5th Regional Meeting of the Virtual Health Library (VHL5)

BIREME is promoting a more participatory process for the 5th Regional Meeting of the Virtual Health Library (VHL5), that will take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 14 to 16 of September 2008, preceding the CRICS8, with a program to share the state of the VHL development in the regional area, in the countries and in thematic areas. For more information, visit VHL5.

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.