Dr Mario Tristan is one of the funders, the CEO and Director General of the International Health Central American Institute Foundation (IHCAI). He is also the Director of Cochrane central America & Spanish Caribbean branch of the Iberoamerican Cochrane Centre. He is actively participating in the MASCOT project (Multilateral Association for Studying Health Inequalities and Enhancing […]
Read moreMember governments of the UN World Intellectual Property Organization today approved 15 new observers to the organisation, including three international organisations, and a range of nongovernmental organisations such as two significant public health-oriented groups, including COHRED. Other groups were rejected. Link to the article: http://www.ip-watch.org/?p=31986&utm_source=post&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alerts
Read moreThe Council on Health Research for Development (COHRED) is pleased to acknowledge the support of Pfizer Pharmaceuticals on Phase II of the MARC project (www.researchethicsweb.org). MARC was a joint project of COHRED and SARETI at the University of KwaZulu-Natal funded by the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) and an unconditional grant from Pfizer […]
Read moreCOHRED endoreses the recent INDEPTH Population Statistics (INDEPTHStats). INDEPTHStats displays yearly health and demographic indicators generated from the INDEPTH member centres in Africa, Asia and Oceania. INDEPTHStats is freely available to everyone. It aims at providing researchers, government officials and policymakers, among others, health and demographic information that can guide their decision-making.
Read moreCOHRED is mentioned several times in the recently released World Health Report 2013.
Read moreOur WAHO colleagues have just published the following article: The state of the research for health environment in the ministries of health of the Economic Community of the West African States (ECOWAS).
Read moreCheck on this positive feedback (in French), from the Ministry of Health of Benin, about the WAHO Web workshop recently done in this country.
Read moreDon’t miss these two articles, recently co-authored by two of our staff members: Dr Franciso Becerra was invited to contribute in this recent publication on the Pan American Health Journal in a paper lead by Ludovic Reveiz (PAHO). Dr Mary Kasule participated to this article on Building research capacity in Botswana.
Read moreCOHRED is supporting Aviesan and the Thai National Innovation Agency (NIA) in the development of the AEC Biomedical Innovation Forum 2013. Bangkok, Thailand, 14-16 November. A valuable opportunity to foster health technology transfer and co-operation in SE Asia. http://www.cohred.org/2013/07/aec-biomedical-innovation-forum-2013-14-16-november/
Read moreThe Lancet Commission on Investing in Health, have launched their website: http://investinginhealth2035.org
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