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1. 4-th International Symposium on Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders in the Middle East May 15-17, 2009: Larnaka, Cyprus

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Founded in 1948, the World Federation for Mental Health [WFMH] is a non-profit, multidisciplinary, non-governmental, international advocacy alliance of individuals and organizations in 112 countries. WFMH is in consultative status to the United Nations. It includes professionals and consumers and their families.

Objectives:

• Heighten public awareness about the importance of mental health, and to gain understanding and improve attitudes about mental disorders
• Promote mental health and prevent mental disorders
• Improve the care, treatment and recovery of people with mental disorders

As the only worldwide grassroots and multidisciplinary advocacy and public education organization concerned with all aspects of mental health, the WFMH achieves its goals through:

• Public educational programs
• Research through collaborating centers
• Consultation to the United Nations
• A regional structure for organizing project work at the community level

1. 30-th Biennial Congress September 2-6, 2009: Athens, Perifereia Protevousis, Greece

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The World Federation of Public Health Associations [WFPHA] is an international, nongovernmental organization bringing health workers throughout the world together for professional exchange, collaboration, and action. Its members are multidisciplinary national and regional public health societies whose own memberships include nurses, sanitarians, administrators, physicians, health educators, pharmacists, anthropologists, researchers, and many other persons interested in public health. Founded in 1967, WFPHA is the only worldwide professional society representing and serving the broad field of public health, as distinct from single disciplines or occupations. WFPHA enjoys official relations status with the World Health Organization [WHO] and maintains close ties with UNICEF and other international organizations.

The official publication of WFPHA is the quarterly Journal of Public Health Policy.

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The World Federation of Sleep Research and Sleep Medicine Societies [WFSRSMS] (formerly the World Federation of Sleep Research Societies [WFSRS]) was founded in 1987.

Objectives:

• Facilitate international collaborations and cooperation among professional sleep societies around the world (its members)
• Promote sleep health as a world-wide public health priority
• Disseminate globally professional information on sleep medicine and sleep science
• Foster awareness of the importance of sleep research and the impact of sleep disorders
• Sponsor international Congresses on state-of-the-art developments in sleep medicine and sleep research
• Support international training in clinical sleep medicine and sleep research

WFSRSMS members societies include some 10,000 sleep scientists and physicians in over 60 countries. The member societies are:

• American Academy of Sleep Medicine [AASM]
• Asian Sleep Research Society [ASRS]
• Australasian Sleep Association [ASA]
• Canadian Sleep Society [CSS] (Société canadienne du sommeil)
• European Sleep Research Society [ESRS]
• Federation of Latin American Sleep Societies [FLASS]
• Sleep Research Society (United States) [SRS]

The official publications of WFSRSMS are:

• Journal SLEEP
• Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine
• Journal of Sleep Research
• Sleep and Biological Rhythms

The World Federation and Society of Adolescentology [WFSA] was founded in 1994 to give a social structure to the new, common field of scientific interests and to bring together researchers, clinicians and scientific societies devoted to Adolescence throughout the world.

The official publication of the [WFSA] is Medicine, Mind and Adolescence.

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Founded in 1974, the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry [WFSBP] is a non-profit organization composed of National Societies of Biological Psychiatry and of individual psychiatrists in countries, like the United States, without a national society member.

The aim of the WFSBP is to promote, in all countries, education and the attainment of the highest level of knowledge and understanding in the field of Biological Psychiatry.

The official publication of WFSBP is the World Journal of Biological Psychiatry.

1. 9-th World Congress of Biological Psychiatry June 28-July 2, 2009: Paris, Ile-de-France, France

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The goal of The World Federation of Therapeutic Communities [WFTC] is to join together in a world wide association of sharing, understanding and cooperation within the global Therapeutic Community Movement as well as to widen recognition and acceptance of the Therapeutic Community and the Therapeutic Community approach among health organizations and health delivery systems of international and national bodies.

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The World Fellowship for Schizophrenia and Allied Disorders [WFSAD] was founded in Toronto in 1982 by representatives from several national family organizations. It is the only international organization dedicated to lightening the burden of schizophrenia (and allied disorders) for sufferers and their families.

Members and Associates provide direct services; run self-help groups; conduct workshops; produce educational materials; arrange conferences; advocate for better treatment and appropriate services; manage research funds and thus influence government policies.

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The World Foundation for Medical Studies in Female Health [WFFH] is a non-profit public foundation dedicated to medical education, consumer education, and funding research to cure disease in women.

WFFH was founded in 1951 as the International Fertility Association and was reorganized as the United States International Foundation for Studies in Reproduction before assuming its current name.