The EURO-URHIS 2 consortium, an urban health monitoring and analysis system to inform policy, is organising the European Urban Health Conference. The event will be held at the Felix Meritis facilities in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) on September 12th-14th 2012.
The Conference includes a number of high-level lectures and guest speakers like:
. Amit Prasad, World Health Organisation, Kobe Centre, Japan
. Dr Megumi Kano, World Health Organisation, Kobe Centre, Japan
. Barbara Kerstiëns, European Union DG Research and Innovation
. Waleska Teixeira Caiffa, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
. Professor Mark McCarthy, University College London, England
. Professor Richard Rothenberg, Georgia State University, United States
. Professor Carlos Castillo-Salgado, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, United States
A series of interactive parallel sessions will cover the following subjects: research into policy for urban planning and transport; urban health advocacy; healthy ageing in cities; healthy life expectancy; public health teaching and training; mental health; and environmental health and alcohol in the city.
There will also be a parallel session designed for policy-makers entitled “Workshop F – From Indicators to Implementation.” It will showcase three key items from the EURO-URHIS 2 project: 1) web-based e-tools summarising Urban Health Initiative (UHI) data for participating urban areas in the project; 2) urban area health profiling; 3) and the Health Impact Assessment (HIA) screening tools.
The EURO-URHIS 2 consortium will also be hosting a Conference Soirée on Thursday 13th September. Sponsored by the International Society for Urban Health, the event will be an evening of food, music and entertainment set against the elegant monastic backdrop of Het Bethaniënklooster in Central Amsterdam. Come and join the project team as the consortium, along with guests and speakers, celebrates the huge leaps achieved in urban health research both in Europe and globally.
There are only a limited number of free places available for the conference. If you do wish to attend, please register and save the date!
