HITT-CIS EU-FP7/HEALTH Project

Second Global Symposium on Health System research in Beijing

Bianca Brandl — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 12:30:45 +0000

The second Gobal Symposium on Health System research will take place in Beijing from 31 October – 3 November 2012.
For the HITT-CIS project we plan to organize a session at the conference focusing on Rapid Appraisals.
Deadline for abstract submission is 1st May 2012.

EUPHA conference Malta

Bianca Brandl — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:40:50 +0000

EUPHA conference will take place in Malta from 8 – 10 November 2012.
For the HITT-CIS project we plan to organize a session at the conference.
Deadline for abstract submission is 1st May 2012.
http://www.eupha.org/site/upcoming_conference.php

HITT-CIS at ASN-Conference in Moscow

Johannes Wetzinger — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 08:56:52 +0000

On 1st of October 2011 the HITT-CIS Project organized a panel at the ASN-Conference “Twenty Years after 1991: The Reshaping of Space and Identity” in Moscow. The panel with the title “The Way of Life and the Standard of Living in Post-Socialist Countries: Public Health” contained papers from Gulzhan Alimbekova, Kirill Danishevskii, Larissa Filinskaya, Alexander Kizilov and David Rotman.

The presentations are available for download here.

HITT-CIS on “Radio Svoboda”

Johannes Wetzinger — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 13:31:41 +0000

On the 2nd of October “Radio Svoboda” reported about findings of the HITT-CIS Project. Veronika Bode (Radio Svoboda) interviewed the Project Coordinator Dr. Alexander Chvorostov and the HITT-CIS experts Dr. Alexander Gasparishvili, Dr. Gulzhan Alimbekova, Dr. Alexander Kizilov and Prof. David Rotman.

The audio file of the report can be found here (in Russian). A transcript is available here (in Russian).

An earlier report about the HITT-CIS Project was broadcasted on “Radio Svoboda” in July 2011. More information is available here.

New HITT-CIS publication on Health Care Reform in the Former Soviet Union

Johannes Wetzinger — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:33:40 +0000

In September 2011 a new HITT-CIS paper on health care reform in the Former Soviet Union was published in the journal “Health Services Research”:

Dina Balabanova, Bayard Roberts, Erica Richardson, Christian Haerpfer, Martin McKee: “Health Care Reform in the Former Soviet Union: Beyond the Transition”, in: “Health Services Research”, 2011 (online first)

The article is available here.

HITT-CIS at Conference on Caucasus and Central Asia

Johannes Wetzinger — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 09:12:35 +0000

In August 2011 Gulzhan Alimbekova and Aizhan Shabdenova (CIOM) presented findings from the HITT-CIS project at the conference “The Caucasus and Central Asia, twenty years after independences: Questioning the notion of South countries” in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Their presentation with the title “Urban versus countryside in Kazakhstan: A comparative sociological data analysis 2001 and 2010” is available here (in Russian).

HITT-CIS at conference “Independence of the state and capital of the country”

Johannes Wetzinger — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 08:04:18 +0000

Dr. Gulzhan Alimbekova (CIOM) presented findings of the HITT-CIS project at the 4th annual international conference “Independence of the state and capital of the country: connotation of meanings”. The conference took place on 4th and 5th of July 2011 in Astana, Kazakhstan.

The related presentations can be downloaded here (in Russian) and here (in Russian).
The papers are available here (in Russian) and here (in Russian).

“Radio Svoboda” reported about the HITT-CIS project

Johannes Wetzinger — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 11:56:50 +0000

On the 10th of July “Radio Svoboda” broadcasted a report about findings of the HITT-CIS project. The report covered trends of population health and health systems in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and the Southern Caucasus. “Radio Svoboda” interviewed the HITT-CIS experts Prof. Sergey Tumanov, Dr. Alexander Kizilov, Prof. David Rotman and Dr. Merab Pachulia.

The audio file of the report can be found here (in Russian). A transcript is available here (in Russian).

Report about the HITT-CIS project in “Narodnaya Gazeta”

Johannes Wetzinger — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 08:21:12 +0000

The newspaper “Narodnaya Gazeta” from Belarus published an article about the HITT-CIS project. It is available here (in Russian).

Interview on HITT-CIS project with “Rosbalt”

Johannes Wetzinger — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 14:10:11 +0000

Dr. Alexander Gasparishvili (Moscow State University) gave an interview about the HITT-CIS project to the news agency “Rosbalt”. The interview is available here (in Russian).