IASP NEWSLETTER AUGUST 2009

Dear Fellow Members

Greetings from the Board of Trustees and the Executive Committee. Hope you are in receipt of the News Letter of July 2009. We wish to update you further on the Thirty First Annual conference. Announcement 1: Thirty First Annual Conference of IASP and Call for papers The Thirty First Annual Conference of IASP will be held at Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati during November 3-5, 2009. The main theme of the conference is “Population and Disease”. The Millennium Development Goals to be achieved by 2015 relate to specific targets in terms of child health and mortality, maternal health and mortality, adolescent health and reduction of burden of HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis. In the light of several efforts being made towards improving the health status of various sections of the population, there is a need for the Demographic fraternity to focus on the health and disease related aspects in terms of current status, differentials, trends, determinants, and policy and programme initiatives as well as implications. We also need to understand the disease burden classified by communicable and infectious disease besides the others. The conference would comprise panel discussions and presentation of invited and contributed research papers and posters on the sub-themes listed below: 1. Reproductive health including maternal mortality 2. Child care, morbidity and mortality 3. Adolescent and adult health 4. Infectious and Non communicable diseases 5. Epidemiological transition 6. Research on disease burden 7. Disease burden – methodological issues including innovations in methodology and use of data on disease burden 8. Linking Research findings with economics by monetizing disease/mortality burden to the country and household and presenting alternatives for Government action 9 Emerging disease pattern and the likely burden on Government 10. Critical appraisal of health policy form disease burden perspective that would lead to policy changes 11. Sexual health 12. Methodological issues related to large scale sample surveys The IASP members who have been actively involved in multi disciplinary research on population and disease are encouraged to make use of this rare opportunity of the annual conference to share their thoughts, views and research findings on the sub themes listed above. The members are requested to contribute papers/posters on any of the sub-themes. Your paper may identify gaps and or suggest ways and means to improve the programmes aimed at improving the health status. Your paper/poster could be a case study or based on primary or secondary data at district, state or national level or it might raise some of the methodological issues of significance. Your paper/poster must bring out the emerging issues in line with the main theme of the conference.

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Prepare your abstract for paper/poster on one of the sub-themes, as per the attached format. The

abstract should be upto 250 words. The last date for submission is September 5, 2009.

The abstract

should be sent to the President/General Secretary, IASP on the mailing address: National Institute of

Medical

Statistics,

ICMR,

Ansari

Nagar,

New

Delhi

110

029

or

on

the

Email

ID:

iasp.nims@gmail.com.

An expert committee will scrutinise and select the papers/posters to be presented at the conference

The authors whose paper/poster get selected will be intimated by September 30,2009

The complete paper including the abstract, tables and annexure, if any, should not exceed 15 pages in

1.5 line space. The full papers of the selected abstracts should reach us latest by October 20, 2009.

The selected authors should bring 30 copies of the paper for distribution during the conference.

The volume of selected abstracts will be brought out and distributed during the conference.

Due to paucity of funds, all authors of the selected papers are requested to try to manage for TA/DA

from their parent institutions. Those authors who are not able to manage their traveling allowance (TA)

from their institution may apply well in advance to IASP. The TA may be reimbursed to the selected

authors for to and fro travel expenses by shortest train route from their head quarter to Tirupati by AC­

3 Tier. The train booking for both ways should be arranged by members themselves. Please note that

no claim will be entertained without photocopy of the tickets in support of TA. It may further be noted

that if a paper/poster have more than one author, only one of the author (who presents the paper) will

be reimbursed of his/her travel expenses.

The members, whose papers are not selected or who have not submitted the paper, but wish to attend

the conference are welcome to do so at their own travel expenses. However, local hospitality will be

accorded to them.

The members who desire to come with family will have to get all accompanying members registered in