July 14-19, 2009 Abjua, Nigeria. The theme of this meeting is: Health Care and National Development. For more information about the conference see: http://www.anpa.org/Conferences.php.

For Program details: http://www.anpa.org/pdf/Program%20schedule.pdf

If you plan to attend, we would like to hear from you.

Here are some highlights of the topics to be discussion:

The meeting is structured around Workshops, Round Table Discussions and Symposiums.

Workshops

Workshop I:

Strategies for Assessing the Health of a Population: Including Competencies in the WHO Rapid Response Protocol (RAP)

Workshop II:

Screening Strategies for Identifying High Risk Populations: HIV/AIDS, Hypertension, Diabetes and Other Chronic and Infectious Disease

Workshop III and Workshop IV:

Will run concurrently and focus on Advanced Cardiac Life Support and TBA respectively..

Round Table Discussions

Round Table Discussion I:

Health Policy and National Development

Round Table Discussion II:

Education and Research

Round Table Discussion III:

Health Infrastructure Development

Round Table Discussion IV:

Health Care Business in Nigerian and Emerging Markets

Symposia

Symposium I:

Cardiovascular Diseases

Symposium II:

Traffic Accidents

Symposium III:

Chronic Renal Failure

Symposium IV:

Mental Health

Symposium V:

Oral Health

Symposium VI:

Maternal and Child Health

Symposium VII:

Infectious Diseases

Symposium VIII:

Cancers

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There was no indication that these proceedings are going to be captured and made available post meeting.

The organizers should be encourage to do so. The topics to be covered are useful discussion pointers to help us initiate discussions here at CMULAlumni. If you are CMUL Alumni and you are presenting and/or attending this meeting we would like to hear from you.

Question:

Are these the kinds of meetings that CMUL Alumni should send a delegation to?