1Xth PUBLIC HEALTH AND RESEARCH CONFERENCE

Abstract

The proceedings of the IXth Public Health and Research Conference in Gondar is a revival of the scientific traditions of the past two decades when the present Gondar College of Medical Sciences was known as the Public Health College. of the conferences of the 1960s were to provide intern health officers with a forum to share and synthesize their experiences in rural health centres with fellow students and faculty members. In 1966 the annual seminar for pre-intern and intern health officers was broadened into a conference and that became the first ever public health conference to be held on the very same grounds of this present Gondar College of Medical Sciences. This was a . historic moment. Papers presented at this conference were related to research and policy in the health care field and were the core articles for the first issue of the "Journal of Health" the sequel to "Gondar Health Series:" In the editorial on the objec- tives of the journal, the publication of the results of inquiries with broad inter-profession and cross-disciplinary sc