Welcome to the COHRED page on African Schools of Public Health

AfriHealth was started in 2000 by Carel IJsselmuiden (current COHRED director) when he was director of the School of Health Systems and Public Health at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. It continued when he joined COHRED in 2004.

COHRED Research for Health Briefing 5 looks at the African Regional Health Report of the World Health Organization from a health research perspective. A synthesis of the key messages of the report and comment from a health research perspective.

The debate on Human Resources for Health (HRH) is growing in importance in the international development community and is the theme of the WHO 2006 World Health Report. HRH has attracted much attention due to the large numbers of health care workers, medical staff and qualified doctors, trained in developing countries and hired to worked in health care systems in the North America and Europe.

Symposium on the Comparative Analysis of National Research Systems UNESCO Dr Andrew Kennedy- COHRED

We support efforts to prevent and treat diseases and conditions that meet three criteria: they cause widespread illness and death in developing countries; they represent the greatest inequalities in health between developed and developing countries; and they receive inadequate attention and funding.