Events

Expand and build on your obesity knowledge. Pick and choose from the rich and exciting educational programme including: award plenaries, new investigator awards, poster sessions, debate sessions, industry and non-industry symposia sessions, satellite events. Some of the most prominent thought leaders in obesity from accross the globe will be present at this event, organised by the International Association for the Study of Obesity (IASO).

On 20-21 February, the ddn - the Demographic Network organises an interactive conference on Sustainable Resource Management. The conference focuses on 4 pillars to make yourself ready to change the working environment: plan for the future (sustainable HR planning), keep your employees healthy (workplace health), develop diverse career models (for older workers) and manage risks (knowledge transfer). To register, please use www.demographic-network.com - Flyer - Agenda

Organised by the Harvard School of Public Health, this program is designed for professionals with direct responsibility for worker health and safety. Participants gain the skills necessary to evaluate the effectiveness of workplace health strategies, translate this evidence into practice, and implement these strategies to design health promotion and occupational health and safety programs. For more information, click on the link or contact Mr Peter J. Bretton at pbretton@hsph.harvard.edu

The Healthy Workplaces Summit will bring to a close the two-year EU-OSHA pan-European Healthy Workplaces Campaign on the topic of "working together for risk prevention", raising awareness of the importance of managment leadership and worker participation for improving health and safety at work. Since April 2012, the campaign has initiated and supported a wide range of activities at both European and national level to promote this important topic across Europe's workplaces. Draft agenda - description of workshops - practical information

On 22-23 October 2013, the 9th ENWHP initiative 'Promoting Healthy Work for Employees with Chronic Illness - Public Health and Work (PHWork)' will be concluded with a large conference in Brussels. The aims of this conference are to raise further awareness about the impact of chronic diseases on the labour market and the social security and to exchange and improve knowledge and cooperation of all stakeholders about the possibilities to retain workers with a chronic disease, or facilitate their return to work.

European Work Hazards Network organises their 13th conference for labour & occupational health and safety representatives and professionals from 4 to 6 October. Bringing together workplace activists from the EU and other European Countries, alongside occupational health and safety specialists and academics, this 13th biennial conference aims to: work for equality of health and safety prevention and protection accross Europe, give workers and professionals new solutions (technical and organisational) to assure healthy workplaces etc.

A colloquium organised by ANACT (ENWHP's National Contact Office for France) on the 1st of October 2013, in Paris. The colloquium discusses how to incorporate psychosocial risks into the French document for risk assessment ("le document unique"), including the approach by ANACT and testimonies by businesses.

Join the Global Healthy Workplace Awards team and human resource (HR) managers, policy makers and health professionals working with local enterprises as well as multinational employers from all over Latin and South America for what promises to be a most interesting and innovative day. The Summit is in conjunction with the ABQV conference (September 30 - October 3). The ABQV attracts over 700 participants from accros South America.

The 7th Nordic Health Promotion Research Conference offers a unique insight into Nordic perspectives on health promotion, and will enhance our understanding of health promotion across a variety of settings and issues such as workplace health promotion, health promoting schools, salutogenesis and mental health and well-being.

One of the greatest challenges of the future is to improve the society's capability for innovation, renewal as well as wealth creation and sustainable development. The International Helix Conference 2013 is focused on a perspective that an organisation is not only an effective production system but could also be a system for promoting learning, health, gender equality and creativity. The HELIX Vinn Excellence Centre is inviting researchers as well as practitioners and policymakers to participate in the International HELIX Conference in 2013. The conference is organised in six tracks and offers various opportunities of participation, such as scientific sessions, scientist and practitioner sessions and open discussions between researchers and practitioners.