<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Edith Certain</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:certaine@who.int">certaine@who.int</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 11:48 PM<br>
Subject: Special fellowship for journalists<br>To: <a href="mailto:TROPIKA@listserv.who.int">TROPIKA@listserv.who.int</a><br><br><br>For the attention of journalists:<br>
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Journalists from low and middle income countries are invited to apply for support for travel, expenses and registration to attend a major global conference on health systems research, to be held in Beijing...31 October to 3 November 2012. Leading experts and speakers from across the world will be participating in the ground-breaking meeting centred on the theme of Inclusion and Innovation towards Universal Health Coverage and which will showcase research on the way health systems do and don’t work.<br>
The meeting, the 2nd Global Symposium on Health Systems Research, is being hosted by the Peking University Health Science Center, and co-sponsored by the World Health Organization (WHO) through the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research and Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR); and BRAC University in Bangladesh.<br>
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PLEASE NOTE: 31 August, <a href="http://2012.is" target="_blank">2012.is</a> the deadline for applications. Application forms and information are available on the Symposium website in the media section.<br>
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For more information contact:<br>
• Susan Jupp, Symposium communications, <a href="mailto:susan.jupp@bluewin.ch">susan.jupp@bluewin.ch</a><br>
• Jamie Guth, Communications Manager, WHO/TDR, <a href="mailto:guthj@who.int">guthj@who.int</a>, <a href="tel:%2B41%2022%20791%202289" value="+41227912289">+41 22 791 2289</a><br>
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