1st World Congress on Migration, Ethnicity, Race and Health

Event description

 

The MERH 2018 Congress is hosted by an independent, non-profit making company working under the auspices of The University of Edinburgh, the European Public Health Association and NHS Health Scotland.  We intend to deliver to you a memorable, affordable, academic and social programme in one of the most spectacular cities in the world.

Congress aims :

• To improve research, population health and health care for migrants and other discriminated-against populations
• To bring together policy, social science, clinical, social service and public health perspectives and share and transfer learning within and across countries.
• To examine contemporary problems across the globe and debate suggested solutions
• To Consider health effects of social, environmental and demographic change associated with population migration, and the effects on diseases and their causes
• To find ways to overcome differences in concepts and terminology so the field can be understood internationally in acceptable language.
• To provide opportunities for people to showcase their work and to meet to share experience and motivations
• To build networks that will last beyond the Congress itself

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