Amsterdam 2010: Application procedure for subsidized places now open. Deadline for application: 1 August 2010

Together with our partners:
- Open Society Institute
- European Commission
- European Public Health Alliance
- ASPHER
- And other partners
We have limited possibility of offering subsidized places. If you are in need of financial support to attend the conference in Amsterdam, please send an email indicating why, how much and for what you need financial assistance, we will do our best to assist. Send your request to: h.vandenbrink@nivel.nl by 1 August 2010.
Please note that selection criteria will include:
- whether you are a presenting author
- whether you can finance part of the costs yourself.
Other criteria are currently being elaborated.

New institutional member: The EUPHA Executive Council just accepted the European Centre for Public Health Genomics as a new institutional member.

The European Centre for Public Health Genomics is based at the Maastricht University, the Netherlands. The director of the institute, Prof. Angela Brand, is well known in EUPHA; she is the president of the EUPHA section on public health genomics.

New institutional member: The EUPHA Executive Council just accepted the Department of International Health of the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Science of Maastricht University as an institutional member.

The Department of International health of the Maastricht University has close links to EUPHA. The current head of the department, Prof. Helmut Brand, is the coordinator of the EUPHA pillar on training and education. The bachelor and master students of the European Public Health curricula are active at the EUPHA/ASPHER conferences.

EUPHA office will be expanding! During the June meeting of EUPHA, the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Rome kindly offered some extra support to EUPHA office for the coming 2 years.

Three young researchers will be working with EUPHA office to assist both in ongoing activities and in activities to develop. The EUPHA Executive and section councils welcomed this expansion. The three new collaborators of EUPHA office are: Agnese Lazzari, Luca Valerio and Roberto Falvo. They will take up their activities in August 2010.

The abstract selection meeting took place today. The abstracts for the Amsterdam 2010 conference were analysed in a meeting organised in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

The local organising committee, local programme committee, EUPHA, ASPHER and EPHA participated in the abstract selection meeting. All agreed that the quality of the submitted abstracts was high, making the selection difficult. There will be room for 91 oral sessions and 400 posters at the conference venue (RAI conference centre, Amsterdam). The decisional emails will be send out early next week to all abstract and workshop submitters.

The 3rd issue of the EJPH is available online. Click here for the table of contents.

Amsterdam 2010: The International Scientific Committee (ISC) has started scoring the submitted abstracts and workshops today. The scoring will end on 1 June midnight. We wish the ISC good luck in their scoring efforts.

The International Scientific Committee (ISC) for the 2010 European Public Health Conference, organised in Amsterdam from 10-13 November 2010 consists of 63 experts from 29 countries. The results of the scoring will be communicated to the abstract submitters by mid-June 2010.

The 3rd European Public Health Conference receives a record number of abstracts and workshops!! 814 single abstracts and 85 workshops were submitted for the Amsterdam 2010 conference.

AMSTERDAM 2010: The third European Public Health Conference will be organised from 10 -13 November 2010 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Click here for the first announcement.