Topics: - Governance and regulation - Financing and payment arrangements - Service delivery, quality assurance and and organisation of care - Knowledge management for policy; policy capacity and policy process - Monitoring, evaluating and researching the impact of reform - Health workforce...

ANZRSAI welcomes contributions on any topic related to regions. Following the natural disasters that have struck regions of Australia, Japan and New Zealand over the last two years, the core theme for this year’s conference will focus on: Building Adaptive Regions. The programme will include...

Conference Theme: ‘Quality of Life and Environment’ In the last decades, quality of life has become a central issue for those who plan and study cities or places where people live in response to growing pressures on urban communities, concern about the impacts of urbanisation and the effects...

The conference theme is ‘Opportunities for health services research: to inform, improve, and inspire’, reflecting the potential roles of Health Services Research and its influence on health service policy and practice in Australia and New Zealand. We strive to inform priority areas for...

Topics: 1. Analysis of the impacts of climate change on agriculture: simulations and projections 2. Climate change and sustainability of agricultural production systems 3. Adaption strategies for agriculture in the face of climate change: systems of production, risks in agriculture, and policies...

This Forum will provide a key platform for the sharing of information and discussion of the most important regional social security trends and priority issues in Africa. A unique networking opportunity, the Forum will bring together social security administrators, policy-makers and international...

The main objective of the conference is to take stock of the state of current research and identify knowledge gaps: - How can poverty data be used to compare the situation in different industrialized nations? - What are the scope and the limitations of such comparisons? - How can we define the...

Conference themes: 1. Competitive advantage of countries and regions: how do small open economies compete? 2. Regional and urban competitiveness: creativity and innovative drivers of urban competitiveness 3. New Thinking: Innovation systems and sustainable business models 4. Growing the...

Contributions are invited which focus primarily, although not necessarily exclusively, on one or more of the following themes: - Remapping of regions and localities and the implications of this for multilevel governance, policy success or policy failure; - Global comparative perspectives on...

Ein erfolgreicher Klimaschutz benötigt das Engagement aller. Viele Akteure zeigen auf unterschiedlichen Wegen, wie diese Herausforderung zu meistern ist. Welche Rolle dabei gezielte Kooperationen und eine intensive Vernetzung von Städten, Gemeinden und Kreisen spielen, steht im Mittelpunkt der...