International Conference on Education in the Health Sciences (ICEHS)

I think medical and health librarians, and archivists, too should be in this conference. The first, International Conference on Education in the Health Sciences (ICEHS). This is from October 1st to 3rd, 2008 at the UPMASA-PGH Science Hall, Philippine General Hospital Complex, UP Manila, Taft Avenue, Ermita, Manila, Philippines.

Objectives: At the end of the conference,

the participants should be able to:

1. Analyze the impact of a changing health scenario in education in the health sciences
2. Discuss educational trends that address the changing health needs

Visit the website: http://www.icehs.com/index.html

Public Health Informatics 2008 (PHI2008)

PHI2008 will be held September 18-19, 2008 in Seattle, WA. This meeting builds
on the success of the 1st international PHI conference in September last year
at which participants agreed to move forward with organizing the Global
Partners in Public Health Informatics -- a partnership of individuals,
organizations and research centers dedicated to defining and developing a
framework for addressing strategic public health information issues and
requirements to drive successful global population health interventions.
Through plenary sessions, panel and break-out discussions, and poster sessions
PHI2008 will cover a wide scope of global public health informatics topics and
will showcase state-of-the-art public health informatics research, development,
and applications, with an emphasis on sustainable development strategies and
sharing information technologies, data and knowledge. PHI2008 invitees and
speakers, drawn from a variety of global health settings, organizations, and
institutions, will cover topics such as:
* E-health records for improved public health practice
* Situational awareness and surveillance
* Scalable information and communications technology approaches for
improving population health
* Decision support and knowledge management
* Information policy and human capacity building

PHI2008 is open to practitioners, academics, scientists, managers, students,
and decision makers from the various disciplines, industries, governmental
institutions, international and intergovernmental organizations, agencies and
networks that are concerned with improving the public's health on the local,
national and global levels through the application of information and
communications technologies.

More details can be found in the attached flyer. For more information on the
program and to register: www.gpphi.org/conferences

CRICS8 - 8th Regional Congress on Health Sciences Information

The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ) and the Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information (BIREME/PAHO/WHO) are pleased to invite you to the 8th Regional Congress on Health Sciences Information (CRICS 8) to be held from 16-19 September 2008, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

With the main theme Scientific information and knowledge for innovation in health, the CRICS8 will host the meetings of the VHL (Virtual Health Library), SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online) and others regional and global networks from 14th to 16th, in addition to courses, expositions, cultural, social and tourist activities.

CRICS is internationally recognized as an innovative congress in scientific and technical information and communication that periodically addresses the regional and international state-of-the-art. It covers the fields of information, knowledge and research evidence management, scientific communication, librarianship, information science, methodologies and information technologies and its applications for the development of health research, education and health care systems.

For more info, visit: CRICS8 website.

2nd European Conference on Scientific Publishing in Biomedicine and Medicine

The 2nd European Conference on Scientific Publishing in Biomedicine and
Medicine at the Rikshospitalet University Hospital in Oslo, Norway, 4-6
September 2008
How to increase the visibility and impact of your research?
* make sure the maximum number of people can see your work
* reach all biomedical scientists in all nations
* increase your online presence
* make a bigger impact and manage your academic profile

URL: http://www.ub.uio.no/umh/ecspbiomed/

Pharma-Bio-Med 2008

Pharma-Bio-Med is the annual conference and exposition in Europe specifically geared to Information Professionals within the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, biomedical, medical and health sciences industries. The venue is the beautiful Hotel Dubrovnik Palace located in the stunning and historic city of Dubrovnik , Croatia .

The Conference website is: http://www.pharma-bio-med.com/

20 Year's of MAHLAP and counting

First of all, let me congratulate MAHLAP or the Medical and Health Librarian's Association of the Philippines for celebrating its 20th year anniversary.

MAHLAP was born from a seminar-workshop on ""Current Management Trends for Health Care Libraries," Cebu, 3-7 November 1986. This seminar was sponsored by the Philippine Council for Health Research and Development (PCHRD) under DOST and the British Council (BC). The participants from the said seminar suggested to have a national group for medical and health librarians. In 1988, it was official and registered as a non-stock non-profit organization.

This year marks the 20th year of MAHLAP's anniversary and everybody is encouraged to participate in its annual conference.

Theme: “The Expanding Knowledgebase Competencies of Health Sciences Libraries and Librarians”

When: February 28-29, 2008

Where: Hotel Kimberly, Pedro Gil street, Manila, Philippines http://www.hotelkimberly.com/

Fee: Php 3,500 live-in and Php 2,500 live-out

They are also in need of sponsorships. For more information, please contact: Ms. Gina Canceran at 02-526-5851 or email her at gina@mail.upm.edu.ph or ginacanceran@yahoo.com.