October 29, 2012: This year, the 4th World Health Summit was held on October 21-24 in Berlin, Germany. The 2012 Summit was themed “Research for Health and Sustainable Development,” and focused on finding innovative solutions for NCDs and conditions of global concerns, including unhealthy lifestyles. The three-day interactive event featured a...
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October 22, 2012: The Heartfile team is pleased to announce the launch of our brand
new website! Our goal for the website is to provide readers with access to our publications, updates on Heartfile’s scope of work, information on what we do and the purpose of our work. You...
October 17, 2012: Heartfile, in collaboration with the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, held a webinar on the impact of the post 18th Amendment federal mandates, in the context of heath and population, on October 8, 2012. The discussion led to the recognition of the need for a catalytic leadership...
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October 16, 2012: This year, Program of Seminars at the 2012 World BANK/ IMF Annual Meetings in Tokyo featured a Global Health Session on “Making the Case for Investing in Health, Again!”. The session was moderated by Andrew Jack of the Financial Times and opening comments were made by Akihiko...
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October 9, 2012: The application of complex systems modeling has progressed dramatically over the past decade and there has been a growing interest in utilizing these methods to evaluate existing public health measures or design new intervention/control programs. Despite these advances, these models have not been fully employed in the...
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