Call for Applications! Training workshop on 'Building Your Biostatistics Toolbox'
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Call for Applications! Training workshop on ‘Building Your Biostatistics Toolbox’

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Overview

The Nepal Health Economics Association (NHEA) invites applications from interested candidates for a two-day hands-on training workshop on “Building Your Biostatistics Toolbox” led by the esteemed Prof. Mousumi Banerjee from the University of Michigan.

Workshop details:

  • Title: Building Your Biostatistics Toolbox
  • Date: May 19–20, 2025
  • Time: May 19: 0900-1715, May 20: 0900-1500)
  • Venue: Auditorium Hall, 3rd Floor, Nepal Eye Hospital, Tripureshwor, Kathmandu
  • Instructor: Prof. Mousumi Banerjee, University of Michigan

Course focus: This intensive workshop will cover key biostatistical methods, including:

Linear Regression

  • Simple & multiple linear regression
  • Model fitting
  • Estimation and hypothesis testing
  • Confounding and effect modification
  • Scientific interpretation of data

Model Selection and Analysis

  • Models for inference vs. prediction
  • Model selection, model diagnostics
  • Multicollinearity, outliers, and influence diagnostics
  • Missing data

Logistic Regression

  • Simple and multiple logistic regression
  • Odds and odds ratio, relative risk vs. odds ratio
  • Categorical and continuous covariates
  • Interpretation of coefficients
  • Model fit diagnostics, model selection
  • Prediction using logistic regression

Eligibility: At least a Bachelor’s degree in Public Health, economics and health sciences or related field with demonstrated experience in biostatistics, epidemiology, health economics, or public health research.

There is no application or registration fee for this course.

Application Form: [Google Form]

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Forms must be submitted before 13 May 2025 (CoB). Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for participation. For any inquiries, please contact the Nepal Health Economics Association (sumansapkota178 @ gmail.com (Only for course-related inquiries).

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The Seventy-eighth World Health Assembly convenes 19-27 May, 2025

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The Seventy-eighth session of the World Health Assembly (WHA78) will take place from 19-27 May in Geneva, Switzerland. This year’s theme is “One World for Health.”

Member States will review the progress achieved during the past two years, including the results report, the last under the Triple Billion General Programme of Work 13. 

Discussions will be forward looking, to focus on prioritization of activities as well as looking at the future with the approval of the first full Programme Budget 2026-2027 under WHO’s Fourteenth General Programme of Work (GPW14), WHO’s strategy for global health for 2025 – 2028.  The Health Assembly will be invited to confirm the scheduled increase in the Assessed Contribution as part of WHO’s journey towards sustainable financing.

The Assembly will also consider the proposal by the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body to adopt the WHO Pandemic Agreement. In addition, the Agenda of this year Assembly contains over 70 other Items.

The Executive Board, which will meet on 28 and 29 May following the Health Assembly will have the election of the next Regional Director for WHO’s African Region on its agenda. See full Agenda of the Executive Board. the 157th meeting of the Executive Board

The Health Assembly agenda can be found here: (https://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA78/A78_1-en.pdf) and all relevant documents will be found on this page (https://apps.who.int/gb/e/e_wha78.html). More information and links here.

WHA78 takes place in a challenging environment. Several actions have been taken by the WHO in an effort to contain costs, including shortening the length of the meeting, limiting evening sessions as well as hospitality and events costs, amongst other administrative cost saving measures.

Public meetings of the WHA78 will be webcast live here.

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1st National Conference on Field Epidemiology 2025
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Call for Abstracts! The 1st National Conference on Field Epidemiology

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Overview

The 1st National Conference on Field Epidemiology, scheduled from 26-27 June 2025 in Kathmandu, Nepal, is a pivotal event in advancing Nepal’s public health resilience. Under the theme “Uniting for Resilient Health: Field Epidemiology, Surveillance, and Policy Interventions,” this historic conference brings together epidemiologists, public health experts, policymakers, and researchers to strengthen Nepal’s capacity to address pressing health threats.

The conference builds on the foundation of the Field Epidemiology Training Programme (FETP) frontline course, started in 2022 which has trained 140 graduates by 2024, equipping them to lead outbreak investigations and analyze surveillance data.

Conference objective

The conference aims to address these challenges by fostering the exchange of experiences, lessons learned, and innovative approaches in field epidemiology and outbreak response. It will facilitate discussions on strengthening intersectoral coordination, improving outbreak investigation methodologies, and identifying key areas for capacity building. Through knowledge-sharing sessions and collaborative networking, stakeholders will work toward enhancing Nepal’s overall preparedness and response mechanisms, ensuring a more resilient public health system capable of addressing future outbreaks effectively.

Key dates

  • Conference date: 26-27 June 2025
  • Notifications: Corresponding authors will be notified of the status of their abstracts by 10 June 2025.
  • Session Dates: Apr 28, 2025 – May 28, 2025
  • Application deadline: May 28, 2025

Accepted abstracts

  • Oral Presentation: 10-minute talk with live Q&A.
  • Poster Presentation: Displayed during designated poster sessions; authors must be present for audience discussion.

Abstract session format

  • Abstracts must present original work with at least preliminary results. Abstracts reporting pending data will not be accepted.
  • Investigations must have been conducted in Nepal or demonstrate clear applicability to the Nepali Context.
  • Investigations should have been conducted within the last five years.
  • Submission implies that the abstract has not been previously presented or published elsewhere.
  • Abstracts must be submitted online only using the designated platform. Submissions via email will not be accepted.
  • All Abstracts are under embargo until presented at the conference.
  • Virtual presentations are not accepted. Presenters must attend in person.

Tracks

  • Track A: Infectious diseases
  • Track B: Antimicrobial Resistance
  • Track C: Zoonotic Disease
  • Track D: Infection Prevention and Control
  • Track E: Vaccine Preventable Disease
  • Track F: Surveillance
  • Track G: Vector borne Diseases & Neglected tropical disease
  • Track H: Risk communication and community engagement
  • Track I: Disaster investigation and response

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For more information,

Epidemiology and Disease Control Division,
Department of Health Services

Teku Kathmandu, Nepal
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International Day of the Midwife: "Midwives: critical in every crisis"
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International Day of the Midwife 2025: “Midwives: critical in every crisis”

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The International Day of the Midwife (IDM) is observed globally on 5th May to advocate for investment in quality midwifery care around the world, improving sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health in the process.

World Hand Hygiene Day 2025: It might be gloves. It’s always hand hygiene.

International Day of the Midwife 2025

This year’s theme for International Day of the Midwife is: “Midwives: Critical in Every Crisis“. While midwives are vital to health systems’ ability to prepare for and withstand crises, they are often not valued and are excluded from preparedness planning and response efforts. This is the moment to position midwives as the essential health professionals they are and advocate for their inclusion at every step of crisis preparedness and response. For midwives to adequately respond, we must also ensure they are safe and are equipped with the training, tools, and resources they need to save lives and protect rights in the most challenging settings (International Confederation of Midwives).

Midwives can provide up to 90% of sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, and adolescent health (SRMNAH) services, even during humanitarian crises. 

With minimal resources, midwives can: 

  • Provide safe births, antenatal, and postnatal care, 
  • Provide contraception, comprehensive abortion care, and care for survivors of gender-based violence, 
  • Support breastfeeding, ensuring newborns receive safe, clean, and reliable nutrition, 
  • Educate and prepare communities with the knowledge and tools they need to stay safe and healthy during emergencies. 

Key messages

  • The evidence is in: investing in midwives saves lives, improves health and strengthens health systems.
  • Increased investment in midwives could save up to 4.3 million lives every year by averting 67% of maternal deaths, 64% of neonatal deaths, and 65% of stillbirths.
  • We are experiencing a global shortage of 900,000 midwives. Of the midwives we do have, substantial barriers are preventing them from achieving their full potential.
  • To close the gap by 2030, 1.3 million new SRMNAH workers (mostly midwives and mostly in Africa) are needed in the next 10 years. Currently we are experiencing a global shortage of 900,000 midwives.
  • There is a global needs-based shortage of 900,000 midwives. There is a shortage of all types of SRMNAH workers, but the largest shortage is of midwives.
  • The midwife shortage cannot be filled by other occupations because there are global shortages of these other occupations too. More midwives would not only give more women, adolescents and newborns access to their unique skills, but would also free up doctors and nurses to focus on other health needs.
  • The rate of progress in building the SRMNAH workforce is not improving at the rate required to meet SDG 3, and the gap between high- and low-income countries is projected to widen.
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World Hand Hygiene Day 2025: It might be gloves. It's always hand hygiene.
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World Hand Hygiene Day 2025: It might be gloves. It’s always hand hygiene.

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Overview

World Hand Hygiene Day is observed every year on 5 May to promote and improve adherence to hand hygiene practices in health care settings, thereby protecting health care workers and patients from infections.

Key objectives

World Hand Hygiene Day 2025 focuses on reinforcing that gloves are not a substitute for hand hygiene. Proper hand hygiene, performed at the right moments and in the right way, remains one of the most effective measures to protect both patients and health workers.

  • Promote a culture of optimal hand hygiene practices: Encourage a work environment where hand hygiene and appropriate glove use are core elements of patient safety practices.
  • Educate on correct glove use: Train health workers regularly on when gloves are needed, and when they are not, to avoid unnecessary use and waste.
  • Raise awareness of the environmental and climate impact of gloves: Waste generation and management, especially when used unnecessarily.

Key facts

  • Approximately 70% of healthcare workers do not routinely practice hand hygiene.
  • An average university hospital generates 1,634 tons of healthcare waste each year.
  • Currently 68% of countries are in compliance with hand hygiene as a key national indicator.
  • Hand hygiene saves millions of lives each year when performed at the right times and in the right way in healthcare settings.
  • Healthcare-associated infections are one of the most common problems in healthcare, affecting about 1 in 10 patients on average.

5 Moments for hand hygiene for healthcare workers

  1.  Clean your hands before touching a patient
  2.  Clean your hands before a clean/aseptic procedure
  3.  Clean your hands after body fluid exposure risk
  4.  Clean your hands after touching a patient
  5.  Clean your hands after touching patient surroundings

Key concerns:

  • An average university hospital generates 1,634 tons of healthcare waste each year.
  • Gloves make the greatest contribution to the volume of healthcare waste.
  • Glove overuse increases plastic waste and harms the environment.
  • Using gloves when not indicated wastes resources and does not necessarily reduce the transmission of germs.
  • Reducing unnecessary glove use is essential to protect patients, health workers, and the environment.

Calls to action 

  • Raise awareness that gloves do not replace hand hygiene.
  • Educate fellow healthcare workers on the WHO 5 Moments for Hand Hygiene and how to apply them in everyday patient care.
  • Demonstrate best practices by sharing how to correctly perform hand hygiene and remove gloves safely.
  • Promote sustainable glove use by encouraging appropriate glove practices to reduce healthcare waste.

Source of information: WHO

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Foreign Aid Mobilization Policy 2082
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Foreign Aid Mobilization Policy 2082

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Overview

The Government of Nepal has endorsed the new Foreign Aid Mobilization Policy 2082, aiming to improve the strategic mobilization of foreign aid in line with national development priorities. This policy replaces the previous foreign aid policy of 2076.

Key policies

The main objective is to channel development aid into productive and high-impact sectors that align with Nepal’s national needs and priorities, ultimately supporting the country’s path to prosperity. The new policy was formulated to address the evolving federal context, diversify aid instruments, and enhance transparency, efficiency, and the country’s capacity to manage and utilize external resources effectively.

The new policy empowers provincial and local governments to actively plan, propose, coordinate, and incorporate development aid into their activities.

The main policies outlined in the new development aid policy are:

  1. Mobilizing foreign aid for national priorities and country’s key development priorities
  2. Joint accountability of Government and development partners
  3. Strengthening country’s capacity to manage and utilize foreign aid effectively
  4. Creating an environment that supports private sector growth and mobilize development aid to attracts private investment.

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Call for Applications- Planetary Health Course 2025

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Overview

The Department of Public Health, Kathmandu University School of Medical Sciences (KUSMS), in collaboration with the Norwegian Institute of Public Health and the Consortium of Public Health Institutions in Nepal (CAIPHEN), is pleased to announce the “Planetary Health Course” from 18th to 23rd of May, 2025. This course is designed to strengthen the capacity of public health students and faculty members in Nepal on key principles and practices of planetary health. The fellowship will be provided for total 10 students of CAIPHEN institutes.

Training details

  • The eligible applicants must be currently enrolled in or have recently graduated from a Master’s program in Public Health.
  • The course will be on-site and will be conducted at the Department of Public Health, Dhulikhel Hospital, Dhulikhel.
  • The course will run for 6 days, with sessions of approximately 6 hours each day.
  • The course is fully funded for the selected students.

Eligibility criteria

  • Applicants must have completed or should be currently pursuing a master’s degree in Public Health.

Application process

Interested candidates are required to submit the following documents:

  • A letter of interest detailing their motivation to participate;
  • The most recent curriculum vitae (CV); and
  • A letter of support from their institution (for those currently studying or working).

We invite passionate and motivated individuals to apply. Please send your complete application to mscph@kusms.edu.np no later than 12th May 2025. We encourage all eligible candidates to apply and contribute to advancing planetary health initiatives in Nepal.

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Nepal Government’s Health Sector Policies and Programmes for Fiscal Year 2025–26
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Nepal Government’s Health Sector Policies and Programmes for Fiscal Year 2025–26

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Overview

The Government of Nepal has presented its policies and programmes for the fiscal year 2025/26. Following points are key health-related policies and programmes outlined by the Right Honourable President, Mr. Ramchandra Paudel, during his address to the Joint Session of both Houses of the Federal Parliament.

Health Sector Policies and Programmes

The Government of Nepal has emphasized to address the imbalances between service providers – hospitals, doctors, healthcare personnel – and service seekers, together with expansion of infrastructure, to make health services accessible and affordable; to align all health-related aid and subsidy programmes with health insurance scheme; and to make health insurance programme sustsainable through its restructuring in the fiscal year 2082/83 B.S.

  • Adopting both the preventive and curative methods, all aspects of the medical system will be developed under the “Healthy Nepal Campaign”. Cooperation will be forged among the federal, provincial and local governments to provide qualitative basic health services to all citizens. Health system will be devised based on population, geography and burden of disease.
  • Federal Health Service Act will be formulated for the management of health personnel and qualitative services. National Quality Accreditation Authority Act will be formulated for regulating quality of health services.
  • Intensive burn care and cardiac services will be expanded in all seven provinces. Specialist services will be conducted in remote areas. Each year, the month of Falgun will be declared as Non Communicable Disease Screening Month and programmes will be conducted accordingly.
  • Cancer and kidney transplant services will be expanded to the provincial level. HPV vaccines for cervical cancer and free cancer treatment services for children under the age of 14 will be made available. An advanced National Neuroscience Centre will be established in Kathmandu for the treatment of brain, spine, mental and neurological diseases.
  • The ‘General Nursing Program’ will be conducted to ensure the supply of human resource of health sector. Reservation in medical education will be provided to oppressed and marginalized communities.
  • The coverage of treatment will be expanded by integrating them into health insurance system. The benefits package will be revised to include treatment of serious illnesses. The Insurance Board will be restructured for good governance and financial sustainability of insurance services.
  • Basic and essential medicines provided by the government will be integrated into the insurance system to reduce the financial burden on the system. Services of all institutions delivering health services and treatment facilities including Social Security Fund, Employees Provident Fund will be made effective by integrating all fragmented health services.
  • All government hospitals will be integrated into a single online service under a reformed “Nagarik App”. Production of basic and essential medicines will be promoted. A consolidated act related to medicines and medical supplies will be formulated.
  • Vidushi Yogmaya Ayurveda University will be operationalized as an Ayurveda Study Academy to strengthen Ayurvedic services and promote alternative treatment methods.
  • Public Health Surveillance System will be strengthened for the prevention of infectious diseases and response to pandemics. A Climate Health Resilient Unit will be developed to address climate change induced health challenges.
  • Population policy will be formulated to ensure that the population growth rate does not fall below the replacement rate. Health and demographic registration system will be integrated with the National Health Information System.
  • The air-rescue programme for pregnant and postpartum women in the remote areas will be made more effective.

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World Asthma Day 2025: Make Inhaled Treatments Accessible for ALL

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Overview

World Asthma Day is an annual event initiated by the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) to raise awareness, improve asthma care, and advocate for equitable access to essential treatments. The inaugural World Asthma Day took place in 1998, alongside the first World Asthma Meeting in Barcelona, Spain, with participation from over 35 countries. Since then, involvement has grown steadily each year, making it one of the most significant global events dedicated to asthma awareness and education. World Asthma Day is observed annually on the first Tuesday of May.

Theme 2025

In 2025, the focus is on making inhaled medications accessible to everyone, everywhere, to reduce preventable suffering and deaths, “Make Inhaled Treatments Accessible for ALL“

Key facts

  • Asthma is a major noncommunicable disease (NCD) that affects people of all ages, including children and adults, and is the most common chronic condition among children.
  • Asthma is characterized by inflammation and narrowing of the small airways in the lungs, leading to symptoms such as coughing, wheezing, shortness of breath, and chest tightness.
  • Globally, asthma affected an estimated 262 million people in 2019 and was responsible for approximately 455,000 deaths—most of which are preventable.
  • Inhaled medications, especially those containing corticosteroids, are highly effective in controlling asthma symptoms and enabling individuals to live normal, active lives. In addition, avoiding known asthma triggers can significantly reduce the frequency and severity of symptoms.
  • Access to essential asthma treatments remains a major challenge. In low- and lower-middle-income countries, under-diagnosis and under-treatment—often due to limited availability and the high cost of inhaled medicines—contribute to 96% of global asthma-related deaths.
  • Even in high-income countries, the affordability of these medications continues to be a barrier, leading to poor disease control and preventable fatalities.
  • Asthma cannot be cured but there are several treatments available.
  • The most common treatment is to use an inhaler, which delivers medication directly to the lungs. Inhalers can help control the disease and enable people with asthma to enjoy a normal, active life.

(Facts: WHO, GINA)

Global asthma care access map

Aligned with GINA’s theme for World Asthma Day, Global Allergy and Airways Patient Platform (GAAPP) has introduced its 2025 campaign titled “Access to Treatment for All.” As part of this effort, GAAPP is launching a global asthma care access map that visually illustrates how different countries are performing in providing asthma care services.

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Call for action

  • Policy makers, governments, payers, and pharmaceutical industry manufacturers and suppliers are called upon to increase their awareness of the continuing preventable morbidity and mortality associated with asthma in spite of the existence of evidence based, highly effective management of asthma.
  • We call on everyone to increase their efforts to “Make Inhaled Treatments Accessible for ALL”, in all countries throughout the world.
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Call for Ageing Research Fellowship 2025
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Call for Ageing Research Fellowship 2025

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Ageing Nepal is offering three fellowships in collaboration with Ageing Nepal Switzerland. The fellowships will support students doing their MPhil. or Master’s thesis as a partial fulfilment of the academic requirements of their degrees in any field of study.  

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Eligibility

  • The applicant must be a full-time student enrolled in a Master or M.Phil.’s level programme in one of the universities of Nepal.
  • The research topic must be related to the issue of older persons (60+ years) in Nepal.
  • The thesis has to be written in English and must be completed by the end of January 2026.  

Interested Master or M.Phil’s level students are requested to submit an application in the prescribed format to [email address removed].  

The selected three researchers will be granted Rs. 40,000 (forty thousands) each in two instalments – (40% in the beginning of field work and 60% after the thesis approved by respective academic institution). Two hard and one soft copy of the approved thesis must be submitted to Ageing Nepal.

Applications received after 5:00 pm 28th May 2025 will not be processed.  

For further information please contact: Email ID: [email address removed] Web: www.ageingnepal.org

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