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This week, Friday May 10 and Saturday May 11th
Paetzold Health Education Centre,
Vancouver General Hospital

Still time to register
Sorry, the Bethune Banquet, Friday May 10th is SOLD OUT.
If you would like to be put on the cancellation list please contact mairi.murchison@vch.ca

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Cordula & Guenter Paetzold Centre
Vancouver General Hospital 

Access the venue : 855 West 12th Avenue or 910 West 10th Avenue.
Please follow the signage for the Bethune.

May 12, 2013 Post Conference workshop: Essential Osteomyelitis management Instructor course : View Details

This event is an Accredited Group Learning Activity eligible for up to 12.5 Section 1 credits as defined by the Maintenance of Certification program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.  This program has been reviewed and approved by UBC Division of Continuing Professional Development.

Application Deadline Tuesday May 7, 2013
Grand Challenges Explorations - Grant opportunities from the Gates Foundation and its partners
Grand Explorations: an initiative to encourage innovative and unconventional global health and development solutions, is now accepting grant proposals for its latest application round. Applicants can be at any experience level; in any discipline; and from any organization, including colleges and universities, government laboratories, research institutions, non-profit organizations and for profit companies. View Details

Application Deadline Tuesday May 7, 2013
Grand Challenges Explorations - Grant opportunities from the Gates Foundation and its partners
Grand Challenges Brazil Partnership: Grand Challenges Brazil partnership has launched Reducing the Burden of Preterm Birth. This program seeks to develop new ways to prevent preterm birth; to improve the survival, health, and development of preterm infants; and to scale-up known effective prevention and treatment options. View Details

Thursday June 27 & 28, 2013
Symposium on Disability, Technology and Rehabilitation in Low and Middle Income Countries
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Keynote speaker: Chapal Khasnabis, Disability and Rehabilitation Team , World Health Organization
Call for Proposals – Due January 15, 2013
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Friday September 6 - 8, 2013
ASAP 6th Annual Meeting (Alliance for Surgery and Anesthesia Presence)
Partnerships In Global Health - Innovation That Works
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Wednesday October 16 & 17, 2013
World Congress of Surgery, Obstetrics, Trauma and Anesthesia
Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
This meeting will take place immediately following the WHO Global Initiative for Emergency and Essential Surgical Care Meeting.   An official announcement with registration details and a call for abstracts will follow in the weeks to come.
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QUICK FACTS

• Fifteen percent of the global burden of disease can be addressed with surgery.

• The wealthiest third of the global population receives 75% of the world's total number of surgical procedures, estimated at 234 million every year, while the poorest third receives only 4% of these operations.

• Annual death and disability rate from trauma alone is more than HIV/AIDs, tuberculosis and malaria combined.

• Single largest global epidemic of preventable deaths is road traffic injury. About 85% of these happen in low-resource countries.

• 500,000 women die annually in childbirth—six countries account for half these deaths-Afghanistan, Pakistan, Congo, Ethiopia, India and Nigeria.