Maritime Health Research and Education-NET/Organisation/Minutes from Board meetings

SAT 27 AUG 2022 at 9:00 in Panama, 16:00 in Spain and France, 17:00 in Russia, and 22:00 in Manila we have our group meeting


 * 1) EU Consortium to be discussed later
 * 2) Danish Maritime Fond T2DM application done OJ
 * 3) European Foundation Study of Diabetes (EFSD)- http://www.europeandiabetesfoundation.org/ to apply in the Consortium
 * 4) T2DM and HTN Research Group Zoom Seminar, SAT 10 DEC 2022
 * 5) Revision of the ILO guidelines to be discussed in Marseille
 * 6) Norwegian - Croatian Expert group for education
 * 7) Use of urine stick for blood and protein? to be disc in th seminar 10 DEC
 * 8) Marseille French Conference a possibility to present the T2DM Research pilot project Pptx in French is ready
 * 9) IMHA anniversary. Contribution to Public Health challenges, some will be there
 * 10) Round table in Maritime medicine in St. Petersburg 14-15 Sept ID present Pptx is ready
 * 11) Prepare some presentation for Nov 18th in the next online National Conference on Maritima Medicine of SEMM and UCA Pptx ready
 * 12) Ideas for multicenter epidemiological research projects- consortium no discussion

SAT 25 JUNE 2022 Zoom meeting on 25th of June 2022- Saturday, at 9:00 in Panama, 16:00 in Spain and France, 17:00, and 22:00 in Manila Participants: OJ, DL, ID, VC, DP The topics:
 * 1) IMHA 25th Birthday in Antwerp in September, running: DL for Board and Don for IMH
 * 2) Marseille, France 14-15 Oct 2022 French Seminar
 * 3) Online International group seminar 2022
 * 4) Maritime Health Research Coordination Center, Malmö at the World Maritime University (WMU)
 * 5) The International Maritime Health Journal Club

SAT 26 FEBRUARY 2022

Participants: OJ, LC, DL, DP, ID, VC
 * 1) Requesting for a paper on the state of health of global seafarer- proposal- systematic reviews of systematic reviews about seafarers' mental health.
 * 2) Revision of ILO Guidelines medical examinations of seafarers (Elsevier "Public Health")- to check errors, deadline- before Tuesday 1 April.
 * 3) American Club  PEME FormAmerican Club
 * 4) Revision of the WHO International Medical Guide for Ships- a study will be conducted about the usability of the book.
 * 5) The SDG-17 International Maritime Health Journal Club - we will try to organize Journal Club meetings. VC- coordinator
 * 6) Systematic Reviews of Systematic Reviews on maritime mental health compliance with the 17-SDGs - DL will write about methodology and will send it.

AGENDA WED 12 JANUARY 2022 Extraordinary Zoom meeting with: OJ, LC, DP, ID, VC, FG, ALS, GSA, AF to create of a New Research Group at 9:00 in Panama, 15:00 in Spain and France, 17:00 in Russia, and 22:00 in Manila at 9:00 in Panama, 15:00 in Spain and France, 17:00 in Russia, and 22:00 in Manila Link to page IMHA-ISMH-IMHAR-MAHRE-Net
 * 1) Welcome and short presentation round
 * 2) Constitution of the International Diabetes and Hypertension Research Group for seafarers, other transport workers and fishers (approved)
 * 3) Constitution of the Steering group (Approved, Chair OJ)
 * 4) Revision of the ILO Guidelines medical examinations of seafarers to screen for T2DM using valid tests (presented/oj)
 * 5) Research project with Novo Nordic funds application (not for now)
 * 6) Other topics (none) (end after 45 min)

AGENDA SATURDAY 8 JANUARY 2022 with: OJ, LC, DL, DP, ID, VC


 * 1) Online mini "ISMH" 2022- possible ways to organize ISMH, e.g. join Russian conferences in June/September
 * 2) Position US and IMH foundation- It is important to discuss with the IMH foundation about MAHRE-Net a.s.a.p.
 * 3) Journals open access, free or low cost- free and low-cost journals can be considered for publishing articles
 * 4) Letter to Editor IMH- IL will ask Maria whether she will publish the letter
 * 5) T2DM research- the data collection is in the process, more data are needed.

/Minutes from the Meetings 3rd Sep 2020-31 Dec 2021/

AGENDA SATURDAY 27 of November, 2021- Saturday, at 9:00 in Panama, 15:00 in Spain and France, 17:00 in Russia, and 22:00 in Manila group meeting with: VC, LC, OJ, DL, ID, DIP


 * 1) Status French application - delayed, VC will be head of application
 * 2) Diabetes short article status - ready to submit in a couple of weeks
 * 3) Prevalence T2DM data collection status: ongoing in Spain and start in Colombia soon
 * 4) Diabetes prevalence publication plan: wait
 * 5) The 16th International Symposium on Maritime Health Athens, Greece, June 2021- propose online short 1 day seminar
 * 6) Is it a good idea to create Global Health Research Ethical Committee? - agreed
 * 7) Other publications: not at the moment

AGENDA SATURDAY 6 NOVEMBER 2021 with: VC, LC, OJ, DL, ID
 * 1) Diabetes Article for “Primary Care Diabetes”- all group members are asked to contribute in writing certain topics.
 * 2) Study of T2DM prevalence in seafarers and fishermen- ongoing in Spain (LC), and the protocol may be used in other countries, such as Russia, Philippines, Indonesia, India (ID), and France (DL).

AGENDA SATURDAY 2 OCTOBER 2021 with DP, DL, ID, LC, OJ, VC Agenda proposals:
 * 1) Diabetes groups- It is necessary to create a diabetes group and involve those who are interested to work with diabetes.
 * 2) ID will ask an Indian colleague
 * 3) OJ will prepare the questions for a paper format
 * 4) ICOH Conference interest
 * 5) STENO Diabetes Center- have experts who can help with researching and provide the best advice.
 * 6) French meeting- Continue collaboration with EF regarding different European funding programs; a specific subject/objective is needed to be clarified. A proposed objective: advance research and training in maritime health in the EU and beyond it. DL will try to organize a meeting with EF to discuss the objectives.
 * 7) EU-COST application- DL will not try again to apply for the EU-COST program, but thinm of other possibilities

Russian meeting- ID participated in a Saint Petersburg forum regarding Arctic maritime medicine. The WHO has all the documents for Sputnik V, so it is not necessary to revaccinate seafarers.
 * 1) Thailand data for students- DP can find some students from Global Health (e.g. from Philippines and Africa) to analyze the data. DL will contact colleagues from Vietnam.
 * 2) Homepage- continue editing the website.
 * 3) Diabetes data- Toby- LC will contact Toby.
 * 4) Medical exam- urine sugar- OJ made a proposal to the Journal of Primary Care Diabetes (Editor Elsevier) to update the international guidelines regarding the diagnosis of T2DM among transport workers. All are invited to contribute to this article. Deadline- mid November 2021; up to 1000 words and 20 references for the article.
 * 1) SEMM Conference 29.10.2021- The Conference will take place online, and everyone are invited to participate. The main subject: the transmissible diseases among seafarers and fishermen.
 * 2) Seafarers' COVID vaccine- Sue produced for IMHA interim advice for vaccination of seafarers against COVID-19.
 * 3) GHQ12 data UMIP- UMIP is interested in the GHQ12 and started to collect data; They will maybe be interested to collect diabetes data.
 * 4) Costa Rica AMP-Terminal- Is a new advancement, since they have good data to be analyzed.
 * 5) Allergic diseases among seafarers- LC will include and exclude articles for a literature review.
 * 6) Wikipedia edition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Maritime_Health_Association IMHA - MAHRE-NET

AGENDA SATURDAY 7 AUGUST 2021 with DP, DL, ID, LC, OJ, VC, HE
 * 1) Diabetes groups- On 15th of August, HE will start to collect data, using the questions from the protocol, for a period of 6 months and calculate the prevalence. OJ will prepare the questions for a paper format. ID will ask an Indian colleague if he would like to also collect data for this topic.
 * 2) Mahrenet webinars- LC proposed to create a special MHRE-NET web page.
 * 3) MAHRE.Net webpage - good idea, go on OJ will create a new MONO.Net homepage in the next few weeks
 * 4) Mahrenet Wikiversity Homepage- All members should continue to work on it.
 * 5) French meeting- (DL)- will help to organize a French meeting next week to discuss different projects relevant for this network; everyone is welcome to join the meeting.
 * 6) Data collection planned- DL can ask a colleague in Vietnam to collect data, and also ask some colleagues to collect data from different African countries. Costa Rica data collection of port workers follows.
 * 7) Well-being fishermen students. Systematic review.- DL proposed a systematic review about the well-being and Mental health of fishermen and fishermen’s students, and DL will work on it.
 * 8) The Russian meeting- ID announced there will be a conference in Tomsk and Moscow on 10th of September 2021. OJ will prepare a presentation for that meeting.
 * 9) Revision of the WHO/IMO/ILO Med Guide for ships- OJ participate in revision on behalf of CMSS, ID will find out whether it is possible to contribute to revising the future International Guide for ships.
 * 10) ICOH- International Commission on Occupational Health- The deadline to submit an abstract is at the end of August when the next ICOH conference takes place. OJ will propose and send a topic to ICOH next week. VC clarifies whether a session is free, and if not how much is it.
 * 11) Agreements of collaboration- DP will propose two topics for publication to the Lancet Commission.

--- AGENDA SATURDAY 3 April 2021 with DP, DL, ID, LC, OJ, Panama	800 Brest	1500 Tarragona	1500 Moskow	1600 Manila	2100 ---
 * 1) Fishermen health issues on Chinese fleet (mails from ITF) (Ilona) Maltreatment of the fishermen, bad/ food and food. Ilona prepare a note for ILO we sign, Don: long time, review study showed, he send to us.
 * 2) Philippine research agenda (Don) prepare an online workshop, secretary available we can pay also Africa activity
 * 3) EU open calls (David) send the links, application possible in some months,
 * 4) Specialization in Maritime Medicine/European /Global Mar Research Master, EU nearly impossible, talk later                            *OPEN LINKS-> MSc & Diploma Maritime Research Education Modules
 * 5) Other postgraduate courses: Medical Examinations for Fishermen, possible through MAHRE-Net
 * 6) MAHRE-net Webinars - organising Webinars global sharing for example Webinars for Divers
 * 7) Our own or collaborative open-air Scientific Journal - postponed
 * 8) MAHRE.Net webpage - good idea, go on
 * 9) Data collection GHQ12 France, Thailand, Spain, Venezuela - and new, good collaboration
 * 10) Ideas for new studies/publications:
 * 11) Biometrology, as an example, hearing, and respiratory data with long term trends
 * 12) Early Diagnosis+non-pharm prevention, effect, Pre-Hypertension&Pre-Diabetes talk later
 * 13) How Maritime clinics educate new doctors and brush-up: the need for MSc Maritime Health Research
 * 14) Covidence software for systematic review and data with the fumex questionnaire on fumigants- next

- 12 Feb with: DL, ID, LC, OJ,


 * 1) Ongoing data compiling GHQ12 in Thailand, Venezuela & Denmark-Telemed and Italy (Covid)
 * 2) BSc.PubH and McPubH in Denmark analyze the data for their thesis
 * 3) LC will take contact to R&V in Tarragona to ask for McPubHealh students who wish to analyze data
 * 4) Information Portal project to be proposed in COST

Communications WhatsApp 20 Oct - 3 Nov


 * 1) COST Action application in development deadline 10 Nov
 * 2) SEMM Zoom meeting 30 Oct with a short presentation of MAHRE-Net

Communications 13-18 Oct DL,OJ, LC,ID,DP -- 13 Oct 5:30 PM Participants DL,OJ
 * 1) COST Action invitation
 * 2) DP member of the Board with contacts to Africa and Asia
 * 3) Cohort studies GHQ12 Manila, DP
 * 4) SEMM meeting 30 Oct MAHRE-Net
 * 1) MoU/Technical Annex is excellent and nearly ready
 * 2) MAHRE-Net WGs for our own actions too detailed for the COST action application
 * 3) WG 1 Ongoing Systematic reviews added: 1. Fishermen allergies (DL lead) 2.Empowerment woman seafarers (FB lead in the Nordic group)
 * 4) Finansial issues will come after approval
 * 5) Don Prisno, Manila will help with the contact to maritime schools there
 * 6) Specialist educations in Occupational Medicine obligatory thesis work can be a maritime cohort study
 * 7) Next meeting, Thursday 22 Oct 5:30 CEST,

Zoom conference 9 Oct 5:30 PM LC, OJ
 * 1) Discussion on "Milestones" and WPs
 * 2) Next meeting 13 Oct 5:30 CEST

Zoom conference 4 Oct
 * 1) COST country members to be added
 * 2) Add "diet" and "medical" to "fitness ..."
 * 3) Add gender the WPs as one new or to "social"
 * 4) Inclusion of members of WISTA was discussed, for me fine

Whats-app conference 26 Sep The abbreviation is MAHRE-Net

Zoom meeting 8 Sep 2020 6pm CET short meeting ID, LC, OJ

Agreements
--- Zoom meeting 3 Sep 2020 5pm CET Participants ID, LC, DL, OJ
 * 1) The title: Maritime Health Research and Education-Net (MHRE-NET) is confirmed
 * 2) We will learn "how to" edit the pages and add the needed
 * 3) We leave the "Sandbox" and go to Wikiversity in English, Spanish, French, Icelandic, Russian and Thai
 * 4) We will add our new members to the "Members" page
 * 5) We will prepare Work Packets of Objectives also to be ready for possible COST projects.
 * 6) A homepage with links to the Wikiversity will see daylight
 * 7) Other things
 * 8) Next meeting date

Agreements
 * 1) The Board of Directors are: ID, LC, DL, OJ, DP,VC  (*) Tarik Ghailan (TG) added Jun 12 2023
 * 2) Each Director will serve his or her specific competencies and experiences, e.g. meetings with the IMHA-Board is by ID or LC
 * 3) The proposed title: Maritime Health Research and Education -Net (MAHRE-Net) to be confirmed or revised
 * 4) The "IMHA-Research" group is inside the new independent MHRE-NET with pending tasks:
 * 5) The ILO/Europeche wants us to help with the specific guidelines for the health examinations of fishermen
 * 6) We look for possible COST joint projects, that can for example be EU maritime training materials and training
 * 7) Many organizations were mentioned as candidates to be invited for collaboration

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