Archive for month: March, 2009

Building Public-Private Partnerships for Health in Africa – NEPAD International Workshop on Science, Technology & Innovation for Public Health in Africa

Attract additional funding & expertise to tackle major threats to population health, where existing resources (financial, human, institutional & system) not sufficient:

Aim: to produce complete solutions to major health problems that can be applied globally. New interventions for control and prevention of tropical parasitic diseases and newly emerging viral   diseases. Based mostly in the centres of excellence and pharmaceutical industries of high income countries (outside the countries whose populations might benefit from the research) .

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European Commission Ethics, Research and Globalisation Conference.

National Health Research Systems:

Functional definition: 1. Governance 2. Financing 3. Capacity Building 4. Knowledge generation & translation 5. Knowledg utilisation  

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Clinical trials in developing countries: Ethical issues, basic principles & practical approaches,

Ethical theries, ethical principles & rules, ethical behavior/actions.

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Introducing the Global Forum on Bioethics. World Conference on Bioethics.

Although the number of medical research projects and clinical trials conducted in developing countries have increased dramatically, the infrastructure in the ethics of research has failed to be in parallel with the ethical issues that such research imposes.

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The added-value of a human rights framework in the ethical review of health research, Public Health and Human Rights Conference. Prato, Italy. (keynote presentation)

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Values and moral experiences in Global Health: Bridging the Local and the Global.

Key recommendations: ENHR; Global Funding; Partnerships; Global Platform  

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African Health Ministers Communique on Health Research

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Briefing 1 – A call to action: Clarifying the World Health Organization’s role in research for health – Summary of two items discussed at the WHO Executive Board

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Briefing 8 – OECD High Level Forum Strengthening policies to improve availability of medicines for neglected and emerging infectious diseases

The High-Level Forum on Medicines for Neglected and Emerging Infectious Diseases brought together over 200 participants, mostly from OECD countries and some from developing countries. It included representatives from government, industry, donor agencies, academia, philanthropic foundations, international agencies and non-governmental organisations.  

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Strategic options for increasing collaboration between the Council on Health Research for Development (COHRED) and the Global Forum for Health Research

The purpose of this report is to explore strategic options for increased collaboration between the Council on Health Research for Development (COHRED) and the Global Forum for Health Research (Global Forum). It does this by looking at the two organizations – their activities and areas of comparative advantage – in the context of the evolving global health landscape.  

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