Events

ECOHEALTH CONFERENCES

Upcoming

International EcoHealth Forum 2008:  2nd Biennial Conference of the International Association for Ecology and Health, 1-5 December 2008, Mérida, Mexico.  Collaborating institutions include the International Development Research Centre in Canada, the Mexican National Institute for Public Health (INSP), the Brazilian Institute of Ecological Research (IPÊ), and the Brazilian Institute of Public Health (FIOCRUZ).

Past

Asia-Pacific EcoHealth Conference, 30 November - 3 December 2007, Deakin University, Burwood Australia
EcoHealth ONE, 6-10 October 2006, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA


GLOBAL CONFERENCES

Social Challenges of Global Change - International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environment Change (IHDP) Open Meeting, 16-19 October 2008, New Delhi, India.

American Society for Microbiology 108th Meeting, 1-5 June 2008, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Society for Epidemiologic Research Annual Meeting, 24-27 June 2008, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Summer Academy on Social Vulnerability 2008  - Environmental Change, Social Vulnerability and Migration, 27 July - 2 August 2008, Hohenkammer Castle, Munich, Germany, organized by the Munich Re Foundation and the United Nations University Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) - 20 places available for qualified PhD students

93rd Ecological Society of America (ESA) Annual Meeting: Enhancing Ecological Thought by Linking Research and Education, 3-8 August 2008, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

International Human Dimensions Workshop (IHDW) preceeding the IHDP Opening Meeting 2008 (below), 12-15 October 2008, New Delhi, India will encompass the following topics: 1. The Human Dimension of Health and Global Environmental Change: Global Change & Urban Health 2. Transitions to Sustainability through System Innovation 3. Urban and Regional Carbon Management 4. Sustainable Adaptation to Climate Change (application deadline extended to 1 March 2008)

The International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IDHP) Open Meeting 2008, 16-19 October 2008, New Delhi, India

Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics of Infectious Diseases (MEEGID) IX Congress, 30 October - 1 November 2008, Nairobi, Kenya, organized by IRD and CDC Atlanta

American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 57th Annual Meeting
, 7-11 December 2008, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA


REGIONAL CONFERENCES

5th Northern Researcher Forum Open Assembly "Seeking Balance in a Changing North", 24-27 September 2008, Anchorage, Alaska.

DISCCRS IV Interdisciplinary Climate Research Symposium, 2-9 November 2008, Saguaro Lake Ranch, AZ.  Participation will be limited to 34 early career scholars (funding available)  - must complete PhD requirements between 1 April 2006 - 31 March 2008.

Public Health in Canada Annual Conference 2008:  Reducing Health Inequalities through Evidence & Action, 1-4 June 2008, Halifax, Nova Scotia

A special session on Environment and Health
(tentatively June 5th or 6th) will be held at the Annual Congress of Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences 2008:  Thinking Beyond Borders: Global Ideas, Global Values, 31 May - 8 June 2008, Vancouver, British Columbia


RECENTLY PAST CONFERENCES

Climate Prediction Applications Science Workshop (CPASW), 4-7 March 2008, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

United States Regional Association of the International Association for Landscape Ecology (US-IALE) 2008 Annual Meeting will include a symposium on the Landscape Ecology of Infectious Diseases, 6-10 April 2008, Madison, Wisconsin (a limited number of travel awards for graduate students).

Climate Change and Sustainable Development, 24-25 April 2008, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA organized and hosted by the Global Climate Change and Sustainable Development Initiative at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Meeting of Young Researchers in Earth Sciences (MYRES) 2008:  Dynamic Interactions of Life and its Landscape, 20-23 May  2008, Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Global Initiative's first-ever University Forum (CGI U), 14-16 March 2008, at Tulane University in New Orleans, USA,- hosted by former President Bill Clinton.

6th International Symposium, Agroenviron - 2008:  Natural Resources, Conservation Use & Sustainability, 28 April - 1 May 2008, Ankara University, Antalya, Turkey

The first Global Form on Human Resources for Health, 2-7 March 2008, Kampala, Uganda

World Water Day Summit, 22 March 2008, Washington DC, USA

The European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2008, 13-18 April 2008, Vienna, Austria, will have a session on "Regional Climate Modeling and Impacts" and a session on  "Dynamic Interactions of Life and its Landscape" to complement the MYRES conference in Tulane (see below). 

The National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE) 8th National Conference on Science, Policy and the Environment - Climate Change: Science and Solutions, 16-18 January 2008, Washington, DC, USA