Dear colleagues

 

Please consider attending and/or sharing this conference with your colleagues and connections.  Registration for attendance is now open; if you wish to submit an abstract for a workshop and/or poster presentation, the deadline was the 4^th June – this has been extended to Monday 11^th June; but please email me if you need more time. 

 

International Conference of Global Health

University of Wolverhampton, UK.

20th – 23rd August 2018

 

Registration is now open – http://bit.ly/ICGH18

 

We are delighted to announce our forthcoming conference on Global Health and Epidemiology.  Hosted by the University of Wolverhampton, this conference will enable researchers, academics and health practitioners from across the globe to hear from eminent scholars and meet colleagues to discuss and debate key global and public health issues for populations and communities across the world.

 

Our range of key note speakers with their preliminary titles include:

 

Professor Mark Woodward

The George Institute for Global Health, University of Oxford

“Cardiovascular Disease and the female disadvantage.”

 

Professor Cunrui Huang

School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University

“Climate change and rising heat: implications for working people.”

 

Professor Eef Hogervorst

Centre for Global Health and Human Development, Loughborough University

“Designing for Dementia to Improve Uptake of Healthy Lifestyles.”

 

Professor Qunhong Wu

Deputy Dean, School of Health Management, Harbin Medical University

“Health Security Risk and Vulnerabilities Facing China in the Context of Globalization.”

 

Professor Martie Van Tongeren

Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health. University of Manchester

“Occupational ill-health reporting in the UK: current practice and recent developments.”

 

Professor Duolao Wang

Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

“Statistical issues in design and analysis of health intervention studies.”

 

 

This year’s conference themes:

• Cardiovascular diseases
• Dementia and Mental Health
• Environmental and Occupational Health
• Maternal and child health
• Social and community based health
• International Health
• Physical inactivity, physical & mental health
• Health Systems and Policy, Mobile Health and Big Data

 

 

Call for abstracts

Abstracts are invited for parallel sessions and poster presentations from the above themes. 

 

Abstracts are due by the 11th June 2018 and notifications by the academic committee will be received by 25th June 2018.  To submit your abstract send it to [log in to unmask]

 

Use social media? Please follow and share #ICGH18 for updates.

 

 

 

Kind regards

 

Ranjit

 

Dr. Ranjit Khutan

Head of Public Health (Outreach & Engagement)

Room MC308

Faculty of Education Health & Wellbeing

University of Wolverhampton

+44 (0)1902 321145 | [log in to unmask]

 

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