SUNI-SEA consortium meeting
2022-10-09 - 2022-10-13
SUNI-SEA consortium members meeting will be held in Hanoi, Vietnam during 9-13 October this year. This will be the first face-to-face gathering among ten consortium members after the project had been running for almost four years. As the prospective period is coming to an end in December, the team will have many issues to discuss, as follows:

Activities to be carried out during the endline survey
Preliminary data processing endline/baseline comparison
Analysing of data
Result dissemination plan and scaling up strategy
A conference to mark project ending, sharing lesson learnt and recommendations to global stakeholders

WHO Regional Committee for the Western Pacific: Seventy-third session
2022-10-22 - 2022-10-24
The seventy-third session of the World Health Organization Regional Committee for the Western Pacific is being held from 24 to 28 October 2022 in Manila, Philippines.
Ms Nong Thi Thu Trang, representative from HelpAge International in Vietnam – one of the 10 SUNI-SEA consortium members, submitted her statement.

Scaling-up community based NCD prevention and control: focus on quality
2022-10-27
Join the skills-building webinar organised by the SUNI-SEA consortium, powered by EUPHA and co-funded by the European Union. The SUNI-SEA consortium will share their experiences on scaling-up community based non-communicable diseases prevention. To reduce the burden of NCD prevention, early detection and treatment is crucial. During this webinar, we’ll dive into the research project Scaling up NCD interventions in Southeast ASIA (SUNI SEA) with their new dimension on scaling up.

Register now for the webinar.

15th European Public Health Conference 2022
2022-11-09 - 2022-11-12
The 15th EPH Conference in Berlin, Germany will be the first EPH Conference since Marseille 2019 to take place live and in person from 9 – 12 November 2022. The theme of Berlin 2022 is ‘Strengthening health systems: improving population health and being prepared for the unexpected’.
Conference tracks:
A. Strengthening health systems: improving population health
B. Preparing for the unexpected: lessons learned from Covid-19
C. European public health / Food and nutrition
D. Chronic diseases
E. Environment, climate and health
F. Digital health and communication
G. Health data, information and assessments
H. Health determinants and health inequalities
J. Health services and welfare systems
K. Health promotion, health literacy, behavioural insights
L. Health workforce, training and practice
M. Infectious diseases, preparedness and vaccines
N. Maternal, child and adolescent public health
O. Mental health / Migration and minority health / LGBTQI+
P. Policy, politics and public health
Q. Public health monitoring, reporting and foresight

On Thursday 10 November (at 16:30, Beta 8), the SUNI-SEA team led by Dominika Plančíková, Jaap Koot, Jeanet Landsman, Hanneke Vervoort will host a skills building seminar: Scaling-up community based NCD prevention and control: focus on quality.
Programme at a glance

3rd annual Future of Healthcare Week Asia
2022-11-15 - 2022-11-17
Hosted by The Economist, this online and in person conference will address pressing issues including:

The aftermath of covid-19 on healthcare systems
Data ownership and application against the rise of Web 3.0
Removing silos across public sector organisations, between public and private
Integrated disease management
Death by disinformation: mitigating fake news
Incentivising value-based care
Building resilient supply chains
Plugging labour shortage gaps
Eliminating bias: improving DEI in healthcare
Future pandemic preparedness
The future of vaccines: open source, mRNA and beyond
Antimicrobial resistance and preventive care in LMCs
Returning the spotlight to cancer and heart-health
The patient will see you now: healthcare as a consumer product
Climate change and healthcare: fostering green, sustainable health
The future of genomics

The 3rd International Conference on Health, Technology, and Life Sciences (ICO-HELICS)
2022-11-19 - 2022-11-20
The International Conference on Health, Technology, And Life Sciences (ICO-HELICS) was initiated and organised by the Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Sebelas Maret. The ICO-HELICS international conference is expected to provide a forum and opportunity for participants to publish good works for domestic or international participants.
For this year, the Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Sebelas Maret Indonesia will be hosting the Third International Conference on Health, Technology, and Life Science (ICO-HELICS) from 19-20 November 2022. With the theme “Improving Health for Better Future Life: Strengthening from Basic Science to Clinical Research”, the aims and scope of this virtual conference are:

Medicine, Surgery, Ophthalmology, Psychiatry, Gynaecology and obstetrics,
Anaesthesia, paediatrics, orthopaedics, microbiology, pathology
Laboratory medicine, medical education, research methodology, forensic medicine,
Medical ethics, community medicine and public health,
Anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, pharmacology, biophysics.

Prof. Ari Natalia Probandari, Principal Investigator of the SUNI-SEA Indonesian team, will give a presentation on public health and non-communicable diseases, including the SUNI-SEA research.
Visit the conference website for more information on the background and keynote speakers.
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GACD Annual Scientific Meeting 2022
2022-12-07 - 2022-12-09
Date: 7-8 December 2022
Time: 09:15–17:00 GMT
Every year, the GACD hosts its flagship event – the Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM). Exclusively for researchers and implementing partners working on GACD funded projects past and present, and invited funding agency representatives, the ASM is a major knowledge sharing and networking event. It normally takes place as an in-person meeting in different locations each year but since 2020 the meeting has been a virtual event.
This year, the ASM will be in-person and taking place in London, UK. Attendees share and discuss challenges and successes in the implementation of their research projects creating an empowering learning environment.
The aims of the ASM are:

To provide a platform for information flow from individual GACD projects and relevant experts to the wider GACD Research Network and Associate Members
To facilitate knowledge sharing between projects, Research Programmes, and working groups
To facilitate introductions, networking, and collaboration between researchers.

View the draft agenda here

European Public Health Week 2023
2023-05-22 - 2023-05-26
The European Public Health Week (EUPHW) aims to raise awareness about public health and promote collaboration among the public health community in Europe. It is an annual initiative that began in 2019 and keeps on growing. Read more about the past editions.
From 22 – 26 May 2023, the next European Public Health Week will take place. The overarching theme is ‘Public health: Global issues, local actions’.
Each day of the week will have its own daily theme:

Monday 22 May: Mental health for all
Tuesday 23 May: Diversity in health
Wednesday 24 May: Access to care
Thursday 25 May: Prevention and control of NCDs
Friday 26 May: Global health emergencies and response

For more information, visit https://eupha.org/EUPHW

Knowledge and care in your hands: Digital adaption for community level management of NCDs
2023-05-23 15:00 - 16:30 (Asia/Krasnoyarsk)
In this webinar the SUNI-SEA team in Myanmar will discuss their experience of adapting the programme through development of a self-care digital application and an online learning platform.
Presentations:

The development of online learning platform for further training
The use of DHIS2 software to develop a mobile phone application for self-screening

Recoding is accessible here.

Linking people, communities and primary healthcare: An essential approach for tackling NCDs and achieving UHC
2023-06-15 15:00 - 19:30
This is a hybrid conference on incorporating evidence from implementation research in Indonesia, Myanmar and Vietnam into global health policy discourse.
The purpose of this event is to discuss the importance of scaling up non-communicable disease (NCD) interventions that focus on the role of communities within the primary healthcare approach and to better understand their centrality for achieving universal health coverage. A strong primary health care system which puts people and communities at the centre of health systems is the cornerstone for achieving universal health coverage (UHC).
Non-communicable diseases kill more than 41 million people a year making up 75% of all deaths and 80% of years lived with disability. NCD prevalence rises with age so that preventable disease, disability and death is highest for those over the age of 60 and yet multiple barriers including ageism keep people from seeking or being reached by NCD services. Three-quarters of people living with NCDs live in low and middle-income countries but, while ministries of health recognize the importance of addressing NCDs, health systems and societies are not yet effectively preventing and managing NCDs.
As global policy makers turn their attention to how best to achieve universal health coverage ahead of the UN High Level Meeting on UHC in September, this conference will use lessons learned from the Scaling-Up NCD Interventions in Southeast Asia (SUNI-SEA) research project funded by the European Union as a starting point for reflection on how NCD prevention and management at primary healthcare and community levels can contribute to this.
The learning from this project emphasises the need for policy and investment on NCDs and health systems through investment and strengthening of primary healthcare-level services and shifting power to people and communities.
Download the tentative programme here.
To register please click below:

In-person attendance
Online attendance

16th Global Conference on Ageing
2023-06-27 - 2023-06-30
The current challenges faced globally, particularly by older people, demand innovations in social, health, and technological realms, along with multisectoral and policy mix approaches. Purpose, urgency and collective action are words that personify the policy agenda for the 16th Global Conference on Ageing to be convened in the most densely populated region in the world.
This year’s conference will be held in Bangkok, Thailand from 27 – 30 June 2023, with the overarching theme “Challenge – Transformation – Change”.
It will be boldly focusing on four themes – older women, immunisation for all ages; digital technologies, frailty and function which will be seen the lens of both the actions areas and enablers. For instance, there are links between frailty, adult vaccination, NCDs, long term care and integrated care.

ECTMIH 2023: shaping the future of equitable and sustainable planetary health
2023-11-20 - 2023-11-23
Date: 20-23 November 2023
Location: Utrecht, the Netherlands
The overarching theme of the congress is planetary health, focusing on the health of ‘human civilisations and the national systems on which they depend’ and reflecting the interconnectedness of human health and climate change in a rapidly changing environment. The ultimate aim to accelerate the understanding, appreciation and connections between tropical medicine, global health and the urgent field of planetary health. The thematic tracks are as follows:

Planetary Health and Health Systems
Infectious Diseases and Neglected Tropical Diseases
Non-Communicable Diseases
Mental Health
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
Child and Adolescent Health

These six tracks reflect this focus, as we will build on global health traditions to emphasize the importance of health equity and universal health coverage to ensure all populations – and especially those in low(er) resource settings – have optimal chances of health and wellbeing. Check the conference programme here.
ECTMIH Academy will also offer a full day of workshops and training sessions to strengthen the academic, professional and creative skills of global health professionals.
The representatives of SUN-SEA consortium will organise a session “Engage communities in prevention and control of non-communicable diseases” will be on 21 November. This 90-minute session aims to strengthen community-based approaches in national prevention and control programmes for non-communicable diseases in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. We will discuss:

empowerment strategies for community groups in improving own health and wellbeing
the strategies of implementing national NCD prevention and control programmes in decentralised health systems
cost-effectiveness of community-based strategies.

For more information about SUNI-SEA session, please contact Jaap Koot, SUNI-SEA Research Coordinator at j.a.r.koot@umcg.nl
