3rd national conference on population, health and environment
The conference will explore dimensions of sustaining and increasing the impact of integrated population, health and environment (PHE) initiatives to address development priorities – such as poverty reduction, improved health, livelihood, disaster mitigation, food security, and natural resource management.
Conference Theme: Scaling Up PHE
Human Development • Poverty Reduction • Environmental Sustainability • Disaster Preparedness and Response • Child Health/Survival
• Migration • Adolescent Health • Women’s Health • HIV/AIDS • TB • Malaria and Other Infectious Diseases • Governance • Policy/Advocacy
• Education
Expand the geographical reach, build up programs, upgrade organizationally and diversify through broad networking and partnerships. The National PHE Network invites you to submit an abstract that illustrates excellence, innovation and /or influence of scaling up integrated population, health and environment (PHE) activities.
Specific Objectives of the Conference:
Objective 1: Share achievements, challenges and opportunities in policy advocacy, resource and community mobilization, research and education/communication in PHE;
Objective 2: Discuss various models, data and indicators for scaling-up PHE; and
Objective 3: Develop a viable plan to expand, strengthen and advance PHE in the four dimensions of scaling up.
Note: the call for abstract submission deadline is 3 October 2007