Tartu University would kindly like to remind you of the ongoing call for abstracts to the *Baltic Public Health Conference 2010 – Accomplishments and Challenges* taking place in Tartu, Estonia, from September 23–25, 2010.  All public health and health care professionals, policy-makers, scientists and students are invited to submit abstracts for presentation by May 15, 2010 to Conference@med.ut.ee

 

The conference is organized jointly by Tartu University, Estonian National Institute for Health Development and Estonian Ministry of Social Affairs, and aims at giving an overview of health status in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in 2010 as well as taking a look at the current challenges faced by health care systems in these countries.

The topics covered by the conference are broad and range from public health policy development and implementation to the provision of qualified staff for health services (incl. public health training systems) and the current major health challenges in the Baltic countries.

 

The conference programme is available at:

 

The seven sessions of the conference will cover the following sub-themes:

1.     Inequalities in health

2.     Academic public health

3.     Health policy development in health systems

4.     HIV/AIDS

5.     Public health practice

6.     Health technology assessment and health informatics in public health

7.     Health determinants

 

Please see specific abstract topics and guidelines at:

 

In order to participate at the conference, please fill in online registration form at:

 

The registration fee is 100 EUR (incl VAT) for early registration up to July 01, 2010. Those registering after July 01, 2010 shall pay the late registration fee of 150 EUR (incl VAT). Registration fee includes organized bus transportation, conference materials, lunch and coffee breaks, and social programme (welcome reception, excursions). For registered participants special bus transportation to Tartu will be organized from Riga, Kaunas and Tallinn early morning Thursday, September 23, and return trip Saturday, September 25 afternoon.

 

The conference language will be English.

 

Further details and updated information regarding the conference can be found at the website www.ut.ee/epi

 

The organisation of the conference is supported by the Norwegian Financial Mechanism within the project "Health information analysis and training in epidemiology".

 

Please kindly circulate the information among your collegues and all interested stakeholders in your country.

 

With best regards,

 

Department of Public Health

University of Tartu

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Preliminary programme

 

12:00   Lunch
13:00 Opening Ceremony
Keynote Lecture “The health consequences of economic crises: what are they and what can we do to prevent them?” – Martin McKee, Professor of European Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
14:00 Session 1 – Inequalities in Health
Invited Speaker:  Denny Vågerö, Director of Centre for Health Equity Studies,
Stockholm University
15:30  Coffee/tea break
16:00  Session 2 – Academic Public Health
 Invited Speaker:  Vesna Bjegovic-Mikanovic, Member of ASPHER Executive Board,
Centre-School of Public Health, School of Medicine, University of Belgrade
18:15-19:15 Walking tour in Tartu
20:00  Welcome Reception

9:00  Session 3 – Health Policy Development in Health Systems
Invited Speaker:  Rifat Atun, Director of Strategy, Performance and Evaluation Cluster,
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
10:45  Coffee/tea break
11:15 Session 4 – HIV/AIDS in the Baltics
Invited Speaker:  Jack A. DeHovitz, Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease; Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health; SUNY Downstate Medical Center, USA
13:00  Lunch
14:00 Session 5 – Public health practice - Baltic forum
Invited Speakers:  Ramune Kalediene, Dean of the Faculty of Public Health, Head of the Department of Health Management, Kaunas University of Medicine; Anita Villeruša, Dean of the Faculty of Public Health, Riga Stradinš University, Latvia; Maris Jesse, Director, National Institute for Health Development, Estonia
15:45  Coffee/tea break
16:00 Poster Session
 Wine & Cheese
17:45-19:15 Excursion in Tartu University Hospital

9:00 Session 6 – Health Technology Assessment and Health Informatics
 Invited Speaker:  to be assigned
10:45  Coffee/tea break
11:15 Session 7 – Health determinants
Invited Speaker:  Mall Leinsalu, Stockholm Centre on Health of Societies in Transition, Södertörn University College
13:00 Closing Plenary session

Each session contains a Plenary Lecture and 3-4 oral communications, selected from among the abstracts submitted.