The successful candidate will Head the Health Measurement track for the School and accept responsibility for the strategy, implementation and quality control of all teaching in health measurement and research methods.
Jobs and Announcements
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR/PROFESSOR/SENIOR LECTURER IN HEALTH
University of Pretoria
Further details: /newsletter/id/30070
Experts Required
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
The Global Fund was created to finance, attract, manage and disburse additional resources to make a sustainable and significant contribution to mitigate the impact caused by HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in countries in need, and contributing to poverty reduction. The Technical Review Panel (TRP), which has 26 members, plays a crucial role in reviewing proposals submitted to the Global Fund and ensuring that those funded are of high quality. The TRP consists of 11 cross-cutters, 7 HIV-AIDS experts, 4 Malaria experts and 4 Tuberculosis experts.
Further details: /newsletter/id/30028
global health watch
authors required
Global civil society has not adequately participated in international health advocacy. Although high-profile success has been achieved with some campaigns, most notably around access to medicines and breastfeeding and certain diseases, there has been a striking lack of involvement and pressure from health campaigners on broader public health and health systems issues. In addition, disparities in health between the rich and the poor have grown at alarming rates both within and between countries, leaving society and the public health movement with a large humanitarian and moral challenge. The People's Health Movement, the Global Equity Gauge Alliance and Medact therefore propose to mobilise a fragmented global health community through the publication of an annual Global Health Watch.
Further details: /newsletter/id/30052
Panos Audit of Broadcasting Environments Across Africa
Call for Researchers
The Panos AIDS Programme in partnership with the Centre for Communications Programmes at Johns Hopkins University is carrying out a series of country assessments on media environments for public health across Africa. The assessments will focus on broadcasting in particular. In each focus country Panos will work with local experts to research broadcasting policies and the broadcasting environment, and its impact on public health. The results of the research will be presented in a number of policy and editorial outputs. If your organisation has expertise or current activities in this area we would very much like to contact you to share experiences and to investigate possible synergies. Feel free to contact Johanna Hanefeld johannah@panoslondon.org.uk
Contact: johannah@panoslondon.org.uk
Reaching the Poor with Effective Health, Nutrition, and Population Services
Conference Announcement
The World Bank, in cooperation with the Gates Foundation and the Dutch And Swedish Governments, is hosting a conference "Reaching the Poor with Effective Health, Nutrition, and Population Services: What Works, What Doesn't, and Why."
The conference will take place 18-20 February 2004, in Washington, D.C.
ICTs and continuing education for rural health
In April 2003, IICD (International Institute for Communication and Development), Cordaid and CEDHA (Centre for Educational Development in Health Arusha) jointly organised a conference to explore ways in which ICTs (information and communication technologies) can be used to develop and deliver continuing medical education to rural healthcare workers in Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. The overall aim of the meeting was to identify concrete strategies and approaches where ICTs can be used to develop and deliver continuing medical education to healthcare workers in rural areas.
Further details: /newsletter/id/29975
A Public Health Approach to Antiretroviral Treatment: Overcoming Constraints
Perspectives and Practice in Antiretroviral Treatment
With 42 million people now living with HIV/AIDS, expanding access to antiretroviral treatment for those who urgently need it is one of the most pressing challenges in international health. Providing treatment is essential to alleviate suffering and to mitigate the devastating impact of the epidemic. It also presents unprecedented opportunities for a more effective response by involving people living with HIV/AIDS, their families and communities in care and will strengthen HIV prevention by increasing awareness, creating a demand for testing and counselling and reducing stigma and discrimination.
Africa Fellowships
South African Medical Research Council and South African AIDS
The South African Medical Research Council (MRC) and the South African AIDS Vaccine Initiative (SAAVI) invite applications for one-year travelling research fellowships in health research, with preference given to proposals which address the MRC's research priorities (see below) and particularly to those addressing HIV/AIDS research.
Further details: /newsletter/id/29978
Call for papers: African Health Sciences
This new journal from the Faculty of Medicine, Makerere Medical School in Kampala, was started in August 2001. It has rapidly grown in reputation as a leading publication on health issues in Africa. Just in March 2003 the journal was accepted for citation on MEDLINE, INDEX MEDICUS and PUBMED. It is abstracted by African Journals online (AJOL).
Further details: /newsletter/id/29984
Marketization, Daily Life and HIV in South Africa: Call for Proposals
Municipal Services Project (MSP)
The Municipal Services Project (MSP) (www.queensu.ca/msp) is a multi-partner research, policy and educational initiative examining the restructuring of municipal services in Southern Africa. Research partners are the International Labour Research and Information Group (Cape Town), the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg), the Human Sciences Research Council (Durban), Equinet (Harare), the South African Municipal Workers Union, the Canadian Union of Public Employees, and Queen's University (Canada). The project is funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) of Canada. During the first phase of the project (2000 - 2003), the primary focus of our research was on the impact of policy reforms such as privatization and cost recovery on the delivery of basic municipal services (specifically water, sanitation, waste management and electricity). Most of this research was conducted in South Africa. We are now entering a second phase, which will focus more specifically on the impact of policy ‘reform’ on health and will expand the research to include more countries in Southern Africa.
Further details: /newsletter/id/29980