Read the obituary here ... |
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Global Health News |
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| U.S. Government Support for Global Health Efforts. Joint press release by the U.S. Department of State, U.S. Agency for International Development and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services about the U.S. Global Health Initiative (GHI). Eight selected as the first set of "GHI Plus" countries: Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Nepal, and Rwanda. |
| Lancet: Under-5 mortality for 187 countries, 1970—2010: a systematic analysis of progress towards Millennium Development Goal 4. Vaccines, AIDS medicines, vitamin A supplements, better treatment of diarrhea and pneumonia, insecticide-treated bed nets to prevent malaria and more education for women are among the factors that have helped lower death rates, said Dr. Christopher J. L. Murray, an author of the report and the director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, in Seattle. More about this research from a panel at the Kaiser Family Foundation. Watch the webcast and read the KFF report about US efforts in MNCH. |
| Report: UN-Water Global Annual Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking-Water (GLAAS) Aid commitments for sanitation and water fell according to the latest UN-Water Global Annual Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking-Water (GLAAS) report, launched by UN-Water and WHO. |
| USAID Announces 20 'Feed The Future' Countries. Rajiv Shah, the USAID Administrator, recently announced the 20 focus countries that will be part of USAID and the World Bank's Feed the Future initiative that "aims to reduce poverty, hunger, and undernutrition," according to a USAID press release. |
Report: Provides Global Food Security Recommendations For U.S. Government
The CSIS report, "A Strategy for U.S. Leadership on Productivity, Agricultural Research, and Trade," provides recommendations for how the U.S. government could improve global food security and incorporate agriculture in U.S. development efforts |
| The Kaiser Family Foundation held a policy forum on the Obama Administration's Global Health Initiative, a six-year $63 billion proposed effort that builds on existing initiatives to combat HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria, while increasing attention to other areas such as maternal and child health, family planning and reproductive health, nutrition, neglected tropical diseases, and the strengthening of underlying health systems. |
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About the International Health Section of the APHA
As one of the larger member sections in the organization, the International Health Section (IH) had 1,500 members in 2009. IH members are professionals who are engaged in international health either through avocations or vocations, and they comprise a pool of expertise in the field that covers a full range of international health activities. For more information about the section, please visit the About page , or read its history (PDF) . |
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