Conferences
Medical Mission Exchange strives to keep a current listing of conferences of interest or about medical missions.
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7/7/2008 - 8/1/2008
8th Annual International Public Health Summer Institute 2008
The International Public Health Summer Institute at the University of Alabama
UAB Sparkman Center for Global Health - Birmingham, Alabama
Details: Addressing Leadership Challenges in International Public Health
7/7/2008 - 7/25/2008
International Health in the Developing World: Clinical and Community Care
University of Arizona
The University of Arizona, College of Medicine, Dept. of Family and Community Medicine - Tucson, AZ.
Details: preparing medical students and primary care residents for health care experiences in developing countries. Other health professionals with clinical experience in any medical or public health field may apply as well.
7/21/2008 - 7/26/2008
35th Annual AMHE Convention
Association of Haitian Physicians Abroad
Renaissance Aruba Resort - Oranjestad, Aruba
Details: Assessing Our Needs and Making our Voice Heard
7/28/2008 - 8/1/2008
Healing the Globe
Global Health Council and Chautauqua Institution
The Chautauqua Institution - Chautauqua, NY
Details: The Global Health Council and the Chautauqua Institution will offer a special theme week on global health issues. The global health community is invited to take advantage of an all-inclusive discounted rate in participating in this special opportunity.
8/3/2008 - 8/8/2008
The International AIDS Conference
International AIDS Society (IAS)
- Mexico City, Mexico
Details: The International AIDS Conference is the world’s largest HIV/AIDS forum, with over 20,000 participants, including 2,500 journalists. As the first International AIDS Conference to be held in Latin America, the XVII International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2008) is expected to increase awareness of the disease and its impact throughout the region. Planning for AIDS 2008 is now underway, with planning committees organized along the three main program areas: the Scientific Program, the Community Program and the Leadership Program. Organizers are committed to creating a far-reaching program featuring the latest developments in HIV research, prevention and treatment, with continued attention given to the dangers of HIV-related stigma, discrimination and misinformation.
8/18/2008 - 8/29/2008
Design, Management and Evaluation of Community-Based HIV/AIDS Programs
Global Health Action
- Nairobi, Kenya
Details: This course provides practicing health professionals and program managers with the necessary skills that will hellp them to design, manage, and evaluate successful community-based reproductive health programs.
9/7/2008 - 9/14/2008
ICMDA Europe – Eurasia Conference 2008
International Christian Medical & Dental Association
Dachstein Tauern Hall Europaplatz - Schladming, Austria
Details: A conference for medical doctors, dentists, students and allied health professionals from Europe and Eurasia.
9/12/2008 - 9/12/2008
8th Annual Global Health Mini-University
United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Bureau for Global Health in collaboration with the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services
George Washington University School of Public Health and Health - Washington, DC
Details: The Mini-University is a day-long forum offering over 60 different sessions highlighting evidence-based best practices and state-of-the-art information from a variety of technical areas across the Global Health field.
9/18/2008 - 9/20/2008
2008 Honduras Summit at Sunrise United Methodist Church
Sunrise United Methodist Church
SunRise UMC - St. Louis, MO
Details: Learn about the work of "Volunteer in Mission" teams that are transforming communities by providing access to health services, electricity, clean water, and building church buildings and affordable housing.
9/18/2008 - 9/21/2008
2008 United States Conference on AIDS
The National Minority AIDS Council
Fontainebleau Hotel - Miami Beach, Florida
Details: This is the largest AIDS-related gathering in the United States.
9/19/2008 - 9/20/2008
West Coast Healthcare Missions and Ministry Conference 2008
World Impact, Los Angeles, CA. and Lake Avenue Church, Pasadena, CA.
FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY PSYCHOLOGY BUILDING 180 N. Oakland Ave., Pasadena, CA 91101 - Pasadena, CA.
Details: This conference is geared to meeting the educational needs of Christian physicians, dentists, nurses, psychologists, psychiatrists, pharmacists, physical therapists, public health workers, mission pastors, parachurch workers, students and all other healthcare professionals, who are interested in urban and/or global and/or urban healthcare (medical) missions.
9/19/2008 - 9/20/2008
Workshop for HIV and Infectious Diseases Healthcare Providers Interested in Working in Developing Countries- -London
International Centre for Equal Healthcare Access (ICEHA)
- London, UK
Details: The workshops include seminars on a number of subjects pertaining to working in resource-poor settings.
9/24/2008 - 9/26/2008
Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting
Clinton Global Initiative (CGI)
- New York, NY.
Details: This is a working session designed to provide insights into global problems for the purpose of enabling productive action in CGI’s four areas of focus: education, energy and climate change, global health and poverty alleviation.
9/25/2008 - 9/28/2008
CMDA Women in Medicine and Dentistry Annual Conference 2008
CMDA Women in Medicine and Dentistry
Hilton San Diego/Del Mar - San Diego, CA.
Details: In addition to addressing the physical, emotional, spiritual and life-balance issues of women physicians and dentists, this conference will provide continuing education on a variety of pertinent healthcare topics. The goal is to improve clinical knowledge and skills, and thus improve patient care outcomes.
9/26/2008 - 9/26/2008
Workshop for HIV and Infectious Diseases Healthcare Providers Interested in Working in Developing Countries -- New York
International Centre for Equal Healthcare Access (ICEHA)
- New York, NY.
Details: The workshops include seminars on a number of subjects pertaining to working in resource-poor settings.
9/27/2008 - 10/2/2008
Network: Towards Unity for Health 2008
The Network:Towards Unity for Health and the Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de La Sabana
- Chia-Bogota, Colombia
Details: Adapting Health Services and Health Professions Education to Local Needs: Partnerships, Priorities and Passions
10/2/2008 - 10/4/2008
Conference on Honduras 2008
Project Honduras and Special Missions Foundation, Inc. of Georgetown, Texas.
Municiple Center on the central plaza - Copan Ruinas, Honduras
Details: The focus of the Conference on Honduras 2008 will be education, healthcare (including HIV/AIDS and clean water), and community building (including micro-credit and caring for orphaned children).
10/10/2008 - 10/12/2008
Haiti Solidarity Conference
Fonkoze USA
Wyndham Miami Airport Hotel - Miami, FL
Details: email fonkozeusa@fonkoze.org for more information
10/10/2008 - 10/12/2008
Prescription for renewal: A Conference for Christian Physicians and Dentists
Samaritan's Purse
Billy Graham Training Center at The Cove - Asheville, North Carolina
Details: Prescription for Renewal is a conference tailored for medical professionals interested in the mission field,
10/13/2008 - 10/17/2008
Health, Agriculture, Culture, and Community
Peeke School of Christian Missions
ECHO, 17391 Durrance Rd. - N. Fort Myers, FL
Details: Subjects that will be covered include the rationale, principles, and practice of community health as the empowerment of people.
10/23/2008 - 10/24/2008
Intensive Update Course in Clinical Tropical Medicine and Travelers’ Health
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH)
The Catholic University of America - Washington, DC
Details: ASTMH has developed this course as an update in the essential components of tropical medicine and travelers’ health. This two-day meeting is designed for physicians and for all other health care providers working in tropical medicine or travelers' health.
10/25/2008 - 10/29/2008
American Public Health Association 136th Annual Meeting
American Public Health Association
San Diego Convention Center - San Diego, California
Details: The APHA Annual Meeting theme "Public Health Without Borders" will explore transnational public health, and will provide a forum to address a diversity of topics including immigrant and refugee health; water and land rights; coordinating disease surveillance and epidemiologic response activities across borders; air and water pollution management across borders; the international impact of trade, arms sales, tobacco sales and gun control policies; and the international transmission of socio-cultural behaviors with adverse health implications.
10/26/2008 - 10/29/2008
The 15th Canadian Conference on International Health (CCIH)
Canadian Society for International Health (CSIH)
Marriott Hotel, 100 Kent Street - Ottawa, Canada
Details: Checking In: Health for All or Health for Some?
11/5/2008 - 11/7/2008
AERDO Annual Forum
Association of Evangelical Relief and Development Organizations
Glen Eyrie Conference Center - Colorado Springs, CO
Details: AERDO represents a network of more than 50 of the major evangelical Christian relief and development agencies across North America. AERDO offers agency and individual memberships.
11/6/2008 - 11/8/2008
Haitian Studies Association 12th Annual Conference
Haitian Studies Association
Club Indigo Resort Hotel (Côte des Arcadins) - Montrouis, Haiti
Details: Re-Union: Manifesting the Collective Power of Haitian Ingenuity
11/10/2008 - 11/14/2008
Health, Agriculture, Culture, and Community
Peeke School of Christian Missions
ECHO, 17391 Durrance Rd., N. Fort Myers, FL 33917 - N. Fort Myers, FL
Details: This workshop on community health and agriculture will show how knowledge about a people - their beliefs, culture, and ways of communication, will facilitate the transmission of new ideas in appropriate ways.
11/12/2008 - 11/14/2008
Haiti Connection 2008 Conference
Haiti Episcopal Connection (not associated with The Haiti Connection (thehaiticonnection.org)
Hotel Montana - Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Details: Main themes of the conference will be what’s new in health care, development and education. While the primary focus will be on the mission and ministry of Episcopal and Presbyterian outreach efforts, any persons and all ministries engaged in ministry in Haiti are welcome to attend.
11/13/2008 - 11/15/2008
Global Missions Health Conference 2008
Southeast Christian Church
Southeast Christian Church, 920 Blankenbaker Pkwy Louisville, KY - Louisville, Kentucky
Details: It provides one of the most inclusive gatherings for health ministry around the world.
11/13/2008 - 11/13/2008
Fall 2008 TECH Conference
Technical Exchange for Christian Healthcare (TECH)
- Louisville, Kentucky
Details: Join us in Louisville networking with over 100 medical mission organizations!
11/17/2008 - 11/19/2008
2008 Global Ministerial Forum on Research for Health
Global Forum for Health Research
- Bamako, Mali
Details: The purpose of the conference is to strengthen research for health, development and equity, by generating increased commitment to research and innovation, and by developing coherence and connectivity between the many different stakeholders active in this field.
12/1/2008 - 12/5/2008
HIV/AIDS, Nutrition and Agrictulture
Peeke School of Christian Mission/King College
ECHO, 17391 Durrance Rd. - N. Fort Myers, FL
Details: This workshop will focus on the nutritional needs of PLWHAs, appropriate foods for them in various contexts, and simple methods of agriculture to grow the appropriate foods.
12/7/2008 - 12/11/2008
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) 57th Annual Meeting
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Sheraton New Orleans - New Orleans, Louisiana USA
Details: This scientific meeting includes contributed and invited papers, a plenary session, symposia, exhibits, awards and poster sessions. The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) is the principal organization in the United States representing scientists, clinicians and others with interests in the prevention and control of tropical diseases through research and education.
1/16/2009 - 1/18/2009
2009 CMDA Northeast Winter Conference
Christian Medical & Dental Associations (CMDA)
Sandy Cove Ministries - Northeast, MD.
Details:
1/23/2009 - 1/24/2009
27th Annual Medical Missions Seminar
IHCF African Christian Hospitals
Marriott Dallas/Fort Worth Airport South - Dallas, TX
Details: This seminar involves medical and non-medical training, the sharing of ideas, and motivational talks aimed at involving more people in medical missions.
2/6/2009 - 2/8/2009
2009 CMDA Northwest Winter Conference
Christian Medical & Dental Associations (CMDA)
- Cannon Beach, OR
Details:
3/1/2009 - 3/1/2009
Field Medicine for Health Professionals
New Frontiers Health Force
- Clearwater, FL.
Details: If you are interested in having a course taught in your area, please contact Dr. Tonya at nfhf@verizon.net.
4/17/2009 - 4/19/2009
CMDA Orientation for Medical Missions Annual Conference 2009
Christian Medical & Dental Associations (CMDA)
CMDA Conference Center - Bristol, Tennessee.
Details:
5/25/2009 - 5/29/2009
36th Annual International Conference on Global Health
Global Health Council
Omni Shoreham Hotel - Washington, D.C.
Details: Discovery! Information, Tools, and Technology
8/9/2009 - 8/13/2009
9th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific
ICAAP
Bali International Convention Center (BICC) - Nusa Dua, Bali – Indonesia
Details: Many different aspects of the AIDS response will be discussed with delegates from Asia and the Pacific. We expect in the order of 5,000 delegates.
9/1/2009 - 9/30/2009
4th International Conference on Birth defects and Disabilities in the Developing World
March of Dimes
- New Dehli, India
Details: EXACT DATE TBD more information will be available here http://www.jz.com.br/congressos/2007/3rdconference/en/4thconference.php
11/18/2009 - 11/22/2009
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) 58th Annual Meeting
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Marriott Wardman Park - Washington, DC
Details: This scientific meeting includes contributed and invited papers, a plenary session, symposia, exhibits, awards and poster sessions. The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) is the principal organization in the United States representing scientists, clinicians and others with interests in the prevention and control of tropical diseases through research and education.
12/27/2009 - 12/31/2009
Urbana 2009 Student Missions Convention
Urbana
- St. Louis, MO
Details: More information available on website Jan. 2009
12/27/2009 - 12/31/2009
Urbana Student Missions Convention 2009
Urbana
- St. Louis, Missouri
Details: Further information will be available in January 2009.
7/7/2010 - 7/11/2010
14th Annual ICMDA World Congress
International Christian Medical & Dental Association
Conrad Resort Hotel - Punta del Este, Uruguay
Details: Priorities in medical practice-- who are you working for?
11/3/2010 - 11/7/2010
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) 59th Annual Meeting
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Marriott Atlanta Marquis Hotel - Atlanta, Georgia
Details: This scientific meeting includes contributed and invited papers, a plenary session, symposia, exhibits, awards and poster sessions. The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) is the principal organization in the United States representing scientists, clinicians and others with interests in the prevention and control of tropical diseases through research and education.
Tell us about a conference. If you know of a conference not listed on this page, please contact us.