OneHealth/EcoHealth Expert registry: this registry allows to keep track of the expert community active on nature & health related issues (including e.g. One Health, EcoHealth, Biodiversity & Health, Environmental Health, Nature Based Health Solutions) both within the Belgian and the European expert community of practice. Feel free to join and spread in your networks!

Extended call for contributions for the 27-29 June 2017, in Bonn/Germany. Conference programme and interactive sessions. Extended deadline for abstract submission is February 28^th 2017 (abstract submission guidelines).

Call for contributions to the Special Issue on Urban Climate, Air Pollution, and Public Health in the journal Climate, edited by the Healthy-Polis International Consortium for Urban Environmental Health and Sustainability.

This special issue aims to explore the complex interactions between urban climate, air pollution and public health in cities around the world. Contributions of original and review papers that integrate different methodological approaches are particularly invited.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Health risks of traffic related air pollution and noise
- Active travel, air pollution exposure and health co-benefits
- Health impact assessment of urban interventions
- Co-exposure to urban air pollution, noise and heat
- Urban Heat Islands—health effects and mitigation
- Urban green and blue spaces
- Indoor air quality, ventilation and building overheating
- Climate change adaptation and sustainable development of urban areas

For this special issue the Article Processing Charge (APC) will be waived for well-prepared manuscripts. Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2017

ECTMIH brings together scientists and experts from Europe and from all over the world, including many delegates from low and middle income countries. This biennial event is patronised by FESTMIH, the Federation of European Societies of Tropical Medicine and International Health. In 2017, the Antwerp Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM) and the Belgian Platform for International Health (Be-Cause Health) will join hands with FESTMIH for the festive 10th edition. Building on the successes of previous meetings, it will consolidate ECTMIH's standing as Europe's leading conference and networking event in its field.

Announcement in Dutch but the lectures will be in English:

Roy Anderson will discuss these trends using a variety of recent epidemics to illustrate key problems and their possible resolution. These epidemics include influenza A, Ebola virus, Zika virus and SARS. The approaches discussed are interdisciplinary in nature including epidemiological methods, clinical studies, demography, people movement patterns and computational simulation techniques.
Roy Anderson is Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology in the School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London and Director of the Centre for Neglected Tropical Disease Research. His recent appointments include Rector of Imperial College London and Chief Scientist at the Ministry of Defence, UK. His research interests are in interdisciplinary studies at the interface between medicine, biology, mathematics and computation.

Barbara Kerstiëns will reflect on the avenues to further the research agenda for world health. Barbara Kerstiëns is the deputy head of the Public Health Section within the unit responsible for infectious diseases and advancing public health in the Health Directorate of the Directorate-General for Research and Innovation at the European Commission. She has a long experience in international public health, working for Médecins Sans Frontières, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public health and DG Development and Cooperation of the European Commission. She joined DG Research and Innovation in 2012, covering the health promotion and health systems & services research themes.
This will be followed by a reply from the experts invited for the workshop:

• Manuel Carballo, Executive Director of the International Centre for Migration Health and Development, Geneva
• David Fedson, former Harry T. Peters Jr. Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia
• Heidi Larson, Senior Lecturer, London School of Health and Tropical Medicine & Fellow at the Chatham House Centre on Global Health Security
• Rebecca Martin, Director of the Center for Global Health cdcp, Atlanta
• Simon Rushton, Lecturer Department of Politics, University of Sheffield

Through its Anticipate programme, Innoviris is financing projects led by academic researchers at a Brussels university or college which focus on the future and cover areas of importance to the Brussels Capital Region. Such projects help to develop and enrich the knowledge available on Brussels' urban complexity. The programme funds projects in the areas of both human and precise science. The projects pay the appropriate attention to creating valuable research, preferably in collaboration with a supporting institution.

Part of this call is on Health and environment. How do environmental factors relate to the development of disease/unease, including problems such as addiction and stress phenomenon? How can we employ bio-monitoring tools (diagnosis, sensors, applications, etc.) to detect detrimental emissions, monitor air and water quality, purify the air indoors and outdoors, improve environmental noise,…? Which strategies can we apply or develop to manage health-related environmental risks?

EU Green Week is an annual opportunity to debate and discuss European environmental policy. Organised by the European Commission's Directorate-General for Environment, this key event in the environment policy calendar attracts policymakers, leading environmentalists, stakeholders and other interested parties from across Europe and the globe.

EU Green Week 2017 will take place from 29 May to 2 June with the theme of 'Green jobs for a greener future'. It will focus on how EU environmental policies are creating green jobs and contributing to economic, sustainable and socially responsible growth in the EU. It will also highlight the demand for new types of green skills in many professional sectors.

Call for contributions: International Transdisciplinarity Conference 2017 - Transdisciplinary Research and Education — Intercultural Endeavours - September 11-15, 2017, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany

Contributions are invited for the International Transdisciplinarity Conference 2017. The overall objective of the conference is to strengthen communities of transdisciplinary research and education, and to create visibility for theoretical, empirical and transformative advances/results. The focus of the conference is on interculturality. Participants will explore transdisciplinary research and education as intercultural endeavours concerning epistemologies, world-views, practices, and place-based differences. The deadline for abstract submissions is 10 March, 2017.

The Programme Committee accepts late-breaking abstracts in all conference topics, but organizers particularly welcome submissions for two special tracks: One Health and rapid diagnostics. The abstracts must contain novel data, which only became available after the end of November when the regular submission deadline closed. More information may be found in the abstract guidelines.

The submission is open from 15 February – 1 March 2017, 23:59 CET

The Spring School program is designed to enable international students and working professionals with interest and focus in global health to study various subjects and join the international global health community in Geneva the “public health Capital of the World”. The unique and flexible structure of the one week program allows participants to gain comprehensive knowledge base in global health while providing a strong global health focused platform to engage and strengthen professional networks. Participants of the Spring School of Global Health are normally given the flexibility of choosing a maximum of 2 courses (each course runs for 3 days).

Truly international conference with attendees from over 30 countries. Organization with 25 years of experience in organizing scientific events and publishing. Publication in online open-access journals with peer-review (ISSN, indexation).

This year´s conference has a special thematic focus on social justice in science, technology, and environmental issues. The STS Conference Graz 2017 is the joint Annual Conference of the Institute of Science, Technology and Society Studies at Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt|Vienna|Graz (STS), the Inter-University Research Centre for Technology, Work and Culture (IFZ) and the Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society (IAS-STS).