by Enise Beyzanur Ceran. First of all, let me start with a quote by Virginia Woolf: “To walk alone in London is the greatest rest”. In order to experience working in London and to get to know the British health care system, I decided to do a one-month elective in […]

World Leprosy Day is observed on the last Sunday in January. The next World Leprosy Day will be taking place on 27th January 2019. The day was chosen by French humanitarian Raoul Follereau in 1953 to coincide with the anniversary of Mahatma Ghandi’s death on 30th January 1948. World Leprosy […]

4th to 5th March 2019, Vienna, Austria. The European Congress on Innovation in Diabetes (Diabetes-Innovations 2019), the first congress to comprehensively focus on nanotechnology, will take place from 4th to 5th March 2019 in Vienna, Austria. Diabetes technology has developed over the last decades to become an essential component of diagnosis and care […]

9th to 11th March 2019, Bangkok, Thailand. We are proud to invite you to join us at the 12th Annual Poverty and Social Protection Conference (PSPC 2019), that will take place from March 9th to 11th 2019 in Bangkok, Thailand. The conference is organized by Tomorrow People Organization, an internationally recognized non-profit […]

Start: anytime, online. If you’ve ever skipped over the results section of a medical paper because terms like “confidence interval” or “p-value” go over your head, then you’re in the right place. You may be a clinical practitioner reading research articles to keep up-to-date with developments in your field or […]

8th to 12th July 2019, Lake District, England, UK. Expedition Skills is a unique camping based multi-disciplinary programme run over 5 days and delivered by Wilderness Medical Training (WMT) and Wild Human at a remote, lake-side camp (close to Windermere) in the Lake District, England. You’ll learn expedition-proven skills ranging […]

Am 27. Januar 2019 findet der Welt-Lepra-Tag statt. Der Welt-Lepra-Tag ist ein Aktions- und Gedenktag, der 1954 eingeführt wurde auf Initiative durch Raoul Follereau in Erinnerung an den Todestag von Mahatma Gandhi. Er findet immer am letzten Sonntag im Januar statt. Lepra ist eine chronische Infektionskrankheit, die durch das Bakterium Mycobacterium […]

Start: 4th February 2019, online course. Anxiety is a common condition experienced by young people that can escalate to a point where it impacts on their general wellbeing and activities of daily living, brain development and performance at school or college. If untreated the risk of developing chronic and enduring […]

10th to 12th April 2019, Geneva, Switzerland. Within a short time frame, research on emerging viruses has changed from a small, rather exotic niche within the virology field to a topic of major public health interest, also raising tremendous attention in the community and in the public. In our 12th […]

3rd to 6th June 2019, Vancouver, Canada. The Women Deliver 2019 Conference will take place 3-6 June 2019 in Vancouver, Canada and will be the world’s largest conference on gender equality and the health, rights, and wellbeing of girls and women in the 21st century. It will serve as a […]