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

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

 The selected headlines of the conference were:
- Contamination
- Food security
- Infections
- Adaptation
- Surveillance/Technology/Information Systems
- Vaccines
- Implementation

Attached you’ll find most of the presentations along with a presentation of the speakers, a lecture abstracts and a poster abstract collection.  The winner of the best poster award was Claire Glenton, SINTEF, with the poster "Community Health Workers in Nepal". You can have a look at the poster at the end of this page.

Presentation of speakers GLOBVAC 2010 (PDF) 

Lecture Abstracts.pdf

Poster Abstract Collection (PDF)

  
Presentations from GLOBVAC 2010

Opening - Environmental Change and Global Health - Aarbakke.ppt
A novel approach for Alaska native communities - Brubaker.ppt
Work–related heat stress burden in India - Balakrishnan.ppt
Climate and Global Health: The case of Cholera -Clemens.ppt
New vaccines in developing countries - Clemens.ppt  
Dengue Fever - Clarke.ppt
From Research to Policy making or the other way around - Dybdahl.ppt        
Climate change influences infectious diseases - Evengard.ppt       
GAVI strategies up to 2015 and Norwegian priorities - Fife.ppt
Climate change and the Stockholm Convention - Gilman.ppt
 From capacity building to policy impact - Fylkesnes.ppt
Water, Sanitation and Climate Change, what are the challenges for Global Health? - Heistad.ppt
Global challenges demands global solutions. Health as a global public good - Hertzberg.ppt
Food Security and Health in Tanzania - Kangalawe.ppt
Climate change and occupational health - Kjellstrom.ppt                                                       
Predicting Malaria Epidemics in Ethiopia - Loha and Lunde.pdf
Trends of perfluorinated compounds Inuit from different districts - Long.ppt
The next phase of GLOBVAC - Maaseide.ppt                                                                                            
Climate change and infectious diseases - a global perspective - Parkinson.ppt
Climate change and contaminants - a Southern African perspective - Rollin.ppt
Urban and peri-urban vegetable production in Benin - Saethre.ppt
Research project design - Weiderpass Vainio.ppt
The case for strengthening immunization supply systems - Zaffran.ppt