» Date: September 20-21, 2008
» Place: FIERGS Convention Center - Porto Alegre, Brazil
» Course Website: http://www.iseventsolutions.com/epi/course_outline/index.html
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Course on Epidemiologic Research and New Directions
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» Date: 21/9 - 8h to 12h
» Place: FIERGS Convention Center - Porto Alegre, Brazil
» Speaker: Eduardo L. Franco
» Registrations: to register for the course, you must first register with the Congress. Afterwards, access your restricted area and click the “course” menu, on the left hand side - Limited to 50 participants!
» Public: Epidemiologists and clinical researchers in the early stages of their careers or to those who are switching from clinical or public health practice to research. Public health practitioners and policymakers may also find the contents valuable in understanding the process of scientific research and publishing.
» Objectives: The course objectives are: 1) to provide an overview of principles of good scientific practice as applied to research on human subjects (examples from cancer epidemiology and oncology); 2) to discuss elements of scientific reasoning that are used in clinical and epidemiologic research and mentorship; 3) to discuss the process of research communication and publishing; 4) to discuss the key ingredients that make a published paper useful to the scientific community.
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» Date: September 20-21, 2008
            20/9 - 9h to 12h e 14h to 19h
            21/9 - 9h to 12h
» Place: FIERGS Convention Center - Porto Alegre, Brazil
» Speakers: Luciana Tricai Cavalini
                  Timothy Wayne Cook
» Registrations: to register for the course, you must first register with the Congress. Afterwards, access your restricted area and click the “course” menu, on the left hand side - Limited to 10 participants!
» Public: Healthcare, IT and other professionals working or researching on epidemiology.
» Objectives: To introduce attendees to openEHR specifications as implemented in the Open Source Health Information Platform (OSHIP) project and related healthcare applications on that platform aimed to epidemiologic (especially surveillance) demands.
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» Date: 20/9 - 8:30 am to 5h30 pm
» Place: FIERGS Convention Center - Porto Alegre, Brazil
» Speakers: Claunara S. Mendonça (Brazil), Alice Telles (Brazil), Sílvia Takeda (Brazil, - Davidson Gwatkin (USA), David Sanders (South Africa), David Legge (Australia), - Roman Vega Romero (Colombia), Carlile Lavor (Brazil), Erno Harzheim (Brazil), Luis Fernando Rolim Sampaio (Brazil)
» Registrations: to request registration to this event, you must be registered in the Congress. After finalizing your Congress registration, access your restricted area and click the “course/symposium” menu, on the left side - Limited to 500 participants!
» Public: Health professionals, academics, health activists (with simultaneous translation).
» Objectives: - Discuss the evidence and examples of PHC in promoting equity.
- Increase knowledge about PHC in Brazil (especially the Family Health Strategy) and globally.
- Expose and debate experiences in the use of methods and indicators in PHC research.
- Discuss social determinants of health, the growing role of social programs and possible links between these and the Family Health Strategy.
- Discuss strategies of social mobilization and of revitalizing “Health for All” : the examples of the People’s Health Movemen.
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