16-17 April 2024 the Eurasian Academic Alliance for Global Health is convening its 2nd international conference. The theme of the conference is Strengthening Health Workforce for Improving Health Security in the Eurasian Region. The conference offers online participation.
As the world becomes more globalized, so does health of its population. From the early 2000s Global Health has emerged as a rapidly growing academic discipline addressing the health issues and concerns, which transcend political boundaries of all countries and create a relationship of global, mutual interdependence. Global health focuses on health needs of the people of the whole planet, above the concerns of particular nations, and emphasizes the shared susceptibility to, experience of, and responsibility for health. Global health challenges require effective trans-national actions. As the COVID19 pandemic has revealed, cooperation on global health issues is important among all countries of the world. However, countries located in closer geographic proximity require particularly well-developed collaboration mechanisms since they are more tightly linked by the external factors such as – tourism, trade, environment, climate, socio-cultural influence and others - that can catalyze the exacerbation of populations’ health. The Eurasian Academic Alliance for Global Health was established in 2021 with the support from the European Commission’s Erasmus+ programme.
Founding members of the Alliance are (in alphabetical order):
• Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (Kazakhstan)
• Astana Medical University (Kazakhstan)
• Batumi State University (Georgia)
• University of Bergen (Norway)
• Heidelberg Institute of Global Health (Germany)
• National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” (Ukraine)
• Tbilisi Institute of Global Health (Georgia)
• Ternopil National Medical University (Ukraine)
• Tbilisi State University (Georgia)
• UiT the Arctic University of Norway
• University of Georgia
The Alliance’s primary objective is to serve as a collaborative platform on global health education and research among academic institutions in countries across the Eurasia region. In the context of the Alliance, Eurasia is defined as a group of countries located in the Baltic Sea, Eastern Mediterranean, Black Sea, Caspian Sea and the Central Asia regions.
The conference will be held at the Library of the Higher School of Medicine of the Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan. Conference programme: Strengthening Health Workforce For Improving Health Security In The Eurasian Region
Online participation is possible. To register, please fill the Registration Form For Digital Participation and send to the Alliance’s Secretariat at info@allianceforglobalhealth.net no later than March 25, 2024.