E-DRUG: Medicines Symposium Scholarship
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Dear Colleagues
Please note the opportunity below
Kind regards
Lynn Weekes
CEO
NPS. Better choices, better health
Applications for the Asia-Pacific QUM Scholarship closing soon
- closing date extended to 27 February 2012
Academics, health workers and policy makers from the Asia-Pacific region are invited to apply for a scholarship to attend the National Medicines Symposium to be held in Sydney, Australia in May 2012. Applications will be accepted from colleagues working in low and middle income countries in the Asian and Western Pacific regions who are active in a research, teaching, practice or policy role to support rational drug use in their country.
NMS is a biennial event hosted by NPS Better choices, Better health and the scholarship winner will receive complementary registration to the event and be invited to give an oral presentation of their work as part of a concurrent session. The winner will also have the opportunity to attend the Asia Pacific Conference on National Medicines Policies, which follows NMS 2012 and will also be held in Sydney in May 2012. This conference is being run collaboratively by NPS, the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing, the University of Newcastle and the World Health Organization.
The scholarship recipient will receive complimentary registration to NMS 2012 and the Asia Pacific Conference on National Medicines Policies and up to $5000 (AUD) to cover travel, accommodation and expenses. For more information on the general eligibility requirements, a full list of eligible countries and criteria to address in the application, visit http://www.nps.org.au/topics/nms/qum_scholarship.