SUNI-SEA Creating Synergies

GACD mid-year workshop 2022
2022-07-20 - 2022-07-21
The GACD workshop on Planetary health, NCDs, and implementation will delve into the synergies between climate change, the environment, and NCDs; highlight the rationale for the upcoming GACD grant call; and explore the role of implementation research in planetary health.
Date: Wednesday 20 July 2022
Time: Sitting A 07:00—08:30 UTC and Sitting B 17:00—18:30 UTC.
Planetary health workshop programme

Moving forward: how to continue public health implementation research in LMICs during COVID-19
2022-03-02
Implementation research projects in lower- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have been disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the government policy to lockdown and limit mobility in all of the project sites. This has affected community engagement at both primary health care and community organisation levels. Also, researchers could not visit the project sites to interact with healthcare workers and community members. As these were essential aspects of the implementation research project, adapted ways of working were needed. These included the development of new tools, new/increased use of digital communication and approaches to coordination.
This webinar is organised by the Scaling up Non-Communicable Disease Interventions in Southeast Asia (SUNI-SEA) project, an implementation research project conducted in Indonesia, Myanmar, and Vietnam, which is funded by the EU Horizon 2020.
The aim of this webinar is for researchers from selected implementation research projects in various regions, to share their experiences continuing research projects during the pandemic. Then together with public health experts discuss key lessons learnt from managing the challenges, including the adaptation of research methods, the disruption of essential health services and emerging issues created by COVID-19 for people living with NCDs. Finally, the webinar participants will consider the implications for future implementation research, particularly about how we can build resilient NCD research in the future?
Duration: 1.5 hours (10:00-11:30 am CEST / 3:00-4:30 pm ICT)
Platform: Zoom Webinar
Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QfrAdaIVSP6BEMQgMGSn_A

Future of Healthcare Week Asia
2021-11-22 - 2021-11-25
The Economist will organise the 2nd annual Future of Healthcare Week Asia between 22-25 November 2021.
At this 4 day virtual and in-person event, policymakers, healthcare providers, academics and scientists will come together with representatives from industry, patient associations, charities and the finance sector to examine the COVID-19 aftermath and how to solve the vulnerabilities it has highlighted.
It will cover a wide range of key themes such as:

Pandemic learnings, NCDs and digital innovation
Telemedicine, cancer spotlights and herd immunity
Interoperability, comorbidities, and cell and gene therpies
Universal healthcare, accessibility and the debate

Register free. For more information, visit the website

GACD Annual Scientific Meeting 2021
2021-11-16 - 2021-11-18
Every year in November, the GACD holds 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.
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.

This year, as events continued to be delivered virtually, GACD will take a new approach to bringing the Research Network together.

A draft programme can be accessed here (PDF)
For more information, please visit GACD website: Annual Scientific Meetings | GACD

SUNI-SEA online workshop at the 14th EPH Conference 2021
2021-11-12
SUNI-SEA will organise an online workshop during the European Public Health (EPH) Conference on 12 November 2021, at 11.30 hrs CET.
Three topics will be discussed during the workshop:

Adaptation of general training materials in health programme to meet the needs of local communities: achieving culturally sensitive training programmes
Lessons learned from Intergenerational Solidarity Clubs: how to empower communities to improve their health
Achieving synergies between community interventions and primary health care: how to improve the patient journey in a cost-effective way

The workshop offers opportunities for participants to discuss preliminary outcomes of the action research taking place in SUNI-SEA project. The participants are invited to share their own experiences with regard to improving prevention and control of non-communicable diseases in communities.
For more information on 14th EPH Conference 2021, please visit the conference website.

14th European Public Health Conference 2021
2021-11-10 - 2021-11-12
Co-organised by the European Public Health Association (EUPHA) and the European Public health Conference (EPH), the 14th EPH conference will be virtually held from 10 to 12 November 2021. Themes of the 14th EPH Conference is “Public health futures in a changing world”. Subthemes of the conference include:

Public health practice, training and workforces for the future
Digital health – person centred?
Climate change and public health – a dual role
Learning from the pandemic, and getting ready for the next one
Public health, social health, going back to go forwards.

For more information and registration, please visit the conference website.

Reducing Risks, Averting Deaths! Leveraging Systems for NCD Prevention
2021-02-17
Date: 17 February 2021
Time: 13:00-14:30 CET / 19:00-20:30 GMT+7
The WHO Department for NCDs and Department of Health Promotion will hold an upcoming NCD Hard Talks webinar titled “Reducing Risks, Averting Deaths! Leveraging Systems for NCD Prevention.”
A large proportion of NCDs can be prevented if their risk factors are addressed and conditions are changed so that healthy choices become easy choices. In this webinar session, we will hear from health experts and country speakers on how health promotion research, policy and action provide evidence-based instruments to design a future that is conducive to the health and well-being of the public and the planet. Join us to learn about new health promotion tools and know-how from hands-on stakeholders on how to leverage systems for the prevention of NCDs.
Registration link: https://who.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CibMMSpnQIuv0TvRiqRoYw

Diabetes Complications Congress 2020
2020-12-03 - 2020-12-05
The IDF Diabetes Complications Congress 2020 will take place in Lisbon, Portugal, on 3-5 December 2020. This is the second in a new IDF series of live educational events focused on tackling the issues around complications associated with diabetes.
The increase in rates of diabetes across the globe brings with it an increase in diabetes complications. Poor diabetes management, whether through lack of education, limited access to care or undiagnosed conditions, means diabetes complications are a real problem in most countries.
Following the successful launch of this new congress series in Hyderabad, India in 2018, IDF invites you to Lisbon for an update on the latest research, treatments and tools to manage, treat and prevent diabetes complications. The ultimate goal is to improve outcomes and quality of life for people with diabetes.
The IDF Diabetes Complications Congress 2020 is organised in collaboration with the Portuguese Diabetes Association (APDP).

Re-imagining health systems for better health and social justice
2020-11-18 - 2021-03-17
“Re-imagining health systems for better health and social justice” is the theme of the 6th Global Symposium on Health Systems Research which will take place in three phases, from November 2020 to March 2021.
Phase One (from 8 – 12 November 2020) features live and on-demand sessions, including plenaries, parallel sessions, skills building sessions, special panels, and virtual networking. Phase Two (from 25 November 2020 – 17 March 2021) will consist of fortnightly parallel sessions to promote and facilitate exchange and community building around the HSR2020 sub-themes. Phase Three – a culminating event to synthesize the main learnings from HSR2020 will take place in March 2021. This will be by invitation only.
HSR2020 will explore the following sub-themes:

Engaging political forces
Engaging social, economic and environmental forces
Engaging technological, data and social innovations

The Global Symposium on Health Systems Research is organized every two years by Health Systems Global. For more information, please visit the symposium website.

World Diabetes Day
2020-11-14

2019 GACD Annual Scientific Meeting #2
2020-11-11 - 2020-11-15
This year, the 2019 GACD Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) will be held in Bangkok, Thailand and will be hosted by the Health SystemsResearch Institute. The ASM will run from 11-15 November and will include the Implementation Science Workshop on the first 2 days of the week.
Tentative programme and agenda
See the programme overview for the week here: 2019 ASM Programme Overview
See the ASM agenda here: 2019 ASM Agenda
See the ISW agenda here: 2019 ISW programme

Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases - 9th Annual Scientific Meeting
2020-11-10 - 2020-11-13
The 9th annual GACD Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) is exclusively available for researchers working on GACD funded projects. It will take place online from 10-13 November 2020.

GACD researchers have prepared updates on their projects. The ASM is an opportunity for researchers to share content not typically addressed at conventional scientific conferences. While ‘regular’ conferences usually focus on study design, methods, findings, results, conclusions etc., the ASM makes provision for focus on issues around implementation, challenges and successes, sharing of experiences and learning and implications for scale-up. Part of the rationale for establishing a meeting of this nature for GACD funded projects is to allow for these aspects to be presented in a ‘safe space’.

ASM programme overview (10-13 November 2020) (PDF)
Meeting handbook (PDF)

In addition to project presentation, the poster competition will take place during the virtual ASM. Itis aimed at showcasing early career investigator inputs into GACD projects or highlighting key aspects of GACD project partnership activities which are helping advance the work of GACD.

The sixth global symposium on health systems research (HSR2020)
2020-03-20 - 2020-03-26
The Global Symposium on Health Systems Research is organised every two years by Health Systems Global to bring together the full range of players involved in health systems and policy research and practice. Beginning with the First Global Symposium in Montreux in 2010, the Symposia have played a crucial, catalytic role in convening a global community dedicated to strengthening health systems and building the field of health systems research.
The sixth global symposium on health systems research (HSR2020) will bring together over 2,000 policy-makers, practitioners and researchers from more than 100 countries to Dubai from 8-12 November 2020. The theme for this year conference is “Re-imagining health systems for better health and social justice”.

The Geneva Health Forum
2020-02-24 - 2020-02-26
The overall goal of the Geneva Health Forum is to promote innovative practices that improve care access, especially in resource-poor settings. To achieve this goal, the Geneva Health Forum aims to:

give visibility to innovative field experiences;
establish a critical and constructive dialogue and promote collaborations between global health actors from different sectors including practitioners, academics, policymakers, civil society and the private sector;
promote interaction between actions in the field and health policy development (linking policy and practice). This applies both to guiding policies through best practices and to facilitating policy diffusion at the field level.

This year’s theme is “Improving access to health: learning from the field”. You can find the program here.

SUNI-SEA kick-off meeting: Prospective phase
2020-02-17 - 2020-02-19
SUNI-SEA research team will be gathering in Hanoi, Vietnam for a kick-off meeting of phase II – prospective study, from 17-19 February 2020. Review and information acquired from the retrospective study activities in three work packages will be officially shared to the consortium, along with the result of baseline study on the state of NCD prevention and control in Indonesia, Myanmar and Vietnam. Core activities to be implemented in the next phase will be presented and discussed. Key agreement on various elements of the study will be made including the outline plan of actions for the first year of prospective phase.
The second Consortium General Assembly meeting will be held back to back with the kick-off meeting.

Global NCD Alliance Forum 2020
2020-02-09 - 2020-02-11
The third Global NCD Alliance Forum is scheduled for 9-11 February 2020, in Sharjah, UAE. It will provide a prime opportunity to unite and mobilise NCD civil society to monitor governments’ progress and advocate for action to implement global pledges five years ahead of the next UN HLM and the 2025 date for globally agreed NCD targets.
Download preliminary programme here.

12th European Public Health Conference
2019-11-20 - 2019-11-23
The 12th European Public Health (EPH) Conference will be held in Marseille, France from 20 to 23 November 2019. The annual EPH conferences are considered the premier European gatherings of public health professionals worldwide.
The theme for the 12th EPH Conference is ‘Building bridges for solidarity and public health’. Plenary sessions are organised around the following themes:

Building bridges migration in a planetary context
Solidarity for public health – integrating poverty, conflict and other threats to health
Building bridges between professions
New roles for public health practice
Building global bridges between public health communities.

Registration is now open. For more information please visit the conference website.

4th International Symposium on Health Research
2019-11-18 - 2019-11-20
National Institute of Health Research and Development, Indonesia in collaboration with the Indonesian Public Health Association (IPHA) will be hosting the 4th International Symposium on Health Research in conjunction with the 14th National Congress of Indonesian Public Health Association. The theme of this year is Evidence-based and politic in health development. The symposium will take place in Bali, Indonesia.
The registration will be open on 1 July until 30 September 2019.
For any queries, please contact: symposium@litbang.kemkes.go.id

2019 GACD Annual Scientific Meeting
2019-11-11 08:00 - 2019-11-15 18:30 (Asia/Krasnoyarsk)
