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    Bolivia
1.  Research for health – national priorities 5.  Resources
2.  Research for health – policies and governance 6.  Country Background
3.  Key Institutions 7.  Country Reviewers
4.  Research Financing and Partnership  
  1. Research for health – national priorities
 
  2. Research for health – policies and
       governance
   
Plan Nacional de Desarrollo - Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación
  Ministerio de Planificación del Desarrollo, junio de 2006
 
Política Nacional de Salud
  Ministerio de Saud y Deportes, noviembre, 2004
   
  3. Key Institutions
Government
• Dr. Walter Selum
  Ministra de Salud y Deportes
  Ministerio de Salud y Deportes

  Plaza del Estudiante esq. Cañada Strongest s/n,
  La Paz - Bolivia
  Tel-Fax: (+591-2) 2492926 / (+591-2) 2481406
  Email: info@sns.gov.bo

• Dr. Juan Alberto Nogales
  Vice- Ministro de Salud y Deportes

• Lic. Miguel Velaszquez
  Vice ministro de Ciencia y Tecnología
  Ministerio de Planificación del Desarrollo
  Nº esq. Oruro Nº 1092 - Piso 6
  Casilla de correo 12814
  La Paz - Bolivia
  Tel: (+591-2) 2311381 - 2116000 Int. 1600

  Lic. Karem Milenka Vásquez Salazar
  Directora General de Ciencia y Tecnología
  Tel: +211600 int 1607
  Email: kvasquez@planificacion.gov.bo

Research Councils
• Bolivian Academy of Medicine
  Calle Ballivian 1266
  PO Box 14094
  La Paz

  Professor Jaime L. Rios-Dalenz
  Professor Emeritus
  Medical School
  Tel: (+ 591 2) 2795-815, 2203-649
  Fax: (+ 591 2) 2203-643, 2245-343
  Email: academbol@hotmail.com
            jriosdal@yahoo.com

Academic Institutions and Research Institutions (non-profit)
• Universidad Mayor de San Andres (UMSA)
  UMSA 2008, La Paz - Bolivia
  Av. Villazón 1995 Monoblock Central
  Tel: +(591 - 2) 2352232
  Email: webmaster@umsa.bo
  Web: http://www.umsa.bo/umsa/app

• Universidad Mayor de San Simón (UMSS)
  Facultad de Medicina "Dr. Aurelio Melean"
  Avenida Aniceto Arce 379, Cochabamba
  Tel: +(591) 4 423 1508, 425 4910
  Fax: +(591) 4 423 1690
  Email: medicina@med.umss.edu.bo
  Web: http://www.med.umss.edu.bo/

• Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar
  Calle R. Audiencia No. 73
  Tel: +(591-4) 6460265
  Fax: +(591-4) 6460833
  Casilla No. 545
  Sucre - BOLIVIA
  Email: uasb@uasb.edu.bo
  Web: http://www.uasb.edu.bo/universidad/

More:

Civil Society Organisations / NGOs
• PROCOSI (Programa de Coordinación en Salud Integral)
  Avenida 20 de Octubre Nº 2164
  (entre Fernando Guachalla y Aspiazu),
  Sopocachi, La Paz - Bolivia
  Tel: (+591-2) 241-6061, 241-4335
  Fax: (+591-2) 242-4148
  Email: info@procosi.org.bo
  Web: http://www.procosi.org.bo/

Private Research Institutions (for profit)
Update in progress
Other
Update in progress
  4. Research Financing and Partnership
Internal funding - Update in progress

External funding - Update in progress
 
  5. Resources
   
Health Systems 20/20
Health research systems development in Latin America (Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua)
Record Paper 6
2006
Resumen en español
Can communities influence national health research agendas?
COHRED Record Paper 3
2006
Assessing the Efficacy of Health Research as a Development Strategy in Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers.
NYU Wagner – COHRED Capstone Project, 2006
Research into Action, Issue 25
The Newsletter of the Council on Health Research for Development
2001
   
  6. Country Background
Canadian International Development Agency ( CIDA )
 
 
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