2011 EVENTS CALENDAR

JANUARY

Event date 12 January 2011

Event name Donors & Foundations Constituency Teleconference

Organizer PMNCH

Venue Teleconference

Description Members of the PMNCH Donors & Foundations Constituency hold monthly meetings via teleconference.

Web link http://www.who.int/pmnch/about/steering_committee/govcalendar/en/index.html

Event date 13 to 14 January 2011

Event name 3rd Annual Breast –Gynecological International Cancer Conference (BGICC)

Organizer BGICS Breast –Gynecological International Cancer Society

Venue Cairo, Egypt

Description The BGICC is the only conference specialized in the breast & gynecological cancers in Africa & the Middle-East. Its ultimate goal is to ameliorate the prognosis and improve the quality of life of patients affected by this disease through undertaking and supporting international initiatives, sharing their experience & implementing trials and to reach a consensus regarding the management of the breast & gynecological cancer & aiming for Women Welfare.

Web link http://www.bgicc.eg.net/

Event date 14-16 January 2011

Event name The 4th World Congress on Mild Approaches in Assisted Reproduction

Organizer The International Society for Mild Approaches in Assisted Reproduction (ISMAAR) in collaboration with the Ghosh Dastidar Institute for Fertility Research

Venue Science City, Kolkata, India

Description The World Congress on Mild Approaches in Assisted Reproduction advocates for mild and more physiological approaches to Assisted Reproduction. This year’s event placed special emphasis on topics particularly relevant to developing nations such as improved feto-maternal health outcome, ethics and regulation.

Web links http://www.ismaar-india2011.com/index.php

Event date 17 to 25 January 2011

Event name 128th WHO Executive Board Meeting

Organizer The World Health Organization

Venue WHO headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland

Description At this meeting, the WHO Executive Board (EB) adopted a resolution regarding the follow-up to the 2010 high-level plenary meeting of the United Nations on the review of the Millennium Development Goals. Click here for more information.

Web links http://www.who.int

Event date 17 January to February 4 2011

Event name Forty-eigth session of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women

Organizer UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Venue United Nations Office in Geneva, Switzerland

Description During this session, the Committee considered reports submitted by Bangladesh, Belarus, Israel, Kenya, Liechtenstein, South Africa and Sri Lanka.

Web links http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cedaw/sessions.htm

Event date 24 January to February 4 2011

Event name Ipact Monitoring and Evaluation of Maternal and Newborn Health Care

Organizer Ipact in collaboration with University of Aberdeen

Venue Puri Pujangga UKM, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Description This short course designed for “country groups” offered an opportunity to strengthen capacity in developing countries for programme monitoring and evaluation in the context of global reproductive health goals. Course conducted by Ipact, University of Aberdeen in partnership with Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia.

Web links http://www.ipact-int.com/

Event date 25-26 January 2011

Event name 7th Annual Mobile Healthcare Summit

Organizer Strategy Institute

Venue Holiday Inn Toronto Airport

Description The 7th Mobile Healthcare Summit brought together leading experts in the expanding field of new technology in healthcare.

Web links http://mobilehealthsummit.ca/

Event date 25 to 29 January 2011

Event name Second Global Forum on Human Resources for Health

Organizer Global Health Workforce Alliance in collaboration with the Prince Mahidol Award Conference, the World Health Organization and the Japan International Cooperation Agency, supported by many other agencies, especially the Rockefeller Foundation, the China Medical Board and the World Bank.

Venue Bangkok, Thailand

Description 28 JANUARY 2011 | BANGKOK - A parallel session at the Second Global Forum on

Human Resources for Health has highlighted the centrality of the health workforce to the achievement of MDGs 4 and 5. At the session — jointly organized by the Global Health Workforce Alliance (GHWA) and PMNCH — former PMNCH Board member, Helga Fogstad (NORAD) provided insight about the Global Strategy and its recommended investments in human resources, its launch commitments and the steps taken in the accountability work — notably the setting up of the Commission on Information and Accountability for Women's and Children's Health.

Click here for the full report.

Web links http://www.who.int/workforcealliance/forum/2011/en/index.html

Event date 26 January 2011

Event name First meeting of Accountability Commission on Women’s and Children’s Health

Organizer United Nations

Venue Geneva, Switzerland

Description First meeting of high-level chairs and commissioners of the new Information and Accountability Commission on Women’s and Children’s Health. Report available here.

Web links http://www.everywomaneverychild.org/pages?pageid=14

Event date 26-30 January 2011

Event name World Economic Forum Annual Meeting

Venue Davos-Klosters, Switzerland

Description Presentation and exploration of private-public investment opportunities in relation to the Global Strategy. The overall theme for this Annual Meeting is Shared Norms for the New Reality, reflecting the foremost concern of many leaders today – living in a world that is becoming increasingly complex and interconnected and, at the same time, experiencing an erosion of common values and principles. The Annual Meeting provides a rethinking of our systems and exploration of strategies and solutions that have positive transformational implications. Particular emphasis will be placed on addressing the question of "How", going beyond analysis and elaborating innovative ideas and solutions to key global challenges.

Venue Davos-Klosters, Switzerland

Web links http://www.weforum.org/en/events/AnnualMeeting2011/index.htm

Event date 28 January 2011

Event name Event at the World Economic Forum: Reception to support the Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health

Venue Davos-Klosters, Switzerland

Description Opportunities for Business Leadership to Advance the Millennium Develoopment

Goals

Web links n/a

FEBRUARY

Event date 3 to 4 February 2011

Event name G8 Deauville Summit – Sous-Sherpas Meeting

Organizer Government of France

Venue Paris, France

Description n/a

Web links n/a

Event date 1 February 2011

Event name Global Meeting of WHO National Counterparts on Alcohol and Health

Organizer WHO

Venue Geneva, Switzerland

Description A global network of WHO counterparts met in Geneva in February 2011 to discuss how the Global Strategy on Alcohol can be implemented at country level.

Web links n/a

Event date 11 February 2011

Event name GAVI Alliance interactive webcast media briefing before rollout of pneumococcal vaccines in developing countries

Organizer GAVI Alliance

Venue Online webcast

Description On Monday, 14 February in Nairobi, the President of Kenya will host an event at 10 am local time to celebrate the global roll-out of cutting-edge new vaccines against pneumococcal disease—a process that is beginning with the introduction in Kenya and four other developing countries, of the most advanced technologies ever brought to bear on the world’s deadliest cause of pneumonia and meningitis. Ahead of marking this major milestone in global health, the GAVI Alliance would like to invite you to join an interactive webcast media briefing on Friday, 11 February, with GAVI CEO Helen Evans and Dr. Orin Levine, a researcher with the Johns Hopkins University and one of the world’s top experts on pneumococcal vaccines. They will be joined by Dr. Tom Mboya, Ambassador/Permanent Representative to the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Kenya, who is also a former high-level official in the Kenyan Ministry of Health.

WHEN: At 13:00 GMT (14:00 – Geneva time) HOW: To join, simply click on this link to register: http://www.apo-opa.org/en/application?vc=GAVI For further information please contact Dan Thomas (dthomas@gavialliance.org | tel: +41 22 909 6524 | mobile: +41 79 251 8581).

Web links http://www.gavialliance.org/media_centre/press_releases/media_advisory_pneumococcal.php

Event date 14-17 February 2011

Event name Mobile World Congress

Organizer GSMA

Venue Barcelona, Spain

Description This year's Congress will include: Visionary keynotes and action-provoking panel discussions; An exhibition with more than 1,300 companies displaying the cutting-edge products and technology that will define the mobile future; An even bigger App Planet the new Centre of the Apps Universe;An awards programme that highlights the most innovative mobile solutions and initiatives from around the world.

There will also be a presentation about the Global Strategy and discussion of opportunities for mHealth innovation in the MNCH community.

Web links http://www.mobileworldcongress.com/

Event date 22 February to 4 March 2011

Event name The 55th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women

Organizer United Nations Commission on the Status of Women

Venue Geneva, Switzerland

Description In accordance with its multi-year programme of work (ECOSOC resolution 2009/15), the 2011 priority theme of the Commission on the Status of Women is “Access and participation of women and girls to education, training, science and technology, including for the promotion of women’s equal access to full employment and decent work”. The Commission will also evaluate progress in the implementation of the agreed conclusions from its fifty-first session on “The elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child”.

Web links http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/55sess.htm

Event date 23 to 24 February 2011

Event name Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Annual International Nursing & Midwifery Research & Education Conference " Promoting Patient Centered Care in Times of Change - The Challenge for Nurses & Midwives"

Organizer Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Faculty of Nursing

Venue Dublin, Ireland

Description n/a

Web links http://www.rcsi.ie/nursingconference

MARCH

Event date 3 to 4 March 2011

Event name G8 Deauville Summit – Sous-Sherpas Meeting

Organizer Government of France

Venue Paris, France

Description n/a

Web links n/a

Event date 8 March 2011

Event name Women Deliver Releases: "Women Deliver 100: the most inspiring individuals delivering for women."

Organizer Women Deliver

Venue n/a

Description To mark the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, Women Deliver is publishing a list of the top 100 individuals delivering for women.

Web links http://www.womendeliver.org/updates/entry/who-do-you-think-delivers-for-women/

Event date 14 to 15 March 2011

Event name G8 Deauville Summit – Foreign Ministers’ Meetings

Organizer Government of France

Venue Paris, France

Description n/a

Web links n/a

Event date 14 to 16 March 2011

Event name Global Health Metrics Evaluation Conference: Controversies, Innovation &

Accountability

Organizer IHME, LSHTM, HSPH, Lancet, U. of Queensland

Venue Seattle, WA

Description Academic partners, development partners, media/Developing linkages between Global Strategy accountability work and emerging themes here

Web links http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/

Event date 16 to18 March 2011

Event name Partners for Health in South-East Asia

Organizer WHO Regional Office for South East Asia

Venue New Delhi, Inida

Description The WHO conference “Partners for Health in South-East Asia”, to be held in New Delhi, India (March 16 – 18, 2011) seeks to strengthen regional collaboration for health, and encourage effective and sustainable partnerships between various stakeholders.

Web links http://www.searo.who.int/EN/Section1257/Section1259/Section2613.htm

Event date 24 March 2011

Event name World TB Day

Organizer The Stop TB Partnership

Venue n/a

Description World TB Day raises awareness about the global epidemic of tuberculosis (TB) and efforts to eliminate the disease. One-third of the world's population is currently infected with TB. The Stop TB Partnership, a network of organizations and countries fighting TB, organizes the Day to highlight the scope of the disease and how to prevent and cure it. The annual event on 24 March marks the day in 1882 when Dr Robert Koch detected the cause of tuberculosis, the TB bacillus. This was a first step towards diagnosing and curing tuberculosis. WHO is working to cut TB prevalence rates and deaths by half by 2015.

Web links http://www.stoptb.org/events/world_tb_day/

Event date 24 to 29 March 2011

Event name African Union conferences of Ministers of Finance (including joint one-day meeting with AU Health Ministers)

Organizer African Union

Venue Addis Ababa

Description Presentation of African investment case for MNCH

Web links www.africa-union.org/

Event date Week of 28 March 2011

Event name G8 Deauville Summit –Sherpas Meetings

Organizer Government of France

Venue Paris, France

Description n/a

Web links n/a

APRIL

Event date 7 April 201

Event name World Health Day

Organizer World Health Organization

Venue n/a

Description World Health Day is celebrated on 7 April to mark the founding of WHO. Each year, the Organization selects a key global health issue and organizes international, regional and local events on the Day and throughout the year to highlight the selected area. World Health Day 2011 will focus on antimicrobial resistance and its global spread. Antimicrobial resistance threatens the continued effectiveness of many medicines used today to treat the sick, while at the same time it risks jeopardizing important advances being made against major infectious killers. To underline this, the WHO public awareness campaign will include a special focus on the HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria epidemics. WHO will call on governments and stakeholders to implement the policies and practices needed to prevent and counter the emergence of highly resistant superbugs, and to also provide appropriate care to those seriously affected by these microbes.

Web links http://www.who.int/world-health-day/en/index.html

Event date 7 to 8 April 2011

Event name G8 Deauville Summit – Sous-Sherpas Meeting

Organizer Government of France

Venue Paris, France

Description n/a

Web links http://www.g20-g8.com/g8-g20/g8/english/home.18.html

Event date 11 to 14 April 2011

Event name World Vaccine Congress

Organizer Terrapinn Group

Venue Gaylord National Hotel and Convention Center, Washington DC, USA

Description The 2011 World Vaccine Congress is an opportunity to hear from North America’s leading governmental stakeholders, business leaders and scientific stakeholders as

they continue to enhance the scientific and strategic innovation behind a burgeoning vaccine industry.

Web links http://www.terrapinn.com/conference/world-vaccine-congress-washington/index.stm

Event date 15 to 20 April 2011

Event name 124th IPU Assembly and Related Meetings

Organizer Inter-Parliamentary Union

Venue Panama National Assembly, Panama City, Panama

Description Presentation of the Global Strategy and role for parliamentarians in accountability

Web links http://www.ipu.org/conf-e/124agnd.htm#agenda

Event date 16 to 17 April 2011

Event name 2011 Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund

Organizer World Bank and International Monetary Fund

Venue Washington, D.C.

Description Discussion of Global Strategy investment case, pledges and accountability process

Web links http://www.imf.org/external/am/index.htm

Event date 16 to 17 April 2011

Event name The Unite For Sight Global Health & Innovation 2011 Conference

Organizer Unite for Sight

Venue Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Description Presentation of Global Strategy and role of innovation in advancing women's and children's health

Web links http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference/

Event date 21 April 2011

Event name G8 Deauville Summit - African Partnership Forum

Organizer Government of France

Venue Paris, France

Description n/a

Web links http://www.g20-g8.com/g8-g20/g8/english/home.18.html

Event date 25 April 2011

Event name World Malaria Day

Organizer World Health Organization

Venue n/a

Description World Malaria Day - which was instituted by the World Health Assembly at its 60th

session in May 2007 - is a day for recognizing the global effort to provide effective control of malaria.

Web links http://www.rollbackmalaria.org/worldmalariaday/

Event date 30 April to 3 May 2011

Event name PAS/ASPR Joint Meeting

Organizer Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) and Asian Society for Pediatric Research (ASPR)

Venue The Colorado Convention Center, Denver, Colorado, USA

Description The Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) Annual Meeting is the largest international meeting focusing on research in child health while providing a unique venue for interdisciplinary scientific interactions.

Web links http://www.pas-meeting.org/2011Denver/default.asp

MAY

Event date 3 to 6 May 2011

Event name The 44th Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of the Asian Development Bank

Organizer Asian Development Bank

Venue National Convention Center, Ha Noi, Viet Nam

Description Discussion of Global Strategy investment case, pledges and accountability process. Further details about the Annual Meeting will be posted by November 2010.

Web links http://www.adb.org/AnnualMeeting/2011/default.asp

Event date 4 to 6 May 2011

Event name World Economic Forum on Africa

Organizer World Economic Forum

Venue Capetown, South Africa

Description This meeting will include an exploration of regional private-public investment opportunities in relation to the Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health.

Web links http://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-africa-2011

Event date 9 to 13 2011

Event name UN Conference on Least Developed Countries

Organizer United Nations

Venue Istanbul, Turkey

Description The purpose of the conference is to: 1. Assess the results of the 10-year action plan for the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) adopted at the Third United Nations Conference on LDCs in Brussels, Belgium, in 2001. 2. Adopt new measures and strategies for the sustainable development of the LDCs into the next decade.

This event will also include a presentation of the Global Strategy and the role of innovation in advancing the MDGs.

Web links http://www.un.org/wcm/content/site/ldc/home

Event date 10 May 2011

Event name G8 Deauville Summit – Meeting to address the fight against drug trafficking

Organizer Government of France

Venue Paris, France

Description This meeting will bring together G8 and invited ministers involved in the fight against drug trafficking ahead of the 2011 G8 Summit in Deauville, France.

Web links http://www.g20-g8.com/g8-g20/g8/english/home.18.html

Event date 16 to 25 May 2011

Event name 64th World Health Assembly

Organizer World Health Organization

Venue Palais des Nations, Geneva

Description Presentation of draft Global Strategy accountability report. In January 2010 the Executive Board of the WHO decided that the Sixty-fourth World Health Assembly should be held at the Palais des Nations, Geneva, opening on Monday, 16 May 2011, and that it should close no later than Wednesday, 25 May 2011. The Board further decided that the fourteenth meeting of the Programme, Budget and Administration Committee of the Executive Board should be held on Thursday and Friday, 12 and 13 May 2011, at WHO headquarters, Geneva.

Web links www.who.int

Event date 26 to 27 May 2011

Event name G8 Deauville Summit

Organizer Government of France

Venue Deauville, France

Description Heads of State meeting

Web links http://www.g20-g8.com/g8-g20/g8/english/home.18.html

JUNE

Event date TBA

Event name UN Global Compact Leaders Forum

Organizer United Nations

Venue New York, NY USA

Description Presentation of the Global Strategy and opportunities for further private sector engagement

Web links http://www.midwives2011.org/

Event date TBA

Event name UNGASS + 10

Organizer UNAIDS

Venue New York, NY USA

Description Presentation of the Global Strategy

Web links http://www.unaids.org/

Event date 1 to 2 June 2011

Event name Global Business Coalition Annual Meeting

Organizer Global Business Coalition

Venue New York, NY USA

Description Celebrating 10 Years of Business Action on Health

Web links http://www.gbcimpact.org/itcs_node/0/541,532,6/event/2771

Event date 6 to 17 June 2011

Event name UNFPA Executive Board

Organizer United Nations

Venue New York, NY USA

Description Presentation of draft Global Strategy accountability report

Web links http://www.unfpa.org

Event date 8 to 9 June 2011

Event name Norwegian Conference on Innovation (InnoTown Innovation Conference)

Organizer Global Business Coalition

Venue Alesund, Norway

Description n/a

Web links http://www.innotown.com/

Event date 13 to 17 June 2011

Event name 38th Annual International Conference on Global Health

Organizer Global Health Council

Venue Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, D.C.

Description The 38th Annual International Conference on Global Health will focus on the following theme: Securing a Healthier Future in a Changing World . . .

Web links http://www.globalhealth.org/conference_2011/

Event date 19 to 23 June 2011

Event name ICM 29th Triennial Congress

Organizer International Confederation of Midwives

Venue Durban, South Africa

Description Discussion of pledges and action to advance the aims of the Global Strategy among the health professional community. The ICM’s 29th Triennial Congress will be a stimulating and unmissable event for midwives from all background and experience. The ICM Scientific and Professional Programme Committee (SPPC), is developing an inclusive programme with a wide range of activity which is aimed at strengthening midwifery at national, local and community levels.

Web links http://www.midwives2011.org/

Event date 20 to 23 June 2011

Event name UNICEF Executive Board

Organizer UNICEF

Venue New York, NY

Description Presentation of draft Global Strategy accountability report

Web links http://www.unicef.org

Event date 21 to 23 June 2011

Event name 2011 Pacific Health Summit: Connecting Science, Industry, and Policy for a Healthier World

Organizer The National Bureau of Asian Research

In collaboration with

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Welcome Trust

Venue Seattle, Washington

Description The overarching theme of the Pacific Health Summit is to connect science, industry, and policy for a healthier world through effective utilization of scientific advances combined with industrial innovation and appropriate policy. Every year the Pacific Health Summit focuses on a single theme in order to tackle an important issue in global health. The 2011 Summit theme is: Vaccines

Web links http://www.pacifichealthsummit.org/about/focus.aspx

Event date 28 to 30 June 2011

Event name ICPD 2011 : "International Conference on Population and Development"

Organizer World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology

Venue Paris, France

Description The International Conference on Population and Development aims to bring together academic scientists, leading engineers, industry researchers and scholar students to exchange and share their experiences and research results about all

aspects of Population and Development, and discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted.

Web links http://www.waset.org/conferences/2011/france/icpd/

Event date 28 to 30 June 2011

Event name Global Fund 4th Partnership Forum

Organizer GFTAM

Venue Sao Paolo, Brazil

Description Presentation of the Global Strategy and opportunities for cross-sector engagement

Web links http://www.theglobalfund.org/en/calendar/

JULY

Event date 11 to 29 July 2011

Event name Forty-ninth session of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women

Organizer UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Venue United Nations Headquarters in New York

Description During this session, the Committee will consider reports submitted by Costa Rica, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Italy, Nepal, Republic of Korea, Singapore and Zambia.

Web links http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cedaw/sessions.htm

Event date To be confirmed

Event name African Union Summit

Organizer African Union

Venue To be confirmed

Description Progress report on the implementation of the AU Declaration of 2010 & review of regional Global Strategy commitments

Web links n/a

Event date To be confirmed

Event name The Economic and Social Council Annual Meeting

Organizer The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations

Venue To be confirmed

Description n/a

Web links n/a

AUGUST

Event date 1 to 7 August 2011

Event name World Breastfeeding Week

Organizer The World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA)

Venue n/a

Description World Breastfeeding Week is celebrated every year from 1 to 7 August in more than 120 countries to encourage breastfeeding and improve the health of babies around the world. It commemorates the Innocenti Declaration made by WHO and UNICEF policy-makers in August 1990 to protect, promote and support breastfeeding.

Web links http://worldbreastfeedingweek.org/

SEPTEMBER

Event date 9 to 10 September 2011

Event name G8 Deauville Summit – G7 Finance Ministers’ Meeting

Organizer Government of France

Venue Marseille, France

Description Meeting of the G7 finance ministers following the 2011 G8 Summit in Deauville

Web links http://www.g20-g8.com/g8-g20/g8/english/home.18.html

Event date 19 September 2010

Event name UNGA - NCD Heads of State and Government Summit

Organizer Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health (NMH)

Venue United Nations General Assembly, New York, USA

Description Presentation of first accountability report of the Global Strategy. WHO is working closely with the relevant United Nations Departments in New York on the preparations of the High-level Meeting of the UN General Assembly on the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases ("NCD Summit 2011"). (The exact dates, scope and purpose of the Summit is subject to approval by the UN General Assembly, following a process of consultations with Member States and other relevant stakeholders.)

Web links http://www.who.int/nmh/events/2011/ncd_summit/en/index.html

Event date 19-22 September 2011

Event name Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting

Organizer Clinton Global Initiative

Venue To be confirmed

Description Discussion of Global Strategy, opportunity for pledges, progress on accountability

Web links http://www.clintonglobalinitiative.org/ourmeetings/2011/default.asp?Section=OurMeetings&PageTitle=CGI%20Annual%20Meeting

Event date 24-26 September 2011

Event name 2011 Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund

Organizer The World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund

Venue To be confirmed

Description n/a

Web links n/a

OCTOBER

Event date 3-21 October 2011

Event name Fiftieth session of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women

Organizer UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Venue United Nations Office in Geneva

Description During this session, the Committee will consider reports submitted by Chad, Cote d'Ivoire, Kuwait, Lesotho, Mauritius, Montenegro, Oman and Paraguay.

Web links http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cedaw/sessions.htm

Event date 18-22 October 2011

Event name World Conference on Social Determinants of Health: Acting on Social Determinants to Promote Health Equity

Organizer Government of Brazil

Venue Brazil

Description High level technical and ministerial meeting on the social determinants of health. Mandated by WHA 62.14. Hosted by the Government of Brazil.

Web links n/a

Event date 23 to 26 October 2011

Event name World Health Summit

Organizer n/a

Venue Berlin, Germany

Description n/a

Web links http://www.worldhealthsummit.org/

Event date 24-28 October 2011

Event name ITU Telecom World 2011 Geneva

Organizer International Telecommunication Union

Venue Geneva, Swtizerland

Description ITU Telecom World 2011 is where the world's telecommunications leaders will come together to map out and shape the future of the industry, to make the right decisions with significant impacts on our world. The event will be attended by governments, industry leaders and regulators.

Web links http://www.itu.int/WORLD2011

Event date 25-28 October 2011

Event name 2nd Healthcare Development Conference

Organizer The Sustainable Healthcare & Hospital Development Magazine

In collaboration with

Medical Tourism Association, Medical Tourism Magazine, Health Tourism Magazine

Venue Chicago, Illinois

Description The Sustainable Healthcare and Hospital Development Conference is the first international healthcare conference focused on healthcare executives, investors of healthcare projects, and government officials involved in the developing and designing of healthcare projects and sustainable healthcare projects that are “Green”, such as hospitals, clinics, medical parks, and medical offices globally.

Web links http://www.healthcaredevelopmentconference.com/

NOVEMBER

Event date 3 to 4 November 2011

Event name G20 Cannes Summit

Organizer Government of France

Venue Cannes, France

Description The G20 is an informal group of 19 countries and the European Union. The G20 finance ministers and central bank governors began meeting in 1999, in Berlin, at the suggestion of the G7 finance ministers in response to the global financial crisis of 1997-99. Since then, there has been a finance ministerial meeting every fall.

Web links http://www.g20-g8.com/g8-g20/g20/english/home.9.html

Event date 25 November 2011

Event name International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

Organizer United Nations

Venue n/a

Description Women's activists have marked 25 November as a day against violence since 1981. The date commemorates the brutal assassination of the three Mirabal sisters, political activists in the Dominican Republic, in 1960 on orders of Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo (1930-1961). In 1999, the UN General Assembly designated 25 November as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.

Governments, international organizations and NGOs are invited to organize activities on the day to raise public awareness of the problem. The International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women also launches the 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence, which runs through 10 December, Human Rights Day.

Web links http://16dayscwgl.rutgers.edu/index.php

DECEMBER

Event date 1 December 2011

Event name World Aids Day

Organizer World Aids Campaign

Venue n/a

Description World AIDS Day on 1 December draws together people from around the world to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS and demonstrate international solidarity in the face of the pandemic. The Day is one of the most visible opportunities for public and private partners to spread awareness about the status of the pandemic and encourage progress in HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care in high prevalence countries and around the world.

Web links http://www.worldaidscampaign.org/

Event date 5 to 7 December 2011

Event name mHealth Summit

Organizer mHealth Alliance

Venue The Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center, Washington, DC

Description Presentation of the Global Strategy and opportunities for further private sector engagement

Web links www.mhealthsummit.org/