Call for posters
Joint Action Conference on
“Planning & Educating Health Workforce without borders”
18th & 19th February 2016, Varna, Bulgaria
Joint Action Health Workforce Planning and Forecasting is organizing the European conference “Planning &
Educating Health Workforce without borders”. The conference will take place in Varna, Bulgaria on 18th & 19th
February 2016. The prime goal is to create a platform for networking and dialogue respecting the conference
content focus. The conferce will tackle the mobility of health workforce, the prospects of changing population
and demography as well as educational aspect in health technology assessment processes.
During the conference we offer the opportunity to students (in Bachelor’s, Master’s and PhD programs) to
present their final scientific study work or thesis on a topic linked to the conference themes.
With regards to the above mentioned activity, we are happy to invite your university to take part to the call
for posters.
The posters preparation and finalization should fit in the following themes that are in accordance with overall
conference key topics:
 the challenge of mobility for health professionals;
 the effect of a changing demography on health workforce needs;
 the education of health professionals for the future.
The posters will be at the display during the whole conference happening. At the coffee breaks the delegates
will have an opportunity to see the posters and discuss with the poster competition representatives. The
poster will bring extra added value to the overall theme topic of the conference. During the conference we
want to discuss topics similar to:
 Could we move easily and swiftly towards a European monitoring of health workforce mobility
information ?
 Is an action at European level possible or would a bilateral cooperation be applicable ?
 Is education abroad a business, an opportunity, a need, a real brain drain or all this together ?
 What are the main consequences of population ageing on health workforce and on the growing
imbalances ?
 Do we have other options than producing more health professionals ?
 Can we further finance our health systems without changing their organization and the roles of health
workers ?
For participation at the poster session of the JA conference it is required to fill in our attached
application form and to send it until 30th of October 2015 to:
posters.JAconference@gmail.com.
You will receive a confirmation that your poster has been accepted for participation until 30 th
of November 2015. Note that any application received after this deadline will not be accepted.
Call for posters
No participation fee is charged for the poster session. The travel and accommodation expenses are covered by
the participants.
The accepted and presented posters will be published on the website of JA for Health Workforce Planning
and Forecasting and on the website of the Medical University – Varna and circulated among all the
participants.
All presented posters will be recommended to be published in the scientific journals of Medical University –
Varna (Scripta Scientifica Salutis Publicae, Health Economics and Management, Varna Medical Forum). All
participants of the poster session will receive certificate of attendance.
We believe that this activity will give you an extraordinary opportunity for networking and sharing knowledge
in the field of health workforce mobility and beyond. The event will provide a platform to meet interesting
speakers and conference participants from all accros EU member states as well as outside of Europe. Do not
miss the opportunity to take part at the event by contributing to our call for posters.
Please, note that terms of reference related to the call for posters is attached along with the application form.
Furthermore, please, find attached the draft programme of the conference, Logo of the Joint Action and Joint
Action Corporate design manual.
We are looking forward for mutual cooperation.
With kind regards,
Prof. Todorka Kostadinova, PhD
Chief Assist. Prof. Maria Rohova, PhD
Assist. Prof. Nikolina Radeva
Medical University – Varna, Bulgaria
On behalf of Joint Action Health Workforce Planning and Forecasting