The 5th Health and Environment Conference, organized by Hamdan Bin Mohammed e- University in Dubai, held under the umbrella of the HBMeU 2014 Congress, will provide a platform for exchanging expertise and knowledge in addressing the challenges that are relevant to the healthcare and environment issues globally and locally.

This year, the theme of the conference “Transformation for Better Healthcare and Environment” focuses on opportunities to build this new vision through tackling specific health and environmental topics including transformation of health through health reform, leadership for healthcare in the 21st century, transformation through information technology and data standardization, healthcare quality improvement and international accreditation, environmental sustainability and water resources management.

We invite all those engaged in health and environment issues to share their experiences and practices by submitting full research papers, case studies, poster presentations, student brief papers and extended abstracts, in accordance to the following sub-themes:

-Transformation of health through health reform
-Leadership for healthcare in the 21st century
-Transformation through information technology and data standardization
-Healthcare quality improvement and international accreditation
-Environmental sustainability
-Water resources management