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World AIDS Day organised on December 1st - 15/12/2008
On the occasion of the Worlds AIDS Day on the 1st of December RUBSI (The Research Unit in Behaviour and Social Issues) and the University of Nicosia organized an event at the Journalists’ House in Nicosia. The event was under the auspices of the Eu...
New Research project with the title "Cancer in Cyprus and its Psycho-social Aspects" - 16/09/2008
Recently RUBSI won funding from the Cyprus Research Promotion Council for the research program "Cancer in Cyprus and its Psycho-Social Aspects" The general aim of the project is to investigate scientifically the psycho-social aspects ...
New Project on "Beliefs, Knowledge & Attitudes related to Breast Cancer among Young Cypriot and Egyptian Women" - 03/09/2008
RUBSI has recently won through the Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation, a Bilateral Cooperation Research Project with the title “Beliefs and practices related to Breast Cancer among a sample of young Cypriot and Egyptian women”. The project is f...
New World Health Organisation Initiatives for Womens Health : Fade Out the Problem - 31/08/2008
On 3-4 April 2008 RUBSI and the Department of Life and Health Sciences of the University of Nicosia, co-organised a Lecture and Round Table Discussion on the topic "New World Health Organisation Initiatives for Womens Health: Fade Out the Proble...
The inclusion of Immigrants in Cypriot Society: the Role of the School and the Local Authorities (Seminar) - 31/05/2008
RUBSI was honored to undertake the coordination of a one-day seminar organised by the Pallouriotissa High School and the Municipality of Nicosia (The initiative was taken by the Head Teacher of the Pallouriotissa High School Mrs. Maria Theodotou). Th...
Network of Epidemiological Surveillance and Control Crete – Cyprus - 31/03/2008
RUBSI’s Executive Director Dr Constantinos Phellas has recently been appointed by the Cyprus Republic Ministry of Health as a Specialist Statistician/Epidemiologist on the Cross-Border Network of Epidemiological Surveillance and Control of Hospital...
WHO Report on epidemiology and programmatic response to HIV among MSM - 31/03/2008
Dr Constantinos Phellas, Executive Director of RUBSI was recently commissioned by the World Health Organisations Collaborating Centre on Capacity building in HIV/AIDS Surveillance to write a report on the (a) available evidence on epidemiology and pr...
Research on "Policy and Practice: Ethnicity and Race in Contemporary Cyprus" - Distinguished Overseas Scientist Award - 31/12/2007
The results of the Research Project "Policy and Practice: Ethnicity and Race in Contemporary Cyprus" were presented on the 19th of December at the University of Nicosia.The project was conducted by RUBSI and coordinated by Dr Constantinos P...
RUBSI membership of the HIV/AIDS Civil Society Forum (CSF) - 01/11/2007
It is a great honor for RUBSI to have been recently accepted as a member of the European HIV/AIDS Civil Society Forum for a three year term valid until the 31st August 2010.The Civil Society Forum was established by the HIV/AIDS Think Tank in J...
Research on Breast Cancer - 01/11/2007
On the first of November 2007 there was an official presentation of the findings of the Research project "Attitudes, Knowledge and Behavior of Cypriot Women on Breast Cancer". The research was conducted by RUBSI for Europa Donna Cypru...
Research on the "Psychological and Social Aspects of Diabetes Mellitus" - 01/11/2007
The results of the research project "The Psychological and Social Aspects of Diabetes Mellitus" were announced in a Press Conference on the 6th of November at the University of Nicosia. The project, which was funded by the Cyprus Rese...
Programme of Community Action in the field of Public Health - 01/10/2007
Back in May 2007 RUBSI has joined forces as an associated partner with a consortium of organisations from another 7 EU countries and applied to the EUs - Public Health Executive Agency (PHEA) for funding in order to carry out research on Sexual Behav...