The European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health will take place in Verona, Italy, from 6th to 10th September 2009.

Besides dealing with the classical aspects of Tropical Medicine including basic science, diagnostic/therapeutics and disease control, the congress will maintain a constant and central focus on its main theme: Equity, Human Rights and Access to Care.

The conference organizers strongly encourage all interested professionals to seize this opportunity to present their research and discuss strategies to reduce inequality, to broaden the access to basic health services and to reach the underserved.

The Congress will also put a great emphasis on Transferability of Research results into actual practice. We are interested to discuss how evidence obtained from research is transferred/not transferred into actual policy and practice.

The conference will also discuss the North-South gap in health research, in all main aspects: space devoted to global health in medical journals; role of researchers from the South in relevant publications; share of research which is actually devoted to priority areas; important gaps that remain to be filled in research in tropical medicine and international health; difficulties in financing health system research.

Fore more information about the Congress visit: www.festmih.eu, or follow this LINK