Archive for category: Director’s Corner

Mapping African ethical review committee activity onto capacity needs

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The forthcoming publication in Developing World Bioethics of COHRED’s paper, titled “Mapping African ethical review committee activity onto capacity needs: The MARC initiative and HRWeb’s interactive database of RECs in Africa” is based on data from the MARC project in late 2010. MARC is a three-year project funded by the European and Developing Countries Clinical […]

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New training course online in Latin America

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A new Latin American training project to strengthen research for health systems began mid-July 2011 in Antigua, Guatemala, jointly designed and run by RIMAIS, ISCIII and COHRED and the Spanish International Cooperation and Development Agency (AECID). The Ibero American Ministerial Network on Learning and Health Research (RIMAIS) is an initiative proposed by former Minister of […]

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PAHO supports population of HRWeb

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COHRED has been working hard to develop and extend Health Research Web (HRWeb), a powerful tool that we urge governments, research institutions, policy-makers, donors and others involved in research for health and innovation to use and adopt. It is the first time a repository of research information is publicly available free of charge, with countries […]

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Welcome

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Dear Readers, What you see is a brand new website – fast, more relevant, and developing. Our ‘Web 4 Development’ team in Belo Horizonte in Brazil and our communicator in Geneva take all credit for producing this excellent new facility of communication between COHRED and you. This web is ‘work in progress’, and we are […]

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