The Global Health Forum (focuses on Poverty, Equity and Health Research) is being held in Mumbai from 12 to 16 September 2005. There were over 500 papers received for consideration in the Forum 9 program. An invited paper on the James P Grant School of Public Health authored by SPH Dean, Mushtaque A. Chowdhury, Dean JPGSPH will appear in the Global Forum Health Research book. The paper on James P Grant School of Public Health authored by Mushtaque Chowdhury has also been accepted for presentation at the American Public Health Association to be held in New Orleans in November 2005.
Ms. Sabina Faiz Rashid's paper on 'Social Exclusion in Accessing Resources - the complex dynamics of health and equity among urban slum dwellers in Bangladesh,' was accepted as a Poster presentation for the Global Health Forum in Mumbai.