Keep up to date with new initiatives and activities in the Ecohealth field. Regular updates are available at the EcoHealth website: http://www.ecohealth.net.

The XVIIIth International Conference of the Society for Human Ecology

The XVIIIth International Conference of the Society for Human Ecology will be held at MonteLago Village Resort, Lake Las Vegas, Nevada, USA from April 20–23, 2011. The main goal of this conference is to bring together a diverse group of educators, researchers, and practitioners who utilize, or are interested in, interdisciplinary and ecological approaches. This year’s conference’s theme is Human Responsibility and Environmental Change—Planning Process and Policy.

If you are interested in organizing a session, contributing a paper, preparing a poster presentation, or participating in a roundtable discussion, please send your inquiry to this email address: shelasvegas2011@gmail.com, and visit the website http://www.societyforhumanecology.org/ for updates.

The Final Deadline for Symposia and Paper Abstracts is January 31, 2011.

International Meeting on Emerging Diseases and Surveillance

International Meeting on Emerging Diseases and Surveillance (IMED 2011) has been announced! It will be held in Vienna, Austria, February 4–7, 2011. The meeting recognizes the commonality of human and animal health in a true “one health” endeavor. Topics will include: wildlife and the drivers of disease emergence, new and emerging arenaviruses, pandemic influenza, food and water borne pathogens, and many others.

Early registration deadline is December 22, 2009. Visit this website to register: https://esociety.netkey.at/sreg/imed/.

Abstract deadline is December 1, 2010. Visit this website for more information: https://esociety.netkey.at/isid/imed/abstractsubmission/.

The 15th International Congress for Infectious Diseases

The International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID) is pleased to announce the 15th International Congress on Infectious Diseases (ICID). ICID will be held in Bangkok, Thailand, June 13–16, 2012 in collaboration with the Infectious Disease Association of Thailand. For updates and to join the mailing list, please visit: http://www.isid.org/15th_icid/.

You may download the first announcement at this site: http://ww2.isid.org/Downloads/15th_ICID_Announce.pdf.

Environmental Health Conference 2011

The Environmental Health Conference 2011 will be held in Salvador, Brazil, February 6–9, 2011. The goal for the conference is to provide an interdisciplinary platform to exchange knowledge in the field of environmental health. Some themes that will be addressed include environmental health research, technological innovations, globalization and policy change, environmental health emergency, and ethics. Selected papers and oral presentations will be published in special issues of the journals, Environmental Research and Science of the Total Environment. For more information, please visit: http://www.environmentalhealthconference.com/.

ACES 2011: Conservation Conflicts: Strategies for Coping with a Changing World

The Aberdeen Centre of Environmental Sustainability (ACES) is hosting a conference, ACES 2011, which will focus on conservation conflicts. The five themes that will be discussed are understanding conflicts, case studies in species conflicts, case studies in protected area conflicts, case studies in land use/ecosystem services conflicts, and approaches to managing conflicts. The conference will take place in Aberdeen, Scotland, August 22–24, 2011.

Deadline for abstract submission is January 16, 2011. For more information, please visit: http://www.aces-2011.org/.