Program
Final program NEW
The final program of the Conference may be downloaded from the following link:
Registration
| Thursday, 27 May |
8:00 am - 7:00 pm |
| Friday, 28 May |
8:00 am - 5:30 pm |
| Saturday, 29 May | 8:30 am - 1:00 pm |
Technical information
Oral presentations
Presentations are 10 minutes long. Time for discussion will be provided at the end of each section.
During the time of the Conference we will provide a “Slide Desk”, where participants can upload and check their slides, as well as obtain technical help. To avoid problems, we recommend uploading the files as early as possible. The presentation files can even be uploaded during the onsite registration.
The generally acceped format of the presentations is PowerPoint. Our computers are equipped with Windows 7 and Office 2007. Recommended video codecs: DivX, Xvid, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, h264, x264, WMV-9, audio codecs: MP3, AAC, AC3, WAV, WMA, PCM and file types: .avi, .mpg, .mp4, .mkv, .wmv.
If you have any special request regarding your presentation, please contact us in advance.
Posters
Poster boards are 90 cm wide and 150 cm tall. Pushpins will be provided.
Each poster will have a board number assigned, indicated in the Abstract Book. Authors are requested to mount their posters on the board with the given number.
Authors listed for the 1st Poster Session can mount their posters from the morning of 28 May, Friday, and they need to remove the posters in the evening. Authors listed for the 2nd and 3rd Poster Session (running parallel) can mount their posters from the morning of 29 May, Saturday, and remove the posters in the afternoon.
At least one author should be present at each poster during the given poster session.
Program overview UPDATED
27 May, Thursday
| Morning | Pre-conference meetings |
| 14:00 | Opening Ceremony, 1st Plenary session |
| 16:15 | 1st Master lecture, Parallel sessions |
| 20:30 | Welcome reception |
28 May, Friday
| 9:00 | 2nd Plenary session |
| 10:15 | 2nd Master lecture, Parallel sessions |
| 13:30 | Lunch |
| 14:30 | 3rd Master lecture, Parallel sessions, 1st Poster section |
| 18:30 | Wine-tasting party in Villány (see Optional Programmes) |
29 May, Saturday
| 9:00 | 3rd Plenary session |
| 10:15 | 4th master lecture, Parallel sessions, 2nd and 3rd Poster section |
| 13:30 | Closing ceremony |
| 14:00 | Lunch |
Main topics of the Conference
- Migration and Health Needs (infectious and chronic diseases)
- Migration and the Health Care System
- Migrants, Ethnic Minorities and Health Rights
- Migrants, Ethnic Minorities and Social Inequality (especially vulnerable groups)
- Health of Non-Migrant Ethnic Minorities
- Research Methodology in Migrant and Ethnic Minority Populations
- Migration, Disaster and Military Medicine
- Migrants, ethnic minorities and health of rural communities in Europe (Joint section meeting of the European Association for Community Health
Planned joint workshops (until now)
1/ Ethnic minorities (preliminary title): Is the health care system in Europe well prepared to handle the special health needs of ethnic minorities?
2/ Health research (preliminary title): Conflict of interests: availability of migrant and ethnic minorities specific health data versus data & human rights protection
3/ Affiliated meeting of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Experts on Mobility, Migration and Access to Health Care (to be finally confirmed)
4/ Health aspects and cultural sensitivity in the training of helpers
Keynote speakers
- Imre Holló, WHO EURO
- Andrzej Rys, director DG SANCO Public Health
- Martin McKee, LSHTM
- Aldo Morrone, NIHMP, Italy
Master lectures
- Youth mental health / second and third generation migrants (Prof. Jutta Lindert)
- Imported tropical diseases (Prof. Gábor Ternák)
- Undocumented Migration - Research in Vulnerable Space (Ursula Karl-Trummer)
- Culturally sensitive health care system (Prof. Raj Bhopal)
