Dear Colleagues

I'd be grateful if you could circulate information about this conference to interested colleagues in your networks

Following the first Nigeria: Partnership for Health Conference in London 2008, registration is now open for Partnership for Nigerian Health II- please click on link to website below

www.nigeriahealth.org


Date: November 6 2010 - 9 am
Venue: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
27 Sussex Place,
Regent's Park,
London,
NW1 4RG.
Early Bird Registration: £40.00


Speakers include:

• Professor CO Chukwu – Honourable Minister of Health of Federal Republic of Nigeria (tbc)
• Dr Aliko Ahmed – President of the Nigerian Public Health Foundation
• Dr Liz Tayler – Senior Health Adviser for Africa, Department for International Development
• Dr Muhammad Ali Pate – Executive Director, Nigeria Primary Health care Development Agency
• Lord Nigel Crisp – Former Chief Executive, National Health Service
• Dr Ugo Okoli – Project Adviser to the Midwives Services Scheme (NPHCDA)
• Dr Dilly Anumba – President Medical Association of Nigerians across Great Britain
• Dr Agomuo – CMD Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital Enugu
• Dr. Seyi Oyesola – Former CMD of the Delta State University Teaching Hospital Oghara
• Mr Gbenga Olatunji – Market Development Manager for Johnson & Johnson West Africa
• Dr Folabi Ogunlesi – Chief Executive Vesta Healthcare Partners

The Keynote address will be delivered by Professor Shima Gyoh and there will be four workshops on setting up sustainable collaboration in the following areas:

• Sustainable collaborations in health research
• Sustainable collaborations in public health policy
• Sustainable collaborations in clinical care
• Sustainable collaborations between NGOs

best wishes and many thanks

Ike

Chikwe Ihekweazu and Ike Anya, who are both Nigerian public health doctors have started a new blog entitled Nigeria Health Watch. The aim is encapsulated in this quote:

When your neighbour dies from measles, during child birth, in a car accident, rather than conclude it was as "God wanted it", think, ask and act on the failures; the missed chance at vaccination, inadequate antenatal care or non-existent emergency services that might have prevented these deaths. The alternative would be to conclude that God really has a problem with us Nigerians; why else would he let so many of us die from causes no one else is dying from? We will ask the hard questions.

We welcome visitors, comments, contributions and suggestions from Nigerians and anyone with an interest in the health of Nigerians.We must begin to hold our public servants to account on the question of health, in the same way that we are beginning to do in the field of politics and governance.

Visit the blog here  http://nigeriahealthwatch..com/

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