The abstract submission deadline has recently been extended to June 30, 2004. I encourage researchers involved in any aspect of the policy implications of affecting social determinants of health or population health disparities, community based participatory research, or environment justice movements that relate to the social and/or physical environments of cities and metropolitan regions to consider presenting your work at this conference. -- Alice Furumoto-Dawson * Please see the International Society for Urban Health website for more information, including membership: http://www.isuh.org/ * and the conference website for abstract submission information and conference registration: http://155.33.32.224/iuhr/conference/ The Third International Conference on Urban Health October 20 – 22, 2004 Hosted by: The Institute on Urban Health Research Bouve College of Health Sciences Northeastern University Boston, Massachusetts, USA Call for Abstracts Deadline for submission: June 30, 2004 Focus: Research studies or scholarly papers focusing on the determinants of health of urban populations. Community Based Organizations are encouraged to submit abstracts. Areas of particular interest are: the physical and social environment; international disparities in urban health; interventions for improving the health of urban populations; the role of community participation in urban health research and health care availability and access in urban setting; urbanization and suburbanization; land use and the built environment; housing and health; mental health, occupational health and health of migrants in cities; strategies for protecting vulnerable populations; politics and policy; health of cities worldwide; drug use, urbanization and infectious diseases; public health strategies and community-based practice; economic development in cities; preventing and minimizing chronic disease; violence in urban areas; services and service systems in cities. Alice Furumoto-Dawson, PhD Research Associate Dept Society, Human Dvlpmt & Health Harvard School of Public Health ------------------- Problems/Questions? Send it to Listserv owner: [log in to unmask] To subscribe to the SDOH list, send the following message to [log in to unmask] SUBSCRIBE SDOH yourfirstname yourlastname To post a message to all 1040 subscribers, send it to [log in to unmask] Include in the Subject, its content, and location and date, if relevant. To unsubscribe, send the following message to [log in to unmask] SIGNOFF SDOH For a list of SDOH members, send a request to [log in to unmask] To receive messages only once a day, send the following message to [log in to unmask] SET SDOH DIGEST To view the SDOH archives, go to: http://listserv.yorku.ca/archives/sdoh.html