Unite For Sight's Fourth Annual International Health Conference will convene more than 1,500 people from throughout the world who are interested in international service, global health, public health, international development, eye care, health policy and advocacy, anthropology, entrepreneurship, nonprofits, philanthropy, microfinance, bioethics, and medicine.

• Leprosy: The Disease, Ocular Effects, and Rehabilitation
• Eye Care and Public Health: Challenges and Solutions for Marginalized Populations in Asia and Africa
• Health Care in the Caribbean
• Childhood Diseases
• Public Health in Latin America
• Perspectives on Global Health
• Technology and Telemedicine: New Innovations in Health Care
• Glaucoma in Ghana
• Global Health, Economic Unions, and The State
• Perspectives on Eye Care in Africa
• Malaria Prevention and Treatment Strategies
• Engaging in Community-Based Health Programs I
• Global Food Systems
• Community HIV Prevention Programs
• Global Health Workforce and the Brain Drain Problem
• Sanitation and Water Use
• Health and Development in the 21st Century
• Health, Human Rights, and Humanitarian Emergencies
• The Health of Refugee Women I

Register between September 15 - October 15 $70 (Student Rate: $50)
Register between October 15 - November 15 $75 (Student Rate: $55)
Register between November 15 - December 20 $80 (Student Rate: $60)
Register between December 20 - January 20 $85 (Student Rate: $65)
Register between January 20 - February 28 $90 (Student Rate: $70)
Register between March 1 - March 20 $95 (Student Rate: $75)
Register between March 20 - April 5 $110 (Student Rate: $80)
At The Door $145 (Student Rate: $95)

The BMI training program encompasses bioinformatics, clinical informatics, and public health informatics. Bioinformatics focuses on methods for relevant to basic biology. Clinical informatics focuses on methods relevant to patient care. Public health informatics focuses on methods relevant to entire health systems. Examples from these areas can be found in the list of interests of our participating faculty.

The BMI core curriculum requires training in five areas:

1. Biomedical Informatics (15 units): the methods used to represent knowledge and develop biomedical models.
2. Computer Science (9 units): the expertise required to implement these representations and models,
3. Probability, Statistics and Decision Science (9 units): the methods for managing uncertain biomedical data.
4. Biomedical Domain Knowledge (9 units): the specialized knowledge necessary to identify and make impact upon important biomedical problems.
5. Ethics and Social Policy (6 or 3 units): to understand the societal implications of novel informatics technologies. PhD candidates must take 6 units, MS students are required to take 3 units.

$ 13280 (per academic year)

http://med.stanford.edu/md/financial_aid/index.html

Biomedical Informatics Training Program
Stanford Medical Informatics
251 Campus Drive, MSOB, x-215, MC: 5479
Stanford, CA, 94305-5479
Internet: http://bmi.stanford.edu/
See also: Stanford Bulletin

The Program in Epidemiology offers interdisciplinary instruction and research opportunities leading to the M.S. degree in epidemiology. The program has research strengths in the following areas: cancer epidemiology, cardiovascular disease epidemiology, clinical epidemiology, infectious disease epidemiology, genetic epidemiology, and neurological disease epidemiology, as well as some aspects of epidemiologic methods, and environmental and occupational epidemiology.

To receive the degree, students are expected to obtain a thorough grounding in epidemiologic methods and applied biostatistics, and to demonstrate research skills through completion of a master's thesis. In addition, a curriculum in clinical research methods has been established specifically to enhance the training of clinical investigators. The clinical epidemiology track of the M.S. program in epidemiology has been designed to provide training in epidemiologic methods, statistical analysis, and other areas essential to patient-oriented clinical research to clinical investigators in training (typically in the fellowship stage).

$ 13280 (per academic year)

http://med.stanford.edu/md/financial_aid/index.html

Department of Health Research and Policy
Division of Epidemiology
HRP Redwood Building
Stanford, CA 94305-5405

Robert Shields, Educational Programs Coordinator
Tel: +1 (0)650 723 54 56
Fax: +1 (0)650)725 69 51
Email: shields@stanford.edu
Internet: http://med.stanford.edu/epidemiology/