31 August 2010

National Scientific Meeting on Health Social Science Visayas-Mindanao Regional Conference

The Department of Sociology and Anthropology of the University of San Carlos together with De La Salle University through funding support from Ford Foundation is organizing the 1st National Scientific Meeting on Health Social Science Visayas-Mindanao Regional Conference. The theme of the conference is: Health Social Science in the Philippines: Practices, Policies and Prospects. It will be held on January 21, 2011 at the Cebu Midtown Hotel.

We are requesting you to submit your abstracts online through this website: www.hssconference.0fees.net. Abstracts must not be more than 300 words and must not have been published or presented in any conference. Your abstracts must fall within the following health areas and sub-themes:

* a) Special health care concerns: nutrition security, reproductive health, gender health and development;
* b) Population-based health care initiatives: implementation, and evaluation, community participation and health care,disaster and health, migration and health, health ethics;
* c) Health sector reforms and the reproductive health initiative;
* d) Emerging and re-emerging infections: HIV/AIDS/STIs, Dengue, AH1N1;
* e) Recently adopted approaches in: health social science research, health systems research, improvement of health care

The deadline for submission of abstracts will be on August 31, 2010. Full and partial scholarships are available for chosen abstracts.

The Conference Secretariat
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
University of San Carlos-Talamban Campus
Tel. #: (32)3443801 loc 449
Email address: rh_judy@yahoo.com

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