The 5th Conference on Global Health and Vaccination Research:

Environmental Change and Global Health

 

The 5th Conference on Global Health and Vaccination Research was successfully held in Tromsø, 6-8 June 2010.

The talks addressed a variety of topics within the areas of environmental change and global health. The conference could proudly announce the attendance of several internationally recognized speakers such as John Clemens, Michel Zaffran, Tord Kjeldstrøm and Kalpana Balakrishnan. 

Conference Programme (PDF)

The conference was organized by:

University of Tromsø

The Research Council of Norway, Programme for Global Health and Vaccination Research (GLOBVAC)

Norwegian Forum for Global Health Research

Norwegian Agency of Development Cooperation (NORAD)

Norwegian Directorate of Health

 

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Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation - Call for Applications

Post-Graduate Fellowship

Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

Call for Applications

The Post-Graduate Fellowship is an intensive training program that provides opportunities both for self-directed research and interdisciplinary collaboration in health metrics. Strong candidates for this program have graduate-level training in quantitative methodology from one of the following areas: health policy, economics, mathematics, computer science, statistics, biostatistics, epidemiology, health services, demography, engineering, physics, medical sciences, or other related fields.

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