The 2nd PtD Human Resources for Supply Chain Management Conference will:

• Present evidence and experiences regarding innovation and best practices for human resources (HR) in health supply chains.
• Promote the South to South exchange of knowledge to practice regarding HR resources in health supply chains, using evidence from country case studies.
• Encourage inter agency and international collaboration regarding a focus on HR in health supply chains.
• Challenge participants to formulate the next steps required for further sustainable action regarding HR in SCM, within country specific contexts.
• Learn from the private sector regarding their approaches to HR for SCM.

More information will be available in April at PtD website: peoplethatdeliver.org

Confirmed keynote speakers:
• Alastair Leyland, University of Glasgow, Scotland and chair of the Glasgow 2014 conference
• Johan Mackenbach, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
• Margaret McCartney, General Practitioner, Glasgow, Scotland
• Ghaffar Abdul, The Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, WHO
• Zsuzsana Jakab, Regional Director of WHO Europe
• Marc Sprenger, Director European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
• Simon Capewell, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom and president of the UK Society for Social Medicine
• Raj Bhopal, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
• Marine Buissonnière, Director OSF Health Programs, New York, US
• Carlo Signorelli, University of Parma, Italy and chair of the Milan 2015 conference

Read more at the conference website: www.eupha.org

The main objective of the course is to provide participants with a broad introduction to the principles and goals of Global Health, but also to provide knowledge that will enable students to participate in the further development of the field as well as partake in the provision of health services at hospitals and health centres in low- and middle-income countries.

The course consists of three parts. The first focuses on issues of global health determinants, measurements and trends. The second part will focus on the biomedical and clinical aspects of the diseases suffered by people in developing countries, whilst the third, and final, part will emphasize on collaborative efforts to improve Global Health.

• DATE: 28 July – 15 August 2014
• LEVEL: Master’s level – 5 ECTS
• MORE INFORMATION: AU Global Health website or the course flyer.

Seminar: Health Financing in Fragile States - Implementing community based financing schemes

How do you establish a sustainable health financing system in fragile state? and how do you assist your partners in fragile states to identify the most feasible system?

• DATE: Friday 28 March 2014
• TIME: 12.00-15.00 (Sandwiches served at arrival)
• VENUE:  Diakonissestiftelsen, Peter Bangs Vej 1, Building 8, Entrance G, Meeting room in the basement
• REGISTRATION: Please register to Lisa Nørrelykke Nissen lnn@dmr.org / 81724010 no later than 26 March  

Speakers: Fahdi Dkhimi, Research Fellow, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerpen and Ulrika Enemark, Associate Professor, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University will talk about:

• Lessons learnt from implementing Mutual Health Organizations in developing countries with focus on practical design issues
• Future financing – Steps taken towards the development of a sustainable financing scheme in Zorzor and Salayea districts, Liberia

Call for EoI for BSU II is open with deadline on 9 April 2014, at 12:00

The Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs invites Danish universities to submit expressions of interest in being partners with selected universities in Ghana, Nepal, Tanzania, and Uganda under the BSU Phase II. Read more about the process and thematic focus areas at Danida Fellowship Centre’s website.

Information Meeting on BSU II in Copenhagen on 11 March 2014, at 14.00-16.00

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs invites all interested Danish university partners to attend an Information Meeting

• Date: Tuesday 11 March 2014
• Time: 14:00-16:00
• Venue: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Eigtveds Pakhus, Conference Room II, Asiatisk Plads 2, 1448 Copenhagen
• No pre-registration is necessary

Background

Danida took over the management of the BSU programme from Phase II (January 2014 – November 2016). Danida will implement the programme as part of their portfolio in a direct cooperation with selected universities in the South. Universities Denmark will no longer be part of the programme. Instead, Danida will facilitate a match-making directly between selected universities in the South and Danish universities, research centres, departments or institutes.

PhD defence: Non-specific beneficial effects of measles-mumps-rubella vaccination in Danish children.

• Thursday 20 February 2014 at 2 p.m.
• Jerne Hall, room 125, building 206, Statens Serum Institut, Artillerivej 5, Copenhagen S

Everybody is welcome.

View the invitation here.

• 16 December at 14-15.40
• At SSI, Statens Serum Institut, 5 Artillerivej, 2300 Copenhagen S.

See the program and register here.