Location

You are warmly invited to participate in the 10th international conference on Chemistry and its role in development (10ICCRD), to be held at Mansoura University-Sharm El-Sheikh Egypt March 16-21, 2009.
We have been fortunate to get outstanding scientists from industry, universities and research institutes to highlight recent progress in the different aspects of chemistry as plenary lectures, oral or posters presentation dealing with ongoing research. We cordially welcome you to experience all these and have an informative and enjoyable time in Egypt. More details will be provided in the second announcement.

Abstract for posters and oral presentations must be submitted electronically through the e-mail. A template, to which all abstracts must confirm, is available at the website ( www.mans.edu.eg ): abstracts not conforming to the format or length of the template will be rejected. Upon acceptance of the abstract, the session organizer will assign contribution to oral or poster presentation.

Fore more details: http://www.mans.edu.eg/facscim/english/Conf2009/default.htm

Location

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On Saturday, November 29th, please join us for an informal discussion panel bringing together Scientists, Technologists and Designers to weigh in about the current and future influence of each of these disciplines on one another. The Mother-Child Health International Research Network, The World Association of Young Scientists and the Canadian Centre for Architecture invite you to a public conversation on collaboration between these three critically important – and increasingly interdependent - fields of knowledge.

This session will be structured around a series of questions posed to our guest panelists, followed by a discussion and open exchange with the audience.

• Saturday November 29th, 2008, from 2:30pm until 4:00pm

• Canadian Centre for Architecture: 1920 rue Baile, Montréal, Québec – Shaughnessy House.
• Refreshments will be provided.
• Contact Us for more information.

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ICDDR,B invites scientists, health professionals, programme managers, community organizers, and policy-makers to take part in the Centre’s 12th Annual Scientific Conference (ASCON XII). Interested persons are invited to submit abstracts, keeping in mind the theme of the Conference “Health Systems Research: People's Needs First.” This forum provides an opportunity to disseminate and share results of research, experience, and lessons learnt from recent projects and programmes.

The 12th ASCON is expected to address all of the above issues and to identify the essential tasks and future directions to be determined for achieving the Millennium Development Goals and beyond through the use of health policy and systems research.

The programme is designed to be varied, stimulating, and relevant to Bangladesh, South Asia and other developing-country participants. There will be plenary sessions on key health systems research issues and on future directions in health systems research in low- and middle-income countries.

Key objectives

The 12th ASCON will concentrate on HSR that falls into the following six building blocks from the Framework for Action developed by the World Health Organization:
Service Delivery: Addressing how services are organized and managed to ensure access, quality, safety and continuity of care across health conditions, across facilities and over time.
Information and Evidence: The generation and strategic use of information, evidence and research on health and health systems in order to strengthen management, leadership and governance.
Medical Products and Technologies: Ensuring equitable access to essential medical products and technologies of assured quality, safety, efficacy and cost effectiveness, and their scientifically sound and cost-effective use.
Health Workforce: Managing dynamic labour markets, addresses entry into and exits from the health workforce and improvements in the performance and distribution of existing health workers.
Health Financing: Raising adequate funds for health in ways that ensure people can use needed services and are protected from financial catastrophe or impoverishment associated with having to pay for these services.
Leadership and Governance: Ensuring that strategic policy frameworks exist and are combined with effective oversight, coalition building, regulation, attention to health-system design issues and promotion of accountability in order to protect the public interest in health.
Registration details

For information on submitting abstracts please go to: http://www.icddrb.org/activity/?typeOfActivity=ASCON

For registration guidlines please go to: http://www.icddrb.org/activity/index.jsp?activityObjectID=4183

Abstracts should be prepared following the abstract-preparation guidelines and forwarded at the latest by 15 November 2008 to: 12ascon@icddrb.org. Abstracts can also be submitted online at the ASCON XII website.
Contact Details

M. Shamsul Islam Khan, Head Publications Unit and Managing Editor JHPN, ICDDR,B. Mohakhali, Dhaka 1212 (GPO Box 128, Dhaka 1000) Bangladesh.
Email: msik@icddrb.org 
Fax: 880-2-8819133 
Phone: 880-2-8822467