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Health Surveillance NATO Conference 26-28 June 2012, Munich
Military Deployment Health Surveillance has gained significant importance throughout the last years. After recent experiences in the African theatres as well as in Iraq and Afghanistan the timely monitoring of health threats to soldiers in mission is of crucial importance for their ability to fight as well as for their wellbeing in theatre and quality of life back home. Real- or near real time surveillance techniques enable military commanders to react on e.g. infectious diseases’ outbreaks and to manage them accordingly. Modern surveillance techniques do not only identify threats caused by artificially released infectious agents but also support the management of naturally occurring events like the SARS or H1/N 1 flu outbreak in the past. During the last years laboratory based surveillance has been amended by approaches of syndromic surveillance. Meanwhile both complement each other, are implemented in the force health protection strategies of various countries and are based on an international civil-military expert network. On the NATO level the need for military deployment health surveillance expertise has led to the implementation of a Deployment Health Surveillance Capability (DHSC) in Munich, which is an integral part of the NATO Centre of Excellence for Military Medicine (MILMED COE).
However, Deployment Health Surveillance is not exclusively restricted to infectious diseases but is also related to the large field of trauma care and all efforts to improve the treatment quality for physically or psychologically wounded soldiers.
The 2012 Munich conference on health surveillance for multinational military deployments will be organized by the US Armed Forces Health Surveillance Centre, the NATO MILMED COE and the German Society for Military Medicine and Pharmacology. It will address a broad field of related topics; give a forum to the international military and civilian experts to exchange their lessons and experiences and to encourage them to strengthen their network.
It would be a pleasure to welcome you either as a participant or an exhibitor in Munich attending the conference on 26 – 28 June 2012.
For more information and registration please visit the conference's website or contact directly the organizers:
beta seminare bonn berlin GmbH
Oleg Obolenski
T +49(0)228 / 91937-41
F +49(0)228 / 250535
The deadline to register as an exhibitor is 31 May 2012. To register as an exhibitor please click here
Registration for participants will be open in February 2012.
