Global Health Events Calendar

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May 5-7
6th Collaborative Communications Summit: Transforming Healthcare through Health Information Technology
Mandarin Oriental, Washington, D.C.
The Collaborative Communications Summit: "Transforming Healthcare through Health Information Technology" is designed to help top-level executives, legislators, physicians, regulators and technologists come to grips with the swirling forces of technology change, policy development and changing business models.
Website: www.collaborativecommunicationssummit.com

May 5-8
The Eleventh Annual Conference on Vaccine Research (ACVR) 
Baltimore, MD, United States
This conference is devoted exclusively to research on vaccines and associated technologies for disease prevention and treatment through immunization. International experts will lead seminars and panel discussions on topical areas of basic immunology, product development, clinical testing, regulation, and other aspects of vaccine research.
Website: www.nfid.org

May 6
NIAID Event: John Ring LaMontagne Memorial Lecture
Bethesda, MD
Rino Rappuoli, Ph.D.: "Vaccines: The Health Insurance of the 21st Century"
Contact: Julie Marquardt marquarj@niaid.nih.gov

May 6
Fogarty/NIH Event: Race Against Time-Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa
Bethesda, MD
Stephen Lewis, Co-Director of AIDS-Free World and Former UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa
For more information: http://www.fic.nih.gov/news/press_releases/2008/stephen_lewis_5-6-08.htm

May 16-21
American Thoracic Society International Conference
Toronto, Canada
The ATS meeting is one of the largest gatherings of Pulmonary and Critical Care clinicians and researchers in the world. The conference program will offer information on the latest and most significant developments in clinical practice, in research (clinical, basic, and translational), in health advocacy, and in education.
Website: http://www.thoracic.org/

May 30
NIAID Event: Gorgas Memorial Leon Jacobs Lecture
Bethesda, MD
Edgar M. Carvalho, M.D., Ph.D.: "Pathogenesis of Leishmaniasis: Parasite and Host Factors"
Contact: David Sachs dsacks@niaid.nih.gov

May 27-31
35th Annual International Conference on Global Health
Washington, D.C.
 The largest global health gathering for a series of events, speakers, and networking on global health.
Website: http://www.globalhealth.org/conference/

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