Call for Abstract ! 7th National Summit of Health and Population Scientists in Nepal

Nepal Health Research Council (NHRC) invites submission of abstracts as an oral or poster presentation for the Seventh National Summit of Health and Population Scientists in Nepal (27-28 MAY 2021). The “Seventh National Summit of the Health and Population Scientists in Nepal” is being organized by the Nepal Health Research Council (NHRC) with a theme “Research in Public Health Emergencies: Evidence to Policy and Action”.

Objectives 

To promote timely and effective translation of evidence on public health emergencies to relevant  actions and policies

• To foster networking and knowledge exchange between policy makers and health and population scientists
• To encourage health and population scientists, and practitioners to collaborate, innovate and promote research on current health priorities in Nepal

Abstract Call

The Scientific Committee for the Seventh National Summit of Health and Population Scientists in Nepal invites the submission of abstracts on following themes for consideration as an oral or poster presentation for the Summit.

Thematic areas

• Public Health Emergencies, including public health response and preparedness to disease outbreaks, natural disasters and other emergencies
• COVID-19
• Resilient Health Care Delivery System (Health Services, including access to care and its quality )
• Essential medical products including pharmaceutical products, pharmacovigilance and rational use of drugs
• Health Workforce (Human Resources for Health)
• Universal Health Coverage
• Health Policy, Management, Leadership, Governance (Stewardship) and policy evidence nexus
• Health Information technology in health service and research
• Equity and efficiency in health system
• Health Economics and Healthcare Financing
• Ayurveda & Other Traditional and Complementary Medicine
• Health in altitude including mountain medicine (Physiological changes in different altitudes including mountain medicine)
• Non-Communicable Diseases
• Mental Health, Substance Abuse and Dementia
• Geriatric health
• Health communication, education and health behaviour
• Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal, Child and Adolescent Health
• Gender Based Violence
• Population & Population dynamics (fertility, mortality and migration)
• Communicable Diseases (Infectious & Tropical Diseases including neglected tropical diseases) from one health perspective
• Nutrition, Food Safety and Security
• Environmental and Occupational Health (including climate change, indoor air pollution)
• Emergency, Trauma and Critical care (including Injuries and Accidents)
• Disabilities
• Biomedical research
• Antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
• Inherited  diseases (including thalassemia, sickle cell disorder, hemophilia, autism)
• Innovation in health research
• Surveillance (Cancer, Vector-borne diseases etc.)
• Public Private Partnership (PPP)

Deadline for abstract submission: 23^rd April 2021

Related readings

• Nepal Health Research Council (NHRC)
• Nepal Health Research Council (NHRC)List of Approved Institutional Review Committee (IRC), NHRC
• Nepal Clinical Trial Registry
• NepMed, Nepal MEDLINE (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online)
• Nepal Journals OnLine (NepJOL)
• NHRC CPD Guidelines for Providing Credit Hours to Participants of Research Trainings and Conferences
• List of Approved Institutional Review Committee (IRC), NHRC
• Comparative Evaluation of Commercially available Rapid Diagnostic Test Kits for the use of Screening of Suspected Cases of Novel Coronavirus infection in Nepal
• Preparedness and Readiness of Government of Nepal Designated COVID Hospitals
• Preparedness and Readiness of Government of Nepal Designated Hospital running COVID Clinics
• Nepal STEPS Survey 2019- Province wise Fact Sheets

Related declaration

• Call to Action: Vaccine Equity Declaration
• Conference Declaration
• Declaration of the First Public Health Conference 2020 
• Stockholm Declaration on Road Safety: Achieving Global Goals 2030
• The Kathmandu Declaration Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement Global Gathering 2019
• Declaration of The Alliance of Public Health Associations of The Americas
• Delhi Declaration on Emergency Preparedness in the South-East Asia Region
• Bogor Declaration on Tobacco Control and NCDs Prevention #APCAT2019
• Political Declaration of the High-level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage
• Declaration of Fifth National Summit of Health and Population Scientists in Nepal
• Kathmandu Declaration on: National Conference on Family Planning 2075
• Astana Declaration on Primary Health Care 2018
• The Declaration of Alma-Ata on Primary Health Care
• NCDA civil society statement on 2018 Political Declaration on NCDs
• Declaration of 4th National Summit of Health and Population Scientists in Nepal
• Tokyo Declaration on Universal Health Coverage: All Together to Accelerate Progress towards UHC
• DHAKA DECLARATION- 12th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP12)