Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Keystone Symposia
Global Health Travel Awards
Thanks to a new three-year grant from the Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation, Global Health Travel Awards will be available for
five 2013 Keystone Symposia conferences (read more about this grant in this press release). The
conferences in the Global Health Series and Travel Award application
deadlines are listed below. These Awards are for investigators from
developing countries where the health issues of the meetings are endemic.
Note that a single individual can receive a maximum of one Global Health
Travel Award per calendar year (January-December).
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Global Health
Travel Award
Deadline
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Conference
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Aug 21, 2012
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Jan 20-25, 2013 | JW Marriott New Orleans | New
Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Award funding also
provided by Medicines for Malaria Venture – Ian Bathurst
Global Health Travel
Awards
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Sep 11, 2012
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Feb 10-15, 2013 | Keystone Resort | Keystone,
Colorado, USA
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Oct 16, 2012
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Mar 13-18, 2013 | Whistler Conference Centre |
Whistler, British Columbia, Canada
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Nov 6, 2012
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Apr 3-8, 2013 | Beaver Run Resort | Breckenridge,
Colorado, USA
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Dec 11, 2012
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May 10-15, 2013 | Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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The new grant will provide support for conferences in 2013, 2014 and 2015. It consists of $2.25 million in funding over three years – or $750,000 per year. The five 2012-2013 season Keystone Symposia conferences funded by the new grant are: “Malaria” in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA in January 2013; “HIV Vaccines” in Keystone, Colorado, USA in February 2013; “Tuberculosis: Understanding the Enemy” in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada in March 2013; “Immune Activation in HIV Infection: Basic Mechanisms and Clinical Implications” in Breckenridge, Colorado, USA in April 2013 and “The Innate Immune Response in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease” in Ouro Preto, Brazil in May 2013. The latter will be the first conference for Keystone Symposia in Latin America.
More than half of the grant is used to fund Global Health Travel Awards for investigators, clinicians, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from developing countries where the health issues of the meeting topic are endemic. Without these awards, these individuals would not be able to attend the conferences and participate in the valuable knowledge-sharing and collaboration-building that result. To date, more than 1,100 individuals from at least 50 countries have participated in Keystone Symposia conferences as a result of Global Health Travel Awards.
A unique component of the Global Health Series meetings that the funding also supports is a pre-meeting workshop for Travel Awardees in which 3-4 speakers provide an overview of the field, its current status and primary challenges. This has proved enormously valuable to participants who may be more involved in field work and therefore not as close to the latest research.
The grant will also help fund some registration costs for local scientists, postdoctoral associates and students when the conferences are held in developing countries. This promotes sharing of the latest research advances with those on the frontlines of battling global health challenges. It also stimulates growth of the research enterprise in developing countries.
More information can be viewed at www.keystonesymposia.org/GlobalHealth
More information on Keystone Symposia can be found at www.keystonesymposia.org
Full details of the 2013 meeting series can be viewed at www.keystonesymposia.org/meetings
More information on Keystone Symposia can be found at www.keystonesymposia.org
Full details of the 2013 meeting series can be viewed at www.keystonesymposia.org/meetings
