Global Health in a Shifting World Economy - call for abstracts deadline extended to May 30th! 19th Annual Canadian Conference on Global Health Ottawa, Canada - October 21-23, 2012 The Canadian Society for International Health invites you to submit an abstract for the 2012 Canadian Conference on Global Health - the deadline is May 15th! Abstracts for oral and poster presentations and for workshops or symposia are welcome from researchers and students. The theme "Global Health in a Shifting World Economy" will specifically be examining the: * The growing economic crisis in Europe and the impact on social welfare programs; * Private/public partnerships; * Economic growth with growing inequities in health; * The role of state capitalism and the infusion of development aid; * Existing and evolving global inequities in health and their expected and unexpected impacts on the world's marginalized and vulnerable populations, including indigenous groups. Plenary sessions and topic-focused symposia will be followed by workshops, special sessions, and oral and poster sessions to help facilitate knowledge dissemination in areas of global shifts in the economy and global health equity in local, national, and global contexts. Abstracts Submissions should be directly related to the overall theme "Global health in the shifting world economy" and suggested topic areas are: * Shifting demographics and the disease burden * Employment, workers rights and migration in health in the shifting world economy * Sustainable environments in the shifting world economy * Training, service delivery and health human resources in the shifting world economy * Democratization of development in the shifting world economy * Ethics of development in the shifting world economy * Access to healthcare and medicines in the shifting world economy * Global health education in the shifting world economy * Global health research in the shifting world economy Abstracts may focus on new findings, the development of a program, project or new global health tools, moving from development to implementation, policy or ethical issues, or related topics. Call for special presentations: Canada's ability to respond Given the economic realities of today and its impacts on our shifting global markets, perhaps now more than ever, we need to work together, share what we know, and collaborate. As part of a new initiative, the Canadian Conference on Global Health will be presenting a special session, Canada's ability to respond, on Sunday, October 21st. Canada's ability to respond will engage presenters and participants to examine and discuss Canada's capacity, in partnership with the global South, to respond to global health development and research needs worldwide. To this end, CSIH has prepared an information collection template to assist with the categorization of global health programs, projects, and research taking place in Canada and internationally. If you would like to present your work in this special session, please complete the template. Please visit our website at http://www.ccgh-csih.ca/csih2012/?lang=en for more information and to submit your abstract online. Questions? Please email [log in to unmask] ---- forwarded by Sam Lanfranco ----------------------------- Postscript: Ian Bremmer's new book: In Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World .... Is a provocative work on the historic shifts in the international system and the world economy— at this unprecedented moment of global uncertainty. It is an excellent backdrop to any cooperative strategies to promote global health. Access CANCHID archives at: https://listserv.yorku.ca/archives/canchid.html plus CANCHID subscription management. CANCHID is a joint service of the Canadian Society for International Health < http:www.csih.org > and the Distributed Knowledge Project at York University. Queries to: [log in to unmask]