I have an important announcement to make today. We are now awarding the author of the best article published each month with a textbook of their choice. So from now on, all authors of the articles we publish every month will be eligible for this award and I will announce the winner at the start of every month. This month’s winner is Paul Park, the author of two brilliant articles the post election violence in Kenya, one about his experience in Kenya, and the other about his experiences in the resulting refugee camps in Uganda. Either one of these articles would have been enough to win the prize. So well done Paul.

Also, I mentioned in this week’s podcast that we are happy to publicise upcoming conferences and events that you tell us about. For now, this will be via the blog and so please see below for what is happening this month and beyond. Please note that this is definitely not an exhaustive list, just what you have told us about so far. Please email me at student@lancet.com if you want us to publicise your conference or event. And if you are going yourself, I hope that you will blog for us and tell us all about what is happening- many thanks Rhona

This month
April 3-5: The 17^th Global Health Educational Consortium annual conference in Sacramento. The conference will focus on Global health ethics. For more information see http://www.globalhealth-ec.org

From Marlow Macht
April 2-6: The 12^th International Conference on Emergency Medicine, April 2-6 in San Francisco, California. For more information, please see http://meetings.acep.org/2008icem

From James Matheson
April 25: the Royal Society of Medicine will be hosting Medicine Overseas, aimed at doctors in training and medical students with an interest in aid work abroad. For more information see http:// www.rsm.ac.uk

Coming up
From Justin Sherwin
August 25-28: The 8^th International Association for the Prevention of Blindness General Assembly in Buenos Aires. The GA is held every four years; the last one being in Dubai in 2004. The theme of this GA is ‘excellence and equity in eyecare.’ For more information, see http://8ga.iapb.org/

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