This week’s (26 – 28 November) Member State meeting at WHO on the recommendations of the CEWG resulted in mixed outcomes, with progress on some issues such as monitoring, but no progress on the more problematic issue of financing. The report of the meeting, which will go to WHO Executive Board next January, is not publicly available; […]
Read moreSource: Intellectual Property Watch An outside meeting of experts has prepared a report ahead of this month’s gathering of World Health Organization members hoping to agree on new models for financing research and development for diseases lacking adequate market mechanisms and public policies. These include neglected diseases that predominantly affect poor populations unable to pay […]
Read moreUpdates in this issue – 2012 HPFB International Regulatory Forum – Participation at Partner‐Led Workshops/Conferences Click here to access the newsletter in full.
Read moreThis news clip (in Swahili) which was was aired on Tanzania’s Clouds FM radio station on 5/11/2012 features the Director General of Tanzania’s National Institute for Medical Research (www.nimr.or.tz) speaking about the COHRED, WAHO and NEPAD led study visit on strengthening research and innovation systems for health and development in Africa, 5-8 Nov 2012. Click on […]
Read moreBuenos Aires, Argentina, 22-23 October 2012 The first ”Scenario Building Workshop”, realized by the EU-LAC Health project consortium, was held between the 22 and 23rd of October in Buenos Aires. Project partners, as well as Advisory Board members came together with European and Latin American experts from the health sector in order to analyze different scenarios […]
Read moreBy Rose Athumani, 9 November 2012, Tanzania Daily News MANY scientific and research work do not benefit society because there is no proper and simple ways to communicate findings to the public and policymakers. This was revealed in Dar es Salaam during a workshop for health experts from African countries, including representatives from the NEPAD […]
Read moreBy Rose Athumani, 5 November 2012, Tanzania Daily News THE National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) has underscored the need to harmonize research and policy making, to ensure the country reaps maximum benefits from various scientific studies. NIMR Director General Dr Mwele Malecela, noted in Dar es Salaam that getting research to influence policy making […]
Read moreCAAST-Net Plus, a network for the Coordination and Advancement of sub-Saharan Africa-European Union (EU) Science & Technology Cooperation is set to kick-start it’s work in 2013. CAAST-Net Plus is funded under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP7), the main research funding instrument of the EU. CAAST-Net Plus aims to encourage […]
Read moreBetween the 22nd and 26th of October 2012, COHRED, in partnership with the Rockefeller Foundation, organised a week-long engagement on Fair Research Contracting. The meetings were held at the Foundation’s Bellagio Center in Italy. Better contracts are key to improving financial support for institutional and research capacity building thereby enabling research institutions and governments of low-and […]
Read moreA journal article highlighting the benefits of Health Research Web (HRWeb) to the national health research systems (NHRS) of countries in the Americas has been published by Cadernos de Saúde Pública. The article titled – ‘HRWeb Americas: a tool to facilitate better research governance in Latin America and the Caribbean’ features authors from the Council […]
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