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Urban health events in 2011

• 10th World Congress of Metropolis
  23-26 November 2011 | Porto Alegre, Brazil -- The event will offer a framework of reflection around the following central themes: Urban Growth and Planning, Governance and Quality of Life, Climate Change and Sustainability, Innovation and Mobility.
• ICPD 2011: International Conference on Population and Development
  14-16 November 2011 | Paris, France -- The VII. International Conference on Population and Development aims to bring together academic scientists, leading engineers, industry researchers and scholar students to exchange and share their experiences and research results about all aspects of Population and Development, and discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted.
• International Conference on Urban Health (ICUH2011)
  1-4 November 2011 | Belo Horizonte City, Brazil
• World Health Summit
  23-26 October 2011 | Berlin, Germany -- Improving medical research and individual healthcare worldwide.
• World Conference on Social Determinants of Health: Acting on Social Determinants to Promote Health Equity
  19-21 October 2011 | Paris, France -- WHO convened a global conference on 19-21 October 2011 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to build support for the implementation of action on social determinants of health.
• International Conference on Age-Friendly Cities
  28-30 September 2011 | Dublin, Ireland -- The conference programme is built around three main themes: Social and Cultural Connectivity, Built Environment and Building Momentum for the WHO Global Age-friendly Cities initiative.
• International Society for Equity in Health 6th International Conference: Making Policy a Health Equity Building Process
  26-28 September 2011 | Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
• UN NCDs High-Level Meeting
  19-20 September 2011 | New York, United States of America -- The aim is for countries to adopt a concise, action-oriented outcome document that will shape the global agendas for generations to come.
• Regional Health Cluster Meeting on Humanitarian Emergencies
  22-24 August 2011 | Kobe, Japan -- Aiming to further strengthen coordination efforts in the region, WHO proposed the First Regional Health Cluster Forum on Humanitarian Emergencies.
• Fifth Asia-Pacific Urban Forum: “Cities of Opportunity: Partnerships for an Inclusive and Sustainable Future”
  22-24 June 2011 | Bangkok, Thailand
• Annual WHO European Healthy Cities Conference
  15-18 June 2011 | Liège, Belgium
• Resilient cities 2011: 2nd world congress on cities and adaptation to climate change
  3-5 June 2011 | Bonn, Germany -- The global challenge of climate change adaptation: Where local impacts meet a world of solutions.
• Conference of SOUQ Center (Centro Studi Sofferenza Urbana)
  23-25 May 2011 | Milan, Italy -- Urban Suffering, Human Rights and Good Governance.
• International Conference of Innovative Cities - CICI 2011
  17-20 May 2011 | Curitiba, Brazil -- CICI is an International Conference that discusses Innovative Cities.
• 64th World Health Assembly
  16-25 May 2011 | Geneva, Switzerland -- Public seminar hosted by the WHO Centre for Health Development (WKC), “How to make your city smoke free”.
• Third Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction
  8-13 May 2011 | Geneva, Switzerland -- The Third Session of the Global Platform is based on multi-stakeholder participation with various mechanisms established to engage diverse constituencies in the preparatory process.
• First Global Ministerial Conference on Healthy Lifestyles and Noncommunicable Disease Control
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  28-29 April 2011 | Moscow, the Russian Federation -- In order to scale up global action to address NCDs and help galvanize the global community to implement the Global Strategy and its Action plan, the Government of the Russian Federation and WHO are organizing a Global Ministerial Conference.
• WHO Health Forum 2011: Addressing the Challenge of NCDs (Second NCDnet Global Forum)
  27 April 2011 | Moscow, the Russian Federation -- The WHO Global Forum will bring together a wide group of stakeholders to share views and experiences to date on the challenges and opportunities in noncommunicable disease prevention, treatment and control.
• XI International Health Impact Assessment Conference, “In crisis times, healthier ways”
  14-15 April 2011 | Granada, Spain -- The overall aim of the conference is to address the new challenges that HIA faces in the context of the current systemic crisis and explore the new opportunities for development that this context might offer.
• UCLG Asia Pacific (ASPAC): Global City 2011
  15-17 March 2011 | Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates -- The focus for the 2011 edition of this prestigious event, hosted once more by the Abu Dhabi government, is City Identity & Values.
• Global Health Metrics and Evaluation Conference
  14-16 March 2011 | Seattle, United States of America -- The Global Health Metrics & Evaluation (GHME) conference aims to bring together all the different disciplines involved in global health measurement and evaluation under one roof to share innovative tools and methods to get a better understanding of what the possibilities are in approaching population health measurement.
• Consultation Meeting on Healthy Urban Planning
  10-11 March 2011 | Kobe, Japan -- Full report.
• 2011 Humanitarian Action Summit
  4-6 March 2011 | Harvard, Massachusetts -- The Humanitarian Action Summit provides a forum for discussion and strategic thinking around emerging issues in humanitarian action. The Summit brings together leaders and experts from international, non-governmental, academic and health institutions, assembled in working groups that focus on major cross-cutting themes that have immediate relevance to current humanitarian aid and health sector issues.
• WKC Forum: Social inequity and mental health
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  4 March 2011 | Kobe, Japan
• The Future of Cities 2011
  28 February - 1 March 2011 | London, United Kingdom -- Cities face many challenges - economic, climate, resources, infrastructure and demographic. As centres of innovation, can cities produce the solutions they need to tackle them?
• Fifth conference of the International Forum on Urbanism Global Visions: Risks and Opportunities for the Urban Planet
  24–26 February 2011 | Singapore
• World Economic Forum Annual Meeting: Shared Norms for the New Reality
  26-30 January 2011 | Davos, Switzerland -- The theme of the Annual Meeting was Improve the State of the World: Rethink, Redesign, Rebuild.
• Second Global Forum on Human Resources for Health
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  25-29 January 2011 | Bangkok, Thailand -- The principal theme of the Forum is - Reviewing progress, renewing commitments to health workers towards MDGs and beyond.
• WKC Forum: How to make your city smoke-free
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  15 January 2011 | Kobe, Japan -- Public seminar hosted by the WHO Centre for Health Development (WKC), “How to make your city smoke free”.