Symposium proposals for the American Society of Tropical Health and Hygiene 58^th Annual Meeting, to be held November 18-22 at the Marriott Wardman Park in Washington, DC, are currently being accepted. Visit www.astmh.org/meetings/index.cfm, to download the symposium proposal guidelines and access the link to the symposium proposal submission site.

Symposium proposals should be submitted via the online submission system by Wednesday, March 4. 

Contact info@astmh.org with questions.

Additionally, the mandate of the new global health subsection within ASTMH will focus on globalization's impact on health, health disparities and global health partnerships. Please consider a symposium submission on the topic of global health.

Examples of topics can include:

• Multidisciplinary approaches to north-south global health partnering/core curricula, academic competencies and models of partnered research and service;
• Non-communicable diseases and chronic health problems of the developing world;
• Socioeconomic determinants of health in the developing world;
• Climate and environmental impact upon the health of the developing world;
• Cost-effective prevention of disease in the developing world;
• Improving health metrics in the developing world;
• Global health workforce crisis;
• Rapid diagnostics and drug delivery for low resource settings;
• Water and sanitation in the developing world; and
• Tobacco and multinational industry impact on health overseas.

Submit proposals to the online symposium submission site, available via link at www.astmh.org/meetings/index.cfm.