Energize Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin
Free sport and physical activity disability event

Telford Whitehouse Hotel, Wellington

10th June 2010

This event is aimed at current/future providers of services to people with a disability and those who are interested in using sport or physical activity as part of your service to people with disabilities. Delegates can come and hear presentations of current practice by sport and physical activity groups working with people with various disabilities.

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Faculty of Public Health Annual Conference
The next decade: What is the future of public health?

Imperial College London

Wednesday 7th July 2010

The 2010 UK FPH annual conference will debate issues as diverse as the economy, the challenges of the new government and the effectiveness of health protection campaigns.

Public health professionals will be asked to debate the big public health questions – from where money in public health should be spent to public health policies targeting all times of life from childhood right through to old age.

 

BASES Annual Conference 2010
'Challenging the Dogma'

University of Glasgow

6th - 8th September 2010

The theme for the conference will be ‘Challenging the Dogma’, and the meeting will aim to challenge your thinking by addressing unresolved and controversial issues in the sport and exercise sciences. The conference website states that 'Challenging the Dogma' will be relevant for a range of people: those interested in elite sports performance or physical activity for health; physiology, psychology or biomechanics; and for academics, students, practitioners, coaches or interested lay people.

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WCRF International 2 day conference
'Nutrition, Physical Activity and Cancer Prevention: Current Challenges, New Horizons'

Royal College of Physicians, London

12th - 13th September 2010

This new conference will provide a forum for the dissemination of results in the nutrition, physical activity and cancer field and will examine how this knowledge can be used by policy-makers to inform and generate thinking and ways of preventing cancer. It is suggested that this conference will be of relevance to scientists and policy-makes with an interest in nutrition, physical activity and cancer. In addition, the conference will be of relevance to health professionals.

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Intergenerational and familial influences on obesity and related conditions

Durham University

16th - 17th September 2010

Themes of this inter-disciplinary meeting will be the significance of the family context for understanding obesity, mechanisms by which obesity risk factors may be transferred across generations, evolutionary perspectives on transgenerational mechanisms, and policy interventions aimed at families. 

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5th Physical Activity Measurement Seminar

Homerton College, Cambridge

Sunday 19th September – Thursday 23rd September 2010

The MRC Epidemiology Unit will be running a seminar encouraging those who are interested or involved in the measurement of physical activity in the epidemiological setting to learn about the science and practical aspects of current techniques used in this field of research. The programme is designed to cover the whole process of methodological considerations, data collection (in the field and laboratory settings), operational issues and the analysis and interpretation of data. The course has a primary focus on the objective measurement of physical activity.

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World Congress on Active Ageing

Glasgow

13th - 17th August 2012

This Congress will attract a world-wide community of researchers, policy makers and practitioners, and is the principal professional meeting in the world that strives to disseminate information about the physical activity needs of older people. The 8th World Congress programme will be designed to celebrate the diversity of ageing and in particular, will focus on the needs of the oldest and frailest population, often excluded from both research and practice.

To register your interest in the congress, click here.

To download the congress newsletter, click here