Dear Ladies and Gentlemen!

In this issue you will find the following topics:
1. Course Tip:
   Health MSc Public Health Nutrition

2. Congress Tip:
   Spring Symposium 2012 - eHealth in Proof and Practice
   Child and Youth Mental Health Matters

3. Special of the month:
   Water Supply and Sanitation in Emergencies

4. Jobs
   Agaplesion gAG   
   Personal Job Consulting and Placement   

Warm regards,

Gerhard Polak, MD

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Health MSc Public Health Nutrition
September 24, 2012, London, Great Britain

This course aims to provide comprehensive training in nutrition for global health with the choice of specialising in a number of topics and in a range of contexts. It is an integrated programme covering dietary, epidemiological, public health, social and biological aspects of nutritional science. Specialist topics include maternal and child nutrition, nutrition in emergencies, nutrition programme planning, evaluation and monitoring, and nutritional epidemiology.

The course attracts graduates from many countries and various disciplines who wish to equip themselves for global health nutrition research and teaching, operational work in the field or community nutrition programmes, work in public health nutrition, including health promotion and nutrition education, and for policy and programme planning in nutrition.

The MSc has been designed to focus on nutritional problems in developing countries and transitional societies.

More information about the course can be found here.

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Spring Symposium 2012 - eHealth in Proof and Practice
May 8, 2012, Basel, Switzerland

Opportunities and Challenges in International Health

Years ago the concept of ”eHealth” was discussed only in its general manifestations, but of course, things change. The focus of the spring symposium will be on the review of evidence and best practice of using Information and Communication Technologies (ICT’s) to enhance health services and population health over the past decade.

The one-day event will look at experiences and technologies along three axes: a) the validation and evaluation of the use of ICT’s in international health; b) the role of openSource applications and c) the challenges and opportunities of mobile technologies (‘mHealth’).

What works in practice: eHealth strategies on paper and in practice; the generation of evidence for successful ICT projects in health; obstacles and promoters of efficient and sustainable projects; scaling-up of pilot initiatives, regulatory challenges, etc.

openSource for eHealth: what makes them different from commercial licences?; cross-border development and maintenance of software; from stand alone applications to web 2.0.

Mobile ICT solutions: the potential of mobile connectivity; mobile applications for enhanced service provision, applications for knowledge transfer…

More information on the congress can be found here.

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Child and Youth Mental Health Matters
May 6-8, 2012, Vancouver, Canada

This conference brings together an interdisciplinary group of professionals working in the field of mental health with young people. There are three themes woven through the conferences: Family Mental Health, Children of Parents with Mental Illness and Young Carers.

The overall goal of the concurrent conferences is to help us develop a common language and understanding of the needs of young people and families. By bringing together people from diverse backgrounds we hope to enrich our collective knowledge of mental health strategies, best practices and the latest research in order to improve outcomes for young people and families. Our goal is to create at the conference a community of practice that spans the three themes where we can each share our knowledge and support while we discuss areas of mutual interest and concern.

More information on the congress can be found here.

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TIP: 57 more courses and congresses dealing with "Mental Health”, can be found in the new Career & Education Guide »medicine & health 2012«.

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Water Supply and Sanitation in Emergencies
9 May – 3 June, 2012

Early identification of technically sound and sustainable water and sanitary interventions is crucial when it comes to saving lives and preventing diseases in almost any disaster situation.

Experience gathered during recent disaster operations demonstrates the urgent need for highly skilled professionals with specialised expertise in water supply and sanitation, as the lack of interdisciplinary personnel has proved to be a barrier to efficient and effective response.

The University of Copenhagen offers an intensive course on water supply and sanitation in emergencies for professionals working with - or aiming to work with - disasters and relief operations.

The course is designed in such a way that each participant attains the knowledge and skills necessary for prompt action in recovery situations, especially in developing countries.

For more information click here.

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TIP: 94 more courses and congresses dealing with „Global Health“, „Public Health“ and "Public Health Services“ can be found in the new Career & Education Guide »medicine & health 2012«.

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Current job vacancies

AGAPLESION gAG

Medicine and nursing. With love for life.

AGAPLESION is a modern healthcare company consisting of the association of social hospitals, nursing facilities and training centres. We have set ourselves the task of uniting excellence in medicine, nursing and management with Christian values. And this is exactly what distinguishes us: patient-oriented medicine and nursing according to acknowledged quality standards.

We are looking for a senior physician and assistant physicians for our clinics.

Darmstadt
AGAPLESION ELISABETHENSTIFT DARMSTADT
Senior Physician (m/f) for the Centre for Geriatric Medicine… more

Assistant Physician (m/f) for the Centre for Geriatric Medicine… more

Frankfurt
AGAPLESION MARKUS KRANKENHAUS FRANKFURT
Assistant Physician (m/f) for further education in urology or for obtaining specification in andrology… more