Better contract negotiation expertise in low- and middle-income country institutions will help improve the distribution of benefits of collaborative research, such as overhead costs, data ownership, institutional capacity in research management, technology transfer, and intellectual property rights. These are some of the issues addressed in COHRED’s new guidance document on negotiating fairer research contracts, available here.
Read moreDon’t Miss This Week’s Blog Post of the CCGHR: “Who Has the Right to Guide Global Health Research?” By Francisco Becerra-Posada CCGHR Board Member & Head of Projects and Programmes, COHRED Who has the right to Guide Global Health Research?
Read moreDuring COHRED’s 20th anniversary dinner on 26th March 2013 (held during the COHRED Colloquium in Geneva), two ex-members of the Commission on Health Research for Development passed their messages on: Dr. Adolfo Martinez Palomo and Dr. Gelia T. Castillo (via Dr. Jaime Montoya). COHRED’s Executive Director, Prof. Carel IJsselmuiden, also said a few words. Kindly see below the videos of […]
Read moreCOHRED 2012 Annual Report This year saw substantial changes to COHRED as an organisation, changes that will enable us to deliver even better on our mission of ‘support for research and innovation for health, equity and development’ – especially in low- and middle-income countries. Click here to download the full version of the 2012 COHRED […]
Read moreVideo message from Lawrence H. Summers to participants at the third COHRED Colloquium (26-27 March, 2013) on investing in research and innovation for health. Prof. Summers is the Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus at Harvard University. He is co-Chair of the Lancet Commission on Investing in Health. COHRED Colloquium 3, coincides with […]
Read moreGeneva, 28 March 2012 – The Council on Health Research for Development Colloquium for 2013 (COHRED Colloquium 2013) on the theme ‘sustainable investments into research and innovation for health’ was held in Geneva, Switzerland this week. The Colloquium examined the prospects for new, innovative and practical actions that can be used to support low-and middle-income country […]
Read moreGeneva, 26/03/2013 – In a discussion on ‘sustainable investments into research and innovation for health’ speakers at the opening of the third edition of the COHRED Colloquium highlighted the need for innovative and practical actions that can be used to help low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) design their own solutions for investing in health. ‘COHRED Colloquium […]
Read moreThis year saw substantial changes to COHRED as an organisation, changes that will enable us to deliver even better on our mission of ‘support for research and innovation for health, equity and development’ – especially in low- and middle-income countries. Click here to download the full version of the 2012 COHRED Annual Report.
Read moreThis animated video attempts to provide a quick visual description to the some of the key elements concerning the approach to COHRED’s work. The key issue here is that ‘strengthening national research and innovation systems needs a comprehensive approach that calls for the full use of a country’s abilities and resources’. For more on this, […]
Read moreExperts in the field of maternal and child health meet this week in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), hosted by NIMR (National Institute for Medical Research) in the frame of the FP7 project MASCOT – Multilateral Association for Studying Health Inequalities and Enhancing North-South and South-South Cooperation (http://www.mascotfp7.eu). The event started on Monday (11th March) with […]
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