International Conference and Summer School on “Public Health Infrastructure in Transition: Challenges and a Way Forward”
Venue: Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, INDIA
Dates: February 16-20, 2015
Organized by Department of Social Work, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India and School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
Call for Abstracts/Papers
Thematic area(s) of the conference are social and economic dimensions of health; political economy of health and social development; rural to urban migration and urban infrastructure including access to drinking water, sanitation, housing, roads, transport, electricity and communication; rural, primary healthcare & institutional referral services; inequalities in urban versus rural health systems and access to adequate healthcare facilities; infrastructure for handling emerging diseases (Communicable and Non Communicable Diseases); institutional infrastructure affecting reproductive, adolescent health, maternal, child health, family planning and nutrition; universal health coverage including health insurance; occupational health and safety (formal and informal sectors) and corporate practices-workers health, labour welfare measures and workers compensation; Public health education, training & research; evidence based public health policy; strengthening public health organizations (infrastructure, management systems, health management information systems, health audit, health financing and insurance, trained manpower); new public health management (health policy, planning, regulation, licensing and accreditation); infrastructure for regulation of health service providers; Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) in healthcare service delivery and NGO’s in health service delivery and Mobile health, telemedicine (e-health infrastructure), and health communication.
Those who intend to present papers in the conference are requested to submit the abstracts of their papers by email before August 20th 2014 (Abstract) December 15th, 2014 (Full length paper).
Contact: Prof. N U Khan (nkhan1@jmi.ac.in), Dr. Sigamani P (sigamanip@jmi.ac.in), of Jamia Millia University and Prof. Gurumurthy Ramachandran (ramac002@umn.edu) of School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA.
The conference announcement can be found at: http://jmi.ac.in/upload/EventDetail/icss_2015february16_20.pdf. Any questions regarding the conference or Abstract submission may be sent to conference email: iph2015@gmail.com
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