SYNERGY ONLINE: Bulletins and News Briefs from The Canadian Society for International Health [log in to unmask] =================================================================== Annual General Meeting and Biennial Convention Canadian Nurses Association World Trade and Convention Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia June 16 - 19, 1996 -------------------------------------------------------- At the 1996 CNA Biennial convention, you will: Learn about: the trends and critical issues that challenges nursing today; changes in health care policy and delivery - and the implications for nursing and client care; the role nurses could be playing the future; and the future of CAN itself. Learn how to: take charge of your career; market yourself; develop your leadership skills; deal with the chaos and the cutbacks; and make a difference in the midst of reform, shrinking budgets, constant change, and stress. Find out: why it's important to ask a nurse (hint: try attending the role-play plenary session the morning of 18 June). Connect with: others who share your concerns and special interests; people who could help you in your career path, and nurses who have made a difference. Through the Drop in and Dialogue sessions and other great networking opportunities. Deadline for early registration is May 3, 1996. For more information and/or a registration form, please contact: Pat Mohr, Conference Coordinator 50 Driveway, Ottawa ON K2P 1E2 Tel: (613) 237-2133 or 1-800-361-8404 Fax: (613) 237-3520 Internet: [log in to unmask] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Assemblee generale annuelle et congres biennal Association des infirmieres et infirmiers du Canada, World Trade and Convention Centre, Halifax (Nouvelle-Ecosse) du 16 au 19 juin 1996 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Au congres biennal de 1996: vous en saurez davantage sur: les tendances et les grands problemes qui touchent la profession infirmiere aujourd'hui; l'evolution de la politique sanitaire et des modes de prestation - ainsi que ses consequences pour la profession infirmiere et les soins aux clients; le role que les infirmieres pourraient jouer dans l'avenir; et l'avenir de l'AIIC meme. Vous apprendrez comment: prendre en charge votre carriere; vous vendre; developper vos facultes de leadership; resister au chaos et aux compressions; et faire toute la differenece en depit de la reforme, de budgets reduits, de mutations constantes et du stress. Vous decouvrirez: pourquoi il est important de demander a une infirmiere (consiel: essayez dassister au jeu de roles pendant la seance pleniere le matin du 18 juin). Vous rencontrerez: d'autres personnes ayant le memes preoccupations et interets particuliers; des gens qui pourraient vous aider dans votre carriere; et des infirmieres qui ont deja fait toute la difference. Pendant les causeries improvisees et a d'autres occasions fort interessantes. Vous pourrez economiser si vous vous inscrivez avant le 3 mai. Pour plus de renseignements, communiquer avec: Patricia Mohr, coordonnatrice de conferences de l'AIIC 50 Driveway, Ottawa ON K2P 1E2 Tel: (613) 237-2133 ou 1-800-361-8404 Telec: (613) 237-3520 Internet: [log in to unmask] -------------------------------------------------------------------- University of Ottawa Centre for International Health and Development (CIHAD) Seminars on Health and Development Issues -------------------------------------------------------------------- All Welcome at 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Mondays in Room 1510 Portable 451B University of Ottawa, Health Sciences Building, Smyth Road. March 18 Speaker: Peter Dalglish, Your Service Canada Topic: Access to Health Care in Developing Countries March 25 Speaker: Judith Sullivan, Manager, International Affairs Canadian Nurses Association Topic: Strengthening the Key Human Resource Base for Primary Health Care in Developing Countries. April 1 Speaker: Dr. Christine Mills, LCDC Topic: Cancer Screening in Latin America April 15 Speaker: Don De Savigny, IDRC Topic: Changing Prospects for Malaria Control in Africa April 22 Speaker: Dr. Christine Whalen. LCDC Topic: TB - International Initiatives April 29 Speaker: Jacques Berard, CIET Canada Topic: Surveillance & Transition Health For more information regarding any of the above sessions, please contact: Don & Liz Hillman, Centre for International Health and Development Tel: (613) 737-8250 ------------------------------ Conferences & Symposia - 1996 ------------------------------ Date: May 3-5 Conference: 9th International Symposium: Low Back Pain in Primary Care: Moving Towards Evidence-Based Practice Sponsors: Physical Medicine Research Foundation, Tel: (604) 684-4148, Fax: (604) 684-6247, E-Mail: [log in to unmask] Location: Toronto, Ontario Date: May 11-19 Conference: Toward an Electronic Patient Record '96 Sponsors: Medical Records Institute, Tel: (416) 964-3923, Fax: (617) 964-3926 Location: San Diego, CA Date: May 16-17 Conference: Designing and Implementing Economic Evaluations in Health Care Sponsors: Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, McMaster, E-Mail: [log in to unmask] Location: Hamilton, ON Date: May 19-23 Conference: Quality & Inequality: What Care, Whose Costs, Whither Health Sponsors: International Health Economics Association, Tel: (604) 681-2153, Fax: (604) 681-1049 Location: Vancouver, BC Date: May 26 - June 7 Conference: The Canadian Health Care System: An international conference Sponsors: BC Health Industry Development Office, Tel: (604) 370-8691, Fax: (604) 370-8750, email: [log in to unmask] Location: Whistler, BC Date: June 2-5 Conference: Health, A Community Challenge: Joint National Conference and Exhibition Sponsors: CHA & CCHSE, Tel: (613) 241-8005, Fax: (613) 241-5055 Location: Hull, QC Date: 9-12 Conference: 4th Canadian Conference on Health Promotion: Health Promotion & Population Health: A Meeting of Ideals Sponsors: Montreal Health Promotion Research Centre, GRIS & the Montreal Public Health Directorate GRIS - Universite de Montreal, C.P. 6128, succ. Centre-ville, Montreal, QC H3C 3J7 Location: Montreal, QC Date: June 13-15 Conference: Teaching to Promote Women's Health Sponsors: Women's College Hospital, Tel: (416) 862-9067, Fax: (416) 862-2238 Location: Toronto, ON =================================================================== This document is available, with full formating and accents, from: Ce document est egalement disponible, avec les accents et la mise en page: http://www.hwc.ca:8080/csih/syn_indx.html ===================================================================