November 2019

Thousands of public health professionals come together to make the American Public Health Association's Annual Meeting and Expo a must-attend. American Public Health Association brings together people and organisations who make a difference from the global level to the local level.

2019 Theme — Creating the Healthiest Nation: For science. For action. For health.

The takeaway message:

LEARN — Develop fresh ideas and find or renew your enthusiasm for public health.
Plan to attend key sessions and events 

The Health Research Board and the Department of Health will host the 2nd annual National Drugs Forum in Croke Park on 5th of November.

The theme of the forum is Inclusion Health: Responding to the complex health needs of people who use drugs. 

Basel is the host of the 17th European AIDS Conference, taking place from November 6-9, 2019.

Be part of the largest European HIV conference this year, to learn about the latest scientific updates, new challenges, best practices and much more.

The Association for Multidisciplinary Education and Research in Substance use and Addiction (AMERSA) are hosting their 43rd Annual AMERSA Conference from the 7th-9th of November 2019 in Boston.

The event is relevant for physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, PAs, psychologists, social workers, dentists, public health professionals and allied healthcare professionals with an interest in the treatment of patients with substance use disorders who wish to expand their knowledge of substance use disorders.

Este congreso es una iniciativa científica que aglutinará a profesionales sanitarios y de la educación, estudiantes de las ramas socio-sanitaria y todas aquellas personas interesadas en dar una respuesta a los problemas derivados del consumo de cannabis, fenómeno que ha sufrido un gran auge en los últimos años.

¿Por qué es importante realizar este congreso sobre cannabis?

The American Association for the Study of Liver Disease (AASLD) will be holding their annual meeting 8–12 November 2019 in Boston, Massachusetts.

The Liver meeting brings together people working for the science, innovation, research and advances in patient care, with the shared goal of preventing and curing liver disease.

The Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and other Drugs is excited to welcome you to the 2019 APSAD conference. The event will take place in Hobart, a place that has benefited from surprising developments driven by locals.

The annual APSAD Scientific Conference plays a key role in the life of the Society, providing an important avenue for APSAD to promote the use of best practice approaches in the prevention, early intervention and treatment of alcohol and other drug problems.

Coalesce Research Group is delighted to invite you to our International Conference on Addiction, Psychiatry and Mental Health on November 11-12, 2019 at Mercure Roma West, Rome, Italy. 

The theme of the event is “Novel approaches and Developments in Addiction Research and Psychiatry”.

The event allows scientists, professors, scientific communities, doctors, therapists, counsellors, students and business delegates to showcase their latest science, research, best practices and innovations in Addiction Research, Addiction Treatment, and Rehabilitation Therapies.

Alcohol Awareness Week is an opportunity for charities, local authorities, GP surgeries, businesses and more to think and talk about alcohol harm with their communities.

To help you run Alcohol Awareness Week in your community, Alcohol Change UK have put together free digital resources:

2nd World Congress on Epilepsy and Brain Disorders (Epilepsy Congress 2019) is planned to be held in Amsterdam, Netherlands amid November 11-12, 2019. Epilepsy Congress 2019 will set a stage for educators, Epileptologist, Brain Surgeons, Neuro specialists and researchers to give an inclusive talk about approach towards Epilepsy and Treatment explore with the help of Organizing Committee Members.

We know that health outcomes for many children and young people are poor. When it comes to the role of education, every learning setting, working with partners, should take a holistic approach to promoting and learning about health and wellbeing.

Do you want the substance use professionals in your area to receive the International Certified Addiction Professional (ICAP) credential? 

Is travelling to receive the certification arduous, expensive, or impossible for some of them? 

On November 12th and again on November 13th, ICUDDR are hosting two webinars that teach you how you can host testing for the ICAP certificates at your University. 

The webinars will be hosted through Zoom. Follow the links below to join the meetings.

This year's MCA Symposium is taking place on the 13th of November 2019 at the BMA in London.

The full-day programme will cover the topic of alcohol and health from a number of perspectives, including the relationship between addiction and alcohol, educating medical students at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, student mental health, training in addiction medicine and alcohol and the liver.

On Wednesday, 13 November 2019, join PAHO/WHO in a new session of the Alcohol and Health Webinar Series, on the topic "Alcohol Use Disorders and ICD11".

Learn about the changes introduced in ICD11 as related to alcohol use disorders and the latest information on the research being carried out internationally.

DAY: Wednesday, 13 November 2019

TIME: 12:30 PM EST

VIRTUAL ROOMS: English

The 3rd European Chemsex Forum will be a 2½ day, multi-disciplinary event, in Paris, 14-16 November 2019.

Activities include an evening opening with keynote speeches on Thursday, the Data and Evidence Day on Friday, and the Community Mobilisation Day on Saturday.

The 21st Annual Conference of International Society of Addiction Medicine to be held in New Delhi, India from 13th to 16th November 2019.

The conference is being organised by the Department of Psychiatry & National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre (NDDTC), All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, India.

The link between drugs, alcohol and mental health is well established. As counsellors many of us have seen clients dependent on substances or even behaviours. But how do we work with these issues safely in private practice or a general counselling service? Can understanding how addiction changes the way the brain works lead to better outcomes for clients? How do our own views affect our work as a counsellor?

The Scholars International Conference on STD, HIV and AIDS Research will be held on November 18-19, 2019 in Tokyo Japan.

Over 100 specialists in STD from all over the world are expected to come together to discuss on exploring challenges to the control and prevention of STD/AIDS.

This conference will provide you an excellent opportunity to network with experts, present your research findings to an international audience, hear the latest scientific developments from world leaders in STD research.

Highlights and Scientific Sessions

This session will explore ways in which parents and schools can protect young people from problematic alcohol and drug use. It will be led by Louise O’Connor, experienced teacher specialising in health education at both primary and secondary levels, former head of Drug Prevention Unit and Education Research at Roehampton University and patron of Catalyst, a Guildford based, not for profit organisation supporting people dealing with issues of drug and alcohol abuse.

This year’s course will feature inputs from Prof. Annie Britton from University College London, Prof. Mark Petticrew from LSHTM, and Dr. Mark Robinson from NHS Health Scotland, as well as Colin Angus (University of Sheffield), Prof. Carol Emslie (Glasgow Caledonian University), Dr. Nathan Critchlow (University of Stirling), Colin Shevills (Balance North East) and Katherine Severi (Institute of Alcohol Studies).

This FREE one day conference, organised by Hepatitis Scotland, is aimed at staff who work in, or have strategic responsibility for, primary and secondary care addiction services.

The day will explore the background to developing successful hepatitis C case-finding initiatives, demonstrating real world successes and issues for practitioners to consider.

There will also be an opportunity to contribute to guidelines for opt out BBV testing in addiction services.

Wednesday, November 20, 2019 02:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

The 12th EPH Conference will be held in Marseille, France. The annual EPH conferences are considered the premier European gatherings of public health professionals worldwide. Delegates include researchers, policymakers, practitioners and educators in public health and many other related fields. 

The theme of the conference is Building bridges for solidarity and public health

CCSA's Issues of Substance Conference will take place at the Westin Ottawa from November 25-27, 2019, as part of National Addictions Awareness Week. 

The theme for CCSA's IOS 2019 Conference is Evidence and Perspectives, Compassion and Action. 

The second annual DRNS conference, supported by the Society for the Study of Addiction, will focus on the knowledge, skills and issues relevant to the future of drugs research in Scotland and the rest of the UK.

The day will feature four plenary speakers who are experts in various aspects of the drugs research field. Parallel sessions will be chaired by our academic theme leads and will include presentations and discussions on emerging research findings and how they can inform developments in policy and practice.

To register, please visit: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_U7OyvRJBR2eGFGzZusrYwg

Tuesday, November 26, 2019 02:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Join the Department of Public Health & Primary Care for an open lecture "Cannabis and Adolescence: From Science to Clinical Practice" at Trinity College Institute of Population Health, Tallaght. The lecture will include perspectives from neuroscience and clinical practice. 

Speakers include:

Dr. Hugh Garavan, PhD- Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Vermont.

Dr Gerry McCarney (MB BCh BAO MRCPsych)- Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist with the Addiction Services in Dublin

It is the Society for Mental Health Research's pleasure to invite you to Melbourne, Victoria for the 41st Annual Society for Mental Health Research (SMHR) Conference, which will be held at the RACV City Club in Melbourne.

The Conference will run from 27 to 29 November 2019. There will be a number of exciting workshops offered at locations around Melbourne. 

The Australian Association for Adolescent Health warmly invites you to Melbourne for the 5th Annual Youth Health Conference.

In 2019 we continue our underpinning theme of Owning Future Change – we all have a part to play in taking forward the youth health agenda.