Announcements

Recorded Webinar – Wednesday 4/29/10 – Child Development and Child Rights

WEBINAR SERIES CHILD HEALTH EQUITY AND CHILD RIGHTS Child Development and Child Rights Clyde Hertzman, M.D. is internationally renowned for his work in generating new understandings and approaches to early childhood development.  Through his work, Dr. Hertzman has been instrumental in creating a new synthesis which links population health to human development.  This webinar will [...]

Recorded webinar – Child Participation—Rights and Responsibilities-Gerison Lansdown, March 24, 2010

WEBINAR SERIES CHILD HEALTH EQUITY AND CHILD RIGHTS Child Participation—Rights and Responsibilities Gerison Lansdown, an internationally renowned advocate and researcher in child rights, will be presenting on the principles of child participation as a fundamental right of all children.  Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is one of the [...]

The Second Annual Greenville Family Symposium, April 12-14, 2010

The Second Annual Greenville Family Symposium brings together the Clemson University Institute on Family and Neighborhood Life and three co-sponsoring national or international scientific and professional organizations (the American Orthopsychiatric Association, the International Family Therapy Association, and the International Society for Child Indicators). The diversity of cultures and disciplines represented in the symposium promises to [...]

ESSOP Annual Meeting – 13th-17th October 2010 – Izmir, Turkey

13th-17th October 2010  -  Izmir, Turkey Provisional topic: Well-child care ESSOP 2010 – President’s Introduction As President of the European Society for Social Paediatrics and Child Health (ESSOP), I am happy to welcome you to the 2010 ESSOP Annual Conference.  We are delighted to be in the beautiful city of Kuşadası to hold this meeting jointly with [...]

PAHO/WHO Symposium – February 24th, 2010 – Connecting Ideas and Knowledge Sharing on Equity and Health

Connecting Ideas and Knowledge Sharing on Equity and Health PAHO/WHO Symposium – 9:00 am – 5:00 pm February 24th, 2010 10th Anniversary of Equity and Health listserv This symposium on health determinants and inequalities will be focused on the analysis of thematic trends and conceptual frameworks developed in the last 10 years and their policy implications. It [...]

Recorded webinar in a series on Life Course Health Development – Wednesday, February 24, 2010

WEBINAR SERIES - CHILD HEALTH EQUITY AND CHILD RIGHTS The Physiology of Racial and Ethnic Disparities A Life Course Perspective Michael Lu, M.D., of the Department of OB-GYN at UCLA School of Medicine, will discuss the impact of maternal stress on fetal development and the subsequent health and well-being of children and the adults they will [...]

IV World Congress on Child and Adolescent Rights – Puerto Rico from 15th to 18th of November 2010

IV World Congress on Child and Adolescent Rights will take place in Puerto Rico from 15th to 18th of November 2010 for more information, please write to info@childrightscongress.org For Spanish brochure of the Congress, please click here

Recorded Webinar – Child Health Equity presented January 27, 2010 by Jeff Goldhagen, MD

Recorded Webinar Child Health Equity presented on January 27, 2010 by Jeff Goldhagen, MD. You can watch the presentation and listen the discussions below: Prof. Dr. Jeff Goldhagen 27 Jan 10 webinar

Early Childhood Matters marks 20 years of the CRC Read two articles from members of the Alliance in ECM

Early Childhood Matters marks 20 years of the CRC Read two articles from members of the Alliance in ECM Barnard van Leer Foundation, 19 November 2009 On November 20th it is 20 years since the signing of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The foundation’s flagship journal, Early Childhood Matters, marks this [...]

ESSOP Completes Annual Meeting

The European Society for Social Pediatrics and Child Health (ESSOP) held its 2008 annual congress on October 8-10 in Reykjavik, Iceland.  The focus was on Helath of School-Age Children and featured presentations from experts such as Dr. Clyde Hertzman and Francis Glascoe, among others.  Look to their website (www.essop.org) for presentations to soon be posted [...]