[afro-nets] 14th Canadian Conference on International Health

[Claudio Schuftan <claudio@hcmc.netnam.vn>]

14th Canadian Conference on International Health
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4th to 7th November, 2007
Ottawa, Canada


The Canadian Society for International Health and the Canadian
Coalition for Global Health Research are pleased to announce the
14th Canadian Conference on International Health (CCIH), to be
held from November 4-7, 2007 in Ottawa, Canada. This year's
conference theme is, Global Change and Health: Who are the
Vulnerable?

There is increasing recognition that the impact of human
activity is reshaping our world:
* Ecological systems that support life and have evolved over
millennia are being dramatically affected by increases in
greenhouse gas emissions, climate change, extreme weather
events, and the loss of ecological biodiversity with potentially
dramatic implications for global health.

Changes in land use, deforestation, use and transnational
dumping of toxic substances and antimicrobials are introducing
new health risks.

* Social systems that support equitable distribution are being
undermined by the globalized economy. Government's role in
providing essential health and education services and
infrastructure is being diminished while growing populations
face increasing poverty.

Poverty has grown, and the disparity between the poor and the
few with unprecedented wealth leaves an increasingly
marginalized middle class and accelerates transnational and
national inequalities with implications for social determinants
of health and emerging epidemics.

* Global Governance must address these challenges with policies
and programs even as global health funding is increasingly
derived from private philanthropy that is essentially outside of
publicly accountable governance structures.

This conference will focus on threats to health from these
changes, factors increasing vulnerability, and ways of
responding to challenges, and their results.

The call for abstracts is available at http://www.csih.org or
mailto:conference@csih.org . The deadline is May 30th, 2007.