By Gabi Falanga China has been improving health through self-reliance, health science and technology. This is according to China’s vice minister of health, Dr Liu Qian. Qian addressed a plenary session at Forum 2012 entitled “Research and innovation as key drivers for health, equity and development: making it work,” on day 2 (25/4/2012) of Forum […]

David Dickson 20 April 2012 | EN It’s time to move from debate to action with new mechanisms for funding research into diseases faced by developing countries. In the current financial and political climate, it is brave — some might say foolhardy — to propose a binding international treaty on the funding and coordination of research into health problems facing the developing world. […]

10 April 2012 | EN African countries must adopt a strategy for developing human resources with the skills to manage and deliver health research, argue Carel IJsselmuiden and colleagues from the Council on Health Research for Development (COHRED). Although Africa’s health research capacity has grown in recent years, it remains uncoordinated, small-scale and driven from outside the continent, they say. The […]

There is a pressing need for Africa to bolster its pharmaceuticals industry, and that requires the right policy framework, argues Priya Shetty. Many resource-poor countries, especially those in Africa, have always depended on other countries for their drug supplies, either through foreign aid or buying cheap generics from the pharmacy of the developing world — […]

Dr. Mirta Roses Periago, the Director of the Pan American Health Organisation has welcomed Forum 2012′s focus on research and innovation as key drivers to health, equity and development. She described the timing of the Forum – which is taking place at the end of April in 2012 – as an ‘opportune’ engagement for all sectors that […]