[Sigmed-l] Announcement: PHI2008 Conference September 18-19, 2008 in Seattle, WA (fwd)

[Debra Revere]

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Public Health Informatics 2008 (PHI2008) - "Envisioning Options for Integrated 
Public Health Information Systems for Low-Resource Settings: Components, 
Connections, Partners, Strategies"

PHI2008 will be held September 18-19, 2008 in Seattle, WA. This meeting builds 
on the success of the 1st international PHI conference in September last year 
at which participants agreed to move forward with organizing the Global 
Partners in Public Health Informatics -- a partnership of individuals, 
organizations and research centers dedicated to defining and developing a 
framework for addressing strategic public health information issues and 
requirements to drive successful global population health interventions. 
Through plenary sessions, panel and break-out discussions, and poster sessions 
PHI2008 will cover a wide scope of global public health informatics topics and 
will showcase state-of-the-art public health informatics research, development, 
and applications, with an emphasis on sustainable development strategies and 
sharing information technologies, data and knowledge. PHI2008 invitees and 
speakers, drawn from a variety of global health settings, organizations, and 
institutions, will cover topics such as:
     * E-health records for improved public health practice
     * Situational awareness and surveillance
     * Scalable information and communications technology approaches for 
improving population health
     * Decision support and knowledge management
     * Information policy and human capacity building

PHI2008 is open to practitioners, academics, scientists, managers, students, 
and decision makers from the various disciplines, industries, governmental 
institutions, international and intergovernmental organizations, agencies and 
networks that are concerned with improving the public's health on the local, 
national and global levels through the application of information and 
communications technologies.

More details can be found in the attached flyer. For more information on the 
program and to register: www.gpphi.org/conferences

Early registration is encouraged as there is limited attendance capacity. We 
look forward to seeing you in Seattle in September 2008!



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