Announcements and Updates

April, 2017

Applications are sought for this year's Dr Atai Anne Deborah Omoruto Scholarship Award for an African woman to attend the 2017 WONCA Africa conference in Pretoria.

March, 2017

WONCA CEO, Garth Manning, has written a letter to member organisations informing them of an exciting development of a new global jobs board on the WONCA website.

February, 2017

The time has come to seek applications from doctors from these two regions for Montegut scholarships, allowing one doctor from each region to attend regional conferences in August. This year there will be two awards for the Africa region and one for the Iberoamericana region.

February, 2017

In mid 2014 The Lancet commissioned a group of 21 independent experts in a variety of disciplines to generate a report on Essential Medicines Policies to be published in late 2016. Dr Lembit Rägo, Secretary-General, CIOMS shares the report.

December, 2016

Prof Michael Kidd, WONCA Immediate Past President directs us to an announcment by the WHO that Dr Halfdan Mahler, the third WHO Director-General has died. Prof Kidd says "He is being hailed, I think appropriately, as a hero of global public health and primary health care."

August, 2016

Applications close November 4, 2016 for the the AFMC Charles Boelen International Social Accountability Award. The Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada (AFMC) last year announced a new award - the AFMC Charles Boelen International Social Accountability Award. Named after Dr Charles Boelen, a world leader in Social Accountability, it aims to celebrate people or organizations whose professional accomplishments are reflective of the principles of social accountability.

July, 2016

It is with great sadness that we today learned of the death on 22nd July 2016 of our great friend, colleague and one of the Founding Fathers of the Vasco da Gama Movement, Fons Sips.

July, 2016

The Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM) Foundation supports the sharing of expertise among those who want to advance the family medicine model throughout the world. One scholarship recipient is selected each year and receives funding to attend the STFM Annual Spring Conference.

May, 2016

Three leading international One Health groups, the One Health Commission, One Health Initiative Autonomous pro bono Team, and the Health Platform Foundation are partnering to create a global “One Health Day” on November 3.

April, 2016

WONCA CEO, Dr Garth Manning has recently been in South America preparing for the coming WONCA world conference in Rio. He provides this summary of WHO information on the Zika virus.