Announcements and Fellowships
Deadline Approaching for Mayday Pain & Society Fellowship applications
As a member of the Advisory Committee for the Mayday Pain & Society Fellowship, I would like you to know that the application period is about to close.
The deadline for the Mayday Pain & Society Fellowship is June 1st, 2006.
This is an important fellowship opportunity for experts in the field of pain management from the US and Canada. The Fellowship trains leaders to become more effective in working with the media and policy makers on important issues in pain management. The program starts with a four-day communications and policy training in Washington, D.C., from October 22-25, 2006. Over the course of the five months following the training, you get the chance to work one-on-one with communications professionals to develop a media strategy for a goal that you choose and to look at this program as an opportunity to expand your professional interests. It is an excellent opportunity to expand your professional interests and contacts. Complete information about this Fellowship is available at
http://www.painandhealth.org/maydayfellows/fellows.html.
The Fellowship was established by The Mayday Fund, a New York City-based foundation dedicated to alleviating pain. I have been on the advisory committee for two years and have seen great successes from the Fellowship.
With increasing interest and concern among consumers, researchers, and policy makers about pain management, the time is ripe for more experts to step forward and get involved. I would strongly encourage you to consider applying or to pass this on to someone you think may be interested.
Best regards,
David E. Joranson
Director, Pain & Policy Studies Group
University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center
School of Medicine and Public Health
NEW PAIN POLICY FELLOWSHIP ANNOUNCED
The International Palliative Care Initiative of the Open Society Institute and the Pain & Policy Studies Group of the University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center are pleased to announce the “International Pain Policy Fellowship Program”. The overall goal of the fellowship program is to improve the availability of opioid analgesics for pain management in developing countries for patients with pain from cancer, HIV/AIDS, or other chronic diseases.
The two-year fellowship program will include training, mentoring, and an in-country pain policy project. A salary stipend covering up to 20% of each fellow’s professional salary will be given. Applications will be accepted from mid-career physicians, health care administrators, policymakers, or lawyers from a health care facility, policy center, or university from low-income economies or lower-middle-income economies (as classified by the World Bank's GNI per capita method--see World Bank GNI Data Country Classification on the web). Applicants must have a sincere interest in improving access to opioid analgesics for pain management through drug policy advocacy.
Fellows are required to participate in a five-day learner-centered training program at the University of Wisconsin in Madison , Wisconsin from 23 October to 27 October, 2006. The training program will cover the relationships between disease, pain, palliative care, and inadequate opioid availability, and will use WHO Guidelines to examine regulatory barriers and resources for evaluating national policy, as well as examples of their use. Each fellow will be responsible for outlining their drug availability project plan and timeline during the training program in Madison , and then incorporating it into their in-country pain policy project.
For more information and the application form, please visit http://www.soros.org/initiatives/health/focus/ipci/grants/palliative/guidelines
The Fellowship was established by The Mayday Fund, a New York City-based foundation dedicated to alleviating pain. I have been on the advisory committee for two years and have seen great successes from the Fellowship.
With increasing interest and concern among consumers, researchers, and policy makers about pain management, the time is ripe for more experts to step forward and get involved. I would strongly encourage you to consider applying or to pass this on to someone you think may be interested.
Best regards,
David E. Joranson
Director, Pain & Policy Studies Group
University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center
School of Medicine and Public Health
The International Observatory on End of Life Care
Dear colleagues,
The International Observatory on End of Life Care is pleased to announce the posting of a new country report for India .
You will find this report at the following URL:
http://www.eolcobservatory.net/global_analysis/india.htm
If you experience any problems reading the pages, do please get in touch.
I trust that you will have a good weekend.
Best wishes,
Anthony Greenwood
International Observatory on End of Life Care
Institute for Health Research
Lancaster University
Lancaster LA1 4YG
United Kingdom
From THE PAIN & POLICY STUDIES GROUP
Dear Colleagues,
There are now “21 translations” of the 2000 World Health Organization guidelines document, “Achieving Balance in National Opioids Control Policy,” available on the Pain & Policy Studies Group’s public access website. Seven new translations have been added, including:
- Arabic
- Chinese
- Hindi
- Indonesian
- Portuguese
- Swahili
- Tagalog
All 21 translations can be found at http://www.medsch.wisc.edu/painpolicy/publicat/00whoabi/00whoabi.htm
Our sincere thanks to Willem Scholten, PharmD, MPA, Technical Officer of the World Health Organization’s Department of Medicines Policy and Standards for his support and assistance in obtaining these translations.
Bengali version of a Handbook published
A Bengali version of Neighborhood Network in Palliative Care’s community volunteer handbook has been published. The book was released in Dhaka by Muhammed Habibur Rahiman, the former Chief Justice of Bangladesh during the first National Seminar on Palliative Care. Copies are available from the
Afzulunnessa Foundation
Pain and Palliative Care unit
House 5/7A Road 1
Block -A
Lalmatia DHAKA - 1207
Bangladesh
Copy of cover
Council on Palliative Care’s new web site – in French
Welcome to the Council on Palliative Care’s new web site! Please note that the entire site is now available in French.
French - http://www.council-on-palliative-care.org/fr/
English - http://www.council-on-palliative-care.org/en/
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